Eye on the Arctic – Week in Review 10/17/14

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, October 17, 2014 at 20:40 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 13:03
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A look at the week's Arctic headlines. (iStock) — A look at the week’s Arctic headlines. (iStock)

On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories on Eye on the Arctic this week:

Energy news dominated northern headlines this week with the oil price decline causing concern everywhere from Alaska to Norway

Will the current financial scandal involving Greenland’s prime minister puts a question mark on the future of uranium mining in the country?

A state visit between Canada and Finland to discuss Arctic cooperation gets livened up by news from the world of hockey

And in the Arctic Canadian city of Arviat, Halloween celebrations have been changed, because of a very different kind of spook from the usual witches, ghosts and goblins:

And the most popular Eye on the Arctic story on Twitter at @eyeonthearctic?

This week, our followers chose NASA satellite imagery reveals the Arctic at night, a blog by Mia Bennett from Cryopolitics that breaks down a NASA’s very unique view of the circumpolar North.

That’s all from Eye on the Arctic this week. We’ll be back on Monday with more news and views from across the North.

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

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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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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories on Eye on the Arctic this week:

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic

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