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Business Business (Finland) Countries Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News 

New flight routes benefited Finland’s Arctic tourism this Christmas season

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, December 27, 2021 at 09:22
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Up to 200 planes are arriving in Finnish Lapland during Christmas week with tourists from all over Europe. That is

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* Featured * Culture Culture (Finland) Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News 

Finnish Christmas traditions explained

Yle News
Posted: Friday, December 24, 2021 at 15:26
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The Christmas season is all about holiday traditions, from decorating the tree to prepping the big meal and waiting for

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* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 General News Newsroom Picks • zone 3 RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Is Santa’s sleigh pulled by a “he” or a “she”? The truth about Christmas reindeer

Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:56
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According to popular belief, Santa’s reindeer are all males, headed by the famous red-nosed Rudolph.  They were first introduced in

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* Featured * Art Art (Canada) Canada Featured • Zone 3 General News RCI 

Christmas gifts showcasing Inuit crafts are more popular than ever

Matisse Harvey, Radio-Canada
Posted: Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 14:36 — Last Updated: Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 14:42
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Inuit artists from Iqaluit have been working hard over the past few weeks to finalize their creations just in time

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Finland) Featured • Zone 2 Finland General News 

Finland expects a white Christmas nationwide

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 09:11
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Finland will wake up the morning of Christmas Eve to a winter wonderland, according to a forecast from the Finnish

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News Society Society (Finland) 

Santa and his reindeer set off from snowy Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 12:33 — Last Updated: Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 12:40
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Exclusive footage caught by Yle once again revealed the bearded, red-clad Santa Claus heading out to distribute cheer and gifts

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Canada Society Society (Canada) 

Canadian chef invites whole Northwest Territories capital to Christmas feast

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 26, 2019 at 08:00
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Yellowknife chef Robin Wasicuna doesn’t like the idea of people eating alone at Christmas. So with a crew of volunteers

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Canada Society Society (Canada) 

Arctic Canada: He takes down a Christmas tree with a rifle and ends up with a needleless one

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, December 25, 2019 at 10:00
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Earlier this fall, when Nooks Lindell of Arviat, Nunavut, was building a new wooden sled to haul behind his snowmobile, he

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Finland Society Society (Finland) 

Christmas Special: How Santa became Finnish

Tom Bateman, Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, December 25, 2019 at 01:00 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 10:36
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All Points North went to Lapland to find out how one man helped make Santa Claus one of Finland’s biggest

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Society Society (USA) USA 

64 years tracking Santa with the North American Aerospace Defense Command

Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 17:29 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 10:36
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Did you know that you can follow Santa Claus on his long journey around the world? For the 64th time,

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Finland Society Society (Finland) 

Record Christmas snow cover in Finnish Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, December 23, 2019 at 11:50
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Many Lapland residents will spend this Christmas enjoying record snow cover, according to data from the Finnish Meteorological Institute, FMI.

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Finland General News Society Society (Finland) 

More British tourists visited Finland in November, but Russians still first

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 15:44 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 10:18
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Despite some bad press, Finland remained a magnet for British tourists in November, according to Statistics Finland data released on

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General News Sweden 

Seasonal foods threatened by pollution problems, Swedish study says

Simon Linter, Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, December 24, 2018 at 14:54 — Last Updated: Monday, December 24, 2018 at 15:29
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Christmas dinner could be set to change, according to BalticEye, a research organisation based at Stockholm University.  The amount

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Meet the Canadian Inuit community dedicated to ‘buy nothing’

Priscilla Hwang, CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 24, 2018 at 11:53 — Last Updated: Friday, December 28, 2018 at 15:53
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It’s the season to buy, buy, buy — but one woman in a small Nunavut community, in the Canadian Arctic,

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Santa Claus cleared for flight in Canadian airspace

Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, December 24, 2018 at 10:42 — Last Updated: Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 15:35
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Canada’s transport minister has cleared Santa Claus for take-off on this year’s Christmas Eve trip to deliver presents around the

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