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Survey: Majority of Finns consider Russia a significant military threat

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 11:13
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Eighty-four percent of Finns consider Russia to be a significant military threat, according to a recent values and attitudes survey

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Society Society (Sweden) Sweden 

WHO says Sweden’s coronavirus strategy could be ‘a future model’ post lockdowns

David Russell, Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 12:11
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The World Health Organisation WHO has highlighted Sweden’s strategy in fighting Covid-19 as representing a possible ‘future model’ for countries

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Canadian Arctic territory sees 29 name changes after waiving fees to reclaim Indigenous names

Avery Zingel, CBC News
Posted: Monday, January 13, 2020 at 16:29
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Ashley Lennie was a teenager when she found out the name on her birth certificate, Inglangasuk, was a different surname than

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Canada Society Society (Canada) 

Arctic Canada : airline merger creating ‘dire’ situation for northwest communities, says MLA

Sara Minogue, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 14:33
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The MLA for the Northwest Territories’ northernmost communities is calling on airlines in the Beaufort Delta to provide more frequent

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Canada Society Society (Canada) 

‘This is a crisis’: Canadian Northwest Territories survey shows worsening housing conditions

Anna Desmarais, CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 29, 2019 at 11:51 — Last Updated: Friday, November 29, 2019 at 14:07
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Housing in every community throughout the Northwest Territories is getting worse. The 2019 NWT Housing Survey says 42 per cent

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General Geopolitics Geopolitics (Norway) News Norway Politics 

How vulnerable is Norway to hybrid warfare?

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 10:15 — Last Updated: Friday, May 4, 2018 at 09:49
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How resilient are civilians to hybrid warfare and how to act in crises? A research project will include case studies

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General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Report: Stricter criteria for state support to religious communities in Sweden needed

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 11:54
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The democracy criterion in Swedish law, used to determine if religious organizations are eligible to receive state support, needs to

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Business Business (Sweden) General Sweden 

Sweden to spend millions to boost media in rural areas

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 11:36
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The parliament has agreed to start spending 677 million kronor on a new kind of media subsidy. Radio Sweden spoke

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Blog Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Economic development in the North: The taboo no one wants to talk about

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 09:11
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In August 2016, Mary Simon, the veteran Inuit and Canadian political leader, was appointed the Minister’s Special Representative on Arctic

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General Geopolitics Geopolitics (Norway) Norway Politics 

Arctic Frontiers kicks off with majority of speakers from south of the Arctic Circle

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, January 22, 2018 at 09:54
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More than 90 percent of the speakers listed on the front page of Arctic Frontiers’ program for 2018 are from

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Culture Culture (Denmark/Greenland) Denmark/Greenland General 

`Enough of this postcolonial sh#%’ – An interview with Greenlandic author Niviaq Korneliussen

Jean-Francois Villeneuve, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Friday, December 1, 2017 at 09:45
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Greenland’s Niviaq Korneliussen is single-handedly redefining readers’ notions of northern literature with her first novel, Homo Sapienne. In her book,

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Denmark/Greenland General Society Society (Denmark/Greenland) 

Blog – Tales of the unexpected: Inuit shepherds in Greenland

Mia Bennett
Posted: Thursday, September 21, 2017 at 09:39
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In Greenland, there’s a joke that if you go out to dinner with a Greenlandic people, there’s five people: mom,

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Too soon to say what Indigenous affairs overhaul means for Arctic, says Inuit leader

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 13:51
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Canada’s National Inuit leader says his organization is watching the dissolution of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada into two separate departments

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Business Business (Sweden) General Sweden 

More Swedes travel abroad for xmas holidays

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at 15:19
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Air travel abroad from Swedish airports over the Christmas and New Year holidays have increased by 50 percent over a

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General Iceland Politics Politics (Iceland) 

Iceland’s Pirate Party leads polls few days before elections

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 13:45
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Like the eruption from Eyjafjallajökull shocked air-traffic across Europe in 2010, Iceland today experiences a political earthquake where the Pirate

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