Arctic

Social isolation significantly impacts individual and community health, well-being, livelihoods and resilience, and yet few programs and policies currently address this issue directly.

The symposium Overcoming Isolation and Deepening Social Connectedness was the first global gathering on this topic.

Arviat TV cast member Elena Akammak interviews Arviat diamond driller instructor Rob Hood about his experiences lost on the tundra near Arviat Nunavut for four days.

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Arviat TV cast member Manasie Thompson interviews Rob Hood about his experience lost on the land near Arviat, Nunavut.

Hood and Robert Gibbons, Jr. were lost for four days after their snowmobile broke down.

Recorded May 15, 2014 at John Arnalukjuak High School in Arviat, Nunavut.

Elders, Students and Staff in Arviat celebrated 2014 Inuktitut Language Week with traditional drum dances, games and a feast at the Arviat Community Learning Centre.

Piqqusilirivvik is the new Inuit Cultural Learning Facility in Clyde River with satellite programming in Baker Lake and Igloolik.… Read more

Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a nurse in Nunavut? This video from Nunatta Campus at Nunavut Arctic College takes a look at Nunavut's nursing program from the perspective of students, staff and graduates of the program. For more information on the program visit www.arcticcollege.ca

Arsene Ivalu: "I completely disagree because it will affect me, my culture and everything else around, ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ " 3:49 Inuktitut by Arnait Video Productions, Show Me on the Map, 2009. 

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ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Atuat Akkirtiq shares her views on mining in this interview recorded for the program Show Me on the Map.   

"If the people consult us, they should be true to their word."

Madeline Ivalu speaks about mining in an interview filmed for the program Show Me on the Map ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ 

Interview with Dominique Angutimariq, Show Me on the Map ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ  "...we have to fight so hard for our rights when often things are already decided for us." Arnait Video, Show Me on the Map, 2009.

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This short documentary was produced and directed by Lorien Nesbitt, Javier Lazo and Lesley Johnson for the Déline Renewable Resources Council in collaboration with the elders of Déline, NT, Canada. It focuses on the elders' traditional ecological knowledge of the impacts of climate change on Great Bear Lake.

© Déline Renewable Resources Council