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Posted by Heather Yundt
in Mapping
on Thursday, March 07, 2013
The folk-country music legend Stompin' Tom Connors died yesterday at the age of 77.
The Canadian icon recorded 61 albums over his career, 10 of which, according to his website, have yet to be released.
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Posted by Samia Madwar
on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
 Students try out their new face masks in a workshop on Greenlandic mask dancing The Students on Ice Arctic expedition is over, we've made our sad farewells and are all returning to our daily routines. One thing I miss about being up North is our daily story time.
Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, mother, student, writer, performer — and, incidentally, a fellow staff member on the expedition — shared Inuit stories with us every night that we were aboard the Akademik Ioffe. To fully appreciate our surroundings as we sailed north along the coast of Baffin Island and across Davis ...
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| Tags : adventure, akademik ioffe, arctic, art, baffin island, culture, education, expedition, glacier, greenland, history, icebergs, inuit, north, storytelling, students on ice
Posted by Samia Madwar
on Thursday, August 02, 2012
Greetings from Iqaluit!
As an online editor, I'm used to shifting deadlines and last-minute projects that need to be done, finished, perfectly polished and out the door by...yesterday. It's those surprise tasks that often end up being the most interesting.
One day this past spring for example, I was at my cubicle minding my own business when our managing editor sauntered in and asked me ever so casually whether I had any plans for August. I told him I did not.
He then asked whether I wanted ...
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| Tags : arctic, awesome, culture, environment, expedition, expedition, exploration, high school, ice, iqaluit, nature, political issues, science, students on ice, travel, wildlife
A slice of Novia Scotia that has meadows stretching into the distance protected by miles of dykes, a stone-and-stained-glass memorial church, a famous winery and the best viewpoints to watch a billion tonnes of saltwater flood the Bay of Fundy twice a day, is among the latest additions to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites.
The Landscape of Grand Pré was one of 26 new sites announced at the 36th World Heritage Committee in Russia on June 30, just in time for Canada Day. Others added to the list ...
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Posted by Sabrina Doyle
on Friday, April 27, 2012
Things that usually clutter Facebook newsfeeds: cat videos, Instagram pics and party invitations. And increasingly, at least in Nunavut’s capital city, caribou carcasses.
In a startling shift away from the long-rooted Inuit custom of sharing food among families, a growing number of opportunistic northerners are instead using Facebook to sell their traditional food.
Iqaluit Sell/Swap, an open group on the popular social networking site, serves primarily as a convenient place to auction off old ...
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| Tags : , arctic, arctic circle, caribou, culture, food, food insecurity, international polar year, inuit, iqaluit, nunavut
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