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Eye scan may soon permit early detection of Alzheimer’s
Canadian researchers are testing a new technology that could be widely used for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease which causes problems with memory, thinking and behaviour. Current tests involve PET scans or spinal taps. But a new technology has been developed involving a simple eye exam…
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Art: the amazing Canadian artist you never heard of
Canada has produce a great many world class artists, but which have consistently been overlooked by critics. Only recently have some, such as Tom Thomson and the Group of 7 begun to be recognized internationally for their amazing talent. Still that leaves many who are clearly world class, but...
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Partying hard, drinking soft: revolutionising your nights out
It's possible to have fun without alcohol. That is the premise of a new space for gatherings and events in Montreal, the MindfulBar, which wants to be a sober, safe and inclusive space for everyone. The MindfulBar, conceived and founded by Isabel Tames and Diego Bayancela, will specialise in the...
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Indigenous participation key to Arctic development, Inuit activist tells Economic Forum of the Americas
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North Full Inuit participation will be key to long-term sustainable development in the Arctic as well as helping the world confront the current climate crisis, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a long-time Canadian Inuit rights activitst…
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Better wildfire management would help reduce black carbon pollution say Arctic experts
Better wildfire management and improved agricultural practices have been added to a list of black carbon and methane mitigation recommendations by a group of international experts. The Arctic Council Expert Group on Black Carbon and Methane, which includes experts from all over the world…
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Canada files submission to establish continental shelf’s outer limits in Arctic Ocean
Canada filed its Arctic continental shelf submission with the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on Wednesday, claiming approximately 1.2 million square kilometres of the Arctic Ocean seabed and subsoil in an area that includes the North Pole. “Canada is committed to…
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Science lacks evidence on depression in women, find researchers
Depression affects twice as many women as men and there needs to be more research on what makes men’s and women’s brains so different, say researchers at the University of Guelph. The researchers looked at studies on sex differences in brain wave activity. Then they examined what is known about…
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Belugas use personalized sounds to identify themselves: researcher
Individual beluga whales make personalized sounds that let others know who they are, says Valeria Vergara, a research scientist with Ocean Wise, a conservation program of the Vancouver Aquarium. They may even share some calls with others in their group enabling others to identify not just...
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Arctic experts tackle black carbon risk posed by wildfires
Forest fires, important sources of black carbon emissions, devastated Arctic regions around the world in 2018, and are an increasing concern for circumpolar nations, says the chair of the Arctic Council expert group on black carbon and methane. The fires raged this summer in circumpolar countries...
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U.N. Year of Indigenous Languages: Spotlight Nunavut
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North The United Nations has designated 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages. The goal is to to make people more aware of the languages and their role in cultural preservation. Throughout the year, Eye on the Arctic will be...
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Alaska drilling, China, and the Arctic Council handover to Iceland : Northern news to watch for in 2019
All year long, Eye on the Arctic brings you news, and newsmakers, from around the North. But as 2019 gets underway, we've taken a pause to check in with our Eye on the Arctic expert bloggers to get their take on the past year in Arctic news and what northern news junkies should be watching for in...
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ITK, an Arctic Council rejig and the summit Finland won’t let die : Northern news to watch for in 2019
All year long, Eye on the Arctic brings you news, and newsmakers, from around the North. But as 2019 gets underway, we've taken a pause to check in with our Eye on the Arctic expert bloggers to get their take on the past year in Arctic news and what northern news junkies should be watching for in...
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Trade troubles dominate 2018 in Canada
Trade has been one of the dominant foreign affairs issues for Canada this year, and the situation has deteriorated significantly as we enter the new year. The arrest and detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei CFO, in Vancouver, at the request of the United States, has ignited Beijing's retaliation on...
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Canada: Becoming a Senior Society
Updated on January 23rd 2019 | Canadian model Maye Musk, 70, attends the 2018 GQ Men Of The Year Party at Benedict Estate on December 6, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. Musk's modelling career has taken off since she let her hair grow in silver, and she's now the latest "face" of Covergirl....
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Interactive Canadian ebook seeks to make Arctic climate science accessible
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North An interactive ebook focused on research in Canada's Hudson Bay area, and its wider connection to the Arctic, has been released in an effort to make climate science more accessible to the general population. "Scientific...
