Author: Heather Exner-Pirot

My first post on Eye on the Arctic, writing back in May 2010, addressed the concern that was pervasive at that

This week at Arctic Frontiers, the high profile conference on Arctic issues held annually in Tromso, Norway, Canadian Minister for

Last month The Economist published an article on Bangladesh’s impressive improvements in life expectancy and poverty reduction.  The biggest surprise

The headline “The Race for the Arctic” has been a favoured one for newspaper and magazine writers, from Time magazine

 Innovation has become one of those ubiquitous buzzwords used as part of the everyday jargon of business and politics. Governments,

On October 1, 1987, the President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, made a speech in Murmansk outlining the Soviet Union’s

Last month, I wrote about the need to reduce dependency on federal transfers in northern Canada.  A good point, I

Nunavut is a wealthy region.  With a GDP/capita of $53,506, if it were a country it would easily rank amongst

Last week, Greenpeace, the environmentalist organization, launched a campaign to “Save the Arctic.” Specifically, they want to create a global sanctuary

This week, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, issued a somewhat scathing statement of

Last week, Canada’s Gen. Walt Natynczyk brought together the chiefs of defence and other senior northern commanders from Canada, the U.S.,

There is growing consensus in the North that to be truly healthy and prosperous, communities must reduce their dependence on

It’s the time of year when bloggers indulge themselves by offering predictions, and I shall be no different.  The Arctic’s