Anger over addiction facility closure in Canada’s Northwest Territories
A decision to shutter the only addiction treatment facility in Canada’s Northwest Territories is being called into question. Earlier this
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Blog: Local vs Global – Dualism in Arctic Policy Development
For those readers who just arrived to this blog from a 1981 deLorean, the Arctic has in recent years become
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Shell’s spill-response training in remote Alaska villages first step for new company
An impoverished group of Northwest Alaska villages whose residents hunt walrus and seals to survive have banded together to form
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Canada’s Hudson Bay lowlands succumbing to climate change
It’s one of the last unchanged Arctic refugia in the world. Or, it was. The vast area around Hudson Bay,
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First Nations and Inuit join forces over caribou conservation
Caribou is central to Inuit and First Nations cultural life in northern Canada. But the decrease in the numbers of
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Canada: More children sniffing gas says chief of Innu community
Officials in the Innu community of Natuashish, located in the northern region of the Atlantic Canadian province of Newfoundland and
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Eczema on the rise in Inuit populations in Greenland and Canada
An allergy doctor in Iqaluit, the capital city of Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, says he’s seeing a spike
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Future uncertain for new mining projects in Canada’s Northwest Territories
De Beers and Avalon Rare Metals have come across unexpected hurdles in trying to bring two major mining projects in
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Canada: Team talks with First Nations community about decommissioned mine
The Giant Mine remediation team met with people in the First Nations community of N’dilo in Canada’s Northwest Territories on Wednesday. They
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BLOG -Seldom spoken truth in subsistence battle: How unproductive Alaska lands really are
Alaska’s long, bitter subsistence battle is back in the news again. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, last week called a hearing
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Alaska subsistence issues raised before US Senate
Old battles over subsistence resurfaced in the U.S. Senate Thursday, as state officials and Native leaders sought allies in the
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Eddie Erasmus elected Tlicho Grand Chief in Canada’s Northwest Territories
The Tlicho re-elected Eddie Erasmus to serve another four years as Grand Chief Monday night. Erasmus won the three-person race
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Alaska school a beacon of hope after flood waters recede
GALENA — Seventeen-year-old Anthony Solomon was not afraid in May as he watched the Yukon River crest its banks and
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Canada: Quebec Premier Pauline Marois meets Nunavik Inuit leaders
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois travels today to Nunavik, the Inuit self-governing region of northern Quebec, to meet with Inuit leaders.
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Perils of Prohibition: History repeats in Alaska’s failed attempt to stamp out booze
The worst of what Alaska’s war on alcohol has brought to the impoverished, rural areas of the state — a
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