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Story and photos by Émile Brisson-Curadeau

Curious Coats Island

With three glaring absences—human settlements, snow geese and lemmings—...

Kananginak Pootoogook, Untitled (Successful Walrus Hunt), 2009. Colored pencil, ink, paper, 48 x 96 in. (121.9x243.8 cm). © Estate of Kananginak Pootoogook. COURTESY BROOKLYN MUSEUM, EDWARD J. GUARINO COLLECTION

The Country Food Test

How a laboratory in Iqaluit provides comfort to lovers of a Nunavut...

A Horse With No Name. For Now

Bands of feral horses have been galloping around the Yukon for the last...

The Blue Mile

Chills and thrills at a make-shift Marsh Lake marathon

COURTESY JIM ZUB/LINE ART SEAN IZAAKSE, COLOURS MARCO MENYZ © MARVEL COMICS

A Champion Of The North

Meet Pangnirtung’s Amka Aliyak—Marvel’s newest superhero, Snowguard

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Videos

Inside A Yellowknife Taxidermist's Shop

Take a look behind the scenes of our photo feature, inside a Yellowknife taxidermist's workshop.

Up Here Editor Samia Madwar and Videographer Hannah Eden head out into the bush to get some much needed fire-building advice from 1 Canadian Ranger Patrol Group. For more, check out: How To Build a Fire

The Tension and the Break

To tell the story of the North's ice cycles, Yellowknife composer Carmen Braden translates nature into music.

For more on Carmen Braden visit, uphere.ca/articles/tension-and-break

Bruce Davidson - NWT Park Warden

They're more than just places to spend the night: it's the people of NWT Parks who make our campgrounds truly memorable. Like Bruce Davidson, a singular human and keeper of Prelude Lake Territorial Campground.

Check out Bruce's original tune about life at the gatehouse, and follow this link for more parks and conversations:

uphere.ca/articles/parks-and-conversation