Work visa approved for foreign worker who fought to stay in N.W.T.
‘Overwhelming relief, I’d say that’s the biggest feeling,’ says Leesa Myers An N.W.T. immigrant, previously fighting to stay, has now
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Staffing shortages plague businesses in Yellowknife, in Canada’s NWT
By Jenna Dulewich · CBC News Businesses are reducing hours, closing temporarily and asking customers for patience The ability to get fried
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Some businesses booming as Yukoners adjust to pandemic life in Arctic Canada
While many businesses are struggling to survive through the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, others are as busy as they’ve ever been.
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Nunavut lags behind rest of Canada for child care use, stats show
Susie Kununak wants to work in an office and wants to support her community of Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, in Arctic
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Local workforce won’t be enough for future battery factory in northern Sweden
The company Northvolt plans to recruit more than 2,500 people to its planned battery factory in Skellefteå, which is scheduled
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Nursing shortage at obstetrics unit in Northern Canadian city leads to workplace complaint, appeal
The manager of approximately 90 nurses at Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories is appealing a conduct committee’s decision
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Arctic Finland faces shortage of temporary berry pickers as Thailand holds back on visas
Authorities in Thailand have limited the number of Thai citizens who can apply for visas to work as berry pickers
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Paper mill in northern Finland confirms hundreds of layoffs
Finnish-Swedish forest industry firm Stora Enso has confirmed that it is shedding 365 jobs at its Oulu Mill, in northern
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Arctic Canada: Agnico Eagle’s mine training program has its critics
A worker at Agnico Eagle’s Meadowbank Mine in Nunavut (Canadian eastern Arctic) says a training program designed to train Nunavummiut
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Northerners not ready to cash in on massive mine cleanup in Arctic Canada, report says
The $1-billion cleanup of Giant Mine will be one of the largest economic projects in Canada’s Northwest Territories (central Arctic),
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Could telecommuting keep Finland’s small towns viable?
Heli Siirilä had long dreamed of living in the countryside. Now she does. A project chief living in the west-coast
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Community in Arctic Canada seeks ways to grow thriving turbot industry
Every day and night in Pangnirtung, Nunavut from January to April, there’s a steady parade of snow machines leaving and
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Canadian eastern Arctic mines setting example in Indigenous employment: report
A new report from the Conference Board of Canada says employers looking to hire and keep northern Indigenous employees could
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Paper mill in northern Finland will cut up to 400 jobs
Finnish-Swedish forest industry firm Stora Enso announced on Monday that it plans to sharply downsize operations at its Oulu Mill,
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Pauktuutit to explore challenges confronting Inuit women in Canada’s extractive industry
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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