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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 air as moose and bears wandered through the forest lining the cliffs.  

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 Canada's 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 lives of people in the Canadian North from the 1950s to the 1980s. Nothing predestined Gély, who wa...