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Finland General Politics Politics (Finland) 

Finland’s Parliament to review security in wake of Canada shooting

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 14:20 — Last Updated: Friday, October 24, 2014 at 21:27
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Finnish police have been asked to determine whether or not a shooting incident similar to one that occurred in Canada

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"We stand ready to support our national government in whatever way we can," said Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski after the Ottawa attacks on Wednesday. Pasloski is pictured above at a premier's conference in 2011. (James Mackenzie / The Canadian Press)
Canada Politics (Canada) Special Features 

Canada’s northern leaders react to Ottawa attack

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 00:01 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 19:12
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Territorial governments across Canada’s Arctic responded on Wednesday to the attack in the nation’s capital city of Ottawa. In Whitehorse,

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Cormorants close to the shore. (Camilla Körkander/Sveriges Radio)
Environment Environment (Sweden) General Sweden 

Hundreds of cormorant chicks killed in attack in eastern Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at 19:19 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 2, 2014 at 17:57
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Hundreds of cormorant chicks may have been killed in an attack on two islands close to the Swedish town of

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A rough day in Barrow came to a somewhat happy end when a standoff in the Arctic community that began in the afternoon and stretched into the evening ended peacefully Tuesday. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch)
Society Society (USA) USA 

Standoff in Barrow, Alaska concludes quietly

Ben Anderson, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 12:20
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On Tuesday night, police in Barrow were engaged in an hours-long standoff with a man in the community, the farthest

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Swedish Lapland. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP)
Society Society (Sweden) Sweden 

Reports of violent crime increasing in Sweden’s North

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at 11:16
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Reported cases of violent crime in Sweden have gone up by on average 39 percent since the beginning of the

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The Nunavut flag. A recent report states not enough has been done in areas such as the collection and sharing of information about at-risk youth. (iStock)
Canada Society Society (Canada) 

Canada’s North has highest homicide rates

CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 20, 2013 at 10:55
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Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut had the country’s highest homicide rate last year, according to numbers from Statistics Canada.

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A boy rides a four-wheeler through the rural Alaska community of Savoonga on Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch)
Society Society (USA) Special Features USA 

Panel blasts ‘colonial model’ of justice in rural Alaska

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 16:01
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Members of a Congressionally-created panel that blasted the state’s justice system for Alaska Native villages arrived in Anchorage on Wednesday,

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Nome, a gold gold rush community in Western Alaska, is betting big on geothermal in hopes of finally figuring out the riddle of high energy costs that plagues many off-the-road-system communities in the state.(Gabriel Bouys / AFP)
Society Society (USA) USA 

Why are Alaska State Troopers mum about botched rescue?

Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Friday, September 13, 2013 at 09:37
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  If not for the alertness of a Nome pilot, 81-year-old Carl Toshavik might have died on Safety Sound in

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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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