The week’s Arctic news highlights
It’s been an interesting week for Arctic news. Here are some of the week’s top stories:
The Inuit Qaujisarvingat (Inuit Knowledge Centre) at Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, together with McGill University and the N...
DFO partially lifts ban on export of narwhal products from some Nunavut communities
DFO has partially lifted a ban on exports of narwhal products from Nunavut communities.
Last year, Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) banned the export of narwhal products from 17 communit...
It’s going to be a long, dark(ish) winter
Pond Inlet at midnight on August 2, 2011. Photo: Eric Solomon
The Arctic represents two-thirds of Canada’s coastline and nearly 40 per cent of its land mass, but most of us know very little about it. With ...
The Vancouver Aquarium and Canada’s Arctic
It would be hard to find a Canadian city farther from the High Arctic than Vancouver. You might wonder, then, why the Vancouver Aquarium is interested in Arctic issues at all. The short answer is that Arctic is...
Catching Lunch in Iqaluit
On a recent trip to Baffin Island, I had the good fortune to catch lunch with a friend. And when I say "catch lunch" I mean toss a net in the water and catch lunch.
Franco Buscemi was heading out to set his...
It’s Sealift Season!
Let’s say for a moment that you live in Resolute Bay and run out of dog food. What do you do? Well, it’s a bit of a trick question because you probably wouldn’t have any dog food to start with. And the local Co...
Update: Looking for Black and White in a Sea of Gray
Earlier in the year we posted about a predicament involving the ban of export of narwhal products from 17 communities in Nunavut. The original post is below. Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) announced on June 2...
Between the Kitchen and the Nursery Lies Lancaster Sound
We’re used to the concept of home as a place; it’s where our food is, our shelter, where we start and raise our families. We sometimes think of animals that migrate as having two homes: one for summer and o...