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Today's top headlines from CBC North - 2026-08-26

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NDP asks Yukon government to break silence on Whitehorse Emergency Shelter's future

August 25 , 2026 at 07:35:01 p.m. CDT • :

Yukon NDP Leader Kate White is asking for answers on the Whitehorse Emergency Shelter's path forward. The current shelter operator's contract expires this month.

City hearing on Whitehorse mineral exploration project shows deep divide among residents

August 25 , 2026 at 07:28:32 p.m. CDT • :

Gladiator Metals wants the city to amend its top land use policy. If successful, certain areas would be rezoned, allowing an expanded drilling program in parcels of land currently designated as green space.

People in Yukon respond to U.S. trade war by buying Canadian

August 25 , 2026 at 06:40:06 p.m. CDT • :

In the face of U.S. tariffs and President Donald Trump's threats against Canada's sovereignty, some people in the Yukon are looking for ways to fight back.

A lush knee-high jungle grows in the Arctic, but warming is changing Earth's mini-greenhouse

August 25 , 2026 at 05:30:00 p.m. CDT • :

For centuries, Arctic cold has kept plant life small, a sort of dollhouse of Earth's miniatures. The extreme environment has long given researchers a unique perspective on what makes plants grow, insight that would be hard to obtain elsewhere. Now it offers them one of the world's most useful windows on how climate change affects plant life.