Video: Sophie Keenlan – One Woman’s Journey When Sophie Keelan found out she had breast cancer in 2007, she experienced the same feelings of disbelief, fear and uncertainty that any other Canadian feels when they receive a cancer diagnosis. But like other Inuit… »
Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Eilís Quinn est une journaliste primée et responsable du site Regard sur l’Arctique/Eye on the Arctic, une coproduction circumpolaire de Radio Canada International. En plus de nouvelles quotidiennes, Eilís produit des documentaires et des séries multimédias qui lui ont permis de se rendre dans les régions arctiques des huit pays circumpolaires. Son enquête journalistique «Arctique – Au-delà de la tragédie » sur le meurtre de Robert Adams, un Inuk de 19 ans du Nord du Québec, a remporté la médaille d’argent dans la catégorie “Best Investigative Article or Series” aux Canadian Online Publishing Awards en 2019. Le reportage a aussi reçu une mention honorable pour son excellence dans la couverture de la violence et des traumatismes aux prix Dart 2019 à New York. Son reportage «Un train pour l’Arctique: Bâtir l'avenir au péril d'une culture?» sur l'impact que pourrait avoir un projet d'infrastructure de plusieurs milliards d'euros sur les communautés autochtones de l'Arctique européen a été finaliste dans la catégorie enquête (médias en ligne) aux prix de l'Association canadienne des journalistes pour l'année 2019. Son documentaire multimedia «Bridging the Divide» sur le système de santé dans l’Arctique canadien a été finaliste aux prix Webby 2012. En outre, son travail sur les changements climatiques dans l'Arctique canadien a été présenté à l'émission scientifique «Découverte» de la chaîne française de Radio-Canada, de même qu'au «Téléjournal», l'émission phare de nouvelles de Radio-Canada. Au cours de sa carrière Eilís a travaillé pour des médias au Canada et aux États-Unis, et comme animatrice pour la série «Best in China» de Discovery/BBC Worldwide. Twitter : @Arctic_EQ Courriel : eilis.quinn@radio-canada.ca
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Politics
Feature Interview: Hunting cultures under stress in Arctic
Today on Eye on the Arctic we bring you another instalment of our occasional series on how climate change, and the attention it is bringing to the North, is affecting hunting cultures around the circumpolar world. Today we turn our… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Indigenous, Society
Canadian Guild of Crafts celebrates 110 years of indigenous art
The Canadian Guild of Crafts in Montreal, Quebec is a non-profit organization that works to promote the art of Inuit and First Nations in Canada. They’ve played an important role in the development of First Nations and Inuit art in… »
Economy, Immigration & Refugees, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Arctic Profile: Running Tromso – the successes and the challenges
Arctic Profiles is an occasional Eye on the Arctic series where we check in with different Arctic regions to take the temperature of the current political, business or social climate. In this instalment, we’ve turned our attention to the Arctic… »
Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Arctic Profile : Doing business in Finnish Lapland
Arctic Profiles is an occasional Eye on the Arctic series where we check in with different Arctic regions to take the temperature of the current political, business or social climate. In this instalment, we’ve turned our attention to Arctic Finland.… »
Jutai Toonoo, iconoclastic Arctic artist, dies in Nunavut
Friends and colleagues say he died of a heart attack while working at his drawing table. Toonoo was born in Canada’s eastern Arctic in 1959 and became one of his generation’s most controversial and groundbreaking artists and carvers. Though the subjects and mediums he took… »
Arts & Entertainment, Indigenous, International, Society
O Canada! … A Norwegian writer takes on our country’s features & foibles
Norwegian writer and retired literature professor Gerd Bjørhovde has always had a thing for Canada. And there is only one person to blame for it, she says; Canadian author Margaret Laurence. “I was so fascinated with her writing,” Bjørhovde says. “She is… »
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Shell, governance & Arctic exceptionalism: 2015 Year in Review
2015 has drawn to a close which means Eye on the Arctic is looking back at this year’s news and events with some of our experts from around the globe. In this, the last installment to be posted on Radio Canada… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Alaska, COP21& the Arctic Council: 2015 Year in Review (Part 2)
2015 has drawn to a close which means Eye on the Arctic is looking back at the year’s news and events with some of our experts from around the globe. That’s when we check in with them for their views on all… »
Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Society
Rebroadcast: Nunavut allows limited caribou harvest after Baffin Island moratorium
Caribou are an important food source for Inuit on Baffin Island in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut. But declining populations led to a moratorium on hunting the animals in December. This week however, the government lifted the moratorium, allowing… »
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