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

Sparse signage, subtle election chatter in Canada’s northernmost community

The Canadian Press
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 13:59
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With less than a week to go before millions of Canadians head to the polls, there were few indications around

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

Arctic sovereignty overshadowing everyday issues in election say some Nunavummiut

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 09:23
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Sovereignty being used as excuse to divert from what Northerners need, says resident While federal party leaders have been focusing

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Canada Featured • Zone 3 Newsroom Picks • zone 2 Politics (Canada) 

N.W.T. NGOs say cost of living a key issue in this federal election

CBC News
Posted: Monday, April 21, 2025 at 16:20
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The cost of living is a concern for many N.W.T. community organizations and they want to know how candidates running

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

World TB Day: Inuit org raises alarm on TB crisis as Canadian election begins

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, March 24, 2025 at 16:22
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March 24 is World Tuberculosis Day.  And with a federal election now underway in Canada, the country’s national Inuit organization

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* Featured * Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Denmark/Greenland) 

Greenland’s election winners push back against Trump’s wish to control island

The Associated Press
Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 13:28
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Greenland’s likely new prime minister on Wednesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to take control of the island, saying

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Newsroom Picks • zone 3 Politics Politics (Canada) 

New Teslin Tlingit Council election in Yukon after previous one ruled invalid

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 14:13
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First Nation’s election adjudicator found some electors couldn’t vote because of problems with mail-in ballots The Teslin Tlingit Council in

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Nunavut Inuit org. offers $100 to voters in upcoming election for its president

CBC News
Posted: Monday, November 18, 2024 at 11:35
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Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. says its voter turnout has been historically low The organization that represents Inuit in Nunavut is giving

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

Court injunction puts new Gwich’in grand chief election on hold

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 10:07
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N.W.T. Supreme Court to do a judicial review of council’s decision An N.W.T. Supreme Court judge has granted an injunction

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* Featured * Canada Countries General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Displaced Enterprise, N.W.T. residents, worry about upcoming voter eligibility

Natalie Pressman, CBC News @natpressman
Posted: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 10:56
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Territorial regulations say voters must live in community for a consecutive 12 months before election Residents of Enterprise, N.W.T. continue

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Featured • Zone 3 Politics Politics (Finland) 

Sámi Parliament board sign UN complaint over election re-run

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 16:51 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 16:52
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The Executive Council of the Sámi Parliament has written to the UN’s Human Rights Committee to protest an order to

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Featured • Zone 3 Newsroom Picks • zone 3 Politics Politics (Finland) 

Finnish Court annuls 2023 Sámi elections

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at 10:36
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The vote must be considered invalid because a significant number of individuals had been omitted from the election list, the

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Geopolitics Politics Politics (Finland) Politics (Russia) 

Only 10% of Russians in Finland voted for Putin, exit poll says

Yle News
Posted: Monday, March 18, 2024 at 16:34
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Only 10 percent of Russian citizens in Finland told an online exit poll that they voted for President Vladimir Putin

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Geopolitics Geopolitics (Norway) 

Norwegian MFA about so-called Russian election: “Not free, not fair, not democratic”

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, March 18, 2024 at 14:19
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“I want to express my sympathy and support to the Russians that continue to dare to work for a different

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Geopolitics (USA) Politics (Russia) Politics (USA) Russia 

Kremlin: “simultaneous gatherings” at polling stations are “criminal offense”

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, March 15, 2024 at 12:11
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By Elizaveta Vereykina Moscow prosecutor’s office issued an official statement on its social media page saying they “identified” calls online

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* Featured * Countries News Newsroom Picks • zone 2 Politics (USA) RCI USA 

Mary Peltola sworn in as 1st Alaska Native in Congress

The Associated Press
Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 13:46
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Democrat Mary Peltola was sworn in Tuesday night to finish out the remaining months of the term of the late

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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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