Issues affecting circumpolar nations
Residents of Ulukhaktok, a small Inuit community in Canada’s Northwest Territories (N.W.T.), say they’ve never experienced anything like this before —
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The end of the year is often a time to take stock and here at Eye on the Arctic, we’re no
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The North’s largest telecommunications provider says unlimited internet is coming to seven communities on Nov. 1, according to a press
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Smaller players in the Northwest Territories’ telecom industry say the money given to Northwestel to help improve internet speeds only
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Nunavut Day will look different this year as the COVID-19 pandemic shifts the typically outdoor event to virtual activities. It’s also the
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An Alaska company has completed construction of the first overland fibre-optic cable connecting the state to the continental U.S. The
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Finnish tourism destinations are turning to virtual tourism to get around travel restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic. The first
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Some of Canada’s northernmost MPs are hoping the virtual House of Commons sessions starting Tuesday can lead to more discussions
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A publisher, in partnership with the organization that represents Inuit in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, are making Inuit-language
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No, Greta Thunberg is not a time traveller. But a historic photo from the Yukon Klondike Gold Rush in northwestern
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The government of Canada’s Nunavut territory is checking every individual computer in the city of Iqaluit for the ransomware virus.
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The days of the internet monopoly in Ulukhaktok, N.W.T., in Arctic Canada, are numbered. A $20,000 investment by a non-profit
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The government of Nunavut’s communications system was the victim of a ransomware attack early Saturday morning, and as of Sunday
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The GN’s plan to boost internet in the Qikiqtaaluk region, in Canada’s eastern Arctic, through an undersea fibre link between
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Northwestel Inc. is looking to build a fibre line under Great Slave Lake, following several telecommunication outages that left Yellowknife
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