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Return to Ellesmere Island with Ray Zahab and Kevin Vallely

Episode 104

Behind the scenes of an epic Arctic crossing as two explorers conquer the Canadian High Arctic in deep winter

  • 43 minutes

People & Culture

Echoes in the ice: Inuit knowledge and the changing Arctic

For centuries, Inuit hunters in Canada’s north have co-existed with Arctic wildlife. Sharing their generational knowledge with visitors to the region is one way they are helping protect it.

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Exploration

Beyond Her Horizons: Listening to the women of Tallurutik

In the summer of 2023, three women set out on the 16-metre sailboat Que Sera on an expedition aimed at writing Inuit women into the exploration history of the North

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People & Culture

Our Country: Pujjuut Kusugak

The Inuktitut-language commentator talks about his cabin near Rankin Inlet, NU., a place of peace and family gatherings 

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People & Culture

Notre Pays : Pujjuut Kusugak

Une cabane près de Rankin Inlet, au Nunavut, est un lieu de paix – et de réunions familiales

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Exploration

Canoeing across the Arctic with Dave Greene

Episode 90

Remote expeditions are no easy feat, especially by canoe, but this adventurer knows how to plan, execute and be prepared

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Environment

Highlights from the 2022 Arctic Report Card

Warming trends continue due to human-caused climate change

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Environment

Inuit in Canada, U.S. seek greater involvement in climate change decision-making

 Inuit food security and self-governance in a rapidly warming Arctic are at the centre of a new policy paper issued by the Inuit Circumpolar Council

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Exploration

Riding the Transpolar Drift

How the Polarstern icebreaker accomplished the largest polar expedition in history — and what scientists learned 

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Environment

Le pergélisol arctique dégèle. Voici ce que cela signifie pour le Nord du Canada – et pour le reste du monde

Le dégel du pergélisol est généralisé, s’accélère et est irréversible. Il s’accompagne d’effets visibles sur l’écologie, l’hydrologie, les paysages et les communautés du Nord.

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Coniferous trees lean at different angles in the snow

Environment

Arctic permafrost is thawing. Here’s what that means for Canada’s North — and the world

Permafrost thaw is widespread, accelerating and irreversible. With it comes visible effects on the ecology, hydrology and landscapes, and communities of the North.

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wildlife

Inuit

Environment

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ᖁᓛᓂ ᓄᓇᓪᓗᐊᑕᖓᓂ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᐱᐅᒋᔭᐅᒻᒪᕆᑦᑐᖅ ᓇᓄᕐᓄᑦ, ᑐᑦᑐᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᖃᓗᓐᓄᑦ ᓱᓕ ᐸᕕᓴᑦᑕᐅᓯᒪᖏᑦᑐᑦ ᐅᔭᕋᓐᓂᐊᓂᕐᒧᑦ. ᓄᓇᓕᒻᒥᐅᑕᐃᑦ ᑕᓗᕐᔪᐊᖅ, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ, ᑕᐃᒪᐃᖏᓐᓇᑎᑦᑎᒐᓱᐊᖅᑐᑦ.

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People & Culture

People & Culture

Excerpt from Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 km Odyssey from Lake Erie to the Arctic

Westaway Explorer-in-Residence Adam Shoalts shares a portion of his story from his 3,400 solo journey from Long Point on Lake Erie to Ungava Bay on the Arctic coast

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  • 8 minutes

People & Culture

Salmon’s Arctic expansion has communities worried

Inuvialuit fishers are adapting to rising numbers of Pacific salmon in the western Canadian Arctic, but fears remain about impacts on native species

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Cory Trépanier painting

People & Culture

Remembering artist Cory Trépanier

The renowned Arctic landscape painter and Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society lost his battle with cancer on Nov. 5, 2021

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People & Culture

Into the Arctic: The paintings of Cory Trépanier

Canadian painter and filmmaker Cory Trépanier explores the sublime and rapidly changing Canadian Arctic

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  • 4 minutes

People & Culture

Sleepwalking and hallucinations: A Canadian’s journey in the world’s toughest footrace

Ottawa-area marathoner Steven Jackson is one of only 39 people to ever finish the 6633 Arctic Ultra 

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Environment

Searching for seaweed in Canada’s Western Arctic

A multi-year diving expedition led by the Canadian Museum of Nature aims to learn more about the diversity and distribution of seaweed in the Arctic

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Places

The cold edge of heaven

In the stillness of an Arctic midwinter night, an old church bell rang out, and I stopped breathing for a few seconds

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Filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril on the sea ice in Pangnirtung, Nunavut

People & Culture

An ‘Angry Inuk’ defends the seal hunt, again

Award-winning documentary will have its Canadian TV premiere on CBC this weekend

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Louie Kamookak, Nunavut, Gjoa Haven, obituary, tribute, RCGS, explorer, Franklin

People & Culture

A tribute to Louie Kamookak’s life and legacy

“His life’s work held true:” Leona Aglukkaq, former Minister of Environment and Parks Canada, on the admired Inuit oral historian

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Arctic Indigenous Wellness Project, indigenous, suicide prevention, homelessness, therapy, education

People & Culture

For the North, by the North

A look back at some of the amazing projects that have won the $1-million Arctic Inspiration Prize

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Travel

Road-tripping to the Arctic Ocean

Everything you need to know about driving the Northwest Territories’ new Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway

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Science & Tech

Canada’s Arctic weather outposts

How the Joint Arctic Weather Stations program did more than just fill in a blank on the nation’s weather map

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Two caribou silhouetted against a dark, rainy landscape

Wildlife

Caribou are vanishing at an alarming rate. Is it too late to save them?

After more than a million years on Earth, the caribou is under threat of global extinction. The precipitous decline of the once mighty herds is a tragedy that is hard to watch — and even harder to reverse.

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A large female Greenland shark observed near the community of Arctic Bay, Nunavut

Wildlife

Caught on camera: Elusive Greenland sharks

Using cameras baited with squid, researchers were able to gather information about these ancient Arctic fish without taking any out of the water 

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Dean Hadley, centre, was the youngest crew member aboard the RCMPV St. Roch when schooner sailed through the Northwest Passage in the early 1940s. (Photo: VMM. Leonard McCann Archives. Parks Canada St. Roch Photograph Collection. HCSR-40-18. 1942 crew in uniform.)

People & Culture

From the prairies to the North Pole to NASA: Remembering Dean Hadley

Dean Hadley was the youngest member of the crew that first navigated the Northwest Passage west to east in 1940. He passed away last Friday at the age of 98.

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People & Culture

Remembering Bill Lishman

Fly away home, Father Goose

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