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Jun 27, 2018

Forget Canada Day, prioritize reconcili-action and Indigenous culture

Doreen Nicoll

Take part in 150 days of reconcili-action by joining others across the country taking the #NEXT150 Challenge. Together we can work nation with nation to make the next 150 years something to celebrate.

Blog

Feb 23, 2018

Sheila Watt-Cloutier is a trailblazer for Inuit rights and the environment in the North

Richard Thompson

Watt-Cloutier sees connections between her personal struggles as an Inuk girl and her public leadership decades later, addressing the environmental crises that afflicted her people.

Blog

Aug 16, 2016

Clyde River Inuit fight to protect territory and livelihoods from Big Oil

David Suzuki

Inuit hunters have observed altered migration patterns of some species, and reported horrific damage to the internal organs of seals and other animals exposed to underwater seismic blasts.

Podcast

May 16, 2016

Setting the Inuit record straight on cultural prejudice and the seal hunt

face2face

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril talks about her new film Angry Inuk, the "People of the Seal" and a new model for animal activism.

Blog

May 5, 2016

'Angry Inuk' doc makes case for sustainable seal hunting in Canada

Laura Brightwell

With "sealfies," humour and honesty, a Canadian documentary portrays the Inuit side of the seal hunt debate.

Podcast

Sep 22, 2015

radio book lounge: Our Ice Is Vanishing Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq by Shelley Wright

radio book lounge

Shelley Wright, author of Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuqa: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change speaks about the people of the Arctic and the effects of climate change.

Columnists

Mar 24, 2015

The Right to Be Cold: Sounding the alarm on climate change in the North

Naomi Klein

In her new memoir "The Right to Be Cold," Sheila Watt-Cloutier summarizes the devastating impacts of oil and gas extraction on Arctic communities.

Columnists

Oct 2, 2014

'Okpik's Dream' examines Inuit man's life through dog sledding

June Chua

In Okpik's Dream, filmmaker Laura Rietveld follows the life of Harry Okpik, an Inuit community leader and a well-known musher who competes yearly in Nunavik's gruelling 600-kilometre Ivakkak race.

News

Sep 26, 2014

What we're (not) talking about when we talk about the Franklin expeditions

Correy Baldwin

If this is our national story, then we are telling ourselves the wrong story.

Blog

Sep 11, 2014

Sinking to the bottom: The wreck of the Stephen Harper

Christopher Majka

The Franklin Expedition discovery reveals the Harper government is rapidly sinking. In future centuries there will, however, be no attempt to raise the political remains of the S.S. Stephen Harper.

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