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Military, dog races & winter biking – Arctic week in Review

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, March 13, 2015 at 20:34 — Last Updated: Monday, March 16, 2015 at 18:31
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A look at this week's Arctic news. (iStock) — A look at this week’s Arctic news. (iStock)

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

-Norway launches military exercises in the Arctic

-A Canadian barge, adrift in the Arctic for months, raises questions about shipping and transportation in the North

-The United States representative for the Arctic asks the intelligence services to look into Russia’s military claims in the Arctic

-And in Finland, fat bikes are becoming all the rage for their ability to travel easily through snow

-The Finnmarksløpet dog sled race gets underway in Norway

That’s all from us for this week. We’ll be back on Monday with more stories and newsmakers from across the North.

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

Alaska, biking, envirnoment, Finnmarksløpet, mushing, Norway, Russia, winter

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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