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Author: Heather Exner-Pirot

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How do you solve a problem like Attawapiskat?

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Friday, December 9, 2011 at 21:11
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The issue of living standards in northern and remote communities was brought into focus in the past month as the

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Why UArctic failed in Canada

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Friday, October 28, 2011 at 05:00
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  Last week, the federal government announced that it will be cutting its funding to the University of the Arctic

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The gap between North and South

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 04:01
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Some northerners have argued that their communities should have the same level of government services as southerners – no more

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The Arctic consensus

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Monday, August 29, 2011 at 20:15
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Last week, the Kingdom of Denmark (Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands) released its Strategy for the Arctic.  This marks

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How the Arctic became an international region

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 17:50
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There are many remarkable things about the Arctic: its unique environment, wildlife, inhabitants and culture.  Lesser known is the remarkable

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Does Canada Need a University of the North?

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 19:06
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Last month, the education ministers of the three territories signed an MoU expressing their commitment to explore joint strategies for university

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Economic development in the North

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 17:45
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In the puzzle that is northern economic development, two pieces presented themselves in the past few weeks: the province of

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The Arctic Council ministerial

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Monday, May 16, 2011 at 21:43
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Last week, I asked if Arctic policy was in a funk.  I got my answer with the very encouraging Nuuk

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Is Arctic policy in a funk?

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Monday, May 9, 2011 at 20:48
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The Aspen Institute recently launched a report on Arctic Climate Change.  Among the usual suspects involved were Sheila Watt-Cloutier and

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The Chinese are coming!: Asia and the Arctic

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 20:59
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  In 1999, the Chinese sailed, during their first Arctic voyage, into Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, after encountering difficulties navigating through heavy

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The dangerous self-censorship on indigenous issues

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 16:42
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  Some people think that the scholarly community self-censors when it comes to evaluating and analyzing indigenous policies and governance.

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What route for Arctic shipping?

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Friday, March 25, 2011 at 05:41
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  An important part of the narrative surrounding the Arctic involves the expected increase in shipping as polar ice melts

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The forgotten provincial North

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 22:45
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  Global warming and a commodities boom have resulted, in the past several years, to a lot of attention being

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Book Review: Charles Emmerson’s Future History of the Arctic

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 20:00
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I expected to hate it.  The first I heard of it was in an online ad that described it as

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Changing the Arctic Conversation

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 00:48
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  The Globe & Mail headlined Tuesday’s edition with the results of a new poll on public opinions on Arctic

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

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