Liberal shame and the Arctic Gulag

Barry O'Regan This story reminds me of an old 1970s episode on WKRP Cincinati TV show where a thanksgiving promotional gig of tossing live turkeys out of the traffic helicopter, resulted in the deadly carnage...

Seal product ban approved by EU

In May the European Union passed a bill to ban the import of seal products by a vote of 550-49.  Today this bill has been approved by the EU member states, a move that the Canadian government said would be...

Canada urges EU to reconsider ban on seal goods

Canada has made a last minute appeal to members of the European Union to reconsider the ban on seal products.  The 27 member states are expected to endorse the ban tommorrow. "The government of Canada is...

Canada will ‘not be bullied’ by Russia: Cannon

Barry Artiste Op/Ed First of all, the only people who have claim to the arctic are the ones who have lived there for thousands of years, the Inuit and Aboriginal peoples of both countries.  For nations to...

Narwhals trapped in arctic ice

About 400 Narwhals are trapped in ice near Baffin Island, which makes this one of the largest strandings in the Arctic. Inuit hunters spotted the whales last week, and originally thought that 200 had been...

Visual Perceptions of the Arctic and Antarctic

This is the second installment of the Arctic and Antarctic series, which covered the Gender on Ice conference that was held at Barnard College on Nov. 21.   Life in the Arctic and Antarctic is far more...

Labrador Dumps Raided for Groceries - Canada's Shame

"Health authorities in Labrador issued a warning to people scavenging in municipal dumps for food.  To augment their diets, people have been gleaning food disposed of by the food stores.  The high price...

Today is Canada's National Aboriginal Day

Aboriginal people have made much contribution to the Canadian culture, economy and society. Join us in their celebration today!"Celebrations are taking place across the country today to mark National Aboriginal...

U.S. lists polar bears as 'threatened' species

The United States has decided to list polar bears as a threatened species under its Endangered Species Act.I think this is really good news, but is has some Canadians wondering about the hunting of polar bears...

Inuit and environmentalists clash over polar bear

To save the polar bear, or to respect a way of life, that is the question."OTTAWA (Reuters) - Leaders of Canada's Arctic Inuit people denounced U.S. environmentalists on Monday for pushing Washington to declare...

Canada First Nations:Celebrate 1 Million Mark

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly a bittersweet celebration of a Proud Peoples whose population 500 years ago in North America was estimated to be 10 million aboriginals, with a possible...

Greetings From Nunavut!

I moved up here originally for a summer job. I’m a librarian by trade so I was just graduating from library school and I saw a four month summer position up here to do cataloguing for the research institute. At...