Northern Life
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Zacharias Kunnuk
Isuma, the production company that made Attanarjuat and The Journals of Knut Rasmussen, have a website dedicated to promoting Indigenous Film. Check out IsumaTV for some unique films. But first go read this interview with Zach Kunnuk, the force behind Isuma. Thanks to Michael of Canadian CKayaker for pointing the way to the interview.
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Heat, and the germ of an idea.
I just got in from enjoying a coffee on our deck. It has been a lazy day so far, and I’m actually the only one awake right now. But it is a typically bright sunny day and I headed out to the corner of the deck between the living room and Hilary’s room to enjoy
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Avalanche!
Saturday afternoon I headed out to the St George Society Cliffs to check on the Gyrfalcons. It was a beautiful sunny day, but a little breezy. I wasn’t too concerned that I couldn’t see any birds. I assumed that one bird was on the nest, tucked back in the aerie where I couldn’t see, and
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Species at risk
The appearance of this news item on the CBC’s site was especially timely in light of my last post. Some of my readers, I know, are wondering how an animal that has been in the news a lot, as a threatened species, can be hunted. Some of my readers I know, wonder how any animal
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Leah’s hunt
Warning. This post does NOT contain graphic images. Every year the community is allocated a certain amount of Polar Bear tags for which to hunt Polar Bear. The community decides how the tags are to be handed out, and normally the community tags are allocated by a draw. If your name is drawn you have
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Grocery Prices
While stopping by Murmuring Trees today I noticed that there was a post a short while ago about the high price of groceries. So I thought I’d give everyone a small taste of prices in the High Arctic. First the grocery list, Bevson bought the following items, which came to a total of $47.00, some
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Windchill advisory
Two days before "Spring" it is freaky cold in the High Arctic. It is -39C today, with a stiff wind. A very stiff wind. Driving around running errands today I noticed two things about the Ravens in town. Every Raven I saw was doing one of two things. They were either hunkered down in the