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Mapping the Canadian Arctic

Google Street View has now mapped part of the Canadian Arctic. Working with the nonprofit group Nunavut Tunngavik and the residents of Cambridge Bay, they've given everyone a 360-degree window into life in the north. We talk to (former CBC producer) Aaron Brindle of Google Canada about it.

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