Representatives from six of Canada’s First Nations are currently taking part in a Greenpeace campaign with a message that Arctic drilling has the potential to negatively impact communities far beyond the North. “We know that the ongoing use of oil… »
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Health, Internet, Science & Technology
Other injuries can cause concussion-like symptoms
Many people with very minor head injuries or injuries to other parts of their bodies can experience severe symptoms like those caused by a concussion, and a new study sheds light on why. The symptoms can be debilitating and include… »
Internet, Science & Technology
Searching the Stars: McMaster University astrophysicist Rene Heller-life on distant moons?
Looking for life in all the wrong places. Rene Heller PhD, astrophysicist at the Origins Institute, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario © supplied For decades, if not centuries, man has been looking at the heavens wondering about… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Indigenous
Feature Interview: Arctic hamlet drives cultural centre campaign
Kinngait Studios is legendary in Canadian art circles. It’s housed in the small, ramshackle couple of buildings that stand across from each other in the Arctic Canadian community of Cape Dorset. A place where renowned artists and printmakers like Kenojuak Ashevak and Pudlo… »
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Agriculture in Alberta: Jack Francis; farmer, animal research technician, museum curator
He’s an Alberta prairie boy through and through. A farm boy in his youth, Jack Francis soon joined the University of Alberta’s Edmonton Research Station where he began to care for the various animals and help in research. This involved… »
Prof suggests legal protection for obese people
Canada has human rights laws that protect people from discrimination and they should include direct mention of people who are obese, says Bill Bogart, a law professor at the University of Windsor. Bogart wrote a book called Regulating Obesity? Government,… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Politics, Society
Tanks, drilling & polar drones: Arctic week in Review
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from across the North On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic, this week: – Russia unveils a new tank said… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Greenpeace questions bird deaths at oilsands
Greenpeace Canada is calling for a full investigation into bird deaths at an oilsands tailings pond in the western province of Alberta. Petroleum companies extract oil from bitumen leaving behind ponds of toxic materials that can be as large as… »
Former Mountie writes about PTSD and first responders
She almost didn’t do it, but Deanna Lennox felt compelled to tell her story to combat the stigma around operational stress injuries in first responders and mental health problems in general. Her memoir is called Damage Done: A Mountie’s Memoir and… »
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Canadian gives new life to an old instrument-Frank Edgley Concertinas
Thanks to a Canadian, an old instrument is making a comeback in popularity. Well over a century ago, the Concertina, more commonly known as a “squeeze-box” was a widely popular instrument, but over time faded almost into obscurity by the… »
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