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Online security experts warn against online voting in territorial elections in Northern Canada

Hilary Bird, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 14:59
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Security experts have a message for election officials in the Northwest Territories: don’t use online voting. Officials recently announced online

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Recyclables in Yellowknife, Northern Canada have been dumped in landfill for over a year

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 14:13
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While Yellowknife, Northwest Territories residents have been carefully sorting their recyclables and dropping them off in the city’s large blue

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canadian Francophone Games could be coming to the North in 2023

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 16:31 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 16:51
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The Northwest Territories’ francophone federation hopes to submit a bid to host the 2023 Canadian Francophone Games in Yellowknife, in

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Why southern Canadians should brush up on their geography of the northern territories

Katherine Barton, CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 8, 2019 at 10:23 — Last Updated: Monday, July 8, 2019 at 15:47
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A large national non-profit wrote CBC North last week promoting two new historic places in the Northwest Territories. Problem is

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

Brother of Superman actress Margot Kidder spreads her ashes in Northern Canada

CBC News
Posted: Friday, July 5, 2019 at 16:35
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The brother of Superman actress Margot Kidder has returned to Yellowknife to spread some of his sister’s ashes in her

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada’s Northwest Territories to use online voting in general election

Hilary Bird, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 4, 2019 at 10:05
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In a move to increase voter turnout, the Northwest Territories will soon become the first jurisdiction in Canada to use

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

New bylaw in Inuvik, Arctic Canada bans cannabis stores in ‘downtown corridor’

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at 14:32
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If a cannabis retail store eventually opens in Inuvik, N.W.T., it won’t be in the town’s main downtown retail sector.

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Gendered impacts of resource development should be studied, says inquiry into violence against Indigenous women in Canada

Avery Zingel, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 12:00 — Last Updated: Friday, July 5, 2019 at 09:51
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Before a resource development project goes ahead, it should be assessed for risks it poses to Indigenous women, girls and

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Water levels unusually low across Beaufort Delta region, in northwestern Canada

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Friday, June 28, 2019 at 11:51
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Water levels have been noticeably low across the Beaufort Delta region, in northwestern Canada, this summer. “It’s the lowest I’ve

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Land-claim talks: Dehcho First Nations, in Northern Canada, put land issues on backburner

Alex Brockman, CBC News
Posted: Friday, June 28, 2019 at 09:50
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The Dehcho First Nations in the Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada, are using new negotiating tactics in their decades-old land

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Lawyers in Yellowknife, Northern Canada push back at courthouse bail hearing ban

Richard Gleeson, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 15:43
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Criminal defence lawyers have gone to court to fight an “unwritten policy” recently enacted by Justices of the Peace in

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

City council in Yellowknife, Northern Canada rejects looking into restricting liquor sales and store hours

Steve Silva, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 11:49
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Yellowknife city councillors rejected an idea from the mayor to start a dialogue with the Northwest Territories government to potentially

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Lack of consultation stalling land-claim agreement in Northern Canada, Dene Chief says

Randi Beers, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 10:08
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Some Akaitcho First Nations leaders says a group of First Nations in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan, in the Canadian Prairies,

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canadian Coast Guard adds three weeks to Arctic season as icebreakers head North

Alex Brockman, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 11:22 — Last Updated: Monday, September 14, 2020 at 12:28
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The Canadian Coast Guard is extending its Arctic ice-breaking season by three weeks this summer, an effort that could prevent

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Trial starts for man charged with ‘unlawfully’ killing polar bear in northwestern Canada

Avery Zingel, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at 13:42
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A man facing charges for allegedly hunting a polar bear in the Beaufort Delta region without tags is on trial

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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

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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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