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Tag Archives: Greenland
Climate change? Bring it on, Greenlanders say
“We are probably one of the very few countries in the world that can say not only that climate change is not to our detriment, but that it has positive results – it makes it easier for us to have … Continue reading
Modern films for a new nation
This may not be news to you but clued out as I often am, it’s news to me. The producers of Nuummioq, billed as “the first international feature to ever come out of Greenland,” are still exhibiting their film at … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, circumpolar world, culture, Greenland, News
Tagged Arctic, Arts, culture, Greenland, News, Nuummioq, Sundance Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival
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Greenland lifts ban on uranium exploration
Note that the Greenland government’s justification for doing this is to help an Australian firm called Greenland Minerals and Energy Ltd. extract rare earths, which cannot be mined without also mining uranium, from a deposit in the southwest of the … Continue reading
Does the Inuit Circumpolar Council have a future?
In the organ that I edit, Poul Krarup, the editor of Sermitsiaq, asks, but does not entirely answer, a question that people started asking more than 20 years ago: The ICC has gone from being a protest organization to the … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska, Arctic, circumpolar world, communications, ethnic nationalism, Greenland, Inuit, News, Nunatsiaq News, Nunavut, Politics
Tagged Alaska, Arctic, Canada, ethnic nationalism, Greenland, Inuit, language, News, Nunatsiaq News, Politics
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A big new history of Arctic sovereignty
Shelagh Grant talks to Macleans about her new book, Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America, and she’s rather less than optimistic about the future: In the last three months, China — which claims to be building … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, Canada, circumpolar world, climate change, Greenland, history, nationalism, News, Nunavut, Politics
Tagged Arctic, Arctic sovereignty, Greenland, history, News, Nunavut, Politics
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The Arctic’s last idealist
What happens to a nationalist movement that can’t find a way to pay for its aspirations? Aqqaluk Lynge, the urbane poet-politican who currently heads the Inuit Circumpolar Council’s Greenland section, doesn’t even try to reconcile the irreconcilable, as is evidenced … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska, Arctic, circumpolar world, ethnic nationalism, Greenland, nationalism, News, Politics
Tagged Alaska, Aqqaluk Lynge, Arctic, Greenland, nationalism, News, Politics
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The Globe’s hot for Greenland
Emulating Greenland Nice idea — if you could actually get there.
Greenland now a “red” state, sort of
Voters in Greenland gave the Inuit Ataqatigiit party what amounts to a landslide victory in the island’s June 2 parliamentary election. IA’s big win means the social democratic Siumut party is out of power for the first time in 30 … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, ethnic nationalism, Greenland, nationalism, News, socialism, World
Tagged Arctic, ethnic nationalism, Greenland, nationalism, socialism
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The King of Greenland
A vastly over-refreshed ex-premier of Greenland, Jonathon Motzfeldt, got himself and his Siumut party into a spot of bother last month. The fading septuagenarian was not quite himself this past May 16, when a helicopter crew deemed him too tired … Continue reading
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