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Notable book recommendations from across northern Canada
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North. The First Nations Book Fair (Kwahiatonhk: Salon du livre des Premières Nations) gets underway in the Canadian province of Quebec November 22-25 to promote Indigenous books and authors. Eye on the Arctic participated in...
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Major trauma linked to higher risk of mental illness, suicide
People who are seriously injured are at greater risk of being hospitalized for a mental health disorder or of dying by suicide within the following five years, according to a new study. The research involved over 19,000 people who were seriously injured in car accidents, falls or violence in the...
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Increasing ocean acidification ushering in an era of uncertainty for Arctic, says report
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North. If left unchecked, acidification levels in the Arctic Ocean will have significant consequences for northern communities as well as the rest of the globe says a report released this week. The report, 2018 Arctic Ocean...
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Book: Waddington-tracing the Group of Seven
Iconic Canadian landscapes found If you love art, and if you love detective stories, and especially if you love the artworks of Canada’s iconic Group of Seven. Then you’ll want this book. Back in 1977, Jim and Sue Waddington began a journey that has taken them year after year to some of the most...
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Canada only recycles 11 per cent of plastic waste
Environmentalists are urging Canadians to avoid single-use plastic, to recycle more and they want the government to take strong action to reduce plastic waste. A survey found that in 2017, 71 per cent of Canadians order takeout food more than a few times a month and almost half buy cups of coffee...
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Indigenous Cultural Tourism: How the North is learning from community success in southern Canada
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North. The successes of cultural tourism in Canada's southern Aboriginal communities are providing an important roadmap for development of Indigenous cultural tourism in the North, a sector expected to grow significantly in…
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Policing infrastructure rejig in Canada’s northwestern Yukon territory
Besides infrastructure updates, the Royal Canadian Police will also initiate new regional operational models in five Yukon communities: Faro, Ross River, Haines Junction, Burwash Landing and the Destruction Bay area. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press) Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and...
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Feature Interview: Is Arctic climate research missing the big picture?
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North. This week, we bring you another instalment of our occasional series looking at how climate change is affecting different parts of the circumpolar world. Arctic climate change is one of the most important stories of our…
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Feature Interview: International Inuit leader stresses importance of Indigenous voices on world stage
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North. As global players ramp up interest in the Arctic, the organization representing the world’s Inuit wrapped up their general assembly in Alaska in July with a pledge to amplify their voice on the international stage. The…
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Is climate change luring sharks north? Communities wrestle with bite mystery off Arctic coast
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North. Sometimes it's seals with amputated flippers. Or even a sea lion snatched seemingly out of thin air. But for at least 10 years, subsistence harvesters in Alaska's coastal communities have occasionally encountered…
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Climate destruction on Ellesmere Island – Canada’s shrinking glaciers
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North. Arctic glaciers are shrinking at an alarming rate and show no signs of regeneration, says a recent study conducted in Canada. The research looked at glaciers between 1999 and 2015 and focused on Ellesmere Island, the most...
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From the Arctic to Atlantic, a photographer documents seal hunting in Canada
A photographer renowned for his images documenting the human face of seal hunting in Quebec and Newfoundland will spend at least another two years chronicling the Inuit seal hunt in Arctic Canada. "I've been hunting there and became passionate about the North," said Yoanas Menge. Since 2012,...
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Arctic Indigenous food culture takes the day at international cookbook awards
Each week, Eye on the Arctic brings you news and views from around the North A book showcasing the recipes of Indigenous peoples from across the Arctic took the day at the Gourmand International Cookbook Awards in Yantai, China. EALLU –Food, Knowledge and How We Have Thrived on the Margins won in...
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Canada invests $1.2 million to help solve mystery of dwindling char numbers in Arctic
Canada's department of Fisheries and Oceans has announced it will give $1,261,890 over 5 years to help solve the mystery of dwindling char numbers near the Arctic Canadian community of Kugluktuk. The money will go to a University of Waterloo research project created after hearing the community's...
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Hockey- use the right words eh?
(commenting open on all RCI stories - scroll to bottom) Hockey is just, well, so Canadian. Sure the Russians, Czechs, Swedes, Germans, even Americans are pretty darn good internationally, and many do end up in the National Hockey League, but the NHL is still considered rightly or wrongly as...
