Concerns about Canada’s boreal forest
Canada has made significant strides in protecting the vast boreal forest that stretches across most of its provinces and territories,
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Feature Interview: Alaskan artist Nicholas Galanin
The Canadian exhibition, Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture, winds up its three-month run at the Musée d’art
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Restoring the Tagish role in the Klondike gold rush
An author from Anchorage, Alaska is getting set to release a new biography that restores the reputation of some of
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Alaska’s Lt. General Russell Handy on Arctic strategy
When Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel released the Pentagon’s Arctic Strategy document last month, he said rapid change in the Arctic
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Blog: And now for the good news …
I won’t begin, as others have, by apologizing for making a year-in-review list. I happen to like lists, and it’s
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Savoonga, Alaska whales fulfill musical needs
Savoonga, a community on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska harvested two bowhead whales last week, both of them female. While the
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Flying uranium from Nunavut scares Saskatchewan Dene
A proposed uranium mine in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut is causing concern in the prairie province of Saskatchewan.
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Hunters question caribou rules in Canada’s Northwest Territories
The government in Canada’s Northwest Territories (GNWT) announced yesterday that the Bluenose-East caribou herd will remain off limits to ‘resident
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FEATURE INTERVIEW: Canadian Inuit leader denounces WTO ruling on EU seal ban
On Monday, the World Trade Organization upheld the European Union ban on seal products, a law that Canadian Inuit have
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Seal product ban in Europe upheld by WTO panel
A World Trade Organization panel today upheld a European ban against Canadian seal products, even though it found the European
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Yukon, Canada program incorporates trapping, aboriginal culture into curriculum
Trapping, hiking and cooking over a fire. These aren’t the kinds of activities most Canadian students encounter as part of
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Study: Suicide rates increase as Alaska community sizes get smaller, farther North
The higher the latitude, the higher the prevalence of suicide in Alaska, said a study that analyzed state records from
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FEATURE INTERVIEW: Inuk aritst Mark Igloliorte on how skateboarding inspires his work
Mark Igloliorte is an Inuk artist from Nunatsiavut, the Inuit self-governing region in the Atlantic Canadian province of Newfoundland and
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Definition of ‘Alaska Native’ needs fixing in U.S. health care law
Thousands of Alaska Natives will miss out on benefits they qualify for under the Affordable Care Act if the definition
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Alaska youth call on leaders to address abuse, suicide
FAIRBANKS — The children in the 4-H Club in Tanana make this promise: “I pledge to live, honor and protect
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