Jessica Auer, a Canadian visual artist based in Montreal, Quebec, still remembers the first time she visited L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site in Canada’s Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The site is famous in Canada for showing evidence… »
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Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Bats need natural habitat beside farmland: study
Bats are under threat in North America but new research suggests a way to help them survive. Bats are important because they eat huge quantities of mosquitos and other insects, sometime acting as a natural pesticide on farmland. Bat numbers… »
Metal, mineral price drop affecting Canada’s North
Slumping metal and mineral prices are taking their toll on the mining industry in Canada’s North and contributing to a gloomy economic outlook for the region according to a recent report from The Conference Board of Canada. “Economic conditions are actually… »
Economy, Indigenous, International, Society
Iceland blasts Canada, rest of Arctic Five, for exclusion from fishing agreement
Iceland says the recent Arctic fishing moratorium, signed by the five Arctic coastal states without Iceland’s participation, is ‘unacceptable’ and a worrying precedent. “We have been able to have good cooperation between the eight (circumpolar) countries and it has been… »
Cheerleading injuries increasing: study
Cheerleading is becoming more popular in Canada and at the same time the number of injuries has doubled in the last 20 years, according to a recent study. ‘Throwing a person in the air’ “It’s a sport where… you usually… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Fishing, science missions and the end of diesel in the North? – Arctic week in review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this week: – The five nations that boarder the Arctic Ocean signed a moratorium this month on fishing in the region. Does… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Politics, Society
Politics, pot & polar ice – Arctic week in review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this week: – A study done in Nunavik, the Inuit self-governing region of Northern Quebec, suggests a link between cannabis use and… »
Major decline in seabirds: ocean ecosystem in trouble
It seems shocking, but a study of seabird populations shows that since the 1950’s there has been a 70 percent decline in seabird populations. Michelle Paleczny is currently a biologist working with Parks Canada, but researched the decline in seabirds… »
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Studying society’s morals of the past; Jessica Steinberg
We often think of the Victorian era as one being very moralistic and prudish, but that attitude was around long beforehand. Jessica Steinberg (PhD, ASECS fellow) at the McMaster University library ancient books collection in Hamilton Ontario © JD Howell- McMaster… »
Arts & Entertainment, Indigenous, Society
Arctic mural underway in Toronto, Canada
A giant wall mural by Arctic artists finally got underway in Canada’s largest city of Toronto on Thursday. Artists Patrick Thompson and Alexa Hatanaka have long travelled to, and worked in, Canada’s North. But it was spending time in Cape Dorset,… »
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