Arctic Connections

Here in Vancouver, we’ve closed our schools on the occasional snow day. We can handle lots of rain but a good dump of snow can grind things to a halt. So I was interested to see that Kuujjuaq schools declared a...

On December 6, the long-proposed National Marine Conservation Area in Lancaster Sound took a significant step forward. We were pleased to hear Minister John Baird’s announcement stating that formal public c...

Down here in southern Canada, we tend to look north and assume the long, dark winters must be nearly intolerable. Now that the sun has set for a month or two in much of the north, I thought I’d share an email I...

Thanks to the kind folks in Tuktoyaktuk for allowing me to crash the community game night a few Saturdays ago. I never thought I’d need to travel all the way to Tuk to learn how to play checkers! I learned quit...