It’s rare you can learn about everything from Labrador’s Inuit women leaders, to children’s Inuktitut literature, in just one place. But thanks to a new website launched this month, researchers, and those from the region, can now do just that. Titled… »
Highlights / Your Columns
Stephane Dione’s Syria gambit
Much has been said about Stephane Dion’s alleged Faustian deal with Russia that apparently got Canada invited to join the group of nations seeking to broker an end to the Syrian civil war. I, for one, believe our foreign minister… »
Environment & Animal Life, Politics, Society
Thumbs up for Ontario law to cut greenhouse gases
A leading environmental group is applauding an Ontario law to cut carbon emissions that cause climate change. Canada’s most populous province has created a legal obligation to reduce emissions by 80 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050. ‘A very… »
Canada lifts sanctions on Europe’s ‘last dictator’
Western leaders used to call him Europe’s last dictator. But Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the former Soviet republic with an iron fist since 1994, is clawing his way back to Western favour largely thanks to the unintended… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Immigration & Refugees, Society
Lifestyle: the Ruzicka family: Living off the land, pioneer style
Pioneer lifestyle? well, in terms of food anyway. Last August, Shannon Ruzicka, husband Danny, and their three children decided on an experiment. Living on a farm in Viking, Alberta, they wondered if they could survive only on what the farm… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Indigenous, Society
Why water safety programs aren’t working in the Arctic
Across the country, Canadians are saying good-bye to winter and looking ahead to warm-weather activities including boating and swimming. It’s also a time when water safety and awareness programs kick into gear across the country. But these programs aren’t resonating with… »
Why Canada can’t have the North Pole
Ottawa’s efforts to map the Central Arctic Ocean in an attempt to present a scientific case for Canada’s claim to the North Pole are a monumental waste of taxpayers’ money, says one of the country’s leading experts on international law… »
Fading art: Conversation with wood boat builder Louis Duguay
It’s a lifestyle, it’s a local culture, and many would argue that is indeed an art. Louis Duguay, now aged 70, has been building east coast commercial fishing boats for over 40 years along the north coast of New Brunswick… »
Health, Indigenous, Internet, Science & Technology
Website launched to help Inuit living with cancer
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… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Book: non-fiction: Mark Winston- Bee Time-Lessons from the Hive
Around the world people are becoming increasingly concerned about bees. Without the pollination efforts of bees there would be virtually no crops, and massive starvation would result. But there is a lot more to bees than pollination and honey. Mark… »
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