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First Nations in Yukon hope search for unmarked graves of missing children can ‘bring peace’ – CBC
Jun 18, 2023 Ground-penetrating radar being used to collect data from former residential school sites Adeline Webber walks up a dirt path to the site where children who attended the former Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon, once played. “I’m thinking about my brother,” she admits. A brother she never met. Albert Jackson died […]
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COVID-19 Recovery Research Program successfully completed
16/06/2023 The COVID-19 Recovery Research Program concluded this week with a public Research Results Summit held in Whitehorse. The COVID-19 Recovery Research Program was launched in November 2020 by the Government of Canada and the Yukon government, with the aim of gathering the information needed to support the Yukon’s strategic recovery from the impacts of […]
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Ground search begins at former Chooutla school site in Yukon – APTN
Jun 13, 2023 As many as 42 students may have died at the former school site A ground search for potential graves has begun at the former site of the Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon. The search will help determine if there are possible remains of children who died while attending the school. […]
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Canadian High Arctic Research Station now fully managed and operated in the North
From: Polar Knowledge Canada June 7, 2023, Cambridge Bay, NU – Polar Knowledge Canada is now the official custodian of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS) in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. The state-of-the-art research facility, previously held by Crown-Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, is now managed and operated in the North. POLAR Knowledge Canada builds […]
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Expert Team Gathers To Shape Inuit-Led Health Research Network
May 24, 2023 Members of the Inuit Research Network from across Inuit Nunangat are meeting in-person for the first time this week to build a foundation from which they will coordinate and support health research by, and for, Inuit. The IRN, which received $6.4 million over three years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research […]
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Government of Canada invests in climate change geohazard research in Yukon
From: Transport Canada March 14, 2023 The Government of Canada is committed to keeping our supply chains resilient in the face of a changing climate. This will help make sure families from coast-to-coast-to-coast get the essential goods they need on time and create an economy that works for everyone. Today, the Minister of Transport, the […]
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High Arctic research station offers students glimpse of a life in science – Nunatsiaq News
Mar 3, 2023 Tours for high school students part of new community outreach efforts for Cambridge Bay facility The Canadian High Arctic Research Station in Cambridge Bay is opening its doors to high school students for the first time since it opened nearly four years ago. Drive to the edge of town in Cambridge Bay […]
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SciQ: A new approach to ethical research in the North – Canadian Geographic
Feb 15, 2023 Inuit see the value of Western science when it is done in collaboration with communities. How can we shift current practices to a more respectful model? The history of Qallunaat (non-Inuit peoples) on Inuit Nunangat, or Inuit homelands, is a tale that leans towards extractive at best and acutely violent at worst. […]
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Researchers find evidence primates lived in High Arctic 52M years ago – Nunatsiaq News
Jan 25, 2023 Research based on fossils collected from Ellesmere Island in 1970s Fossils collected from Ellesmere Island 50 years ago are now providing the first evidence that primates once lived in the High Arctic. In the 1970s, Mary Dawson, a former curator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pa., travelled to […]
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Working together with Inuit in Gjoa Haven, Parks Canada resumes research on the wreck of HMS Erebus
From: Parks Canada The 2022 spring and summer research projects assessed the state of the Franklin Expedition site. December 9, 2022 Gatineau, Quebec Parks Canada Piliriqatigiingniq – the Inuit societal value or Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) of working together for a common cause – was put into […]
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