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Inuit gov in Arctic Quebec welcomes federal internet announcement

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 13:55
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The Kativik Regional Government (KRG) in Nunavik, the Inuit region of Arctic Quebec, is welcoming this week’s promise from the

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Canadian PM promises to connect 98% of Canadians, including in North, to high-speed internet by 2026

CBC News
Posted: Monday, November 9, 2020 at 13:09
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The Liberal government is promising to spend more than a billion dollars to connect most Canadians to high-speed internet by

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Nunavut government in Arctic Canada reformatting 2,000 computers after ransomware attack

CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 8, 2019 at 10:26
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The government of Canada’s Nunavut territory is checking every individual computer in the city of Iqaluit for the ransomware virus.

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Non-profit to set up local, community-run internet service provider in Arctic Canada

John Last, CBC North
Posted: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 16:55 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 08:57
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The days of the internet monopoly in Ulukhaktok, N.W.T., in Arctic Canada, are numbered. A $20,000 investment by a non-profit

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada’s Nunavut government hit by ransomware attack

CBC News
Posted: Monday, November 4, 2019 at 10:13 — Last Updated: Monday, November 4, 2019 at 10:19
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The government of Nunavut’s communications system was the victim of a ransomware attack early Saturday morning, and as of Sunday

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Canada’s Northwest Territories launching 911 emergency service Monday

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 10:07 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 11:26
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Starting on Monday, people in the Northwest Territories, Northern Canada who find themselves in an emergency will be able to

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canadian eastern Arctic: Nunavut-Greenland fibre cable to cost $80M more than planned

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Friday, October 25, 2019 at 10:43
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The GN’s plan to boost internet in the Qikiqtaaluk region, in Canada’s eastern Arctic, through an undersea fibre link between

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Business (Canada) Canada 

Northwestel looking to build fibre line under Great Slave Lake in Northern Canada

Gabriela Panza-Beltrandi, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 13:43
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Northwestel Inc. is looking to build a fibre line under Great Slave Lake, following several telecommunication outages that left Yellowknife

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Internet now same speed across Canada’s Nunavut territory

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 14:23
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Northwestel announced at the Nunavut Trade Show that all 25 of the territory’s communities are now connected with the same

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Canada’s telecom regulator asks Northwestel to detail outages across the North

Gabriela Panza-Beltrandi, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 14:23 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 15:36
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Northwestel has been forced to explain some of the outages northern communities have endured over the last year. The Canadian

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Company aims to give the Arctic ‘fibre-like’ internet through satellites

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 11:24 — Last Updated: Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 11:18
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A UK-based telecommunications company is planning to launch hundreds of satellites in an effort to provide worldwide broadband internet service,

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Business Business (Canada) Canada General 

From wolves to ‘idiots’ with backhoes, threats to fibre lines in Northern Canada are many

Randi Beers, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 09:49 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 15:51
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Residents of Yellowknife, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, are learning how fragile their internet connection can be after suffering two major

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Optic fibre cable in Arctic Canada was cut in ‘rare’ weekend telecom outage, says Northwestel

Kate Kyle, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 09:38 — Last Updated: Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 12:12
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Northwestel says a major communications disruption in the Yellowknife area, northwestern Canada, over the weekend resulted from a severed fibre

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Community in Arctic Canada frustrated by months-long internet and cell service issues

Priscilla Hwang, CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 8, 2019 at 15:50
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After what residents describe as months of spotty internet and cell services in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic,

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New satellites to boost communications in Arctic Norway

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 09:49 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 09:51
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The Nordic country cooperates with the U.S and other allies over the development of a new broadband communication network in

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