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Housing in the spotlight for many Yukon voters ahead of federal election

Jackie Hong, CBC News @xjackiehong
Posted: Monday, April 21, 2025 at 11:35 — Last Updated: Monday, April 21, 2025 at 11:38
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Safe at Home calls for more ‘holistic’ view of housing, including needs beyond home ownership. Cody Schilling says he’s been

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

Trump, taxes & tariffs dominate election debate, leaving Arctic overlooked

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Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 08:01 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 00:34
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Simultaneous translation in English: Simultaneous translation in Inuktut (Nunavik dialect): Canada’s federal party leaders clashed over Trump, taxes and trade

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

Construction starts on new heavy polar icebreaker for Canada

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Friday, April 4, 2025 at 16:32
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Construction officially started on one of two new heavy polar icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG), marking the first

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

‘Can’t imagine Alaska without Canada’: Resolution would affirm Canadian sovereignty

The Canadian Press
Posted: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 09:41
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America’s 49th state is showing support for the country that U.S. President Donald Trump wants to make its 51st. Republican

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

Housing, Arctic defence top of mind for Nunavummiut in federal election

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 09:01
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By TJ Dhir  Recent federal announcement into defence make some residents feel safe, others fear conflict Canadians will be going

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

World TB Day: Inuit org raises alarm on TB crisis as Canadian election begins

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Posted: Monday, March 24, 2025 at 16:22
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March 24 is World Tuberculosis Day.  And with a federal election now underway in Canada, the country’s national Inuit organization

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

A look at how the Canadian military is training for potential conflicts in the North

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 09:49
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By Natalia Weichsel A swarm of troops dressed in white and wearing snowshoes glide across a frozen valley. Suddenly they

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Geopolitics Geopolitics (Canada) News Newsroom Picks • zone 2 

Adversaries see opportunities to exploit ‘strategically valuable’ Arctic, CSIS says

The Canadian Press
Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 14:17 — Last Updated: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 15:45
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Canada’s spy agency warns that colliding global developments make the Arctic an “attractive, strategic and vulnerable destination” for foreign adversaries

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Business Business (USA) 

Trade war could be ‘crushing’ for Alaska town that depends on the Yukon, residents say

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 11:30
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Alaska business owner Mike Healy has one word to describe the international trade war that began on Tuesday between the

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

Trudeau to announce Canada’s response to Trump trade war

John Paul Tasker, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 10:50
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The North American trade war of 2025 has officially begun with Canada hitting back against the U.S. after President Donald

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Featured • Zone 3 Politics Politics (USA) 

Can we still be friends: Alaska town sends love letter to neighbours in Yukon

Paul Tukker, CBC News
Posted: Monday, February 17, 2025 at 09:22
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Things have gotten a little weird lately with the U.S. and Canada, but one small-town mayor in Alaska hopes his

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

Study examines physical, social costs of thawing permafrost across Arctic regions

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, January 20, 2025 at 15:49
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Melting Arctic permafrost is creating ongoing challenges for communities across the North, and a new study is shedding light on

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society 

Advocates hope a new national registry will reveal extent of Indigenous sterilization

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:08
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By Nadeer Hashmi ·  No official numbers or records exist for similar cases, organization says Advocates hope a new national registry

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* Newsroom Picks * Featured • Zone 3 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Canada) Geopolitics (Russia) Newsroom Picks • zone 2 Politics 

Kremlin, on Trump remarks on Greenland and Canada, says Russia has Arctic interests

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 11:52
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The Kremlin on Thursday said that Russia had strategic national interests in the Arctic when asked to comment on U.S.

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Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 

Arctic road and port project meets opposition and support as Nunavut board recommends environmental review

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 09:44 — Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 12:10
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By Emma Tranter A project that would connect southern Canada to the eastern Arctic coast by road is being met

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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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