Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Eye on the Arctic

Eye on the Arctic

Issues affecting circumpolar nations

  • Countries
    • Canada
    • Denmark/Greenland
    • Finland
    • Iceland
    • Norway
    • Russia
    • Sweden
    • USA
  • Categories
    • Environment
    • Politics
    • Society
    • Science
    • Culture
    • Business
  • Longforms
  • Video Reports
  • Regard sur l’Arctique

Canada

Canada Politics Politics (Canada) RCI 

Canada’s Northwest Territories announce new $67M body to manage COVID-19 response

John Last, CBC North
Posted: Friday, September 4, 2020 at 15:42
0 Comments

The N.W.T. government has announced the creation of a new “co-ordinating secretariat” to manage the territory’s response to COVID-19. In a

Read more
Business Business (Canada) Canada RCI 

Unlimited internet to come to seven Northern Canadian communities by Nov. 1

CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 31, 2020 at 15:48
0 Comments

The North’s largest telecommunications provider says unlimited internet is coming to seven communities on Nov. 1, according to a press

Read more
Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Top Nunavut cop gives more details into how man was killed by officer in Arctic Canada

Thomas Rohner, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 16:12
0 Comments

In the face of mounting pressure for transparency and rising tensions in Kinngait, Nunavut, the territory’s top Mountie made the

Read more
Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Security guard tests positive for COVID-19 at a hotel in Canada’s capital city

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 10:06
0 Comments

A security guard working at an isolation hub for Nunavummiut in Ottawa has tested positive for COVID-19. The Nunavut Department

Read more
Canada Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada’s Arctic province wants to stop relying on Ottawa police force to investigate police shootings

The Canadian Press
Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 11:06 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 16:13
0 Comments

The government of Nunavut is affirming its intention to create a civilian police oversight body after a recent review of a shooting

Read more
Canada Culture Culture (Canada) RCI 

New podcast holds up Canadian Indigenous voices on climate change

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 12:28
0 Comments

A new podcast is bringing together Indigenous perspectives on climate change and decolonization. It’s called Story-telling/Story-listening: Decolonizing Research. It’s the brainchild

Read more
Environment Environment (USA) RCI USA 

Canadian Gwich’in leaders and conservationists suing U.S. over leasing program for Arctic wildlife refuge

CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 24, 2020 at 18:35
0 Comments

A Gwich’in organization created to protect nearly 20 million acres of sacred, traditional land in Alaska, along with 12 other

Read more
Business Business (Canada) Canada RCI 

Canada waives annual mineral lease fees on Crown land in Nunavut

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 10:41
0 Comments

In a measure to reduce the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nunavut, the federal government is waiving payments

Read more
Canada Science Science (Canada) 

COVID-19 pandemic stalls further exploration of Franklin wrecks in Arctic Canada

The Canadian Press
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2020 at 12:29
0 Comments

For only the second time in 12 years, Marc-Andre Bernier and his underwater archeology team at Parks Canada will not

Read more
Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Chinese miner hires Canadian CEO as review continues on Nunavut mine deal

The Canadian Press
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2020 at 10:49
0 Comments

The Chinese company trying to buy TMAC Resources Ltd. has appointed a Barrick Gold Corp. veteran as CEO of its

Read more
General RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Arctic community grieves researcher’s tragic death in Greenland

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2020 at 08:51
0 Comments

One week after the death of Konrad Steffen, a Swiss/U.S. dual citizen, while doing field work in Greenland, friends and

Read more
Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Could a cannabis store be coming to Arctic Canada?

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 10:58
0 Comments

Nunavut’s Department of Finance has received an application to open a cannabis store in Iqaluit, and is looking for community

Read more
Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Police-related death rate in Northern Quebec 30 times higher than Ontario’s

Thomas Rohner, CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 10, 2020 at 15:53 — Last Updated: Monday, August 10, 2020 at 16:11
0 Comments

Nunavik has seen more police-related deaths in the last two decades than any of Canada’s three territories, despite having a

Read more
Business Business (Canada) Canada RCI 

Even amid pandemic, the northern housing market is hotter than ever, say realtors

John Last and Katie Toth, CBC North
Posted: Monday, August 10, 2020 at 12:32
1 Comment

When Vanessa Thorson bought her duplex in Whitehorse’s Takhini neighbourhood in 2015, it cost her just $285,000. Three years later,

Read more
Business Business (Canada) Canada RCI 

Canada outlines which Indigenous businesses benefit from $5M funding in the North

CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 10, 2020 at 11:17 — Last Updated: Monday, August 10, 2020 at 11:31
1 Comment

The federal government has announced how $5 million in federal funding from its regional fund for Indigenous business in the

Read more
  • ← Previous

Feature

Subscribe

  • Podcasts
  • Cybermagazine
  • RSS Feed

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Also on RCI (Chinese)

体验加拿大之北极光下 • Experiencing Canada

Also on RCI (Spanish)

Nunavut in spanish

Also on CBC

CBC North

Also on Radio-Canada

RCI • Radio Canada International
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

RCI

  • FRANÇAIS
  • ENGLISH
  • ESPAÑOL
  • 中文
  • العربية

Follow us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • RCI | Facebook
  • RCI | Twitter

Resources

  • RADIO-CANADA
    • Conditions d’utilisation
    • Ombudsman
  • CBC
    • Impact and Accountability
    • Ombudsperson
Copyright © 2021 Eye on the Arctic. All rights reserved.
Theme: ColourMag by ThemeGrill. Powered by WordPress.