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Arctic Journal Santa on Present Day for children in Kugluktuk, Nunavut. December 23, 2020. © Miranda Atatahak For the past several years, and in partnership with friends at Canada Goose, Canadian North staff have been proud to donate and deliver gifts to children and youth across Inuit Nunangat. In 2019, over seven skids full of donated presents were delivered to families in Pangnirtung, Igloolik, and Kuujjuaq, Nunavut.  In 2020, the Annual Toy Drive was able to share holiday cheer with fam...

“The One Behind the Forest Fire” is the kind of episode that a reviewer never hopes for and always dreads, because on its face it isnt vastly different from every other episode of Yashahime: flat, poorly structured, and kind of boring. This chapter in particular, though, hides an insidious layer of wrongness that was enough to have me howling and ranting in equal measure. Whether this total breakdown of narrative function and meaning is due to ineptitude or indifference on the part of Ya...

The Mercedes-Benz S-Class has always been famous for being on the bleeding edge of innovation, and the all-new W223 is no exception. With the new S-Class just having been released, let’s take a look at what each model in the luxury sedan’s history did to change the industry. Due to the sheer number of advances introduced with each S-Class, the cars on this list will only feature the more influential ones. W187 (1951 to 1954) The first S-Class featured an advanced, for the time, overhead ca...

Money From the very start, Englands 17th century colonies in America had a problem – a shortage of coins [T01] The British idea was to grow large amounts of tobacco, cut timber for the ships of their global navy and merchant marine, and so forth, sending in return the supplies they felt were needed to keep the Americans working. In effect, early colonists were supposed to both work for the company and shop at the company store. The investors and the Crown much preferred this to paying in coin...

We’re about two decades into an era that history will remember as That Time Humans Demanded At Least Four Comic Book Movies A Year. (I’m guessing this era will be remembered for other things, too, but I’m trying to stay positive for once.) My colleagues and I talk about comics characters pretty much every day, and those conversations lead me to mull a specific type of comic book movie: the Superhero Origin Story. Before I even knew what was happening, I found myself drawn, inexorably, as ...

Plymouth 400, Inc., the Massachusetts-based nonprofit which since 2009 has led the planning and execution of programs and events commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage and the founding of Plymouth Colony in 1620 is adjusting to the oft-discussed “new normal.” Pandemic or not, the Plymouth 400 commemoration has begun and will continue, albeit in different ways, through 2021,… coronavirus May 27, 2020