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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada’s northern food security program has ‘lost its way’, says federal minister

Catharine Tunney, CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 22, 2018 at 12:18
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Canada’s Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc is promising changes to the federal government’s northern food security subsidy program

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Finland General News Society Society (Finland) 

One in 10 Finnish families with young children dealing with food insecurity: survey

Yle News
Posted: Friday, September 7, 2018 at 16:35
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More than a tenth of new parents responding to a pilot survey by Finland’s National Institute for Health and Welfare

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canadian PM directs northern minister to update and expand Nutrition North program

Angela Hill, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 14:03
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Nutrition North is on the to-do list of Canada’s new minister of Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs and Internal Trade. Minister

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

Western science, traditional knowledge combine in Northern Canadian fish monitoring project

Joanne Stassen, CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 13, 2018 at 13:25 — Last Updated: Monday, August 13, 2018 at 13:27
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Cutting up fish, collecting mud samples and crunching data might sound like a messy, nerdy summer job to some high

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General News Politics Politics (USA) USA 

New farm bill program aims to fight food insecurity in Alaska

Erin McKinstry, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, July 30, 2018 at 12:09 — Last Updated: Monday, July 30, 2018 at 12:24
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Around one in eight Alaskans have wondered at some point in the last year where their next meal will come

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General News Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Feature Interview: Every Inuk needs to stand up and be counted, says new ICC chair

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 14:00 — Last Updated: Friday, July 27, 2018 at 15:50
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As global players ramp up interest in the Arctic, the organization representing the world’s Inuit wrapped up their general assembly

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Environment Environment (USA) General News USA 

Communities wrestle with shark-bite mystery off Alaskan coast

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 15:31 — Last Updated: Friday, July 27, 2018 at 15:52
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Sometimes it’s seals with amputated flippers. Or even a sea lion snatched seemingly out of thin air. But for at

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Canada General News Science Science (Canada) 

Study in Northern Quebec to assess impact of climate change on Inuit’s food

CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 23, 2018 at 13:41
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A project aimed at examining the impacts of climate change on Inuit health embarked on its second leg this summer,

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Environment (Sweden) General News Science Sweden 

Scientists in Sweden help Indian farmers with artificial glaciers

David Russell, Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, June 4, 2018 at 13:22
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Researchers in Sweden are providing their expertise in snow and ice to help farmers in a remote part of northern

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

Canada invests $1.2 million to help solve mystery of dwindling char numbers in Arctic

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, May 11, 2018 at 15:33 — Last Updated: Friday, May 11, 2018 at 15:58
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Canada’s department of Fisheries and Oceans has announced it will give $1,261,890 over 5 years to help solve the mystery of

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

Finland hits 2018 sustainability limit, says conservation group

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 11:37
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WWF Finland has calculated that Wednesday April 11th is Earth Overshoot Day for the Finns – the point in each

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Feds announce funding to tackle climate change in Inuit region of Atlantic Canada

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 09:30 — Last Updated: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 09:40
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The federal government announced $977,975 in funding on Monday to help Inuit communities in Atlantic Canada better tackle climate change impacts

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

Indigenous groups prompt Canadian province to reconsider caribou designation

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 11:16
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An Atlantic Canadian province is putting off a decision to list regional caribou herds as endangered after pushback from Indigenous

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General Politics Politics (Canada) Society Society (Canada) 

UN maritime body listens to Arctic Indigenous voices

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Friday, October 28, 2016 at 20:17 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 11:06
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The International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London heard this week from Arctic Indigenous leaders who lobbied the UN body for

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Food costs could eat up half of northern incomes

Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 14:43 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 11:08
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A new report suggests that food is so expensive in Canada’s remote northern communities that people would have to spend

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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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