Relations between Canada and NATO ally Hungary got a bit testy this week, after the Hungarian foreign ministry summoned Canada’s ambassador to the country to chastise her over public statements expressing concern about the fate of a Budapest university and… »
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Health, Indigenous, Politics, Society
Mental Health – Can community programs in Arctic Canada make the difference? (Video)
May 1-7 is Mental Health Week across Canada. It’s an annual event organized by the Canadian Mental Health Association to help decrease the stigma around mental health and raise awareness about the hurdles people face when trying to get help.… »
Requiem for Radio: How the loss of RCI shortwave inspires an artist
(if photos do not appear, refresh screen) The shortwave towers and broadcasts of RCI are but a memory, but for a New Brunswick based artist, they have become the source for a myriad of artistic efforts. March 2014, The destruction… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Better climate adaptation strategies needed across the Arctic
Climate change continues to transform the Arctic at an unprecedented rate but adaptation strategies continue to lag behind, says a series of new international reports released on Tuesday. The Arctic Council’s Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) issued the reports as… »
Shane Wilson- Unique artist in a unique medium, moose antler and horn.
Shane Wilson is a rare artist. Fascinated by the idea of carving at a young age, he has developed an art form that is almost unique to him alone. Now an extremely accomplished sculptor, he works in the highly unusual… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Politics, Society
Canadian province of Quebec puts Arctic on international agenda
The Canadian province of Quebec included the Arctic as a top priority in its new international policy this month, but questions remain as to how this renewed focus will benefit northerners back home in the province. The new 10-year policy focuses… »
Civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria mount amid intensifying Western and Russian air campaign
While Western media attention has been focused on the tragic deaths of about 85 Syrian civilians killed in a poison gas attack in northwestern Syria on April 4, as many as 3,400 civilians are estimated to have died in air… »
Chemical attack in Syria upends prospects of Russia-U.S. detente
U.S. cruise missile attacks against Syrian military targets believed to have been behind a deadly chemical weapons attack in northern Syria mark a new and unpredictable phase in the six-year-old war, says a Canadian expert. The U.S. Navy launched 59… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society
Book: The Vimy Oaks: A Journey to Peace
It’s a little known story about a man who loved trees, a man of peace whose duty sent him to war in the battlefields of France. From amongst the blasted stumps he saved some acorns to regrow those once magnificent… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Q&A: Impact assessments in the Arctic – What Canada and Greenland can learn from each other
MONTREAL — A major conference on the challenges climate change poses for doing impact assessments,wound up in Canada on Friday. Delegates from around the world gathered for the four-day event, but the North got a day-long spotlight during the conference’s Arctic-Nordic forum on doing assessments… »
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