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Canada-Nunavut:

Nunavut MLAs vote to ban EU booze

Nunavut MLAs passed a motion March 11 that calls on the GN to order that the Nunavut Liquor Commission impose a moratorium on its purchase of alcohol products from European Union member states, to protest the EU’s import ban on seal products.
International:

What a place to talk about polar bears


The Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species, Cites, which begins its 12-day meeting March 13 in Doha, Qatar, will look at banning the trade of polar bear products world-wide.
Canada-Northwest Territories:

No inner clock


There's no difference between day and night for the lucky reindeer.
CLIMATE CHANGE:

500,000 seeds and counting


Svalbard's seed vault safeguards the most diverse collection of seeds in history.
Book/ Movie Reviews:

Reindeer Spotting...Pako Joulumaasta


Director Joonas Neuvonen highlights the lives of drug addicts in the northern city of Rovaniemi in his new film, called Reindeer Spotting.
CLIMATE CHANGE:

Looking at remains of ground squirrels for hints about the past


14,000 to 45,000 years ago, massive ice sheets covered much of the continent, but northern Alaska was a grassland
Norway:

Melkøya plant produces liquid natural gas—— and greenhouse gas emissions


The CO2 storage reservoirs have less capacity than expected— and that's been tested by higher-than-anticipated levels of CO2 production...
Iceland:

Iceland to put age limit on tanning bed use

The Icelandic Radiation Safety Authority proposed the ban last November.
International:

Nuclear free Arctic!


The authors of a new report, “Ridding the Arctic of Nuclear Weapons, A Task Long Overdue,' say creation of the world’s seventh official nuclear-free zone would be “daunting” as military competition is on the rise in the Arctic.



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17th Inuit Studies Conference

UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI-TÉMISCAMINGUE VAL-D’OR, QUEBEC, CANADA November 4-6, 2010