COVID-19: The latest cancellations and closures across the Canadian Arctic
Your local guide to the coronavirus outbreak in Canada’s North. Get the latest advisories, updates and cancellations for where you
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Here’s a list of what’s cancelled or postponed across the Canadian North
On the advice of health officials, numerous events planned for the coming weeks in all three territories are being cancelled or
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Arctic Canada: Yukon tourism operators brace for impact of COVID-19 this summer
Tourism operators in Yukon are bracing for a bad season this summer because of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, and
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The Arctic Winter Games are off, but the economic hit in Canada is not
Yukon businesses will take a big hit from the cancellation of the 2020 Arctic Winter Games, says the territory’s economic
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Arctic Canada: Yukon government back in black with $4M surplus budget
The Yukon government is expecting to be back in the black this year, with its first projected surplus budget in
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Women in Northern Canada travel farthest to access domestic violence shelters
It was the first and only time Ann Kasook attempted to run away. She still feels shaken when she talks
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Archeologists create digital blueprints of historic sites on Canadian Arctic island
The impacts of climate change can be hard to notice on an incremental basis, but when archeologist Peter Dawson stepped off
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Prospectors disturbed by surprise staking ban in Yukon, Canada
The Yukon government is defending its decision to ban mineral staking on some First Nations settlement lands — despite prospectors saying
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Arctic Canada: why on-site hemodialysis is available in N.W.T. but not Yukon health centres
Yukon needs more than 50 people requiring hemodialysis to warrant offering the treatment at a health facility, according to the
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Yukon Arctic Ultra: ‘World’s coldest and toughest’ ultra race starts today in northwestern Canada
Fabian Imfeld arrived in Whitehorse almost a week ago, and he’s ready to hit the trail. “Yeah, I can feel it.
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No confirmed cases of coronavirus in Canadian Arctic, but here’s how they’re preparing
There are no confirmed cases of coronavirus in Yukon, Northwest Territories or Nunavut, but health officials say they’re taking precautions
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Canada’s Yukon territory has highest per capita pot sales in country, study says
Yukoners led Canadians in buying the most legal pot per capita from retail stores in the first year of legalization, according to a study released
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Indigenous leader named Northerner of the Year by Canadian magazine
Dana Tizya-Tramm, chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in Canada’s northwestern Arctic, has been named Notherner of the Year
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Artists in northwestern Canadian territory earn more than peers in rest of the country, survey says
A new survey has found that Yukon artists make more money than artists elsewhere in the country, but significantly less
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New pediatricians in northwestern Canada to help serve small communities
Yukon, a territory in northwestern Canada, now has three full-time pediatricians based in the territory, and that means they’ll be
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