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Blog: Poirier’s Revenge – The map of Canada has the wrong Arctic boundaries. No, really.

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 18:37 — Last Updated: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 19:17
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When Polar Knowledge Canada was created out of the ashes of the Canadian Polar Commission in 2015, it published a

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General Iceland Politics Politics (Iceland) 

Iceland’s Pirate Party leads polls few days before elections

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 13:45
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Like the eruption from Eyjafjallajökull shocked air-traffic across Europe in 2010, Iceland today experiences a political earthquake where the Pirate

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Finnish President Sauli Niinistö at a press conference in Russia in August 2014. (Ivan Sekretarev /AFP/Getty Images)
Finland General Politics Politics (Finland) 

NATO membership not joint Finnish-Swedish decision: President Niinistö

Yle News
Posted: Monday, May 2, 2016 at 17:01
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President Sauli Niinistö has told Yle that there is no automatic link that would require Finland and Sweden to coordinate

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Blog Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Blog: Why northern development is hard

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 21:06 — Last Updated: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 19:33
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Everyone seems to love simplifications these days; maybe it’s always been so. We want to be told that solutions to

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Vattenfall's coal mine in Welzow sûd in Eastern Germany. (Pelle Zettersten/Sveriges Radio)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden’s Greens torn on Vattenfall’s coal mines

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 14:54 — Last Updated: Friday, July 3, 2015 at 17:39
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Green Party members from all over the country gather in Örebro for the party’s first ever congress as a member

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(Åsa Karlsson/Swedish Radio)
General Society Society (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden’s renewable energy tax proposal under fire

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, May 11, 2015 at 18:26 — Last Updated: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 18:01
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Researchers and solar power advocates criticise the government’s plans to introduce a tax on renewable energies, Swedish Radio News reports.

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Canada Politics Politics (Canada) 

Deline self-government agreement passes 1st reading

CBC News
Posted: Friday, February 27, 2015 at 15:53 — Last Updated: Monday, March 2, 2015 at 14:08
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Deline hopes to have N.W.T.’s first community self-government by April 2016 The community of Deline, N.W.T., took an important step

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In the Arctic community of Tuktoyaktuk the northern allowance has been cut by $2,600 a year. In the Arctic town of Inuvik, people will take home nearly $400 less a year. (iStock)
Canada Society Society (Canada) 

Canada’s N.W.T. cuts northern allowance for staff in Arctic communities

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 10:27
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The northern allowance payment for some employees of the Government of Canada’s Northwest Territories went down on April 1. In

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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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