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A photo of a yellow-coloured sky as clouds of smoke cover the sun on Highway 3, outside of Yellowknife in August 2023.
Society

How I Got Out of Yellowknife as the Wildfire Loomed

August 25, 2023August 28, 2023 - by Herb Mathisen

In a time of back-to-back crises, how do we assess danger?

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Environment / May 2022

Arsenic and Gold: My Family’s Role in the Poisonous Legacy of Giant Mine

April 20, 2022May 2, 2022 - by Eva Holland

Could my grandfather have done more to stop the dangerous dust that spewed from the mine for decades?

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A man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and preparing fish outside.
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The New Road in the North

November 26, 2019November 27, 2019 - by Crystal Gail Fraser

The government framed the Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway as a nation-building project. But, for Indigenous people, the road is about connecting with ourselves

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April/May 2004 / Society

Rough Trade

April 12, 2004May 14, 2022 - by Andrea Mandel-Campbell

How Canada’s diamond bonanza is turning a secretive industry inside out

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