First Nations-led Auntie’s House to incorporate cultural practices in Whitehorse youth group home

By Alexa MacKie 'When children do go into care, it’s important that they do stay connected to their community and culture' A new initiative is set to incorporate First Nations knowledge and practices ...

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Ottawa awards Telesat $2.3B Arctic military satellite contract

A Canadian telecommunications firm has signed a deal with the federal government worth $2.3 billion to provide high-speed satellite communications to the Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic. The fede...

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Estrogen shortage sends women in northern Sweden to Finland

The shortage of hormone replacement therapy medicine has meant that women in northern Sweden are crossing the Finnish border to buy the medication there instead. Petra Lönnblad is a pharmacist in To...

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Arctic Winter Games to return in 2028 after all, this time in Alaska

Officials said earlier that the next games wouldn't happen until 2029 Just months after organizers of the Arctic Winter Games decided to shift to a three-year cycle for the event, they've scrapped tha...

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Blog: Barentsburg—Experiencing the Russian Arctic without entering Russia

Arctic islands are sometimes places where the world comes together, whether in the form of a Norwegian-Russian post office or multilingual classroom in Longyearbyen. But they are also sometimes places...

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Un brise-glace déployé dans l'Arctique canadien grâce à un partenariat inuit

Qikiqtaaluk Horizon Arctic Services (QHAS), une entreprise dirigée par des Inuits, annonce la livraison à venir du Nordica, un brise-glace de classe polaire qui sera exploité au cours de la prochaine ...

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Ottawa octroie un contrat de 2,3 G$ à Telesat pour ses communications militaires

L’Agence de l’investissement pour la défense attribue un contrat initial de 2,3 milliards de dollars à Telesat LEO ULC. Cette entente vise notamment à moderniser les communications par satellite des F...

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First Nation in Dawson City, Yukon, plans for return of ancient baby mammoth 'Nun cho ga'

Rare specimen found in 2022 currently being preserved at Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa It's been four years since a placer miner near Dawson City, Yukon, dug up an almost perfectly-preserv...

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Northern Fleet conducts multiple missile launches near Norway in the Barents Sea

The Russian Navy has carried out a large-scale live-fire exercise simulating the defence of the Kola Peninsula against a seaborne attack, deploying submarines, surface warships, fighter jets and coast...

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Des Gwich’in empruntent un sentier ancestral pour la première fois en 100 ans

Un groupe d'aventuriers a entrepris une expédition hors du commun, en suivant des chemins de randonnée ancestraux des Gwich’in, reliant le Yukon aux Territoires du Nord-Ouest, une première en plus d’u...

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Les agents de bord de WestJet entrent en grève, des centaines de vols annulés

Dans l'impasse pour le renouvellement de leur convention collective, les agents de bord de WestJet, la deuxième compagnie aérienne en importance au Canada, sont entrés en grève dans la nuit de samedi ...

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Hommage à Helen Konek, immortalisée dans une photo emblématique de Richard Harrington

Helen Konek est morte à l'âge de 95 ans le 25 juillet. Des milliers de personnes à travers le monde connaissent les traits de l'aînée, grâce à l'une des photos de Richard Harrington, prise à la fin de...

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Meet the men on a mission to bring back the art of Inuit kayak making

Inside a workshop in Iqaluit, Izaac Wilman shows off his decade-old wood furnished qajaq, or Inuit kayak, made in the West Greenland style.  “There’s a lot of material on the West Greenland one, so it...

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WestJet strike leaves northern travel plans up in the air

By Jessica Davey-Quantick  For one Yellowknife family, flight cancellations are more than just a disappointment: they could leave a teen stranded far from home.  Robyn Scott had been planning a trip...

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New LNG terminal and reservoir park under construction in Kola Bay

The industrial facilities under construction across the bay from the Northern Fleet headquarters in Severomorsk are part of a new major project—the Murmansk LNG—according to natural gas company Novate...

