N.W.T. gov’t to review impact benefit agreements between mines and Indigenous groups
By Nadeer Hashmi Indigenous groups will have say over whether agreements should be renegotiate The N.W.T. government says it’s aware
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Arctic Canada: Proposed bill won’t uphold Inuit language rights in Nunavut, education board says
A Nunavut, Arctic Canada education group is calling out a “huge inequality” between language groups in Nunavut’s current education act,
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From rescue work to construction, next generation of drones creating new opportunities
Once expensive toys, the latest breed of unmanned drones are being developed to help businesses grow or even save people’s
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U.S. senator from Alaska joins measure denouncing House’s Trump impeachment inquiry
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) is co-sponsoring a resolution that bashes the House for its impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
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MLAs in Canada’s Yukon territory debate electoral reform process as former clerk rebukes gov
In northwestern Canada, Yukon MLAs have begun to debate a motion establishing an all-party committee on electoral reform, following a
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Alaska prisons filling up since state’s reversal on justice reform
The Alaska Department of Corrections is planning to send hundreds of inmates to prisons outside of Alaska. The department says
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Fall sitting in Canada’s Nunavut territory begins Thursday
MLAs and cabinet ministers of Nunavut, in Canada’s eastern Arctic, are gathering in Iqaluit today for the start of the
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Mining companies to pay higher deposits for environmental damage in Finland
Finland’s government is committed to increasing the guarantee fees paid by mining companies to offset the environmental damages mine operations
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Alaska remote diesel generators win exemption from pollution rule
Congress has passed a bill to exempt diesel generators in rural Alaska from an air quality rule that village utilities
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U.S. Justice Department to send millions to rural Alaska law enforcement
The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday how it plans to spend millions of dollars of federal money promised by Attorney
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New Corrections Act brings big changes to jails in Canada’s Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories’ overhaul of its corrections law could be a new model for reconciliation and offer inmates “a light
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Nunavut signs devolution agreement-in-principle with Canada, Inuit organization
Nunavut has reached an agreement-in-principle on devolution with the government of Canada and the territorial Inuit organization. Canada’s Crown-Indigenous Relations
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MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories approve updates to decades-old oil ans gas laws
MLAs in the Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada, have passed two pieces of oil and gas legislation, replacing decades-old legislation.
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Canada’s Northwest Territories to overhaul smoking laws, raise minimum age to buy tobacco
The Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada, is set to raise minimum age to buy tobacco to 19 as part of
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MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories expect ‘hectic’ sitting ahead of territorial election
Northwest Territories MLAs, in Northern Canada, have a jam-packed agenda as they head into their last scheduled sitting before the
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