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Fifteen people lost their lives on the job in the North in 2021, the highest number of work-related deaths the territories have seen in more than a decade. COVID-19 accounts for just four of the deaths.
The so-called fact-checkers are out again trying to insist one side of a scientific debate is wrong and another is right because they happen to agree with one side. That’s advocacy, not science. [...]
As the year draws to a close, we look back on researchers we bid farewell to, and the contributions they made to their respective fields.
'He loved Nunavut:' Polar bear biologist who died in helicopter crash remembered by Emma Tranter, The Canadian Press Posted Apr 30, 2021 9:20 am EDT Last Updated Apr 30, 2021 at 9:28 am EDT IQALUIT — A dedicated scientist who loved the North, Markus Dyck spoke his mind and strove to include Inuit in northern research. That’s how friends and colleagues are remembering Dyck, a polar bear biologist with the Nunavut government, who died in a helicopter crash near Resolute Bay on Sunday. Two crew members also died. Harvey Lemelin, a professor at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., an...
Emma Tranter Markus Dyck, a polar bear biologist for the Nunavut government, sits outside his tent while doing field work in Cape Sydney, Nunavut in May 2009. A dedicated scientist who loved the North, Dyck died in a helicopter crash near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, on Sunday. Two crew members also died. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Peter Van Coeverden de Groot *MANDATORY CREDIT* April 30, 2021 - 3:04 PM IQALUIT - A dedicated scientist who loved the North, Markus Dyck spoke his mind and strove to include Inuit in northern research. That's how friends and colleagues are remem...