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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Canada’s Arctic, boreal birds will be big climate change losers

Emily Chung, CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 14, 2019 at 06:30
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Two-thirds of North America’s birds, or hundreds of species, will be squeezed by shrinking habitats if climate change continues at

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

MLAs in Yukon, northwestern Canada unanimous in declaring climate emergency

CBC News
Posted: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 14:44
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Yukon MLAs voted unanimously on Thursday in favour of a motion to declare a climate emergency in the territory. “There

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Housing in Canada’s Nunavut territory: a federal election explainer

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 10:57 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 13:25
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Housing is high on the platform lists of all of Nunavut’s federal election candidates, but officials say they have yet

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Environment Environment (Iceland) General Iceland 

Sweden’s Crown princess calls for action in Arctic during Iceland conference

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 10:32 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 13:23
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The Arctic is a global issue that requires global resolve, says Victoria of Sweden and links her Arctic enthusiasm to

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Climate kicks off Canada’s French-language leaders’ debate, but no mention of Inuit or Arctic

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 23:55 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 13:56
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Canada’s federal leaders came out swinging on climate during Thursday’s French-language debate, as global warming increasingly emerges as a dominant

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Canada General Science Science (Canada) 

Indigenous mapping conference in Arctic Canada gives attendees on-the-land skills

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 14:37 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 11:41
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About 75 people from across Canada, and as far as Australia and New Zealand, are in Inuvik, N.W.T., in northwestern

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Business Business (Sweden) General Sweden 

Sweden’s economic boom over, report says

Liv Lewitschnik, Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 12:20
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Sweden’s strong economic growth has reached its end, according to a report published Wednesday from the National Institute of Economic

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Ottawa tells court First Nation child welfare compensation order could cost $8 billion

Jorge Barrera, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 10:59 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 16:29
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A senior federal official says a human rights tribunal ruling ordering Ottawa to compensate First Nation children apprehended through the

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Offender in Northern Canada wins appeal, overturns banishment from his community

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 10:35
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A Nunavut, Northern Canada man convicted of sexual assault and breaking and entering is no longer going to be banished

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General Geopolitics Geopolitics (Norway) Norway Politics 

Norway absent from massive US-led multinational drill in Europe next year

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 14:56 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 10:59
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NATO’s northernmost country with direct border to Russia’s militarized Kola Peninsula relies heavily on allied reinforcements, but lacks capacity to

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Climate change doc from Arctic Canadian teens to be shown at UN conference

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 14:17 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 13:23
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A group of seven teenagers from Tuktoyaktuk, northwestern Canada, has been invited to show a documentary they made on climate

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General Geopolitics Geopolitics (USA) Politics USA 

Alaska senators condemn Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 12:11 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 12:16
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Both of Alaska’s U.S. senators have joined the chorus of Republicans criticizing President Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops from

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General Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Arctic Norway: Russian FM to attend ceremony commemorating Soviet liberation in WWII

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 11:18 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 15:05
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October 25th marks the Soviet Red Army troops’ liberation of Kirkenes, the first town in Norway to be freed from

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Canada General Science Science (Canada) 

Researchers get rare time-lapse video of glacial lake flood in Northern Canada

Karen McColl, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 10:20 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 15:05
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When scientists installed a time-lapse camera near the Donjek Glacier in Kluane National Park and Reserve in July, they thought

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canadian Liberal leader makes climate pitch to northerners on Arctic campaign stop

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 15:44 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 13:24
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Video: Canadian Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau addresses reporters in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut on Tuesday.  The day after

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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

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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