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We left the last Ponderings with Matt Berry’s involvement in the CANOL project and afterward in the construction of airfields in the North, at times using some…

We left the last Ponderings with Matt Berry’s involvement in the CANOL project and afterward in the construction of airfields in the North, at times using some…

A delegation of Inuit from Nunavut are preparing to travel to France in an effort to get ex-priest Johannes Rivoire extradited to Canada to face charges of historical sexual abuse.

As the coastline changes rapidly—reshaping the marine landscape and jeopardizing the hunt—Inuit youth are charting ways to preserve the hunt, and their identity.

Joy Suluk of Arviat, Nunavut, remembers being fascinated by the picture of Queen Elizabeth II hanging in her school. Since then, Suluk's amassed a formidable collection of royal memorabilia.

This week's Taissumani column is the second in a two-part feature on Jacob Olsen. You can read Part 1 here: Jacob Olsen, a Greenlander in Canada, part 1.

There was plenty of frustration in the air at a conference on doing business with Nunavut early Thur...

Generations ago, Kóogháa Nélíní was a gathering place. The Tagish Kwan of what’s now the southern Yukon would travel here from up and down the river, paddling canoes or poling rafts to where the current narrowed through high basalt cliffs and turned frothy as it cascaded over the rocky floor. Under bright summer skies, the Tagish Kwan would spear salmon close to shore in the shallow sections of the rapids and hang their catch to dry on the banks. The smell of campfire smoke hung in the a...

Posted: Dec 31, 2020 10:35 PM CT | Last Updated: January 1 Gabriel Gély, shown here in his studio, left hundreds of photos that document life in Canadas North from 1954 to 1987.(University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, Gabriel Gély Fonds) Gabriel Gély, a French painter who spent much of his life alongside the Inuit, died at the end of November in Selkirk, Man., at the age of 96. To the University of Manitoba, he left his archival collection of photos that document the liv...