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Inuit Heritage Trust maps traditional names before they’re lost

Inuit Heritage Trust maps traditional names before they’re lost

The Inuit Heritage Trust’s Place Name Program team visited Resolute Bay for the first time since 2007 to review and collect traditional place names. Inuit...
An Ottawa festival will show Inuit films on screen of snow

An Ottawa festival will show Inuit films on screen of snow

Have you ever watched a movie on a screen made out of snow? People in Ottawa will have the chance to do just that, when...
An extensive new map collection sheds light on Greenland’s political history

An extensive new map collection sheds light on Greenland’s political history

Maps are mirrors of the ambitions of the mightiest and portraits of their makers' dreams — and that’s just as true in Greenland, the...
What Canada’s proposed new gun legislation could mean for Inuit

What Canada’s proposed new gun legislation could mean for Inuit

Nunavummiut will have a chance in the new year to tell a committee of Canada's Parliament about the potential impacts of the federal Liberal...
Swedish authorities to facilitate return of Sámi remains and objects

Swedish authorities to facilitate return of Sámi remains and objects

STOCKHOLM — Sweden said on Monday it would return the remains of 18 people to the Indigenous Sámi, and ask experts to facilitate handing...
Canadian Coast Guard finishes Arctic operating season

Canadian Coast Guard finishes Arctic operating season

The Canadian Coast Guard and its seven icebreakers have finished their Arctic operating season and left the North, the federal organization announced in a...
The Arctic Report Card is a reminder that what happens in the Arctic affects the rest of the world

The Arctic Report Card is a reminder that what happens in...

In the Arctic, the freedom to travel, hunt and make day-to-day decisions is profoundly tied to cold and frozen conditions for much of the...
Murmansk terminates sister city relations with Akureyri

Murmansk terminates sister city relations with Akureyri

The Council of Deputies in Murmansk on Thursday unanimously voted to terminate the sister city agreement with Akureyri, Iceland's second-largest city, Interfax reports. The agreement,...
The Arctic is getting hotter and rainier, the latest report card says

The Arctic is getting hotter and rainier, the latest report card...

Seasons in the Arctic are shifting, and the region is getting hotter and rainier, according to an annual report card by the National Oceanic...
Greenland halts fisheries quota swaps with Russia

Greenland halts fisheries quota swaps with Russia

Tuesday last week, as discreetly as possible, Greenland delivered a highly unusual message to Moscow. Greenland will not use its fisheries agreement with Russia to...
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