Blog – Scotland, a gateway to the Arctic?
Scotland’s islands, particularly Orkney, are capitalizing on their historic northern linkages both offensively, to take advantage of new economic opportunities
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Archivists poring over 75,000 hours of stories in northern Indigenous languages collected by Canadian broadcaster
About 65 years ago, Joe Kiloonik was hunting caribou near Taloyoak, Nunavut, in Canada’s eastern Arctic, when he came across
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Finnish Heritage Agency scouring countryside for ancient monuments
The Finnish Heritage Agency (FHA) is conducting a nationwide field inspection of ancient monuments protected by the government. The Nationally
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Inuit in Canada’s eastern Arctic speak out about skin grafts done without consent in 1970s
After years of keeping silent, Inuit from Igloolik, Nunavut, say they want answers about medical tests performed on them in
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New stamp honours first pilot to land in area of Yellowknife, Northern Canada
C.H. (Punch) Dickins once boasted to Maclean’s Magazine, “put your pencil on any point on the map of Canada and
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Indigenous women across Canada come forward with accounts of forced sterilization, says lawyer
A proposed class action lawsuit alleging the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada is turning up reports from more
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‘We’re up here!’ says Nunavut premier as Arctic Canadian territory celebrates 20th anniversary
As Nunavut celebrates the 20th anniversary of becoming Canada’s northernmost territory, Premier Joe Savikataaq says he wants people in the
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Arctic Canada: Nunavut residents see progress, more work as territory turns 20
Twenty years ago, with northern lights and fireworks lighting up the sky, Nunavut became a territory. In Iqaluit on April
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Who is the person named ‘Eskimo’ buried in a cemetery in Northern Canada?
A few steps off a lane in Yellowknife’s Lakeview Cemetery, in the Northwest Territories, a grave marker with the word
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Blog – Pursuing polar studies from below the Arctic Circle
Last Friday marked the first week of spring, which means that it was also Polar Week! It was also the
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Remembering the lessons of the Exxon Valdez disaster, 30 years later
This Sunday, Alaska marks the 30th anniversary of an event that changed the state forever. On March 24th, 1989, 11
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Inuk elder in Arctic Canada recalls family’s forced relocation nearly 70 years ago
Twenty one survivors of a brutal forced resettlement by the Canadian government recently gathered in Arviat, Nunavut, for a formal
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Canadian government apologizes to Ahiarmiut Inuit for forced relocations in Nunavut
Seventy years after the federal government forcibly relocated Ahiarmuit away from their homeland, it’s apologizing to 21 survivors and their
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Alaska’s Cold War radars face new threat from climate change
Across Alaska, 15 remote radars spin every minute of the day, 365 days a year. Since the Cold War, they’ve
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Ottawa to apologize for forced relocation of Ahiarmiut Inuit in Nunavut
Between 1949 and 1959, officials with the Canadian government forced Ahiarmiut from their homes in southwestern Nunavut, in Canada’s east-Arctic,
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