The federal government and Dehcho First Nations in the Northwest Territories have agreed to a landmark deal that will protect a “breadbasket” wilderness area from resource development for generations to come. The agreement signed by Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and…»
Highlights/Indigenous
Indigenous band sues governments, firm, over oil spill
A west coast First Nation is seeking damages for the ruin of its traditional harvest and associated cultural and commercial losses, as well as for its oil spill response efforts and remediation. Two years ago, a U.S.-owned tug ran aground…»
Immigration & Refugees, Indigenous, International, Politics, Society
Demonstrators hit Montreal streets to protest CAQ ‘racist” policies
Less than a week after Francois Legault and his right-of-centre Coalition Avenir Quebec party swept to power in Quebec’s general election, a wide range of demonstrators took to the streets of Montreal on Sunday to protest what they say are…»
Indigenous Cultural Tourism: How the North is learning from community success in southern Canada
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North. The successes of cultural tourism in Canada’s southern Aboriginal communities are providing an important roadmap for development of Indigenous cultural tourism in the North, a sector expected to…»
First Canadian and Inuit-owned artifacts from Franklin wreck unveiled in Nunavut
Two Inuit communities that have been instrumental in solving one of the most enduring mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration got a chance last week to finally see nine artifacts raised from the wreck of HMS Erebus, one of the…»
Health, Indigenous, International
Tuberculosis fight to get $13B USD a year
The World Health Organization says TB is the world’s deadliest infectious disease which infected 10 million people in 2017 and killed 1.6 million. The disease is caused by bacteria, is contagious and predominantly affects the lungs. World leaders meeting at…»
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from across the North This week on Eye on the Arctic, we’re dipping into our video vault for a look at hunting culture in today’s Arctic. Robin Aupilaq Avaala lives in the community of Baker…»
Health, Indigenous, Internet, Science and Technology, Politics, Society
Students walk-out protesting sex-ed repeal in Ontario
Students, 40,000 of them, from over 70 high schools across the province of Ontario, walked-out of class today to protest the new Conservative government‘s changes to the revised Sex Education curriculum. “Youth showing up for youth” Rayne Fisher-Wilson, a grade…»
Environment, Indigenous, Internet, Science and Technology
Conservation groups hope to educate Canadians with new Arctic marine atlas
Faced with dramatic shifts in the Arctic due to joint pressures of climate change and industrial development, a trio of Canadian NGOs released Monday an educational tool they hope will help shape the conversation about protecting the region’s fragile environment…»
Arts and Entertainment, Indigenous, International, Society
Tanya Talaga: Massey Lecturer 2018
Tanya Talaga is an award-winning journalist and the author of ‘Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City’. And now she is the 2018 Massey Lecturer in the series that the CBC has been sponsoring since 1961.…»
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Oxfam Canada says way more must be done to help female refugees
International, Internet, Science and Technology, Society
The right to be forgotten- restricting access to certain internet sites
Economy, Health, Internet, Science and Technology, Society
Driving while high: negative cannabis effects linger for hours.
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Canada won't scrap LAV deal over Saudi journalist’s disappearance, says Freeland
