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Eye on the Arctic news round-up

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Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, will chair the Arctic Council when Canada takes over in May.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean KilpatrickA round-up of stories that made headlines across the North this week.

Canada

An in-depth look at the issues facing Canada during its upcoming Arctic Council chairmanship.

Finland

More challenges for eastern Finland’s troubled Talvivaara mine.

Greenland

Doctors from Greenland and Arctic Canada meet to discuss TB prevention.

Russia

Rosneft signs  licenses to a dozen areas in the Arctic: the Barents Sea, the Kara Sea, the Chukotka Sea and the Laptev Sea.

Sweden

Sweden’s controversial wolf hunt got underway this week.

United States

What needs to happen to help Alaskan villages threatened by climate change.

Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca

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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