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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
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Wildfires cast a smoke cloud over Canada Summer Games for some N.W.T. athletes

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 10:40
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By Sarah St-Pierre  Beach volleyball resumed Wednesday after wildfires postponed some matches Team NT beach volleyball player, Emily Carroll, says

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Yukon and Alaska sign agreement to address MMIWG2S+ crisis

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 09:48
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The agreement was first initiated in April 2024 The Yukon government has signed an agreement with Alaska to address the

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General News Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Trump-Putin summit on Ukraine is latest chapter in Alaska’s long history-and tension-with Russia

The Associated Press
Posted: Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 15:38
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When U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska on Friday, it will be the latest

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* Featured * Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) Featured • Zone 3 General News 

Inuit org pushes for rights in global plastics treaty talks

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 14:46
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The NGO that represents Inuit internationally is calling on international governments to make sure Indigenous rights are included in the

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

N.W.T. team scores historic basketball win at Canada Summer Games

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 13:37
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By Sarah St-Pierre  N.W.T.’s U17 men’s basketball team accomplished a first at the Canada Summer Games in St. John’s, N.L. on Monday: beating

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 General Society Society (Canada) 

Inuvik hospital workers decry loss of weekend mental health services, emails show

Luke Caroll, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 11:59
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N.W.T. health authority says working on weekends is not sustainable for social work team Emails from Inuvik, N.W.T., health-care workers

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Norway spy chief blames Russian hackers for dam sabotage in April

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 10:51
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By Nerijus Adomaitis Russian hackers briefly took control of a dam in Norway earlier this year, the head of the

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General 

Yukon First Nation celebrates completion of 1.9 megawatt solar facility

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 09:01
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White River First Nation’s solar project expected to supply more than half of Beaver Creek’s electricity White River First Nation

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Finland) Featured • Zone 3 Finland General 

Finland sizzles as Lapland sweats through 21-day heatwave

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at 16:08 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 08:22
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Lapland, best known for its reindeer and winter landscapes, experienced its longest heatwave on record last month, as Finland endured

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

18-year-old charged in fatal hit and run in Salluit, Nunavik

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at 14:58
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18-year-old charged in fatal hit and run in Salluit, Nunavik An 18-year-old woman faces several charges after a fatal hit

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 1 General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Shadow fleet gas carriers make port calls at sanctioned Arctic terminals

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at 13:32
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Several ‘shadow fleet’ tankers are loading liquefied natural gas at the Arctic LNG 2 terminal in Gydan and at the Saam FSU

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

Do you speak Yukon English? These researchers want to hear it

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at 11:47
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‘Linguists know very, very little about what’s going on with Englishes in the Canadian North,’ researcher says As research projects

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Gwich’in Tribal Council appoints new interim CEO

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at 10:42
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Brenda McDonald replaces Mark Ellwood as CEO The Gwich’in Tribal Council has appointed a new interim chief executive officer to

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

EU urges Trump to defend security interests at upcoming Alaska summit with Putin

The Associated Press
Posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at 09:44
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European Union leaders appealed on Tuesday to U.S. President Donald Trump to defend their security interests at a key summit

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 General News Politics Politics (USA) USA 

U.S. Coast Guard tracking Chinese research vessels in Arctic

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, August 11, 2025 at 16:14 — Last Updated: Monday, August 11, 2025 at 16:17
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Five Chinese research vessels operating in or near U.S. Arctic waters were being tracked last week, part of what the

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Wide shot of the Centennial Flame with the Parliament building behind
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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