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Swedish and Norwegian police to share unique border station next week

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 10:39
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Swedish and Norwegian police move in together next week, sharing a police station built on the actual border between the

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

No criminal charges in 2023 death of woman in Nunavik police custody

CBC News
Posted: Monday, February 3, 2025 at 11:29
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Pathologist ruled that woman in Inukjuak died of ‘acute ethanol intoxication’ while in police holding cell Quebec’s Crown prosecutors are not pressing

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

1 person dead, another seriously injured after altercation with Nunavik police

CBC News
Posted: Monday, November 4, 2024 at 16:00
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By Samuel Wat Video posted on social media shows man being shot at close range One person is dead and

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

Nunavik police arrest of woman reflects troubling attitude towards Inuit: advocates

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 1, 2024 at 09:43
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By Samuel Wat  Quebec’s Bureau of Independent Investigations is looking into possible police misconduct Nunavik’s Inuit Women’s Association says the

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

2 people dead in Yellowknife, RCMP investigating as double homicide

CBC News
Posted: Monday, March 18, 2024 at 11:14 — Last Updated: Monday, March 18, 2024 at 11:34
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RCMP are investigating a possible double homicide in Yellowknife. Police were called to a home on Bigelow Crescent, between Williams

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General Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Norway nixes border surveillance helicopter despite Murmansk migrant queues

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, November 24, 2023 at 15:49
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Despite hundreds of migrants queuing up in the Murmansk region with a strong will to make it to Europe, Norwegian

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

Yukon gov’t supports opposition motion to hire more police

CBC News
Posted: Friday, October 13, 2023 at 11:55
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RCMP need more resources to tackle drug trade, organized crime, says Yukon Party MLA The Yukon government and the Official

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Iceland News Politics (Iceland) Society 

Police in northern Sweden forced to cover for missing security guards

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, August 2, 2023 at 08:52 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 2, 2023 at 08:56
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Police in northern Sweden say they’re having to take on some jobs usually contracted out to security guards, which is

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Police in Arctic Norway say helicopter now needed for border surveillance

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, January 16, 2023 at 08:53
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A former commander with the Kremlin-linked Wagner private military company fled across the border to Norway in dramatic circumstances last

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 General News Society Society (Sweden) Sweden 

Police respond to rising burglaries in Swedish Lapland

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 10:34
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In north Lapland, people are most afraid of home burglaries so the police have set up an organization to react

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

Mounties discuss committee findings on 7 sexual assault cases in Canada’s Northwest Territories

Avery Zingel, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 09:43
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Reporting a sexual assault takes guts and few Northwest Territories victims ever come forward, making it all the more important

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Featured • Zone 2 General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Swedish Security Police: Increasing threat against Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 11:30
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The threat from foreign powers and violent extremism continues to increase, according to Sweden’s Security Police, Säpo. In its yearly

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* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 General News RCI Society Society (Canada) 

To stop violence against Inuit women in Canada, ‘we need to heal generations,’ says survivor

CBC Radio
Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 08:58
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A Labrador woman who lost both of her parents in a murder-suicide when she was a child says more must

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Top Nunavut cop gives more details into how man was killed by officer in Arctic Canada

Thomas Rohner, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 16:12
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In the face of mounting pressure for transparency and rising tensions in Kinngait, Nunavut, the territory’s top Mountie made the

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Canada Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada’s Arctic province wants to stop relying on Ottawa police force to investigate police shootings

The Canadian Press
Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 11:06 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 16:13
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The government of Nunavut is affirming its intention to create a civilian police oversight body after a recent review of a shooting

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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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