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
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