Jessen Williamson News Today

A new report from the Council of Canadian Academies lays out changes to the way Arctic and northern research is carried out so that it better serves the North. 

Helene Thiesen was part of a project aimed at stripping children of their cultural identities to mould them into “little Danes." The failed social experiment is a dark bit of Danish history that echoes in Canada as this country continues the grim task of tallying hundreds of potential gravesites near residential schools where Indigenous children were sent.