Sir John Franklin’s long-lost HMS Terror found: The Guardian
HMS Terror, one of Sir John Franklin’s two ships lost in the doomed 1845 Franklin Expedition, has been found in “in
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Art and Culture
Canadian museum gets $15 million for Inuit Art Centre
The Canadian government will contribute $15-million dollars towards the construction of an Inuit Art Centre at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)
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Winnipeg Art Gallery to feature Inuit art in France
The Winnipeg Art Gallery has the world’s largest collection of Inuit art and it’s planning to share some of this
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Observing Ramadan in Canada’s Arctic
Ramadan is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar when Muslims around the world fast for 30 days. It began
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Blog: Winter in the world’s coldest city
As Memorial Day Weekend kicks off the summer in the United States, what better time than to look back on
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Arctic bird cliff will be Norway’s next contribution to slow TV
Norwegian broadcaster NRK plans to broadcast live from a bird cliff in the far north-eastern corner of the country for
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Art of an avant-garde Arctic in downtown Anchorage
When people imagine Alaska’s Arctic, experimental art isn’t typically first thing that comes to mind. But a new exhibit at
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Southcentral cheer team vies for top spot at Worlds competition
On Saturday, Alaska’s Black Ice team will compete in the 2016 Cheerleading Worlds competition in Orlando, Florida, where they’ll go head to head
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Former Nunavut politician’s Swedish roots to be subject of documentary film
Nearly a century after Swedish explorer and fur trader Petter Norberg left his homeland for a life of adventure in
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Canadian Guild of Crafts celebrates 110 years of indigenous art
The Canadian Guild of Crafts in Montreal, Quebec is a non-profit organization that works to promote the art of Inuit
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Swedish archbishop wants ‘truth commission’ for abuse against indigenous Samis
Archbishop Antje Jackelén wants Sweden to set up an independent commission that will look into the state’s injustices against the country’s indigenous
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College to offer course in professional gaming
A community college in Northern Sweden is offering “elite” training in the Counter Strike computer game, with the aim of
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O Canada! … A Norwegian writer takes on our country’s features & foibles
Norwegian writer and retired literature professor Gerd Bjørhovde has always had a thing for Canada. And there is only one person
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Alaskans win Norwegian film contest
BETHEL — The challenge was to make a short film about the Arctic that went beyond icons like polar bears
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Jutai Toonoo, iconoclastic Arctic artist, dies in Nunavut
VIDEO: Eye on the Arctic documentary interview with Jutai Toonoo, 2010 Jutai Toonoo, the iconoclastic artist from Arctic Canada, died
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