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How do reindeer fly? How does Santa deliver gifts? NORAD answers kids’ Christmas questions

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 24, 2024 at 14:00
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He’s not deterred by wind, or snow, or rain, and he doesn’t file a flight plan, but that doesn’t mean

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Featured • Zone 2 Politics Politics (Canada) 

Arctic Bay, Nunavut, expected to receive federal funding in 2025 to build small craft harbour

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 24, 2024 at 10:30
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By Samuel Wat Arctic Bay, Nunavut, is expecting to receive federal money to build a small craft harbour in 2025,

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Featured • Zone 3 Politics Politics (USA) 

‘I think he deserves it’: Trump suggests reverting Denali to Mount McKinley

Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, December 24, 2024 at 09:02
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President-elect Donald Trump is again threatening to revert the name of North America’s tallest peak from Denali to Mount McKinley,

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Culture Culture (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 

Singing the stories of Labrador: An Inuit choir shares language and culture

CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 23, 2024 at 14:06
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By Amanda Gear Every year at Christmas, a choir comes together in St. John’s to celebrate centuries-old traditions and music

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Featured • Zone 2 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Denmark/Greenland) Newsroom Picks • zone 3 

Trump again calls to buy Greenland after eyeing Canada and the Panama Canal

The Associated Press
Posted: Monday, December 23, 2024 at 11:23 — Last Updated: Monday, December 23, 2024 at 11:24
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First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal. Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland. The president-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls

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Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 Newsroom Picks • zone 2 

These young northerners are pushing the N.W.T. to do more about climate change

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Monday, December 23, 2024 at 09:56 — Last Updated: Monday, December 23, 2024 at 09:58
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Members of the N.W.T. Climate Change Youth Council have spent the last year and a half adding their voices to

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* Featured * Environment Environment (USA) Featured • Zone 1 General USA 

A former park ranger’s new book documents decades of climate change in Arctic Alaska

Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:44
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The Arctic is one of the areas most visibly impacted by human-caused climate change, with some areas becoming almost unrecognizable

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 Finland General Society Society (Finland) 

Foreign tourists on bus involved in fatal crash in Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Friday, December 20, 2024 at 14:54
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Thursday afternoon’s accident claimed two lives. Two people died after a tourist bus and a passenger van collided in Lapland

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

Feds, Yukon gov’t announce $2.4M to spur heat pump uptake

CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:46
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By Gabrielle Plonka  Territory aims to build 1,300 smart electric heating systems by 2030 The Yukon government is launching a

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Alaska governor asks Trump to roll back restrictions on oil and gas drilling

The Associated Press
Posted: Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:51
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By Becky Bohrer  Gov. Mike Dunleavy pushes for ‘critical agency actions that would restore opportunity to Alaska’ Alaska Gov. Mike

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

Here’s what deep sea ports and military vessels could mean for Arctic marine mammals

CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 20, 2024 at 09:54
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By Tori Fitzpatrick Vessel traffic and noise is harmful to marine mammals, researchers say Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai says investing

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

First Nation says it’s using Canada Revenue Agency to out suspected drug dealers

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 17:02
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By Carla Ulrich  The former chief of Kátł’odeeche First Nation in the N.W.T. says her band has been using Canada’s tax

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

Two dead, 27 injured in Murmansk train collision

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 15:59
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Four passenger coaches derailed and one flipped over after the two trains collided sideways on the tracks at the station

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

Nancy Karetak-Lindell, former MP, appointed as Nunavut Senator

The Canadian Press
Posted: Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 14:03
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By Nick Murray  Karetak-Lindell replaces outgoing Senator Dennis Patterson The first woman to ever serve as the member of Parliament

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

Yukon MP joins chorus of Liberals calling on Trudeau to resign

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 12:04
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Brendan Hanley says the party needs a ‘different vision’ before the next election Yukon MP Brendan Hanley is joining more

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Wide shot of the Centennial Flame with the Parliament building behind
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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