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Children fleeing DR Congo conflict to Uganda report widespread rape
One out of ten children fleeing a vicious flare up of fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say they were raped during their journey to Uganda, according to a new assessment by Save the Children. More 73,000 refugees have fled the gruesome and escalating conflict in DRC to...
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Canada wants to list mysterious Arctic petroglyphs as UNESCO World Heritage Site
Their exact location is a jealously guarded secret but a set of mysterious petroglyphs in the Eastern Canadian Arctic feature among Ottawa’s latest submission to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for consideration as a new World Heritage Site. The...
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South Sudan faces another famine, aid groups warn
Nearly a year after a concerted humanitarian effort staved off a famine in South Sudan, the country is once again teetering on the brink of another catastrophic food crisis, the United Nations warns. Almost two-thirds of the population will need food aid this year to stave off starvation and...
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Canadian province of Ontario contributes $96,000 towards update of Inuit art trademark
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from across the North The Canadian province of Ontario may be a southern province, but this week it pledged $96,844 towards the Inuit Art Foundation's update to the Igloo Tag Trademark. The money was part of a series of funding announcements…
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Fat people who are fit have the related health benefits: study
New research suggests that people who are obese or severely obese may be fit and, if they are, they have the same or possibly better health benefits from their fitness than do other people. Many studies link obesity with diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer and other health problems. But the...
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Canada plans to toughen arms-export rules but will honour Saudi arms deal: Freeland
The federal government has found no “conclusive” evidence Canadian-made armoured vehicles were used to commit human-rights violations in Saudi Arabia’s restive Eastern Province last summer, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland told a parliamentary committee Thursday. That was the result of…
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North American Arctic is failing compared to Russia, Nordics, warns think tank
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from across the North. Weak national leadership in the North American Arctic is hindering northern development compared to the thriving polar regions of Russia and the Nordics, says a Canadian think tank in a new report. "Canada has a romantic,...
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The LINK Online, 20-21 Jan. 2018
Your hosts, Lynn, Marie-Claude, Levon, Marc **. (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_Interview_2-20180119-WIE20 Myanmar’s brutal campaign against Rohingya’s refugees is one example of how violence escalates when no one speaks out against it, says Human Rights Watch. Photo credit Manish Swarup/AP...
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Non-fiction: 30 years as a prison guard
"Down Inside": A career in Canada’s federal prisons Suicides, violent beatings, horrific murders, guards who cared, guards who didn’t, bureaucratic indifference, political meddling, Robert Clark saw all of that and much more. Robet Clarks intimate look at his long career in the Correctional…
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UN and humanitarian agencies sound alarm on Saudi-led blockade of Yemen
The United Nations and humanitarian agencies working in war-torn Yemen are sounding the alarm over the continuing blockade of much of the country's air, sea and land entry points by the Western-supported coalition of Gulf states, calling on them to allow lifesaving humanitarian supplies to pass…
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Canadian photographer sounds alarm on crisis in South Sudan
South Sudanese refugees in northern parts of the country are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance before the rainy season sets in, making it even harder to reach the already isolated areas, says a Canadian photographer who just returned from Unity State near the border with Sudan.…
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Chemical attack in Syria upends prospects of Russia-U.S. detente
U.S. cruise missile attacks against Syrian military targets believed to have been behind a deadly chemical weapons attack in northern Syria mark a new and unpredictable phase in the six-year-old war, says a Canadian expert. The U.S. Navy launched 59 cruise missiles on Thursday in response to the...
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15 years after deadly Afghan ambush reporters face new threats
The last thing I remember before my German colleague Volker Handloik died in a hail of bullets was a feverish but a very methodical mental calculation: should I stay or should I follow him and jump? Muzzle flashes from at least half-a-dozen AK-47 assault rifles and a heavier PK machine gun…
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Faith and Politics
Freedom of religion is one of the fundamental guarantees in Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The government of Canada says it is "committed to religious pluralism." And more and more members elected to Parliament reflect the growing religious diversity in Canada. Still the separation of...
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Lessons from Norway’s Russia assessment
An annual intelligence assessment, which in large part focuses on Russia's actions in the Arctic, released by Norway's foreign intelligence service last week is drawing a lot of interest among defence and security experts in circumpolar countries, including Canada. The report entitled Fokus 2016...
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