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Alberta grizzlies fitted with digital cameras *
Don't back away or play dead -- smile! That grizzly has a digital camera!
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Ancient waters *
On an adventure through the prehistoric landscape of the Far North, The Globe's LASZLO BUHASZ journeys down the Firth, Canada's oldest river
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Commonwealth offers goalies cold comfort *
-- In the film Mystery, Alaska, a ragtag group of local hockey players take on the powerful New York Rangers in an outdoor exhibition game -- and validate their lives as a result of the experience.
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Fifty Canadian travel highlights *
Here's a starter list of some of the places you'll want to add to your must-do Canadian tour.
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First Nations Land Claims: It looked great on paper *
Today, an Ottawa conference looks at what it will take for those much-trumpeted land-claims agreements to finally benefit First Nations, says Inuit activist CATHY TOWTONGIE.
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Frozen arsenic a miner miracle *
Deep underground, nearly 100 metres under the Canadian Shield, a slick, greyish-brown sludge seeps through a concrete bulkhead blocking off a chamber in an old gold mine. With a yellow shaft of light from his miner's lamp, Bill Mitchell points out the tiny stalactites hanging from the rock overhead and the oozy pools gathering underfoot
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Inuit talk the talk *
Inuktitut remains widely understood in Canada's North, a new report finds. Statistics Canada researchers found that 90 per cent of all off-reserve Inuit say that they can speak or understand Inuktitut.
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Inuit-Norse links discounted *
Two Icelandic scientists have shot holes in the theory of the missing Norse tribes of the Arctic.
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Kermodes, Grizzlies, and Black bears of the Great Bear Rainforest *
Clawing for spawning pink salmon along a river stream, the black bear busily fed her two cubs. Suddenly, lumbering along the opposite side of the creek, a rarely sighted White Spirit kermode bear approached.
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Northern exposure: Yukon and the Dempster Highway *
TERESA EARLE travels beyond the tourist-friendly outposts of Whitehorse and Dawson City in search of the authentic Yukon experience. Meanwhile, MIKE CURRIE goes the distance on the rugged, 750-kilometre Dempster Highway, encountering grizzlies, wolves and plenty of flat tires along the way
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NWT's bridge to the future (part 1 of 4) *
THE COMING BOOM: DAY ONE OF A 4-PART EXCLUSIVE SERIES ON THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
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Old aviation mystery may have been solved *
The clouds may have lifted on a 40-year-old aviation mystery after three bodies were found in the wreckage of a bush plane in the remote tundra of the central Arctic.
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The lost promise of Nunavut *
Indian Affairs deserves the rap it will get today from the Auditor-General, says Nunavut Tunngavik's JAMES EETOOLOOK. It's done a bad job with a good agreement.
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Time for a deal with the NWT *
Stephen Kakfwi, the 52-year-old Premier of the Northwest Territories, doesn't flinch from controversy. Indeed, he sometimes appears to court it.
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Troubled ghosts of our sisters *
A year ago, as we in Iqaluit prepared to commemorate the Montreal Massacre, one of our own was added to the list of victims of violence against women, says ALLISON BREWER.
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Will the roving Magnetic North become a fixture? *
Does Canada need a national theatre festival? For the organizers of Magnetic North, the new festival that opened in Ottawa last week, the answer is obviously a yes, and a showcase of current Canadian theatre as well as a host of panels and talks has been duly mounted. For the rest of us, the answer will have to wait not merely until the festival closes next weekend but until next year and the year after that as the annual event, which will move from city to city across the country, does or doesn't establish itself as a cultural necessity.
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By the look of things, this land isn't my land *
Last month, I received with my daily newspaper the premiere issue of the Canadian Tourism Commission's Canadian travel magazine, PureCanada -- 160 pages of bright, glossy features, photographs and maps designed to encourage Canadians to be tourists within our own borders.
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Chrétien signs historic land deal *
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien signed a historic land claim and self-government agreement in Rae-Edzo, NWT, on Monday, giving some 3,000 Tlicho people the power to protect their way of life and control their land, resources and laws.
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Flu in Nunavut closes schools *
Influenza in Nunavut is causing school closings, cancellations of public hearings and grocery-store clerks to wear masks.
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Fossils show animals took land bridge from Asia *
Ancestors to modern North American black bears, wolverines and other animals walked here across a land bridge from Asia, an important new fossil find in the Canadian Arctic shows.
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Imperial forced to change its arts funding programs *
One of Canada's major tobacco companies said yesterday it will increase its funding for the arts this year by $1-million -- or about 50 per cent -- from last year and will funnel a greater portion of that money to smaller groups.
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Kenojuak Ashevak: 'Art is my job and my love' *
She's a celebrity guest on board an Arctic cruise, but nothing the Inuit artist does broadcasts her profession. When the ship pulls into Cape Dorset, however, it's as if the Queen herself has landed.
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Largest Arctic ice shelf breaks up, wiping out unique ecosystem *
The largest Arctic ice shelf is beginning to rip itself apart, 4,500 years after it first began forming.
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Rapid Arctic warming over past 20 years has scientists puzzled *
Satellite images show that the Arctic has been warming eight times faster in the past 20 years than in the past 100, according to U.S. researchers who said yesterday this rapid climate change is a worrying trend -- but they still don't know why it's happening.
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