Issues affecting circumpolar nations
Final public hearings into Baffinland’s Mary River Mine expansion run until April 2 Nunavut’s Qikiqtaaluk communities are still concerned about
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Baffinland reacts to the blockade and a community call to slow down its expansion In the wake of last week’s
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Baffinland says 700 staff are stranded, supply flights suspended Community members across Nunavut came out in peaceful protests on Monday,
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The withdrawal of Teck Resources Ltd.’s application to develop a new oilsands project in northeastern Alberta has not silenced concern in
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North could suffer from increased traffic, potential spills Last month, the Russian government pushed through new legislation creating $300 billion
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The government of Canada’s Northwest Territories has released its 2019-23 mandate, which includes details about how and when the government plans
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Scotland released its first every Arctic policy framework on Monday, positioning itself as a strategic link between the North and
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The Canadian government is investing millions in a Northwest Territories-based research project that has the potential to make some mining
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Full Inuit participation will be key to long-term sustainable development in the Arctic as well as helping the world confront
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Canada filed its Arctic continental shelf submission with the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on Thursday,
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Canada’s national women’s organization is working to launch a new project to better understand the violence and harassment faced by
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Citing global warming and the Paris climate agreement, international banking behemoth Barclays says it’s nixing most future investment in Arctic drilling.
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In January, China released its first Arctic Policy. In the U.S., fearful headlines greeted the document, from The Wall Street
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Canada’s decision to halt offshore oil and gas exploration in the Arctic is akin to the re-emergence of colonialism, says
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Despite improved relations between the federal government and Canada’s Indigenous Peoples, northerners still get excluded from political
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