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Culture USA 

Alaska documentary chronicles one family’s remote cabin adventure

Dermot Cole, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 17:05
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FAIRBANKS — Jean Aspen and her husband, Tom Irons, who divide their time between Homer and the Brooks Range, created

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(iStock)
Culture Finland 

Thousands visit festival in Arctic Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, June 16, 2014 at 12:01
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The 29th Midnight Sun Film Festival held in Sodankylä, Lapland, wrapped up Sunday. Last minute cancellations of several high-profile filmmaker

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Map indicating where Inuit were relocated to in the 1950s. (Government of Canada)
Society Society (Canada) Special Features 

Web doc sheds light on Inuit relocation in Arctic Canada

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, May 16, 2014 at 15:38 — Last Updated: Friday, March 16, 2018 at 10:18
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The relocation of Inuit from northern Quebec to Canada’s High Arctic in the 1950s is one of the darkest episodes

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Lukasi Forrest, Travis Kunnuk and Marie-Helene Cousineau during filming of Uvanga. Cousineau says the group is now working on a feature film about suicide, prompted by the death of a friend a year and a half ago. (Uvanga Facebook page)
Canada Culture Culture (Canada) 

Nunavut filmmakers turn the lens on suicide

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 09:13 — Last Updated: Monday, August 25, 2014 at 18:41
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The co-founder of Arnait Video Productions in Igloolik, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, says the group

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Vincent Cochin plans to spend 80 days travelling from Kugaaruk, Nunavut, to Qaanaaq, Greenland, by ski and snowshoe in an effort to break the world record for the longest unsupported, unassisted Arctic journey. (courtesy Into the Midnight Sun)
Culture Denmark/Greenland 

Adventurer plans 80-day solo trek from Nunavut to Greenland

CBC News
Posted: Monday, March 3, 2014 at 18:26
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An adventurer plans to spend 80 days travelling from Kugaaruk, Nunavut, to Qaanaaq, Greenland, by ski and snowshoe in an

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Travis Kunnuk of Igloolik and Lukasi Forrest of Kuujjuaq, Que. star in Uvanga, one of more than 30 films that will be screened during the Available Light Film Festival in Whitehorse this year. (Courtesy Arnait Video Productions Inc.)
Canada Culture Culture (Canada) 

Northern cinema celebrated in Yukon

CBC News
Posted: Monday, February 3, 2014 at 10:47 — Last Updated: Monday, August 25, 2014 at 18:41
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The Available Light Film Festival, now in its twelfth year, began on Sunday in Whitehorse, the capital of Canada’s northwestern

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Inuk artist Tanya Tagaq blends traditional Inuit throat singing with eclectic, contemporary, electronic music. (Tanya Tagaq)
Canada Culture Culture (Canada) Special Features 

Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq on reclaiming Nanook of the North

CBC News
Posted: Monday, January 27, 2014 at 12:09 — Last Updated: Monday, August 25, 2014 at 18:41
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By Holly Gordon, CBC Music Tanya Tagaq doesn’t mince words. Asked about her impressions of Nanook of the North, a

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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

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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