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Denmark takes over rotating Arctic Council chairship from Norway

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, May 12, 2025 at 15:48
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Denmark took over the Arctic Council’s two-year rotating chairmanship from Norway on Monday, pledging to work to keep the North

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Call for Arctic Council to include Russian Indigenous groups in exile in working groups

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, May 12, 2025 at 10:13
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May 12 marks the end of Norway’s two-year chairship of the Arctic Council. A closed virtual meeting between all eight

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

Indigenous communities consider banishment for drug crime, a lawyer explains

CBC News
Posted: Monday, May 12, 2025 at 09:52
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Lawyer Marc Gibson explains how a community could banish someone and what they should consider As many N.W.T. communities grapple

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Senators, including Alaska’s, sound alarm on cuts impacting Indigenous health care agency

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Friday, May 9, 2025 at 16:11 — Last Updated: Friday, May 9, 2025 at 16:15
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Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is among a bipartisan group of senators is demanding that the federal government stop staffing

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* Featured * Art and Culture Canada Countries Culture Culture (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General 

‘We made it for Inuit’: North of North creators thrilled to start work on new season

CBC News
Posted: Friday, May 9, 2025 at 14:46
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Series filmed in Iqaluit hit Netflix’s top 10 in 27 countries, and is renewed for a 2nd season Over eight

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Newsroom Picks • zone 3 Politics Politics (Canada) 

Analysis: Is the promise of military icebreakers political theatre or sensible policy?

Murray Brewster, CBC News
Posted: Friday, May 9, 2025 at 13:47
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The large ships would be a show of force, but lack qualities desired in a combat vessel A former top

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General News Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Significant progress in China-Russia talks on Arctic shipping:Kremlin

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, May 9, 2025 at 12:40
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“New logistical hubs are in the making,” Putin said after bilateral talks with Xi. “There is significant progress in issues

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

Locums aren’t the only ones who need incentives, says N.W.T. doctor

CBC News
Posted: Friday, May 9, 2025 at 11:23
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By Carla Ulrich Dr. Katherine Breen says staff want more transparency on plan for staffing issues Locum doctors travelling north

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 3 General Newsroom Picks • zone 2 Politics Politics (Denmark/Greenland) 

‘You cannot spy against an ally’ after reports of US gathering intel on Greenland: Denmark

The Associated Press
Posted: Friday, May 9, 2025 at 10:10
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Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told The Associated Press “you cannot spy against an ally” after reports that the United

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

Puvirnituq’s water woe relief, while issues persist in other Nunavik villages

CBC News
Posted: Friday, May 9, 2025 at 09:39
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By Samuel Wat Harsh winter conditions caused pipes in Kangiqsujuaq, Puvirnituq and Quaqtaq to freeze Dr. Marie-Faye Galarneau is tired

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 General News Society Society (USA) USA 

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women awareness week observed in the U.S.

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 15:41
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This week marks Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) Awareness Week across the U.S., and on Wednesday, Senator Brian Schatz

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 General Society Society (Canada) 

Health officials warn of dangerous drug combination detected in N.W.T.

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 15:26
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Fentanyl mixed with a benzodiazepine detected in drugs seized between Fort Good Hope and Norman Wells The office of the chief

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Finland General Society Society (Finland) 

Recovered black box may offer answers to Hornet jet fighter crash Arctic Finland

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 14:27
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An official investigation into the crashed fighter jet in Rovaniemi is currently underway. The flight data recorder, or “black box”,

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

Man in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, dies during interaction with RCMP

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 11:37
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By Emma Tranter Police won’t say how the man died, seeking investigation from external body Nunavut RCMP have asked an

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* Featured * Business Business (USA) Countries Featured • Zone 3 General USA 

U.S. House panel quietly advances Arctic drilling and other Alaska oil developments

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 10:18
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In an unusually quiet session, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee passed a bill to mandate new oil lease sales

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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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