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Four JAS 39 Gripen jet fighters perform during the Day of the Airforce in Linkoping, Sweden on June 13, 2010. (AFP)

Sweden providing jets to NATO

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, December 2, 2013 at 16:22
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Sweden will contribute eight Gripen fighter jets and one mine-hunting boat next year to NATO’s Response Force, the alliance’s most

Shipping traffic went down along the Northern Sea Route this year, after four years of increases. (Vladimir Chistyakov/Associated Press)

Canada Politics Politics (Canada)

Canada to file Arctic seafloor claim

The Canadian Press
Posted: Monday, December 2, 2013 at 16:12
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Some time this week, Canada is expected to make its case to the world to dramatically expand its boundaries by

Norway Politics Politics (Norway)

Norway MP concerned about spying

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, December 2, 2013 at 15:49
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A Norwegian politician is worried about Swedish eavesdropping and is seeking assurances that Sweden’s intelligence agencies will not spy on

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Al Grillo, AP)

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No end in sight for ANWR campaigns

APRN
Posted: Monday, December 2, 2013 at 12:41 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 13:24
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Congress is so stuck in partisan mire it hardly passes any bills these days. So it would seem unlikely it

A report released by Western Arctic MP Dennis Bevington recommends increasing the Northern Residents Tax Deduction by 50 per cent across the board, and offering a tax credit in poorer communities, as a way to reduce growing inequality in the territory. (CBC.ca)

Canada Society Society (Canada)

Can you live on $55,000 in Arctic Canada?

CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 2, 2013 at 11:23
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Gilbert Thrasher Junior says making a living in the Arctic Canadian community of Paulatuk isn’t easy. He earns $55,000 a

The volume of reindeer meat produced in Finland is declining. (Pia Tuukkanen / Yle)

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Demand for reindeer meat up in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, December 2, 2013 at 10:36
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Finnish reindeer producers had to turn down a German order for the meat from 100,000 animals this autumn, because there

Alaska ( John Moore / Getty Images / AFP)

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Hundreds of dead seabirds wash ashore on Alaska island in Bering Sea

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, November 29, 2013 at 15:51
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Nature’s cold brutality apparently marked hundreds — and perhaps thousands — of seabirds for death following storms that slammed into

$ConocoPhillips plans to use fracking in drilling two wells in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories this winter. (CBC)$

Canada Environment Environment (Canada)

Canada’s NWT: Company releases list of fracking chemicals

CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 29, 2013 at 11:30
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ConocoPhillips has released a report detailing the chemicals it plans to use when it drills horizontal wells in the Sahtu

Aatu was abandoned by his reindeer mother when he was a calf. (Yle)

Finland Society Society (Finland) Special Features

TV-loving domestic reindeer becomes celebrity in Arctic Finland

Yle News
Posted: Friday, November 29, 2013 at 10:31
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Aatu, a domesticated reindeer in Finland’s Arctic city of Rovaniemi, enjoys watching his favourite TV show, Heartbeat and has become

The winter road to Old Crow is scheduled to be ready for traffic by February 24. It should be open until March 17, weather permitting. (from CBC.ca)

Canada Society Society (Canada) Special Features

Yukon, Canada government approves winter road to Arctic community

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 15:45
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For the first time since 2004, the Arctic community of Old Crow will be connected to the rest of Canada’s

Swedish Lapland. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP)

Society Society (Sweden) Sweden

Another storm leaves people without power in Sweden’s North

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 14:51
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Another storm has come in over northern Sweden, where several thousand households are without electricity, Swedish Radio News reports. Some

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States. While turkey may be on the menu for most people, whale will be the dish of choice for some celebrating the holiday in the American Arctic. (Charles Dharapak / AP Photo)

Culture USA

Alaska: Thanksgiving by the numbers

Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 12:18
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Around the United States, Thanksgiving is a time of food, friends and family. In Alaska, it’s no different. Alaska is

Finnish Greenpeace activist Sini Saarela. (Aleksandr Vatavu / Yle)

Finland Society Society (Finland)

Finnish Greenpeace activist: “Anything is better than prison”

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 11:28
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Speaking as the last of the jailed 30 Greenpeace protesters is released on bail, Finnish activist Sini Saarela tells Yle

Accessing health care can be physically, emotionally and financially challenging for many aboriginal seniors, who may have to travel to urban centres for services that are unavailable in remote or isolated communities, a new report says. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)

Canada Society Society (Canada) Special Features

Aging Aboriginal Canadians have harder time staying healthy

The Canadian Press
Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 10:17
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First Nations, Metis and Inuit of advancing years often have poorer health than their non-aboriginal counterparts but don’t receive the

(Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army / Alaska Public Radio Network)

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Legislators draft Alaska drone policy

APRN
Posted: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 at 15:59 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 13:24
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With the Federal Aviation Administration considering Alaska as a drone test site, lawmakers are drafting a policy for their use