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Canada Goose – A Local Hero Gives Back to Northern Communities
Since our beginnings in 2005, ethiquette has been following the developments at Canada Goose Inc., an extreme outerwear company that had bravely decided to go against the grain and to keep making its products locally when the overwhelming trend was to de-localize to cheap production sites overseas where worker conditions often take a back seat. [...]
Nunavut Wildlife Resource Centres Coalition
The Coalition was established as a partnership between a number of agencies located in Iqaluit with a mandate or interest in wildlife management in Nunavut. This partnership has expanded over the years and now includes 6 locations: the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, the Department of Environment (Government of Nunavut), Nunavut Research Institute, Department of Fisheries [...]
Okay, they’re declining. Now why?
Nunavut will hunt fewer polar bears this year COLIN CAMPBELL | October 29, 2007 | Late last month, the government of Nunavut announced it was cutting the annual polar bear hunt in western Hudson Bay amid fears the bear population there is shrinking. The hunt will be cut from 56 bears down to 38, and could go to [...]
Endangered designation no slam dunk
Final determination on Peary caribou to be made by federal cabinet.
Nunavut could resurrect city recycling
Sure, you can drop your plastic and glass bottles in the big blue recycling sea-can located in downtown Iqaluit, but it’s just going to end up in the landfill anyway. That could change if a pilot recycling project by the Government of Nunavut gets rolling. Read the article, Nunatsiaq News 2007-04-27 Related articles Nunavut to study landfill [...]
Inuit way of life now on thin ice
As scientists work to establish the impact of global warming, explorers and hunters slogging across northern Canada and the Arctic ice cap on sled and foot are describing the realities they see on the ground. Read the full article from the Toronto Star…
Steger to draw attention to melting Arctic
Igloolik dog-teamers help document climate change JANE GEORGE A rigorous four-month dog sled trip across Baffin Island. Read the original article from Nunastsiaq Online. Here is one more related article about this story: Adventurer plans youthful trek to Arctic Will Steger is fit and trim at 63, planning his latest grueling expedition to the far [...]
Baker Lake fuel storage worries environment department
The lack of an appropriate spill plan for five million litres of diesel fuel stored on three barges frozen into Baker Lake concerns Nunavut’s Department of Environment, says official Robert Eno. Related story: http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/nortext/100910nnlayout_1-24_vr/2010090801/18.html Related articles Nunavut to study landfill problems (cbc.ca) Toxics in Baker Lake dump appall researcher (cbc.ca) Concerns over uranium mining prompt [...]
Newfoundland and Inuit governments congratulated for taking action on polar bears
This is a promising first step, and we hope that the federal government will follow their lead. If no one takes action now, the only polar bears we’ll see in the future will be on our $2 coins, says Dr. Faisal Moola, the Director of Science for the David Suzuki Foundation. For more information about [...]
Feds to patrol Arctic waters for polluters
Transport Canada is stepping up efforts to find ships that dump pollution into Arctic waters.
