Walruses appear frequently in the folklore of the Inuit people, who have inhabited Northern Canada, Greenland, and Alaska for thousands of years. Their tales are full of heroes who travel by canoe to ...

OTTAWA, ON, Nov. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - The Royal Canadian Mint is issuing a new $2 commemorative circulation coin as an invitation to all people living in Canada to celebrate Inuit Nunangat. This ...

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Last week, we reported that British adventurer Camilla Hempleman-Adams claimed a questionable Arctic record for her solo ski between the Inuit communities of Qikiqtarjuaq and Pangnirtung on Baffin ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The rate of tuberculosis among Canada's 55,000 Arctic Inuit people is catastrophically high and much more must be done to combat the lung disease, activists said on Wednesday. The ...

The ancient and deadly disease of tuberculosis has an unlikely grip on the Canadian Arctic. In a country where the rate of TB is among the world's lowest – 4.8 active cases per 100,000 people – the ...

ITK President Natan Obed told the Senate Standing Committee on Defence that threats to Canadian arctic come from both outside ...

Pope Leo XIV gifted 62 Indigenous people's artifacts held for more than 100 years by the Vatican to leaders of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Venturing through the ice can be a dangerous task as the Earth warms. A new mobile app could help members of the Inuit indigenous community to navigate the effects of climate change. Named after the ...

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