Stood up again…

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 19:19
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Weather: -20c; grey and snowy

Cape Dorset (Kinngait), Nunavut – First the translator, now this.

Our guides, the two of them, didn’t show up this morning. At all. We waited an hour.

This can be par for the course in the Arctic, but I was still surprised. One of them had come highly recommended. I’d talked to him every night we were here planning the day and the shots we were after. I told him if anything came up, or if he had to go hunting at the last minute, to call us right away.

But he didn’t.

It took us almost an hour to get out of all our winter gear, re-pack our equipment, and carry on with the day.

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic

Eilís Quinn is an award-winning journalist and manages Radio Canada International’s Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project. Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight circumpolar countries and has produced numerous documentary and multimedia series about climate change and the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the North.

Her investigative report "Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change," about the murder of Robert Adams, a 19-year-old Inuk man from Arctic Quebec, received the silver medal for “Best Investigative Article or Series” at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The project also received an honourable mention for excellence in reporting on trauma at the 2019 Dart Awards in New York City.

Her report “The Arctic Railway: Building a future or destroying a culture?” on the impact a multi-billion euro infrastructure project would have on Indigenous communities in Arctic Europe was a finalist at the 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists award in the online investigative category.

Her multimedia project on the health challenges in the Canadian Arctic, "Bridging the Divide," was a finalist at the 2012 Webby Awards.

Her work on climate change in the Arctic has also been featured on the TV science program Découverte, as well as Le Téléjournal, the French-Language CBC’s flagship news cast.

Eilís has worked for media organizations in Canada and the United States and as a TV host for the Discovery/BBC Worldwide series "Best in China."

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Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic

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