Climate, costs, and cold truths: rethinking northern policy

Northern and Indigenous voices are essential to national and international climate change, infrastructure, and security conversations.

Tuktuuyaqtuuq (or Tuk for short) is an Inuvialuit Hamlet located on the shores of the Arctic Ocean at the tip of the Northwest Territories. It is one of the most climate-vulnerable communities in Canada, according to PSG Senator Margaret Dawn Anderson.Photograph courtesy of Margaret Dawn Anderson

Opinion

BY PSG SEN. MARGARET DAWN ANDERSON

May 7, 2025

The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the global average, and a stark and accelerating crisis is already transforming life across the Northwest Territories. Its cascading impacts are not abstract. They are immediate and universal, touching every aspect of daily...

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