Jane George
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Journalist, Arctic & bird-watcher, language-lover…my blog:
https://jgeorgeblog.com/
Another water emergency in Nunavut, this time in Pangnirtung. People in southern Canada take clean water for granted. But in northern Canada a lack of clean water upends communities, closing schools, etc. not to mention the health effects on residents.
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More coverage in media from Greenland recently. But what about this? Restrictions are disrupting service at the new international airport in Nuuk, Greenland.
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Restrictions Challenge Air Greenland’s flight schedule
Restrictions Challenge Air Greenland’s flight schedule
https://www.airgreenland.com/news/restrictions-challenge-air-greenland-s-flight-schedule/
19 days ago
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That’s the first time for me anyway that the long-standing projects to join the NWT and Nunavut to the South are mentioned to together.
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about 1 month ago
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I always remember the Nunavut nurse, Christine Egan, who died in the 9/11 attack.
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Legacy of Nunavut's lone 9/11 victim lives on in nursing scholarship | CBC News
Christine Egan, a nurse in Nunavut, was visiting her brother in his office in the South Tower of the World Trade Centre when an aircraft hit the building at about 9 a.m. Her legacy lives on in a schol...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/remembering-christine-egan-nunavut-9-11-1.6169559
about 1 month ago
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Michael Byers 🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
I'll be in Ottawa next month, speaking at this timely conference. Registration is free for both on-line and in-person attendees.
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Canadian Security Interests and Trump 2.0 – Centre for International Policy Studies
Canada's leading centre for analysis and debate of international affairs.
https://www.cips-cepi.ca/event/canadian-security-interests-and-trump-2-0/
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Maybe you missed the amazing Aurora in Nunavik as shown here by a friend. So much red!
about 1 month ago
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Patrick Duplessis
about 2 months ago
August 2025 was slightly warmer than normal overall in Canada. The warmest anomalies were observed in the Yukon, NWT, and Prairies. Meanwhile a few cold anomalies stand out in SW Ontario and parts of Nunavut.
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The Barents Observer
about 2 months ago
"The Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in the summer by 2050,” the Norwegian government highlights. "The Arctic is warming at roughly four times the rate of the rest of the globe," marine scientist Philipp Assmy of the Norwegian Polar Institute told the Barents Observer.
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Norway steps up Arctic research as sea ice shrinks
As the sea ice slowly disappears, the Norwegian government is allocating an additional one billion kroner (about €85 million) to study the impacts of climate changes in the Arctic Ocean.
https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/norway-steps-up-arctic-research-as-sea-ice-shrinks/435759
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The Associated Press
about 2 months ago
BREAKING: Denmark summons top U.S. diplomat after the national broadcaster reported that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.
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Denmark summons US envoy after report of Americans carrying out influence operations in Greenland
Denmark’s foreign minister had the top U.S. diplomat in the country summoned for talks after the main national broadcaster reported Wednesday that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.
https://bit.ly/4mVF2QG
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Lucky Emily Shamee in Arviat who was treated to an amazing northern lights show in Arviat, Nunavut last night.
about 2 months ago
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The Guardian
about 2 months ago
Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after ‘parenting competence’ tests
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Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after ‘parenting competence’ tests
Danish authorities take one-hour-old infant despite law banning the tests on people with Greenlandic backgrounds A Greenlandic mother’s one-hour-old baby was removed from her by Danish authorities after she underwent “parenting competence” tests – despite a new law banning the use of the controversial psychometric assessments on people with Greenlandic backgrounds. Ivana Nikoline Brønlund, who was born in Nuuk to Greenlandic parents and has played for the Greenlandic handball team, gave birth to her daughter, Aviaja-Luuna, on 11 August in a hospital in Hvidovre, near Copenhagen, where she lives with her family. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/23/protests-as-newborn-removed-from-greenlandic-mother-after-parenting-competence-tests?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Would you stop your car if you saw these northern lights outside your window? I would and that’s what my friend in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik did last night.
about 2 months ago
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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠
2 months ago
New fish species keep popping up in Sweden, most likely because of ocean warming! Today a large Mahi Mahi in Lysekil! (Photo Janice Melander)
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Someone is asking online to trade these noodles for Inuit art in Gjoa Haven. Nunavut. Local people are not at all impressed. It’s hard to believe that a person from the South would really try this kind of barter.
