Parliament to debate Attawapiskat suicide crisis
Members of the House of Commons will hold an emergency debate Tuesday evening to discuss the suicide crisis playing out
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Yamal LNG gets $4.1 billion from Russian banks
Credits from state-controlled Sberbank and Gazprombank secure continued development of the great Arctic gas project. The door to western credit
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Finland needs to exploit its Arctic potential, says ex-PM
Businesses and politicians have been too passive in capitalising on the increasing international interest in Finland’s Arctic region, argues a
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Russia establishes new Arctic research centre in Archangelsk
The new federal science centre on the Arctic will house 500 researchers, regional authorities say. “Our main task will be
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Suicide crisis grows at Ontario First Nation
A federal and provincial crisis team has flown to a northern Ontario First Nation that declared a state of emergency
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Canada’s defence review and the Arctic
As the Liberal government embarks on its long-promised defence policy review, it has to take a serious look at the
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University of Alaska is planning new tuition increases and hundreds of staff cuts
University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen presented two revised draft budget proposals Thursday, both cutting hundreds of staff jobs across
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Ice-Blog: UNESCO acknowledges Arctic site
I registered that UNESCO had added 20 sites to its World Network of Biosphere Reserves during a meeting in Lima,
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Russian military instructors plan to land on Svalbard
Russian airborne forces are preparing exercises close to the North Pole. During the preparations instructors and dog teams plan to
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OMV finds more oil in Barents Sea
This is an important milestone towards a future development of the area, the Austrian company says about its Wisting Central
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Blog: The long road from Yakutsk
Worries about this summer’s upcoming cruise through the Northwest Passage by the 1,000-passenger, 600-crew Crystal Serenity have dominated Arctic headlines this week. The
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Arctic tests for Russia’s new icebreakers
Russia’s new “Vladivostok” and “Murmansk” icebreakers (project 21900M) are on the way to Murmansk for trials in Arctic environment. The
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A letter from Svalbard’s dwindling sea ice
The Arctic sea ice has reached its maximum winter extent for this season, and it was a record low, as
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Report urges creation of new governance structure for oversight of Arctic shipping
Canada needs to come up with a new governance structure for Arctic shipping corridors through the Northwest Passage to address
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As temperatures climb, so do the shrubs on Alaska’s mountainsides
Devotees of Wolverine Peak, an Anchorage mountain with a well-used hiking trail, might feel like it takes them longer than
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