Opinion

National Day of Mourning, known in other parts of the world as International Workers’ Memorial Day or International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured, takes place every year on April 28.

Federal budget is full of interesting numbers, but light on details

Six weeks ago, on March 3, 2022, seven of the eight Arctic Council (AC) member states – called herein the A7 – announced an historic, unanimous boycott of AC participation in protest of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, after just over 25 years of continuous operations since its September 1996 inaugural meeting in Ottawa.

Forced labour is not dead; rather it has just been normalized into our capitalist system in the name of free enterprise.

If you need a snowmobile, you go buy one! But these two brave young men made a plan, a very amazing plan to bring home their new snowmobiles! Amory Wood and Brent Nakashook of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut flew to Yellowknife, NT on regular scheduled flight. Upon arriving they bought their snowmobiles but now needed to get them home, so they planned a journey to bring them home – not by air cargo, but by driving them home by land and sea.

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the March 25, 2022 edition of The Hill Times. It is reprinted with permission.

The fact that caribou numbers are declining sharply despite efforts to either slow the losses or, with luck, increase the numbers of the vulnerable species is one of the biggest challenges we face in light of a changing climate and economic advancement.

I read a caption that noted ‘A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step’; and that is where we as survivors are today.

Every year we change the clock forward an hour in mid-March so we can have more daylight at the end of the day in the summertime. And it’s great to suddenly have sundown an hour later. Woohoo!

The Big Melt.