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 ...
Posted by Samia Madwar
on Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The CCGS Amundsen is docked in Montréal this week for the International Polar Year 2012: From knowledge to action conference. Soon, it will move to a more permanent location for repairs. Currently, for instance, the icebreaker has only four engines. To drive through thick ice, it needs six. The repairs mean the icebreaker will be out of commission this summer. In the meantime, the ship that has carried hundreds of researchers to the Canadian Arctic to study everything from ocean currents to ...
