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Climate issues have fallen into the background of Sweden's national election campaign, reports SR International.

Just a year ago, environmental issues had taken center stage in advance of the climate meeting in Copenhagen. Sweden was leading of the EU and the government was driving the debate in Europe towards the rest of the world. But now a year later, Sweden has shifted its focus to the economy and social welfare.

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The Woodward's Oil Ltd. tanker MV Nanny has been stuck since Sept. 1 in a sand and mud shoal in the Northwest Passsage, near the western Nunavut community of Gjoa Haven. (Canadian Coast Guard)
A fuel tanker stuck in the Northwest Passage will be joined later this week by a second tanker that will help siphon some of the 9.5 million litres of diesel on board.

The Merchant Vessel Nanny ran aground Sept. 1 on a sandbar about 50 kilometres southwest of Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, Canada in Simpson Strait within the Arctic passage.

The tanker, which is operated by Newfoundland, Canada-based Woodward's Oil Ltd., was transporting annual diesel supplies to remote Nunavut communities when it became stuck on its way to Taloyoak.

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Read more...For the first time the Swedish Equality Ombudsman has brought a case to court dealing with discrimination against the Sami people.

The Sami, formerly known as 'Lapps' are an indigenous people living across the north of Scandinavia and Russia. They have formal rights under Swedish law.

But now the Equality Ombudsman is saying that Sami reindeer herders have been ethnically discriminated against - because they were not allowed to have their say in a dispute over grazing land.

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Workers prepare the mosque in Winnipeg before it is loaded onto a truck for the journey to the Northwest Territories. (CBC)
CANADA - A Winnipeg-built mosque on its way to the Northwest Territories is back on the road again after being held up in Alberta.

The mosque, built by a Manitoba-based Islamic charity and being shipped to Inuvik, was loaded onto a flatbed semi-trailer and left Winnipeg on Sept. 1.

It is destined for Hay River, N.W.T., where it is to be put on a barge and floated to Inuvik. Once there, it will be the world's northernmost mosque.

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Ontario forensic researchers Katie Bygarski, left, and Helene LeBlanc, studied this pig carcass and others that were left to rot at the Whitehorse dump over the summer. (Dave Croft/CBC)
A Yukon-based forensic study on how carcasses decompose in Canada's North has the potential to expand into further research.

Yukon RCMP teamed up this summer with entomologists from the Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Ont., to observe how insects help animal carcasses decompose.

The entomologists travelled to Whitehorse and recorded insect activity on several animal carcasses that were left to decompose in a secluded area of the local dump.