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Arctic

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January/February 2021 / Politics

China Wants to Invest in the Arctic. Why Doesn’t Canada?

January 4, 2021January 11, 2021 - by Gloria Dickie

While Canada ignores the North’s economic potential, China is poised to make inroads

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polar bear sitting in brush
Politics

The Problem with Polar Bear Propaganda

December 14, 2017December 24, 2019 - by Tim Edwards

Inuit hunters fact-check a viral video on climate change

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Photo by Cody Punter
Photography

Making the Subarctic Bloom

June 2, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Cody Punter

How a Filipino immigrant built the largest communal farm in the NWT

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Photograph by Wade Davis
Photography

Hunters of the Northern Ice

October 24, 2016October 23, 2019 - by Wade Davis

There is no better measure of genius than surviving in the Arctic with technology carved from ivory and bone

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Photograph by Matt Marek
Feature

Where the Streets Have No Names

December 8, 2015March 3, 2020 - by Harley Rustad

How a remote archipelago in Hudson Bay is using digital cartography to put itself on the map

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Illustration by Mügluck
Education / September 2015

Nunavut U

August 19, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

Why Canada needs an Arctic university

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submarine with people visible inside it
April 2015 / Feature

Under Pressure

April 23, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Nathan M. Greenfield

In defence of Canada’s submarines

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Photograph by Eric McNair-Landry and Sarah McNair-Landry
Photography

Taking Stock

February 12, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Eric Boomer

Baffin Island’s new migration of Arctic char

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A photograph of Tanya Tagaq in a red, plaid dress.
Feature / January/February 2015

The Rise of Tanya Tagaq

January 15, 2015December 17, 2019 - by Drew Nelles

Her music is like nothing else in the world

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Photograph by Kyle Carsten Wyatt
Cities

Iqaluit Pastoral

December 19, 2014June 21, 2020 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

Dogsledding north of the tree line

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