Canada’s mild winter disrupts key ice road to remote Arctic diamond mines
An unusually warm winter in Canada this year has delayed the opening of a 400-kilometer (250-mile) ice road that is
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Indigenous government secures $2M to conserve traditional lands in northwestern Canada
The government of Canada announced Friday it will inject $2 million into the Canada Nature Fund to help conserve Indigenous
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Arctic Canada: over 140 businesses left stranded by shutdown of major trucking companies
More than 140 businesses have been left in the lurch by the shutdown of two Tlicho-owned trucking companies. For the
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Construction of Tlicho all-season road in Northern Canada begins
Elected officials stabbed at muddy ground with clean shovels at the official groundbreaking on the Tlicho all-season road in Whatı̀,
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Leaders ask how their groups fit in Dene Nation at annual assembly in Northern Canada
Though the theme of the 49th Dene National Assembly was “one drum, many heartbeats,” for many present, the theme was
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Northern Canada: Construction of all-season road to isolated Indigenous community to begin this fall
Work on the Tlicho all-season road to Whati will begin this fall and is expected to be completed by 2022.
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MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories criticize new mine benefits agreement
An agreement the Northwest Territories government (Canadian central Arctic) signed at a mining conference in Vancouver, southwest Canada last week
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Indigenous gov concerned about new proposed mine agreement in Northern Canada
The Tlicho (First Nations) government boycotted the signing of a socio-economic agreement between the Northwest Territories and a company proposing
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Northern Canada: Northwest Territories gov, mining company sign agreement on benefits of proposed mine
A proposed mine in the Northwest Territories (Canada’s central Arctic) is closer to reality after a socio-economic agreement was signed
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Indigenous man in Northern Canada who was denied interpreter in court granted mistrial
A man whose first language is Tlicho, but who was never given an interpreter in court, has been granted a
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First Nation in Northern Canada begins new era as decades-long chief steps down
It will be a historical turning point for the Dene Nation today, as delegates from across and outside the Northwest
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Northern Canadian community adjusting to end of liquor ban
The chief of Behchoko (Indigenous community in the Northwest Territories) says there have been more public disturbances related to alcohol
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