Posts tagged with ‘caribou’ (4)
Todd and I were in Nain, Labrador last week getting ready to head out into the wilds of Nunatsiavut and Nunavik. I’d conducted a bunch of interviews already to get a perspective of the landcsape from the Labrador Inuit and others who've lived on the land and the coast here for generations.
On the two-day ferry ride up, I interviewed Captain Robert Gillard of the MV Northern Ranger, a Canadian ice-breaking ferry, who's plied the coastal waters of Newfoundland for 54 years. Since he began his ...
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Posted by James Raffan
on Wednesday, May 09, 2012
If the size and complexity of Santa's Villages around the Arctic Circle determine the authenticity and nationality of the real man in red ... then it's official. Santa (or Joulupukki, meaning "Yule Goat") must be Finnish.Rovaniemi, the centre of Santa’s universe
At the point where the Arctic Circle (or Napapiiri) crosses highway E75 just north of Rovaneimi there is the most elaborate tourist installation that we have seen anywhere, including North Pole, Alaska! Seven days a week, 365 days a year ...
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Posted by Sabrina Doyle
on Friday, April 27, 2012
Things that usually clutter Facebook newsfeeds: cat videos, Instagram pics and party invitations. And increasingly, at least in Nunavut’s capital city, caribou carcasses.
In a startling shift away from the long-rooted Inuit custom of sharing food among families, a growing number of opportunistic northerners are instead using Facebook to sell their traditional food.
Iqaluit Sell/Swap, an open group on the popular social networking site, serves primarily as a convenient place to auction off old ...
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Posted by Samia Madwar
on Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Photo: Liv Vors
That much at least is clear in Environment Canada’s recovery strategy for boreal caribou, a subpopulation of Woodland caribou that is listed as Threatened under the federal Species At Risk Act registry. The ministry released a draft recovery plan in late August for public review for a period of 60 days.
October 25 was to be the last day for members of the public to offer their input on the recovery strategy.
But last week, Environment Canada announced it would extend the period until Feb. ...
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