Arctic Moment: Shoulder Season
Location: Tibbitt Lake, North Slave Region
Photo by Tashina Weagle/NWTT
Features
Dream Homes
You’re probably familiar with Nunavut’s crippling housing crisis. It needs thousands of houses, but construction costs are astronomical, and utilities, heating and annual maintenance costs for existing homes continues to rise–to $26,000 per unit in 2015. What might be done to build more and build better?
The view from Sisimiut, Greenland. Photo courtesy Greenland Travel
Secede To Succeed
Greenland's former prime minister Aleqa Hammond is the loudest, most insistent voice calling for Greeland's independence.
Aleqa Hammond, former prime minister of Greenland. Photo by Ellen Emmerntze Jervell/The Wall Street Journal
The Sweetest Pick
Silent mutiny, one berry at a time
Sweet sweet aqpiqs. Photo by Per Arne Slotte (https://www.flickr.com/photos/paslotte/5503226907/) CC by-sa 2.0
Thinking Murder In Iceland
I'm probably just a really, really terrible person
Svartifoss Falls, Iceland. Photo courtesy Javier Losa
![Photo by Richard Martin (2008 Alaska Cruise 133) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/card_desktop/public/border.jpg?h=bde28bee&itok=dYlBXNri)
International Trade
Skagway and Whitehorse swap bikini waxes for brown curry
Photo by Richard Martin (2008 Alaska Cruise 133) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
What Can Our North Become?
Canada’s North is slowly becoming more accessible and self-sufficient, but some of our Arctic neighbours have been thriving for years. It’s high time we look outside our borders for inspiration.
