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Police lift lockdown of Nunavut community

19 June 201819 June 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Arctic, Nunavut, RCMP, Sanikiluaq

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Nunavut said Thursday afternoon that they have lifted the lockdown in the Arctic territory’s

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With no caribou on their islands, Inuit on the Belcher Islands have relied on eider ducks for food and clothing for generations. Here, an Inuit woman wearing a traditional eider skin parka collects duck eggs in a still photo from the film "People of a Feather." (Joel Heath/The Canadian Press)

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Nunavut Canada community revives eiderdown business

26 June 201519 March 2018 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments culture, ducks, Inuit, jobs, Sanikiluaq

A small Inuit community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut is reviving its eiderdown business, something it hopes provides

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