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TSB report: Forced landing in N.W.T. due to failure to follow safety procedures

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2022 at 15:13
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A flight that had to make a forced landing into muskeg near Fort Providence, N.W.T. last year ran out of

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Quebec-based Air Inuit announces new CEO

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 12:18
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Christian Busch, a long-time Air Inuit employee, has been named the new president and chief executive officer of the Quebec-based

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Air Canada suspending passenger service to northern city of Yellowknife on Jan. 23

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 14:32 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 13:26
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Airline says it’s cutting operations due to ‘stifled demand,’ travel restrictions, quarantine rules Air Canada is suspending passenger service to

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Chamber of Commerce in Canada’s Northwest Territories says tourism threatened by COVID-19 border restrictions

Anna Desmarais, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 10:36 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 13:25
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Travel restrictions will likely stay in place during the 2021 tourism season, Dr. Kandola says The N.W.T. Chamber of Commerce

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Lapland tourism to lose over 60% of winter business says Finnish survey

Yle News
Posted: Monday, October 26, 2020 at 13:16
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Roughly half of firms said that domestic tourism would not help cover losses caused by the absence of overseas visitors.

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Cracking open a ‘treasure trove’ of aviation history in northwestern Canada

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 10:46 — Last Updated: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 13:41
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Bob Cameron calls it a “treasure trove” of Yukon aviation history. The small, unassuming building in Carcross was once the

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Inuit org wants Canada to deem air transport essential during COVID-19 crisis

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 15:59
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The national Inuit organization in Canada is calling on the federal government to deem air transport an essential service for

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Extremely low pressure grounds some air traffic in northern Norway

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 10:30 — Last Updated: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 10:34
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The past months have seen extraordinarily rough weather along the north Norwegian coast. Early this week came another extreme. The

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Northern Finland’s tourism industry divided over flight tax proposal

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 10:18 — Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 14:46
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Lapland (Arctic Finland) tourism players are divided over a proposal to mitigate carbon emissions by introducing a flight tax. On

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

Should Finland adopt a flight tax to reduce emissions?

Egan Richardson, Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 09:44 — Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2019 at 08:44
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Is flying too cheap? That’s what one group of activists argues as they campaign for Finland to introduce a tax

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Finnish residents among world’s worst CO2 emitters by air travel, stats show

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 14:02 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 15:23
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People resident in Finland cause more carbon dioxide emissions by flying than those resident in any other country in the world except

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General Sweden 

Sweden: Comparing emissions taxes for planes and cars

Ulla Engberg, Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, June 7, 2019 at 15:44
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If flights were to pay for their impact on the climate, just like lorries and cars do, a plane trip

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Finnair admits carbon offset sales pitch ‘misleading’ as its emissions rise

Egan Richardson, Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 12:17 — Last Updated: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 12:24
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Finnair has admitted to providing misleading information about emissions reduction targets as part of a ‘Push for change’ campaign to

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

New stamp honours first pilot to land in area of Yellowknife, Northern Canada

Randi Beers, CBC News
Posted: Friday, April 19, 2019 at 06:00
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C.H. (Punch) Dickins once boasted to Maclean’s Magazine, “put your pencil on any point on the map of Canada and

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General News Sweden 

Project aims to eliminate fossil fuels from Swedish flights

Liv Lewitschnik, Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 11:24 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 10:22
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A new project got off the ground on Monday, one that aims to get the aviation industry flying on fossil-free

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