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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 General Society Society (Canada) 

Federal workers in the North picket as part of Canada-wide strike

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 14:26
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About 600 Public Service Alliance of Canada workers affected in the North Federal public servants across the North were on

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

COVID-19 pandemic stalled progress on eliminating tuberculosis among Inuit: officials

The Canadian Press
Posted: Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 16:30
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By Emily Blake Plan to eliminate TB by 2030 still in place Nunavut’s health minister says the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General 

Mysterious spiral of light spotted in North caused by SpaceX rocket, physicist says

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 09:12
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‘He was like, ‘You need to look at this, because I feel like I might be hallucinating.” A mysterious swirl

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* Featured * Business Business (Canada) Canada Countries General 

Companies look to government for help turning N.W.T. projects into mines

Richard Gleeson, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 08:48
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‘We are operating in a very, very difficult capital market regime right now for mining companies’ Mining companies hoping to

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

Northern premiers sign federal health deal offering half of what they wanted

April Hudson, CBC News
Posted: Friday, February 17, 2023 at 11:42
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Territorial premiers have officially given their blessing for a federal health-care plan that will see a small boost to health

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 General Politics Politics (Canada) 

U.S. downs another aerial ‘object’ as search continues for wreckage in Yukon

Christian Paas-Lang, CBC Radio
Posted: Monday, February 13, 2023 at 09:08
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday that teams are working to “find and analyze” an object shot down on Saturday over

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Art and Culture Culture (Canada) Newsroom Picks • zone 1 

Arctic Inspiration Prize awards over $2.7M to projects ‘by the North, for the North’

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 09:44
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Seven projects from across the North have been awarded a total of more than $2.7 million from the Arctic Inspiration

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Culture Featured • Zone 3 

Bear intestines, fish skins and red carpet runways: The year in sewing

CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 30, 2022 at 12:55 — Last Updated: Friday, December 30, 2022 at 13:05
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Sewing has always been an essential part of northern culture. It also plays a vital role in the ongoing cultural

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Society Society (Canada) 

People seeking fertility treatment in the Yukon call for more government support

Leslie Amminson, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 29, 2022 at 10:37
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When Amélia Koeppel started trying to conceive with her partner, she didn’t predict they’d eventually end up with a $30,000

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

No money to include the North in next international survey of literacy and numeracy

Walter Strong, CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 9, 2022 at 08:58
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The previous OECD survey of adult literacy and numeracy included the 3 territories The next international survey of adult literacy

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* Featured * Countries Environment Environment (Finland) Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News RCI 

Researchers observe first Arctic fox den in Finland for over 25 years

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 16:16
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The combined population of Arctic foxes across the Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian areas of Lapland may have hit a record

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General News RCI 

Warming climate poses challenge to Arctic animals — and those who hunt them

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 11:10
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When David Kuptana looked out the window of his home in Ulukhaktok, N.W.T., and across the Beaufort Sea last Friday,

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* Featured * Countries Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General News Norway RCI 

Large areas of Arctic seabed damaged by trawlers

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 15:38
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The Norwegian marine researchers that set out on an Arctic expedition this summer expected to find large areas of untouched

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Geopolitics Geopolitics (Russia) News Politics Politics (Russia) RCI 

Fleeing Russia, Andrei seeks asylum in what for him is still historical homeland, Sapmi

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 11:36 — Last Updated: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 15:42
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“I’m pleased to be on this side of the border. To be free and not persecuted. To speak the truth

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General News Politics Politics (Canada) RCI 

Northern Rangers convene for first time in three years amid broader discussions on Arctic security

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 09:47
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For the first time in three years, northern Canadian Rangers are gathering to provide updates on their communities and set

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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