Canada pledges $70M for Northern health services
The 2014-2015 federal budget pledges $70 million over three years to improve health services in the three Northern territories, in
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Support hunters to fight hunger in Nunavut, says report
A new study of food security problems in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut is calling for increased support for
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Air Greenland plans another summer of Iqaluit-Nuuk flights
Air Greenland says tourists, not oil or mining companies, are keeping its route alive between Iqaluit and Nuuk. The airline
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Blog: What’s in store for Greenland’s resource industry?
A number of recent stories have cropped up looking at the future of resource development in Greenland and whether it
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New chair of ICC to come from Canada’s eastern Arctic
Okalik Eegeesiak, an Inuk from Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut is expected to become the next chair of the
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Oil and gas consultations in Canada’s eastern Arctic next week
Federal officials will travel to ten communities in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut beginning next week. They’re inviting people
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Arviat, Nunavut ecotourism nominated for international award
The Arviat Community Ecotourism program has been nominated for an award by the World Travel and Tourism Council based in
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Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq on reclaiming Nanook of the North
By Holly Gordon, CBC Music Tanya Tagaq doesn’t mince words. Asked about her impressions of Nanook of the North, a
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Canadian narwhal tusk smuggler faces extradition hearing
A man from New Brunswick in Atlantic Canada, who was convicted of smuggling narwhal tusks into the United States, is
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Eroding Alaska village urges Congress to address climate change
Congress has the dirt on climate change — literally. Five residents from the eroding village of Shishmaref in Northwest Alaska
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Petition to change TV stereotypes of Arctic life on children’s TV
A former resident of Canada’s high Arctic has launched a petition against inaccurate portrayals of the far north. Skye Greenwood
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Nunavut coroner to launch inquiry into suicides
The chief coroner in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut is calling an inquiry into the high rates of suicide
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New app teaches Inuktitut through song
No language is easy to learn, but Inuktitut? Many a langauge student has been sidelined by the complex sounds and
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Nunavut suicides reach record numbers
A record number of people took their own lives in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut in 2013, yet young
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Arctic Canadian mayor worried about mine’s shipping route
Hearings are scheduled to begin in the Arctic Canadian community of Clyde River today into Baffinland’s Mary River mine project.
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