Northwestern Canada : $5.9M deficit in Yukon budget
The Yukon government is going slightly into the red again this year, with its second consecutive deficit budget. Yukoners will
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Pauktuutit to explore challenges confronting Inuit women in Canada’s extractive industry
Canada’s national women’s organization is working to launch a new project to better understand the violence and harassment faced by
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Finland’s pulp industry shows record results
The pulp industry has been thriving for the past decade. Prices, production volumes and exports have all shown a steady
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Russian gov promises new weapons while approval ratings slide
Forty-five percent of Russians believe their country is moving in the wrong direction, a new opinion poll by independent Levada
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Canada: chamber of mines says mining industry in Northwest Territories ‘will die’ without investment
The City of Yellowknife, in Canada’s Northwest Territories (N.W.T.), was given a grim update on the state of the territory’s
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Canadian Chamber of Commerce backs carbon pricing, but not for the North
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce endorses carbon pricing in Canada, but says the tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions won’t
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“Climate change will be a major market distortion”, says Finland’s central bank
Finland has come to the end of a period of rapid economic growth, the bank of Finland said in economic
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Report highlights Finland’s top 5 housing problems
Parliament’s audit committee issued a report on Tuesday outlining five major problems with housing policy in Finland. The committee concluded
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Indigenous Cultural Tourism: How the North is learning from community success in southern Canada
The successes of cultural tourism in Canada’s southern Aboriginal communities are providing an important roadmap for development of Indigenous cultural
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Indigenous tourism biz gets new investments in Canada’s Northwest Territories
A new agreement has been signed in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT) to up annual investment in Indigenous tourism businesses. The
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Canada’s transportation safety board to investigate passenger ship grounding in Arctic
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has sent a team of investigators to the Arctic to investigate last week’s
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Sliding Russian ruble brings down cross-border traffic with Norway
One Norwegian krone was traded at 8,1 rubles Tuesday morning. Cross-border traffic between Murmansk (Arctic Russia) and Kirkenes (Arctic Norway)
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Finnish GDP growth slows, inflation and employment edge up
The Finnish economy remained robust in the spring and early summer, but there was a hint of slowing in June
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Northern Canadian territory’s tourism on pace for another record-setting year, say tourism officials
Canada’s northern Yukon territory could be in for another year of high tourism numbers, according to people in the industry.
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Poor harvest caused by dry summer may force Finnish farmers to slaughter livestock
This year’s grain harvest in Finland will be 2.8 million tons – the lowest yield so far this millennium, according
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