Heat records broken across N.W.T. with more hot days ahead
Fort McPherson, N.W.T., has seen two all-time heat records this week, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. A heat record
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Search continues for 11-year-old boy in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, missing for almost a week
The search for an 11-year-old boy missing in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, since Aug. 1 continues, but has been scaled back to
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Government in Canada’s Arctic Nunavut territory shelves infrastructure, housing projects over construction costs
Current construction costs mean territory can’t make good on housing goals A number of infrastructure and housing projects in Nunavut
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Better alcohol education needed in Nunavut, Canada Kugluktuk mayor says
Kugluktuk’s alcohol education committee says its experience is ‘very negative’ Alcohol education committees in Nunavut communities can’t educate residents about
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Canada’s Arctic Nunavut territory confirms 2 more COVID-19 cases: 1 in Kinngait, 1 in Kugluktuk
It brings the total of active cases in Nunavut to 5, with 3 in Kinngait There are two new COVID-19
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New diamond and gold deposit found in Arctic Canada
A unique diamond and gold deposit has been located near the Arctic coast, about 155 kilometres southeast of Kugluktuk in Nunavut.
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Arctic Canada: Nunavut government asks to lower caribou hunt, which could impact local communities
The Government of Nunavut is asking to lower the annual harvest limits of two declining caribou herds in western Nunavut,
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Police to meet hamlet officials after eased liquor rules spawn protest in Arctic Canadian community
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Nunavut, Arctic Canada say they are planning to meet with Kugluktuk’s mayor and senior
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Nunavut educator Edna Agnes Ekhivalak Elias among appointments to Order of Canada
Gov. Gen. Julie Payette has announced the names of 83 new appointments to the Order of Canada, including actor Donald
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Town in Canadian central Arctic to get hybrid solar-diesel power plant
Kugluktuk, in Canada’s central Arctic, will benefit from a portion of more than $27.8 million in new energy and water
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Barge season in Canada’s Northwest Territories to get ‘early start’
An official with the Northwest Territories’ Marine Transportation Services (MTS) says they will be getting an “early start” to this
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Community in Arctic Canada finding new ways to produce food
Kugluktuk, Nunavut, in Canada’s central Arctic, is finding new ways to provide the community with fresh produce. In April the
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How a community in Northern Canada is adapting to the end of alcohol restrictions
Bob Appatok spends his days and nights on the roads of Kugluktuk, Nunavut, in Canada’s eastern Arctic, chasing down stray
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Meet the Canadian Inuit community dedicated to ‘buy nothing’
It’s the season to buy, buy, buy — but one woman in a small Nunavut community, in the Canadian Arctic,
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Satellite imagery illuminates ice conditions around communities in Canada’s east-Arctic
Inuit in Cambridge Bay, Kugluktuk and Gjoa Haven, in the territory of Nunavut, are getting a clearer picture of sea-ice
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