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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Arctic Canada: Proposed bill won’t uphold Inuit language rights in Nunavut, education board says

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 15, 2019 at 13:29
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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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Business Business (Sweden) General Sweden 

From rescue work to construction, next generation of drones creating new opportunities

Simon Linter, Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, November 8, 2019 at 11:09
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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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General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

U.S. senator from Alaska joins measure denouncing House’s Trump impeachment inquiry

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, October 28, 2019 at 10:48
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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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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

MLAs in Canada’s Yukon territory debate electoral reform process as former clerk rebukes gov

Nancy Thomson, CBC News
Posted: Friday, October 25, 2019 at 13:16
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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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General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Alaska prisons filling up since state’s reversal on justice reform

Lori Townsend, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2019 at 14:37 — Last Updated: Monday, October 21, 2019 at 14:42
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The Alaska Department of Corrections is planning to send hundreds of inmates to prisons outside of Alaska. The department says

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Fall sitting in Canada’s Nunavut territory begins Thursday

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 10:09 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 16:09
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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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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

Mining companies to pay higher deposits for environmental damage in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 10:14
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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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Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

Alaska remote diesel generators win exemption from pollution rule

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, September 23, 2019 at 10:02
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Congress has passed a bill to exempt diesel generators in rural Alaska from an air quality rule that village utilities

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General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

U.S. Justice Department to send millions to rural Alaska law enforcement

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, September 16, 2019 at 09:59
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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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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

New Corrections Act brings big changes to jails in Canada’s Northwest Territories

Alex Brockman, CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 14:56 — Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 15:02
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The Northwest Territories’ overhaul of its corrections law could be a new model for reconciliation and offer inmates “a light

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Nunavut signs devolution agreement-in-principle with Canada, Inuit organization

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 16, 2019 at 10:03
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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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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories approve updates to decades-old oil ans gas laws

Alex Brockman, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 11:03 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 13:39
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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 General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada’s Northwest Territories to overhaul smoking laws, raise minimum age to buy tobacco

Alex Brockman, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at 10:46 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 10:38
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The Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada, is set to raise minimum age to buy tobacco to 19 as part of

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories expect ‘hectic’ sitting ahead of territorial election

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 12, 2019 at 14:46
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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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General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Ten things to know about Alaska’s budget

Andrew Kitchenman, Alaska Public Media & KTOO - Juneau
Posted: Friday, August 2, 2019 at 14:44
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Between budgets passing and parts being vetoed, the reverse sweep and a divided Legislature, it can be a confusing time.

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