Yukon Arctic Ultra endurance race back on track this year in northwestern Canada
One of the world’s coldest and toughest ultra endurance races is back on this year after being cancelled in 2021
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Canada: Suicide rate in Arctic Quebec worsens compared to rest of province
Nunavik, the Arctic region of Quebec, has the highest suicide rate in the province. According to the latest available data
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Inuit company wins 7-year maintenance contract for Canadian Arctic radars
Nasittuq Corporation, an Inuit majority-owned corporation, has been awarded a Government of Canada contract to operate and maintain the North
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Arctic Canada: Calls mount for public inquiry into Iqaluit water crisis
Calls are mounting in Nunavut for the territorial government to call a public inquiry into the Iqaluit water crisis. The
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2021 one of seven warmest years on record, says U.N. agency
2021 was one of the seven warmest year’s on record, and included a “record-shattering” temperature in Canada, the World Meteorological
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2021 was 6th warmest year on record, NASA and NOAA find. Canada definitely felt the heat
Temperature across the planet was roughly 0.84 C above the 20th-century average The numbers are in: Earth is still running
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30–50% of critical northern infrastructure could be at high risk by 2050 due to warming, says study
Thawing permafrost across the circumpolar North is posing an increased risk to transport and transportation infrastructure, and if left unchecked,
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Arctic Canada: COVID-19 continues to spread in Nunavut with 40 new cases
Nunavut’s chief public health officer (CPHO) announced 40 new active cases across the territory, including one in Pond Inlet. There
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Canadian Arctic hunter survives 5-day blizzard, losing both hands to frostbite
Arviat hunter Ernie Eetak survived five days in a blizzard, on the edge of death, and had both hands amputated
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Arctic Canada: Artists portray pandemic through COVID-19 masks
When Eliza Firth thinks of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, she thinks of roses — small, vibrant, in every
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Meet the 3 northerners being named to the Order of Canada
Being named to the Order of Canada is, for one longtime Yellowknifer, made more special by the fact another Indigenous
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Canadian snow carvers to compete at international contest in Sweden
When Anthony Foliot, also known as the Snowking, found out about an international snow carving competition in Sweden last spring,
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33 new Inuvialuit murals to be displayed in communities across Canada’s Northwest Territories
Six N.W.T. communities are about to get more colourful. Thirty-three murals have been commissioned by the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC)
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Arctic Report Card 2021: Sea ice changes, rain on Greenland ice sheet among dramatic changes in North
From rain on Greenland’s ice sheet to the browning of the eastern Siberian tundra, climate change is continuing to transform
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Canada’s Northwest Territories prepping for more travel-related COVID cases, say health officials
“We’re getting to the point where the main exposure [in the N.W.T.] will be travel-related’ The N.W.T.’s chief public health officer,
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