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Dialogue Towards a University in Canda's Far North

Here is a letter from the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, presenting a report on having a university in Canada's Arctic. You can view the report here . We are pleased to provide you with the report Dialogue Towards a University in Canada's...

Posted to Ookpik Blog by Napatsi Folger on 03-16-2010

Filed under: Education, Canada, Arctic University, Northern University, far north, Walther and Duncan Gordon Foundation, post-secondary, colonialism

Exciting opportunies to participate in the Students on Ice Arctic Expedition 2010

Students on Ice is proud to offer several fully funded scholarships for our upcoming Arctic Youth Expedition from August 4-20, 2010! This expedition represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for youth to expand their knowledge about the circumpolar...

Posted to Ookpik Blog by Jesse Tungilik on 03-09-2010

Filed under: Arctic, environment, Canada, Year of the Inuit, Students on Ice, Norway, Scholarships

Quebec Innu declare war on development

From the National Post : By Marianne White Published: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 Innu from five Quebec communities said yesterday they are willing to block every development project in northern Quebec and Labrador until all of their ancestral rights, including...

Posted to Ookpik Blog by Jesse Tungilik on 03-04-2010

Filed under: Indigenous Rights, economic development, Canada, Quebec, Innu, hunting rights

Internship Opportunity

Job Posting: Arctic Climate Intern Climate Action Network Canada – Réseau action climat Canada seeks an enthusiastic individual to assist with efforts to raise awareness about the impacts of climate change in Canada’s North and the...

Posted to What's New? by Napatsi Folger on 03-03-2010

National Media Creativity Competition

ROOTS RACINES Everyone has a story to tell, Radio Canada International invites all Canadians and permanent residents to tell us about their origins by entering ROOTS (or its French-language cousin RACINES ), its brand-new short film and multimedia production...

Posted to What's New? by Napatsi Folger on 02-18-2010

Canada's Arctic Colonies?

From the Globe & Mail : Doug Saunders, Published on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 [H]ere above the Arctic Circle in the bracing cold, the talk in bars and saunas is entirely devoted to events in balmy Vancouver. Yes, Laplanders tell me over reindeer-meat...

Posted to Ookpik Blog by Jesse Tungilik on 02-13-2010

Filed under: Arctic Council, Indigenous Peoples, economic development, Canada, Inuit

Arctic Indigenous Organizations Not Invited to Arctic Leaders Summit

From cbc.ca: Arctic indigenous groups are criticizing Canada's decision to leave them out of an upcoming meeting of Arctic nations in Quebec next month. Federal Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon recently announced that he will host a meeting...

Posted to Ookpik Blog by Jesse Tungilik on 02-12-2010

Filed under: Arctic Council, Indigenous Rights, economic development, Canada, disenfranchisement, Lawrence Cannon

Arctic Voices Fellowship Call for Applications

Arctic Voices Fellowships Call for Applications The Arctic Voices Fellowship program is up and running to reach the remarkable young men and women, aged 25 -35, from across the Canadian North who are embarking on a path of public and community service...

Posted to What's New? by Napatsi Folger on 02-10-2010

Filed under: Arctic, Northern, research, Arctic Voices Fellowship, policy development, funding, applications

A Forever Pessimistic Optimist

On a not so CliC note. The past few weeks have been jammed packed. The 18 th to the 24 th was the Tromsø International Film Festival, and it was amazing. When discussing with a friend how many movies I should buy in a pass, the thought of watching...

Posted to Ookpik Blog by Calista Morrison on 02-09-2010

Small CliC Update

Right now both the Director and Coordinator are away participating in CliC’s 6 th Scientific Steering Group meeting, taking place in Valdivia, Chile. The weeks leading up were a little hectic with having to arrange logistics for the venue and accommodations...

Posted to Ookpik Blog by Calista Morrison on 02-09-2010

Nasivvik Summer Student Research Awards 2010 (Undergraduate level)

Description The Nasivvik Centre for Inuit Health and Changing Environments is a multidisciplinary research and training centre funded by the Institute of Aboriginal Peoples Health (IAPH), one of the 13 institutes of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research...

Posted to Ookpik Blog by Elizabeth Zarpa on 01-25-2010

Filed under: Nunavut, Education, Youth, North, global warming, circumpolar, change, jobs, environment, policy, exploration, Indigenous Peoples, hope, social issues, politics, messages, meaning, Young Scientists

IPY Oslo Science Conference: Call for Abstracts!

The IPY Oslo Science Conference will be the largest polar science event to date! Twice as large as the last, and up to then largest, global polar science meeting in terms of submissions. It will demonstrate, strengthen, and extend the International Polar...

Posted to Ookpik Blog by Jesse Tungilik on 01-22-2010

Filed under: Arctic, Science, IPY, APECS, Conference, Oslo, Young Scientists, Antarctica

Do you really mean what you say?

I've been thinking lately about language and messages. Listening to talks about the recent COP 15 meetings in Copenhagen, and listening to political promises on the news, and thinking that all this talk is the same as it always has been. Fluff. Promises...

Posted to Ookpik Blog by Napatsi Folger on 01-21-2010

Filed under: lies, politics, messages, language, meaning, exaggerate

Native identity from an Inuk’s perspective

One day, I was asked what makes you Native? Is it in your blood? Is it because you speak your own language? Is it because you identify with a particular group? What makes you Native? I really had to think about this. And so I did. I realize that being...

Posted to Ookpik Blog by Elizabeth Zarpa on 01-21-2010

Filed under: Nunavut, Education, Youth, North, circumpolar, change, government, Indigenous Peoples, hope, social issues

Girls on Ice 2010 Expedition

Applications Now Available for the Girls on Ice 2010 Expedition! Girls on Ice is a unique, FREE, wilderness science education program for high school girls. Each year a team of nine teenage girls and three instructors spend 11 days exploring and learning...

Posted to What's New? by Napatsi Folger on 01-18-2010

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