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As gasoline crisis worsens, Russia boosts fuel imports through Murmansk

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 13:19
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Over the past month, tankers have delivered more than 320,000 tonnes of foreign-made fuel to the northern Russian port of

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Port of Churchill
* Featured * Business Business (Canada) Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General 

Manitoba offers to waive sales tax on major Port of Churchill investments

The Canadian Press
Posted: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 11:15
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The Manitoba government is offering to waive the provincial sales tax on major capital spending for the Port of Churchill

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

They’re two of the biggest proposed mining projects in the Yukon. How will they be powered?

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 10:08
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By TJ Dhir  Diesel, liquefied natural gas, and solar among all the options being discussed Two of the biggest proposed

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

N.W.T.’s ice road to 3 diamond mines unlikely to open for 2027 season

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 09:17
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By Niles Niemuth  Annual Tibbitt to Contwoyto winter road has serviced mines since 1982 The Northwest Territories’ Tibbitt to Contwoyto

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* Featured * Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Denmark/Greenland) 

Denmark PM says hopes for peaceful way forward with US on Arctic, Greenland

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Monday, September 14, 2026 at 16:18
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Monday she is hoping that the United States and Denmark will find a

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News Newsroom Picks • zone 2 Politics Politics (Finland) 

European Arctic Summit: Russia poses “significant and long-term threat” to Euro-Atlantic security

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, September 14, 2026 at 16:01
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​ Russia poses a long-term threat to European security that requires greater cooperation and investment in the Arctic, 12 European

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* Featured * Canada Countries General Society Society (Canada) 

Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, expecting system upgrades after months of water woe

CBC News
Posted: Monday, September 14, 2026 at 14:30
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By Arty Sarkisian Nunavut government is planning water infrastructure upgrades in 14 communities After years of uncertainty, eight months of

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

Europe boosts LNG trade ahead of the ban

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, September 14, 2026 at 10:47
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During the first eight months of 2026, gas carriers made 156 shipments from the Yamal Peninsula to EU ports. By

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

Russia’s hybrid attacks in focus as European leaders meet in Finnish Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, September 14, 2026 at 09:53
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Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal and several other European leaders have arrived in Rovaniemi for an Arctic summit hosted by

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

15-year-old rescued after clinging to capsized boat for days in Alaska’s Bering Sea

The Associated Press
Posted: Friday, September 11, 2026 at 15:36
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Two others died after small boat flipped, rescuers say Bobbing for days atop a capsized skiff in Alaska’s frigid Bering

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

N.W.T. looking to bolster critical minerals at Canada Investment Summit: Premier Simpson

CBC News
Posted: Friday, September 11, 2026 at 10:38
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By Niles Niemuth  Meeting called by Prime Minister Carney to woo $1 trillion in financial investments Northwest Territories Premier R.J.

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

Diavik says more testing needed before stocking fish in Yellowknife’s Frame Lake

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 15:00
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By Niles Niemuth  Company previously said fish might be brought in this summer Yet another year has gone by without

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Featured • Zone 3 Finland General Newsroom Picks • zone 2 Politics Politics (Finland) 

Finland completes 200km of fence along Russia border; 25 km stretch across Kainuu into Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 12:02
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Work on the fencing along Finland’s 1,340-kilometer-long border with Russia began just over three years ago. The construction of 200

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* Featured * Business Business (Canada) Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General News 

The N.W.T. is slowly closing the infrastructure gap for EVs

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 09:20
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By Francis Tessier-Burns  ‘I wish the N.W.T. would have as good of an infrastructure as their neighbour,’ says EV driver

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Featured • Zone 3 General Newsroom Picks • zone 1 Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

British, Swedish and American reconnaissance aircraft monitor Russia’s Kola Peninsula

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 15:49
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NATO reconnaissance aircraft had a busy day on Tuesday, keeping watch over Russia’s Murmansk region from both the north and

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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

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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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