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Wildfire in Wood Buffalo National Park leads to worries about whooping crane nesting area

May 26 , 2026 at 08:32:23 p.m. CDT • :

A volunteer who participated in an annual bird count over the weekend says he's concerned about a wildfire burning in Wood Buffalo National Park near a nesting area of the endangered whooping crane.

Tiny species, big questions: Researchers look to Arctic algae to study changing Frobisher Bay

May 26 , 2026 at 05:43:26 p.m. CDT • :

Some of the Arctic's smallest organisms may help researchers understand some of the region's biggest environmental changes.

Residential school survivors testify in front of international tribunal

May 26 , 2026 at 05:50:44 p.m. CDT • :

A panel of residential school survivors provided witness testimony on Tuesday to the Permanent Peoples Tribunal, an international independent court of opinion investigating Canada's responsibility for the residential school system and the human rights violations associated with it.

Advocates and lawyers warn further delay in signing Nunavut's land use plan could go against Inuit rights

May 26 , 2026 at 11:00:00 a.m. CDT • :

The plan has been nearly two decades in the making. The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, signed in 1993, requires ministers to either accept a draft plan or send it back for reconsideration "as soon as practicable." Advocates and lawyers argue that means officials are legally obliged to act now.

N.W.T. municipalities still not subject to access to information law 5 years after MLAs passed changes

May 26 , 2026 at 03:30:58 p.m. CDT • :

Amendments to add N.W.T. municipalities to the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (ATIPPA) passed in July 2021. Nearly five years later, residents still can't file requests for information from municipal governments.