Sometimes those of us who live in southern Canada forget how different life can be for our distant neighbours living in the country’s three northern territories: Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Some things we take for granted down here…»
Highlights / Northwest Territories
Do Arctic mobility devices need a rethink? – Eye on the Arctic video archive
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North. In today’s instalment, a video from our documentary archive. Recovering from knee surgery isn’t easy for anyone, but for Jimmy Okhina Sr., living in Arctic Canada made it…»
New Indigenous protected area created in the Northwest Territories
A remote Indigenous community in Canada’s Northwest Territories is celebrating today the creation of a new Indigenous protected area that will safeguard an area of pristine wilderness larger than all of Israel or Belize from any industrial development or mining.…»
Shifting ground: How can you maintain your home when you can’t trust the ground beneath your feet?
By Alex Brockman, CBC News Margaret and Edward Kelly’s home is coming apart at the seams. The joints holding their walls, floors and ceilings together expand and contract as the ground underneath moves, a few centimetres at a time. They…»
Economy, Environment, Indigenous, International, Internet, Science and Technology, Politics, Society
Debate over hunting with drones continues in Northwest Territories
Indigenous groups in Canada’s Arctic are grappling with an influx of new technology and how to make sure it doesn’t do more harm than good. Drones are giving biologists a better idea of caribou migration and the social actions that…»
Internet, Science and Technology
Fossil of world’s earliest fungus unearthed in Canadian Arctic
Scientists have unearthed fossilized fungi in the western Canadian Arctic dating back up to one billion years, nearly half a billion years earlier than previously thought, according to research published in the journal Nature. The discovery of these microscopic and…»
Ottawa and Dehcho First Nations create Canada’s newest Indigenous protected area
The federal government and Dehcho First Nations in the Northwest Territories have agreed to a landmark deal that will protect a “breadbasket” wilderness area from resource development for generations to come. The agreement signed by Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and…»
Indigenous Cultural Tourism: How the North is learning from community success in southern Canada
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North. The successes of cultural tourism in Canada’s southern Aboriginal communities are providing an important roadmap for development of Indigenous cultural tourism in the North, a sector expected to…»
Russian oil, cooperation over commerce & Canada’s Arctic highway : 2017 Arctic Year in Review
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from across the North The end of the year is often a time to take stock, and here at Eye on the Arctic we’re no different. That’s why, as 2017 draws to…»
Health, Indigenous, International, Society
Yukon cancer warning labels on alcohol
A world first? Several countries around the world, including the U.K., U.S.A., Sweden and France among others have varying sizes, styles, and degrees of obligatory and voluntary warning labels on alcohol products. These often warn of the dangers of drinking…»
Arts and Entertainment, Economy, Environment, International
Canadian retail chain under fire by Christmas tree growers
