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

Trump’s renewed interest in Greenland lacks respect, says prime minister

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 10:21 — Last Updated: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 10:23
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U.S. President Donald Trump has not treated Greenlanders with respect since expressing his renewed interest in acquiring the vast, mineral-rich

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

Feds commit $1.5B to fulfill Nunavut Land Claim in historic deal

Sarah Krymalowski, CBC News @sarkrymalowski
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 09:17
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The new Nunavut Agreement Implementation Contract includes $600M for Inuit employment training The federal government has committed to spend $1.5

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Featured • Zone 3 Society Society (Canada) 

Deaths of 3 Dehcho residents have MLAs demanding an investigation

Natalie Pressman, CBC News @natpressman
Posted: Friday, March 7, 2025 at 15:35
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Three people from the Dehcho under the age of 50 have died in circumstances that were highly preventable, according to

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Featured • Zone 3 Society Society (Canada) 

MLAs question Aurora College’s plans to close community learning centres, boost online learning

CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 7, 2025 at 15:01
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By Nadeer Hashmi Aurora College’s plans to close 19 community learning centres across the N.W.T. came under fire on Thursday,

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Society Society (USA) 

Experts and recovery teams hope to reach site of Alaska avalanche that buried 3 skiers

The Associated Press
Posted: Friday, March 7, 2025 at 11:40
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Authorities in Alaska said they would attempt Thursday to reach the site of an avalanche that trapped three skiers, who

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Environment Environment (Canada) 

More toxic water leaks into nearby creek from Yukon’s Eagle mine site

CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 7, 2025 at 10:45
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There’s been another leak of cyanide-contaminated water from the troubled Eagle Gold mine site in central Yukon. In a report

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Featured • Zone 2 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Finland) 

While Trump casts doubt on NATO policy, B-52s make first time ever bombs drop over Lapland

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, March 7, 2025 at 09:48
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This is the first time bombs have been dropped by United States strategic bombers, hitting targets in Rovajärvi firing range,

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Business Business (Canada) 

Grocers say prices in some northern communities protected from tariffs, for now

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 16:40
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Two grocery chains that serve the North say stores in remote communities that rely on large, infrequent shipments of non-perishable

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Society Society (USA) 

Avalanche buries at least 3 skiers near Anchorage, Alaska, officials say

The Associated Press
Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 16:02
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An avalanche in Alaska backcountry swept up and buried three skiers under a blanket of snow that could be as

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Society Society (Russia) 

A generation of reindeer herders is perishing in the war

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 15:32
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The governor of the Yamal-Nenets region in mid-January landed with his helicopter in the southern edge of the vast Yamal

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Geopolitics Geopolitics (Canada) News Newsroom Picks • zone 2 

Adversaries see opportunities to exploit ‘strategically valuable’ Arctic, CSIS says

The Canadian Press
Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 14:17 — Last Updated: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 15:45
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Canada’s spy agency warns that colliding global developments make the Arctic an “attractive, strategic and vulnerable destination” for foreign adversaries

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Business Business (USA) 

Trade war could be ‘crushing’ for Alaska town that depends on the Yukon, residents say

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 11:30
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Alaska business owner Mike Healy has one word to describe the international trade war that began on Tuesday between the

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Environment Environment (Finland) 

Springlike weather coming to Finland

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 09:46
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Many parts of Finland will see spring-like temperatures on Thursday and Friday, according to Yle meteorologist Elias Paakkanen. Many southern

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Featured • Zone 3 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Canada) Politics Politics (Canada) 

Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. and Nunavut gov’t form working group for Arctic sovereignty strategy

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 09:39
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Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. and the Nunavut government have announced a working group to develop a strategy for Arctic sovereignty and

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General Politics 

MLA’s social media post doesn’t affect finance minister’s work, N.W.T. Speaker rules

Natalie Pressman, CBC News @natpressman
Posted: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 11:00
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The Speaker of the N.W.T. Legislature says that a Facebook post alleging backroom deals between N.W.T. cabinet ministers and MLAs

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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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