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Wildfire risk ‘very much in the mind’ of CRTC as it mulls new FM licences in Yellowknife

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:28
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The risk of wildfires in the Northwest Territories is one of the main reasons a new commercial FM radio licence

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

Internet customers in North to receive subsidy, CRTC says

CBC News
Posted: Friday, January 17, 2025 at 13:14
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Regulator also says Northwestel must credit customers for internet outages longer than a day Canada’s telecommunications regulator says northerners will

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

Premier encourages Yukoners to file CRTC complaints over phone service disruptions

CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 23, 2024 at 10:06
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By Tessa Vikander · Residents have faced frequently dropped calls, intermittent service and spotty coverage Frustration in the Yukon over Bell

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

CRTC fibre internet funding, but Nunavut communities question implementation

CBC News
Posted: Friday, July 12, 2024 at 16:08
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By TJ Dhir · CBC News Government still has to prove to telecommunications body that they can provide fibre internet Kinngait Mayor

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

Northwestel says competition is forcing improvements to northern internet

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 11:09
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Company already losing customers to Starlink, CRTC hears Northwestel says it’s working to improve internet service across the North —

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

Gov’t of Canada’s Northwest Territories tables economic recovery plan, offering little in new support for business

John Last, CBC North
Posted: Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at 04:00
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40-page ‘Emerging Stronger’ document mostly details past interventions and failures The government of the Northwest Territories has unveiled its plan

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Business Business (Canada) Canada RCI 

Canadian Telecom businesses say recent federal funding solidifies Northwestel monopoly

Anna Desmarais, CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 14, 2020 at 13:34
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Smaller players in the Northwest Territories’ telecom industry say the money given to Northwestel to help improve internet speeds only

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) RCI 

Inuit TV coming to Northern Canada from new Inuktut-language broadcaster

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 15:21 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 10:37
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Nunavut is getting a new all-Inuktut TV channel this year. Inuit TV will have Inuktut programming in dialects from all Inuit

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Business Business (Canada) Canada General 

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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Business Business (Canada) Canada General News 

Telecom company serving Northern Canada accuses competitor of blocking calls

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 15:01 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 15:16
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The CEO and president of Ice Wireless is claiming Telus (a large telecom company based in southwestern Canada) has been

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Feature

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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