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… »
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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… »
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… »
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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… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics, Society
Top Eye on the Arctic stories of 2015
With 2015 behind us, we take a look back at some of your most-read Eye on the Arctic stories of the year. This year’s crop of stories is a diverse list covering everything from indigenous rights to military and from Arctic governance to press… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International
Feature Interview: View from the Swedish Arctic
Last week in this space we brought you a story looking at how indigenous leaders were reacting to the Paris climate change agreement. In it, Josefina Skerk, vice-president of Sweden’s Saami parliament, talked about the importance of indigenous voices when climate policy is implemented. … »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Politics
Arctic missing from Paris climate agreement
While the United Nations climate change agreement was praised when it was reached this month, the omission of the word ‘Arctic’ from the final agreement, and the lack of discussion around Arctic warming at the conference, has many northern indigenous… »
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