A NEW MAGAZINE FOR THE INUIT KIDS (Categorie: Culture - Arts) Young readers in northern Nunavut are testing out a new children's magazine ? published in both Inuktitut and English ? that organizers hope will get more elementary school students hooked on reading.
Source: CBC, July 5th 2007 View source 
THE RACE FOR COLD CASH (Categorie: Economy) A 50-year quest to open the Canadian Arctic to large-scale mining is finally showing signs of success. For investors, there's no time like now to stake your claim.
Source: MoneySense magazine / Canadian Business Online, May 2007 issue View source
MOVE OVER, SANTA CLAUS (Categorie: Life style - Economy) A group of Russian scientists has returned from an Arctic expedition, claiming that the North Pole is part of the country's turf. The argument is that the underwater Lomonosov Ridge is an extension of the Eurasian continent. The Lomonosov Ridge includes the North Pole. More importantly, the region is estimated to contain vast hydrocarbon deposits.
Source: June 29, 2007 View source
CARVED HARES AND DANCING BEARS (Categorie: Culture - Arts) A correspondent from The Economist explores the Arctic art-world which has been finding a market in Canada gradually since the late 1940s.
Source: Economist.com, June 22nd 2007 View source
NOT YOUR AVERAGE INUIT CLICHE (Categorie: Arts) The work of Annie Pootoogook, Shuvinai Ashoona and Siassie Kenneally is about as far removed from your usual idea of Inuit art as you can get. There are no sled dogs or bright smiling faces framed by fur-lined hoods, no polar bears and the only seal I could find had already been gutted.
Source: July 12, 2007 View source
PROTECT CULTURAL HERITAGE (Categorie: Economy) The kayak, mukluks, the inukshuk and the parka are all Inuit creations and recognized around the world. They are also modern tools used to explain the complicated issue of intellectual property rights.
Source: The Gazette, July 12 View source
KIVALLIQ HAS POTENTIAL SAY BUSINESS SCHOLARS (Categorie: Economy) A group of scholars were in Rankin Inlet the week of June 25 as part of a study to find out about doing business in the North.
Source: Northern News Services, July 11, 2007 View source
VISITING VETS CARE FOR IGLOOLIK PETS (Categorie: Society) Sled dogs and other pets in one Nunavut hamlet have the rare chance to get a check-up and medical treatment over the next two weeks, thanks to some Canadian veterinarians doing volunteer work in the area.
Source: CBC New, July 12, 2007 View source
SOFTWARE AND INUIT TRACKERS TO GAUGE POLAR BEAR POPULATIONS (Categorie: Science and Technology) A wildlife organization has launched a project that combines business intelligence software and ancient tracking techniques of the Inuit people to study polar bear footprints. The organization's goal is to document a declining polar bear population.
Source: InformationWeek, juin 25, 2007 View source
QITSUALIK: SHAPESHIFTER: AN INUIT TALE (Categorie: Culture) Long have humans recognized the powers that animals possess, which we do not. The animals that a culture recognizes - even in the most industrialized society - form the basis of its archetypes, one of the pillars upon which that society's cosmology rests.
Source: Indian Country, July 05, 2007 View source
ARCTIC ADVENTURES: TALES FROM THE LIVES OF INUIT ARTISTS (Categorie: Culture) The menace of climate change lends an elegiac power to the reading of Arctic Adventures by Montreal author Raquel Rivera. Through the lives of four Inuit artists Rivera gives us a taste of a vanished way of life, a sense of the unimaginable hardships that shaped these artists? characters, and a glimpse of the work that grew so organically from their experiences on the land.
Source: Quill & Quire, May 2007 View source
LIFE?S LESSONS (Categorie: Culture - Education) Jukeepa Hainnu becomes the first Inuit woman on Baffin Island to get her masters of education. While she urges to further education after highschool, she doesn?t want youth in her Baffin Island community to lose touch with their past in preparing for their future.
Source: The Guardian (Charlottetown) 12/05/07 View source
THE DEW LINE (Categorie: Life style) It was North America?s first defense against a Soviet attack, and life on it was the Cold War at its coldest.
Source: American Heritage, Spring 2007 View source
MANY ABORIGINAL TONGUES ON BRINK OF EXTINCTION (Categorie: Culture - Education) A report released by Statistics Canada, using 2001 census data, shows aboriginal languages are disappearing but the downward trend is being pushed back by the younger generation learning their grandparents' mother tongues as second languages.
Source: The Hamilton Spectator, May 17, 2007 View source
SCIENCE TEAM LANDS ON ICE ISLAND (Categorie: Environement - Health) Scientists in the Arctic have just carried out the first research on a huge iceberg the size of Manhattan.
Source: BBC NEWS, 22 May 2007 View source
ARCTIC REINDEER MAY HELP CURE DISEASE (Categorie: Religion) Finnish scientists hope that reindeer living in the Arctic Circle could help find a cure for a disfiguring tropical disease.
Source: IOL, April 30, 2007 View source
INUIT EDUCATION A PRIORITY (Categorie: Life style) Only a bilingual education system that allows Inuit people to become proficient in both English and Inuktitut can make it possible for Canada to keep a commitment it made in 1993 in the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement.
Source: Windspeaker, May 2006 View source
STOP EXPANSION OF STANSTED AIRPORT (Categorie: Environement) One of the most prominent members of the Inuit community pleads for an end to the expansion of Stansted Airport and deliver a devastating critique of the link between Britain's cheap flights culture and the effects of climate change on his people.
Source: The Independent, 30 May 2007 View source
CANADA PROBES TB 'GENOCIDE' IN CHURCH-RUN SCHOOLS (Categorie: Religion - Society) Canada is to investigate claims that tens of thousands of native Indian and Inuit children died of tuberculosis at church-run residential schools in the early 20th century, and that their deaths were hushed up. Campaigners allege that school officials did nothing to halt the march of TB despite warnings, and charge that their inaction was tantamount to genocide.
Source: New Scientist, 5 May 2007 View source
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