Wednesday, 08 September 2010 08:23 Written by CBC News

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.

Tuesday, 07 September 2010 08:48 Written by Radio Sweden

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.