Northern Canada’s national parks will be a different experience for visitors this year
Going to any national park across the North is going to look different this year amid the pandemic. In the Western
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Alaska Indigenous woman has become ‘TikTok famous’ for celebrating her culture online
An Iñupiaq woman from Utqiagvik, Alaska, is taking the TikTok world by storm by giving her followers a taste of
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New online ‘handbook’ puts Canadian Indigenous history at your fingertips in Yukon
When Yukon University instructor Victoria Castillo and some colleagues decided they needed a new resource book for teaching Indigenous history in
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Iceland announces further relaxing of COVID-19 restrictions
As of August 4, Iceland will further relax its COVID-19 restrictions, allowing groups of up to 1,000 people and allowing
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COVID-19 delays delivery of apology to Inuit residential school survivors in Atlantic Canada
The long-planned provincial apology to Inuit residential school survivors in Atlantic Canada has been called off due to continued delays
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Canada’s Arctic territory releases its school reopening plan
If Nunavut continues to have no cases of COVID-19, schools are set to open with no physical distancing requirements this upcoming school
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Arctic’s beluga whale harvest challenged on multiple fronts in Canada
The beluga whale harvest out of Aklavik, in the Northwest Territories, is down but not out. From a high of
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Canada slots nearly $15M for Nunavut harvesters, to improve food security
The federal government is giving Inuit in Canada over half of a $40-million grant for harvesters, and Nunavut Inuit will see
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Denmark, U.S. affirm need to ‘maintain and build situational awareness’ in the Arctic
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Denmark’s Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod wrapped up their meeting on Wednesday, with both
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Canada’s Arctic territory extends its public health emergency to August
Nunavut’s health minister has announced that the territory’s public health emergency is extended for another two weeks. The territory’s residents
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Public health emergency extended again in Canada’s Northwest Territories
The N.W.T. government has extended its public health emergency again, meaning that residents can expect to be living under this emergency measure for
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Canadians get hefty fines for breaking public health orders in Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories government has issued six fines in recent weeks to people who violated self-isolation and travel restrictions put
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Harmonized data could help understanding of COVID-19 pandemic in North: Arctic Council briefing doc
Harmonized data and circumpolar oriented statistics would contribute to better understanding the COVID-19 pandemic in the North, says a briefing
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Two presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada’s Arctic test negative
The two presumptive cases of COVID-19 at Nunavut’s Mary River Mine have tested negative, according to the territory’s chief public
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Gold Terra set to begin summer drilling in Northwestern Canada
Junior mining exploration company Gold Terra Resource Corp. says it plans to start a 10,000-metre summer drilling program at its
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