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You can’t heal if you don’t know what’s wrong first.

This week, soldiers from Canada, France and the United States are in the Beaufort Delta preparing themselves for missions in the Arctic.

Dez Loreen is an Inuvik town councillor once again.

Bears that wander into town limits looking for a bite to eat may soon have to contend with hunters able to harvest them for meat and bones, if a new bylaw before town council passes.

Dear editor,

Tsiigehtchic is on lock-down until at least March 1 as the charter community has been declared a site of community spread.

For 14 days, soldiers from Canada, France and the United States took part in Operation NANOOK-NUNALIVUT, Canada’s Joint Task Force annual winter training operation. Soldiers tested combat and emergency readiness in the harsh Arctic cold, supported by the knowledge provided by the Canadian Rangers. We were only able to capture a small picture of the work going on, which included a snowmobile patrol from Tuktoyaktuk to Paulatuk and diving beneath the four-feet thick Arctic sea ice.

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Our reporter attached a Poloroid Action Camera on a tripod and tried to get a look at what divers under the Arctic Ocean see. This hole was cut a few hundred metres from the shoreline of Tuktoyaktuk, NWT and the actual Canadian and French Foreign Legion military divers were going up to 100 feet down. Massive thanks to the Inuvialuit Communications Society for loaning me the camera.