Commentary
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Arctic Bay’s got Talent
One of the performers from yesterday’s Annual Talent Show. Debbie Oyukuluk drums, sings, and throws in some throat singing as well. Enjoy. Debbie Oyukuluk – Talent Contest from Clare Kines on Vimeo.
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Light from Above – another view
My earlier post on Solar powered light emitting balloons elicited some thoughtful responses, and as comments aren't always read by visitors I thought I'd address them here. Go read the comments, I'll wait. You're back? Good. First off, thanks all. Robert, I was actually wondering if anyone was making the connection with the Tropicana sun.
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Light from above
I don't know what it is about the Arctic that attracts the wild ideas of southerners. Especially architects. There are all manner of strangely designed buildings up here, designs that make you go "Huh". Futuristic looking buildings including some that look like space ships. Jentography, when she was Jen of Nunavut even ran a contest
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Taking a stand and raising awareness
I don't know why I let these memes bother me as much as I do. Perhaps it is the sheeple nature of it all. Perhaps it is my general distaste for this lack of questioning of anything that appears online. It ranks right up there with me with the urban legends and hoaxes that fill
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More than a pittance
This is an expansion of the thoughts I was trying to express in my Remembrance Day address this morning, through my tears. Remembrance comes easy for me. I've had family in pretty much every major conflict from the Napoleanic Wars on through to Korea. My Great-great-Grandfather was at Waterloo, and he took a French bayonet
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Acronymophobia
I'm back from spending the last week down at the Nunavut Trade Show, put on by the Baffin Regional Chamber of Commerce. I had a wonderful and profitable time down there. Profitable in terms of a nice sale of carvings and other art/craft from Arctic Bay's Heritage Centre, but more so from making great contacts
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Call me a skeptic. Just don’t call me an artist.
Headline: Shell promises Arctic drilling will be safe. Click to enlarge.
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What was lost
You know, I whined about the weather a fair bit in the last little while. It was snowy, cool, and miserable for much of our vacation south, and the weather seems to have followed us. Ottawa was nice when we arrived but pouring rain when we left. It was gorgeous here the day we got
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Thank you for flying the Airline of the North.
So we're flying out for a short vacation to visit my family in Manitoba starting next week. The airfare for the four of us is almost $14,000, and that doesn't include a leg for two of us on Aeroplan points between Iqaluit and Winnipeg. The airfare for the four of us between here and Iqaluit
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State of the Arctic
Okay, say you were a group of international scientists, doing research on the Arctic, and coming off the International Polar Year, and you were going to hold a major conference to discuss your the findings over a broad area of Arctic issues. Things like the Environment, and Climate Change, with a stated goal of reviewing