In Greenland, a quadrilingual kid’s first day of school

Six year-old hears three languages at home — and Greenlandic at school

VICTORIA SIMIGAQ

NUUK-Let me tell you about Gabriel’s first day of school in Greenland.

My son, Gabriel, is six years old and turns seven in November.

He’s starting school only this year because his entry-level exam was too low last year, so we had to wait another year to register him in the...

Biologists bag bird barf to study Arctic pollution

Fulmar stomach oils show high levels of toxic chemicals

Seabird researchers looking for non-invasive ways to collect samples from birds have developed a novel sampling technique for fulmars.

To collect samples of this stomach oil, researchers have found that they can hold on to a fulmar and slip a plastic whirlpak bag, similar to a zip-lock baggie,...

Nunavik first responders on the front line for Arctic emergencies

“It's a lot safer here than before”

In less than three years since the program launched, Nunavik has become one of the few Arctic regions to have organized pre-hospital services available in each of its communities.

Since 2007, teams of first responders in each of the region’s 14 villages have been trained to respond to medical...

Expert: Clipper Adventurer ran into a charted hazard

Ship hit "underwater cliff" off Coronation Gulf in Nunavut

The Clipper Adventurer cruise ship ran into a known hazard in the Coronation Gulf off Nunavut on Aug. 27, a mapping expert from the University of New Brunswick said Sept. 3 in a news release.

“The cruise ship effectively ran into an underwater cliff,” John Hughes Clarke, head of the UNB’s ocean...

Premiers revive the Manitoba-Nunavut road project

“Nunavut and Manitoba share more than a border”

A road that would link Manitoba and Nunavut is an idea which has been kicked around for more than 10 years, even before the two jurisidictions signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation and development in 2000.

And the road link project is still on the table, as a Sept. 1 news release...

Monuments to be unveiled for Canada’s High Arctic Exiles

"There is no better time”

RANDY BOSWELL
POSTMEDIA NEWS

More than 50 years after the controversial relocation of 22 Inuit families to some of the world’s most unforgiving terrain in Canada’s Far North, two monuments paying tribute to the country’s “High Arctic Exiles” are set to be unveiled next week on Ellesmere and...

Villeray group plans its defence of Nunavik House’s move

"This is a way to welcome a very interesting and rich culture”

MONTREAL - The Montreal borough of Villeray will have to decide Sept. 7 to either lift or renew a moratorium which now prevents a vacant hospital on St. Denis from being converted into a 150-bed patient residence for Nunavimmiut receiving medical care in the city.

And members of a committee from...