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New warnings are being made about using social media to sell wildlife meat and fish online. On a Nunavut Territory Facebook page “swap and sell” site, one can find narwhal and whale maktaaq (blubber), caribou meat, arctic char, walrus, and other “country foods” for sale or auction.
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A small Inuit community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut is reviving its eiderdown business, something it hopes provides jobs and opportunity for the isolated settlement.
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Francis Pegahmagabow was honoured this week. He was Canada’s most decorated indigenous soldier of the First World War.
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The well-being of northerners in Canada Arctic compares poorly with people in other polar regions of the world, according to a long-running study. Canadians rank at best in the middle of the pack on infant mortality, tuberculosis, fatal accidents, homicide or suicide, reports the second Arctic Human Development Report.