2 months ago
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Happy to see my book is selling well on Amazon!
2 months ago
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My new book “Like an iceberg” is now out and available on Amazon. It relates some of the experiences that shaped me as a journalist in the Arctic more than 30 years ago. And so many of the issues I reported on (such as residential schools, climate change, etc) are still in the news.
2 months ago
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People in Nunavik are angry about the number of recent shootings by police in the region. They want a meeting with Quebec’s premier (among other actions.)
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3 months ago
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Another police shooting of a resident in the Nunavik community of Inukjuak. Before Nunavik police were armed about 25 years ago the then police chief Brian Jones was not initially in favour having police carry firearms which he saw as the “last resort.”
3 months ago
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The link (may make it easier to listen to.)
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3 months ago
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Listen to this podcast in which I and others look at the Grays Bay road and port project in western Nunavut. It’s aiming to be “shovel ready”- with some new federal interest and money.
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‘Pave the Arctic,’ They Said. ‘It’ll be Fine,’ They Said
Podcast Episode · CANADALAND · 2025-07-15 · 30m
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/pave-the-arctic-they-said-itll-be-fine-they-said/id721048994?i=1000717257405
3 months ago
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Where were you at 1:50 am? EM Kooneeliusie was in beautiful Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut & shared this view on Nunavut Photos of the Arctic.
3 months ago
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Arctic summer! Snow in Arctic Bay, Nunavut today as this photo by Hannah Kadloo shows.
3 months ago
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First heat warning ever issued for Kuujjuaq in northern Quebec.
3 months ago
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Also a house finch in Kuujjuaq in Nunavik (northern Quebec) taken by a fellow bird watcher there. Lots of out of range Arctic sightings these days.
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3 months ago
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Yellow warblers popping up across Nunavut, north of their usual range.
3 months ago
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My traditional Canada Day shirt originally from Iqaluit, Nunavut in 2008. Puzzled why this shirt, among so many other Canada Day giveaways that I wore and liked more, has survived. Good news: it still fits.
4 months ago
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Patrick Duplessis
4 months ago
June 2025 was generally warmer than normal in Canada, although most stations were within 1° of their 1991-2020 normal. Atlantic Canada got the warmest anomalies, up to 3.5° above normal in St. John's, NL.
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What a start to Canada Day! While we were sleeping…we missed this light show from Baker Lake, Nunavut which Paul Kabloona saw and photographed at about midnight.
4 months ago
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Heartbreaking read…
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4 months ago
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Mark Parrington
4 months ago
Long-range smoke transport from Alaska
#wildfires
predicted across the Arctic Ocean to Canadian Arctic & N Greenland🇬🇱 in
#CopernicusAtmosphere
aerosol alert for 26 June
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Price alert! If you wanted to buy cherries in Arctic Bay, Nunavut, as this posted photo of a bag of cherries shows, you would be paying a fortune! Food insecurity (hunger) and poor housing (not enough and too little) are keeping the North down. Not my opinion: a fact.
4 months ago
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Canada Post has selected to honour Julia Ogina of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut with a stamp. She’s an amazing drummer and dancer of traditional Inuinnait songs.
4 months ago
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A friend from D.C. sent this to me and no, they are not interested in being in the military parade, even for $1,000.
4 months ago
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Late & beloved Inuit singer Charlie Panigoniak of Nunavut sings Brian Wilson’s “I want to go home” in Inuktitut.
