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UNESCO Designates New World Heritage Sites – MSN
The United Nations’ education, science and culture branch has designated nearly two dozen new locations as official World Heritage Sites in recent days, thus ensuring international efforts will go toward their preservation. UNESCO ― the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ― designated eleven new sites on Sunday and may continue to do so […]
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Read MoreParks Day 2017 – Government of Nunavut
July 04, 2017 Step away from your computer, television and smart phone to spend a day exploring and enjoying all that Nunavut’s outstanding parks have to offer! Celebrate Parks Day in Iqaluit at Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park on Saturday July 15, 2017. The celebrations start at 11 a.m., and include music, learning activities and a […]
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Read MoreLarge assembly of Tribal Leaders and Chiefs from United States and Canada meet to officially form new cross-border alliance to stop Keystone XL pipeline
RAPID CITY, SD (Black Hills), July 4, 2017 – An assembly of Tribal leaders of the Great Sioux Nation along with leaders of the Ponca Nation in Nebraska and Oklahoma today met, in the sacred Black Hills in South Dakota, with a large delegation of Chiefs of First Nations from Canada who have signed the […]
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Read MoreGetting Smart about Sea Ice: Innovative sea ice thickness mapping leads to safer travel routes in the North
June 29, 2017 – Iqaluit, NU – Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor) Today, the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and Minister responsible for CanNor, announced an investment of $325,000 to fund SmartICE, an innovative system that measures ice thickness. Northern activities like winter fisheries, shipping, tourism, and subsistence hunting […]
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Read MoreThe Canadian Council of Fisheries and Aquaculture Ministers vows to collaborate to better manage Canada’s three coasts and inland waterways, in partnership with Indigenous Peoples, and stakeholders, for the benefit of all Canadians
Whitehorse, Yukon – Federal, Provincial and Territorial Fisheries Ministers are committed to working together to ensure that fisheries and aquaculture sectors thrive and remain sustainable and healthy, providing meaningful employment and economic opportunities for Indigenous peoples and all Canadians. The Canadian Council of Fisheries and Aquaculture Ministers (CCFAM) met in Whitehorse, Yukon over the last two […]
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Read MoreManagement Plan for Polar Bears in the Northwest Territories Released
Yellowknife (June 27, 2017) – Environment and Natural Resources Minister Robert C. McLeod, acting on behalf of the Northwest Territories Conference of Management Authorities (CMA) released the Inuvialuit Settlement Region Polar Bear Joint Management Plan and the Framework for Action for Management of Polar Bears in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region today. The release of these […]
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Read MoreStatement: Premier sends thoughts to Greenland – Government of Nunavut
June 23, 2017 “I wish to extend my heartfelt sadness after last weekend’s tsunami near Nuugaatsiaq, Greenland. I remain hopeful that the damage to the region is minimal. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Greenland. To assist in recovery, the Government of Nunavut (GN) is responding with a $25,000 donation to the […]
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Read MoreMedia Advisory: Technical Briefing Regarding Faro Mine Remediation Project
Whitehorse – Please be advised that officials from the Government of Yukon and the Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada will hold a Technical Briefing regarding an update on the project and next steps in moving the project forward toward environmental assessment and permitting processes. Date: Monday, June 26, 2017 Time: 10:30 a.m. PDT […]
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Read MoreOur people don’t take this lightly’: Ted Tsetta case causes debate over N.W.T.’s Wildlife Act – North – CBC
Charges were stayed against Ted Tsetta for hunting without tags in 2014 Jun 26, 2017 Indigenous people will continue to be charged for hunting caribou without a licence or tag where required, despite charges against a Dene man accused of doing just that being stayed in court. That’s according to Roger Shepard, counsel for the […]
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Read MoreThe lost of art of igloo making in the Arctic – Thestar.com
Only about a dozen people in Kangiqsujuaq, a town of more than 800 people, are capable of building snow houses now. “The ones who used to build igloos are too old,” said Adami Sakiagak, a 57-year-old Inuit whose parents were born in igloos. June 23, 2017 KANGIQSUJUAQ, QUEBEC—Adami Sakiagak, his tongue poking out of the […]
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