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Residents worry about evacuation strategy ahead of spring breakup in northern Canadian village

Luke Caroll, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 12:09
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‘I’m not upset about it. I’m insulted by it,’ said one resident of his situation last year On Monday morning

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Guy Lafleur in the North – ‘He just wanted to meet his fans’ says former NHL teammate Steve Shutt

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 09:41
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While some people travelling to northern Canada for the first time are lured by adventure or the rugged terrain, when

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Move over Boomer: Millennials, Gen Z dominate in Canada’s northern territories, StatsCan says

Paul Tukker, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 10:35
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2021 census data show the North’s population still trends younger than elsewhere in Canada The North’s population continues to skew younger

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Several communities in Canada’s Northwest Territories at risk of spring flooding

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 15:31
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Snow levels around the Hay River basin are at the highest level ever recorded at this time of year Excessive

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Record number of worker deaths across northern Canada in 2021

CBC News
Posted: Monday, April 25, 2022 at 09:53
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When news broke of Markus Dyck’s death, it rocked not only the small Nunavut community where he lived but the

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Resource extraction in North needs tools to fight climate change, says Canada’s transportation minister

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 15:59
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Canada’s transportation minister says all economic sectors — including resource extraction in the North — need their own tools to

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Residents in Canada’s Northwest Territories welcome highway project, but concerned over social impacts

Natalie Pressman, CBC News @natpressman
Posted: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 08:52
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The $700-million highway project is a two-lane gravel road that would connect Wrigley to Norman Wells The Mackenzie Valley Highway

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Russia’s assault on Ukraine: MLA in Canada’s Northwest Territories asks for assurances about Arctic security

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 4, 2022 at 14:56
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Inuvik Twin Lakes MLA says Russia has long expressed interest in Arctic waters As Russia intensifies its assault on Ukraine,

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Communities in Canada’s Northwest Territories need more money; minister says gov’t can’t give it to them

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 10:39
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Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs says closing municipal funding gap is ‘not realistic’ The Northwest Territories’ minister of Municipal

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MLA in Canada’s Northwest Territories calls on government to establish regional addiction treatment centres

Luke Caroll, CBC News
Posted: Monday, February 28, 2022 at 16:22
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Rocky Simpson says Indigenous community supports establishing proper cultural programming closer to home A Hay River MLA is calling on

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Is Canada’s Northwest Territories in a mental health crisis? MLA, health minister at odds over the answer

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Friday, February 25, 2022 at 09:03 — Last Updated: Friday, February 25, 2022 at 09:07
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Great Slave MLA says territory is at a critical point; Health Minister says it’s nothing N.W.T. can’t handle Warning: This

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Departments in Canada’s Northwest Territories failing to offer services in Indigenous languages, says commissioner

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Monday, February 21, 2022 at 13:06
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Services offered in English and French, but rarely in 9 official Indigenous languages People should have the option to communicate

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Census 2021: A snapshot of Arctic Canada’s population and dwelling data

The Canadian Press
Posted: Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 12:03
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The census data for 2021 tells a very different story across Canada’s three territories. Yukon led the country in population

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Canada’s Northwest Territories reports 15th COVID-19 death as active cases decrease

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at 09:23
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1 new hospitlization and 1 new I.C.U admission since Friday There’s been another COVID-related death in the Northwest Territories, the third in

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Duane Smith acclaimed as chair of IRC in Canada’s western Arctic

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Friday, January 21, 2022 at 14:54
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Duane Smith, the incumbent chairperson and CEO of the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC), has been acclaimed for a new term,

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