March / April 2017 | The North

Out of sight

The James Bay Lowlands in northern Ontario contain one of the largest potential mineral reserves in Canada. What’s at stake in the remote area known as the Ring of Fire?

The North Pole

An essay exploring the significance of the symbolic point at the top of the world

ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ

It means ‘Baffin Island’ in Inuktitut. Explore how people now live in the nine communities of the largest island in Canada’s Arctic Archipelago.

The land is the classroom

A glimpse into life at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, a Northwest Territories school that provides Indigenous connections to the land