Yukon Arctic Ultra competitors wary of cold-weather risks
The temperature in Whitehorse, Yukon has dipped, just as competitors are doing final preparations for the Yukon Arctic Ultra this
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Finland’s elder care needs funding boost to meet Nordic standards: researcher
Finland’s elder care system has been underfunded for a long time, according to the head of the Centre for Excellence
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Northern Canada: new funds to help fight opioid addiction in Northwest Territories
The federal and Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) governments are teaming up to make it easier for people to access opioid addictions
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No opioid crisis in Canada’s eastern Arctic
Fentanyl has made it to Nunavut, but officials say that unlike the rest of Canada, it’s nowhere near a crisis.
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Arctic Council experts gather in Helsinki for black carbon meeting
The Arctic Council’s expert group on black carbon and methane will gather in Helsinki on Wednesday for a two-day meeting
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Most teens in Canada’s Northwest Territories not practising safe sex, survey says
Most sexually active teenagers in the Northwest Territories report not using condoms regularly. That’s one of the findings of a
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Nurses in Arctic Canadian village ‘exhausted’ by flu season and staff shortage, patient says
Patients in Arviat, Nunavut (Canadian east-Arctic), say nurses in the community are overworked and overwhelmed as they deal with a
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10 years sober: Indigenous woman in northern Quebec shares impacts of alcohol in video
Some of Carol-Ann Tanoush’s earliest memories of growing up in northern Quebec revolve around alcohol. “[It was] loud music, screaming
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Finns eat too much meat, study says
Adults in Finland eat too much meat and not enough vegetables. According to a fresh report from the National Institute
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Younger Finns more and more attracted to winter swimming
People of all ages have traditionally engaged in winter swimming – especially in Finland – but regulars have begun to
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Envisioning recovery and rebuilding a life in the Alaskan Arctic
Karen Mitchell is the Behavioral Health Aide in Noatak, a small village in the Northwest Arctic. Twenty-five years ago, as
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Microbes pose no threat to winter swimmers, according to Finnish Health Institute
The Finnish tradition of ice swimming poses very little risk of microbial infection to swimmers, the National Institute for Health
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Housing crisis in Canada’s east-Arctic worsens as homes become too old to live in
Residents are demanding repairs as Nunavut’s public housing stock ages, but the government says that budget constraints means people shouldn’t
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Canadian Inuit organization releases strategy to eliminate TB by 2030
Canada’s national Inuit organization released Monday its strategy to eliminate by 2030 the “staggeringly high rates” of tuberculosis (TB) among
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Northerners cope in different ways with prolonged winter darkness
Ten days ago, on 24 November, the sun rose above the horizon for the last time in Utsjoki, Finland’s northernmost
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