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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