Each week, Eye on the Arctic features stories and newsmakers from across the North From the moment the European Union issued a ban on seal products, Inuit around the circumpolar world braced for the consequences. The European Parliament had passed… »
Highlights / Year: 2013
$100-dollar hamburger creates a buzz
A pub in the oil capital of Canada, Calgary offers a high-end burger that costs $100 and is selling two or three every day. The hamburger is a beef patty topped with black truffle cheese, red onion jam, foie gras,… »
Canadian retailers try to win back shoppers
Canadian retailers want to stop shoppers from going to the United States to hunt for huge bargains traditionally offered on what is called Black Friday. They are making big efforts to get them to stay home and shop instead. It’s… »
International, Politics, Society
Canadian government refuses to confirm U.S. surveillance of G20 summit in Canada
The day after a news report about U.S. surveillance in Canada of a G20 summit in 2010, a Canadian government minister and the head of Canada’s intelligence gathering agency CSEC refused to answer whether the surveillance had actually occurred. John… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Beware posting vacation plans, absences, on social media
A family in the city of Kamloops in the interior of the weat coast province of British Columbia has learned an expensive social media lesson. Kamloops, a city of about 85,000 is a three-and-a-half hour drive from the major port… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
The Toronto Zoo and “Apps for Apes” 2.0
Sumatran Orangutans are highly intelligent. Richard Zimmerman is with Orangutan Outreach, a conservation group based in New York. He proposed an idea called “Apps for Apes” with the idea that enabling the animals to access computers would stimulate them and… »
Health, Indigenous, Politics, Society
More aboriginal children died in foster care
145 children have died while in foster care in the province of Alberta since 1999 and a disproportional number were aboriginal or mixed aboriginal and Caucasian, called Métis. The news was uncovered by investigative reporters and has caused a furor… »
Quebec Craft Brewer offends with names
A micro-brewery in the mainly French-speaking province of Quebec has sailed into choppy waters. Most of the beers produced by the brewery called “Le Corsaire” (the privateer) have nautical names, but the brewery in the city of Levis,has nonetheless drawn… »
Shipyard workers walk off job over management ‘bullying’, suicide of co-worker
Complaining of bullying by management, between 200 and 300 workers at Halifax Shipyard Limited walked off the job Thursday morning (November 28) in Canada’s Atlantic port city of Halifax. Upset by the death of a co-worker, protesters said the worker had about… »
Curious humpback dazzles whale-watchers
A young female humpback whale provided tourists off Canada’s west coast with a close encounter they will not forget. Whale-watching tours are popular in the area and a group from Washington state was cruising Canadian waters near the city of… »
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