Issues affecting circumpolar nations
MONTREAL — A major conference on the challenges climate change poses for doing impact assessments,wound up in Canada on Friday. Delegates from around the
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When it comes to economic development, Inuit people across the Arctic face similar challenges, including sparse populations, pockets of poverty
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The new budget presented last week by Finance Minister Bill Morneau is another milestone in the development of Canada’s northern
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Canada is sending a relatively low-key delegation to an Arctic conference in northern Russia that will be hosted by President
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Canada’s northern territory of Nunavut is gearing up to receive a growing number of tourists drawn to visit the remote
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At a time when all of Canada’s circumpolar neighbours are beefing up their capability to operate in the increasingly accessible
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Rapid climate-driven permafrost thaw in huge swaths of the Arctic will dramatically change northern landscapes in the same way landscapes
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A month after the signing of a landmark Inuit-Crown partnership declaration, Canada’s Inuit leaders will be watching closely the release of
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Following the recent announcement that Canada is extending its military’s mission to train the Ukrainian army by another two years,
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Switzerland has become the latest country to introduce a ban on the import of seal products, joining a similar ban
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Canadian Inuit leaders say they hope Finland will continue to focus on the issue of reducing suicide rates among Indigenous
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Canada failed in its obligations to thousands of Aboriginal children who were taken away from their parents and placed with non-Indigenous
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his government’s ban on Arctic drilling for the next five years, saying it simply couldn’t
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in the Northwest Territories today on the last leg of his northern tour.
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A U.S. Arctic strategy document made public this week is putting both Moscow and Ottawa on notice that Washington considers the
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