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Video: Working construction in Canada’s High Arctic

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 00:46 — Last Updated: Saturday, December 31, 2016 at 01:06
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Working construction in Canada’s High Arctic is not for the faint of heart.

But since 2014, work crews from all over Canada have been rotating in and out of the Arctic community of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut to get the Canadian High Arctic Research station ready in time for Canada’s 150th birthday in July 2017.

Earlier this year, Eye on the Arctic visited in the site to meet some of these workers and hear about what working construction in the High Arctic is really like.

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

Related stories from around the North:

Canada: The geometries of Arctic all-weather road construction, Blog by Mia Bennett

Finland: Uptick in construction leads to high demand for concrete in Finland, Yle News

Russia: Murmansk, Russia: Transport hub trouble, again, Barents Observer

Norway: Norway improving infrastructure on Arctic island, Barents Observer

United States: Record permafrost erosion in Alaska bodes ill for Arctic infrastructure, Deutsche Welle Ice-blogger

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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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