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Murmansk governor announces construction start for Kola NPP-2

By Denis Zagore However, project operator Rosenergoatom has yet to announce the start of construction of the new nuclear power plant. "We have launched work at the Kola NPP-2 construction site in Po...

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U.S. Coast Guard Operation Frontier Sentinel already underway when Chinese ships arrvied in Bering Sea

The U.S. Coast Guard's Operation Frontier Sentinel was already in progress when two Chinese vessels entered the U.S. exclusive economic zone near Alaska earlier this month, the service said. "Operati...

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Probe cites history of overweight flights, inadequate oversight in crash that killed 10 off Alaska

The operator of a commuter plane that crashed on sea ice off Alaska last year, killing all 10 people on board, had a history of overweight flights, according to federal investigators. The National Tr...

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Le chef de la Première Nation à Wrigley se réjouit de la fin de l’évacuation

Le chef de la Première Nation Pehdzéh Kı̨, Jamie Moses, se réjouit de la fin de l'évacuation de la communauté de Wrigley, mais prévient les habitants qu'ils doivent s’attendre à voir de la fumée de fe...

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Le chef de la Première Nation à Wrigley se réjouit de la fin de l’évacuation

Le chef de la Première Nation Pehdzéh Kı̨, Jamie Moses, se réjouit de la fin de l'évacuation de la communauté de Wrigley, mais prévient les habitants qu'ils doivent s’attendre à voir de la fumée de fe...

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Ottawa says construction on Mackenzie Valley Highway can’t start until wildfires are under control

By Devon Tredinnick  Prime Minister Mark Carney previously said construction would begin this summer Wildfires in the Northwest Territories are so out of control, it's stopping construction on a maj...

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Residential school survivors 'overjoyed' about return of travel funding for counselling in North

By Sarah St-Pierre  Worries linger about what comes when funding runs out at end of fiscal year Joanne Charney said she was "overjoyed" when she found out she would be able to travel to Yellowknife ...

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Iqaluit housing pressure remains despite fewer working-age residents, says report

There may have been fewer working-age residents in Iqaluit in 2025, but that didn't ease the city's housing squeeze, says a new report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. "Despite net o...

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Travelling court cancels fall criminal trials in two Nunavik communities

By Ximena Sampson No criminal trials will be held in Puvirnituq or Inukjuak this fall, Radio-Canada has learned.  Four years after the Latraverse report was issued, echoing findings of several previ...

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Travelling court cancels fall criminal trials in two Nunavik communities

By Ximena Sampson No criminal trials will be held in Puvirnituq or Inukjuak this fall, Radio-Canada has learned.  Four years after the Latraverse report was issued, echoing findings of several previ...

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Housing prices keep falling, except in northern Finland

The general decrease in prices did not stimulate the housing market in June or during the second quarter, according to Statistics Finland. Prices for old stock apartments in June were 3.9 percent lowe...

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Canadian arctic science network awards $9.3M funding to 13 local reserach projects

A Canadian arctic science network is backing 13 local research projects with $9.3M in funding, it announced on Wednesday. The projects span everything from hunting to eye health to research. “These ...

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Le Conseil circumpolaire inuit conclut sa 15e Assemblée générale à Iqaluit

Les délégués de la 15e Assemblée générale du Conseil circumpolaire inuit (CCI) ont clôturé un sommet de quatre jours à Iqaluit le 25 juillet. À cette occasion, ils ont adopté un cadre politique pour l...

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Ottawa annonce la création de plus de 560 logements aux T.N.-O. d’ici 2030

Un texte de Thomas Ethier Ottawa et le gouvernement des Territoires du Nord-Ouest (T.N.-O.) ont annoncé lundi à Yellowknife une entente de principe visant la création de plus de 560 logements dans le ...

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Yukon ‘not greatly affected’ by U.S. duties, Dixon says, as tariffs trump talks with Carney

By Dana Hatherly  Premiers met with each other and prime minister last week in Charlottetown, P.E.I. Recent news out of Washington around U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of additional tariffs thr...

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