Tag: Inuit
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 and...
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 the...
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 Canadian...
First Native American Roundtable Sept. 13: Respec...
The new North American Theology: Pastors call for progressive change in environmental and cultural thinking or risk a decline in the health of societyTurtle Island Project: First Native American Roundtable and...
Global Warming Expedition 2007
"In mid February educators and explorers Will Steger, John Stetson, Elizabeth Andre and Abby Fenton joined three Inuit hunters on a 1200-mile, four-month-long dogsled expedition across the Canadian Arctic’s Baffin...
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...
An island made by global warming
"The map of Greenland will have to be redrawn. A new island has appeared off its coast, suddenly separated from the mainland by the melting of Greenland's enormous ice sheet, a development that is being seen as the most alarming sign of global warming.
Several miles long, the...
Artifact: A Chilling Tale of Global Warming
From Reason Magazine (h/t FR)"The United Nations has ventured into children’s publishing with a scary story about a small boy who loses a dogsled race because of global warming. In November the odd little picture book cum policy brief, Tore and the Town on Thin Ice, made...
Inuit woman builds north-south bridges - Helps Re...
It is the irony of Simona Baker's work that she informs people about Inuit culture at the same time as she tries to tear part of that culture down.
Baker, the Nunavut representative at Red River College, organized an Inuit fashion and culture show Wednesday to raise awareness...
Belugas
"Now where are those Canadian Ice Breakers the Harpocrites promised? These folks could sure use them now. Whale hunters set for grim mission of mercy Team to kill about 80 struggling belugas trapped under ice in Canadian North"
Global Warming and Ice Cream
"You scream, I scream we all scream for Ice Cream. Global warming may melt caribou 'ice cream'. Nope it's not ice cream for the caribou it is ice cream made from the caribou...."
Kelowna Accord
"A great deal of gnashing and wailing has occured over the Harpocrites abandonment of the Kelowna Accord."
Petrocan's Arctic Sovereignty
"The real reason for the Conservatives insistence on expanding Canadian Forces in the north is for military enforcement of our Northern Arctic sovereignty..... for Big Oil. In this case Petrocan."
Vancouver 2010 site gets spoofed
"Kuhldaa offers the welcome of a nation shaped by its rich, natural and cultural appropriation. Its colours reflect those of both Canada and the host region: the blue waters of our salmon farms, the green forests of...