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Charlie Panigoniak & Kapurviit Aijummalirama (I want to go back home)
YouTube video by Rodion Qanuk
https://youtu.be/pA48qYSHKc0
4 months ago
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How about more neighbourhood names from communities in Nunavut and Nunavik to identify: Happy Valley Snafu Indian Village Gravel Pit
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4 months ago
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Test your knowledge for fun: do you know in which communities these neighbourhoods in Nunavut & Nunavik are? Open to adding to this challenging list! Chinatown The Range North 40 Booze Alley Heli-Quebec Road to Nowhere (The photo is one I took in Iqaluit at this time of year but it’s not a clue!)
4 months ago
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The call is out in the North Baffin community of Pond Inlet, Nunavut for the owner of this qamutik sled to come and take it off the ice before it floats away in the melt water. (So beautiful in Pond Inlet at this time of year as this photo taken by an unidentified resident shows.)
4 months ago
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Poor air quality in rural southern Quebec due to the wildfires in the West, but conditions are worse yet in the northern regions of Quebec.
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4 months ago
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Smoke from fires in Manitoba and Saskatchewan are affecting the air quality in northern Quebec where the local public health dept. has issued a warning to residents to avoid going outside, etc…
4 months ago
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Nunavut introduces new tougher regulations affecting smokers who number an astounding 70% or the population (more or less.) Bet these new laws won’t be popular. I stopped smoking in 1995. Then even more people in Nunavut smoked and the office where I worked was always filled with clouds of smoke.
5 months ago
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ICYMI: Interesting story of what lies ahead for improved municipal water delivery in Nunavik. Likely it won’t mean the construction of more utilidors (piped systems above ground) as you see in some communities in Nunavut and in Greenland…Cost and climate change are key.
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Leaders across Nunavik want utilidors for water. Experts say it's not easy. | CBC News
Regional authorities say they've explored the idea of utilidors for many years, but there are two main barriers – money and permafrost.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nunavik-utilidors-experts-1.7545457
5 months ago
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Angutekaraq Qakvalria
5 months ago
Harvard's free courses
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Calling for temps up to +7 above normal in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut where it will go to 12 c by the weekend.
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5 months ago
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In Puvirnituq, Nunavik, which has suffered from a water shortage crisis for weeks due to a frozen pipe, a new temporary pipe was laid but then punctured by a snowmobile running over it. So the return of clean flowing water is delayed. Meanwhile maps of the new pipe’s location have been circulated.
5 months ago
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I saw this Tesla truck(?) yesterday in southern Quebec’s Eastern Townships (where it looked very out of place.) First one I have ever seen around here. And now it appears there’s a big decrease in the number of Teslas being registered by drivers in Quebec. So future sightings may be rare.
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5 months ago
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There’s a lot in this story to read (in Google translate if needed) about internal issues in the school board in charge of Nunavik education as well as problems teachers face (lack of water, poor housing.) None of these are new but it’s good to see a solid story that brings the problems together.
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5 months ago
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Snowy owls on species at risk list now as “threatened.”
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What is ironic in this water crisis is that Puvirnituq has always had strong municipal leadership and a commitment to maintaining services. When I was first in the community, then known as Povungnituk, in the early 1990s clean water was a concern: it was where I first saw bottled water for sale!
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School year ends early in Puvirnituq, Que., amid state of emergency over water shortage | CBC News
The Kativik Ilisarniliriniq school board announced the closure of two schools in Puvirnituq, Que., effective Tuesday, as the northern community continues to deal with a months-long water crisis.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/water-shortage-puvirnituq-emergency-school-closures-1.7538929
5 months ago
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(Story worth a Google translate if needed.) I am still wrapping my head around how bad things have gotten in this northern Quebec community (now schools closing in Puvirnituq, toilets overflowing, etc.) In Iqaluit. Nunavut in 2021 water was at least provided early on.
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5 months ago
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Really?!!!! People in Puvirnituq in northern Quebec are heating up snow today on their stoves for water to flush toilets with and rinsing their dirty dishes in water outside in melting ice puddles because they lack water for basic needs even if Quebec has finally shipped in some bottled water.
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