Air Greenland announced this week that it will operate a weekly flight between Nuuk and Iqaluit starting in the summer of 2024. Sorensen said Air Greenland is open to maintaining the route past October if justified by demand. A regular air link was established in 2012 with expectations that increases in Arctic tourism and the resource sector would drive interest. Air Greenland said in a statement this week that the announced route stems from the 2022 agreement. “In it, the countries want to increase cooperation in the areas of culture, education, fisheries and green energy and, last but not least, to pave the way for better mobility,” Air Greenland said.

The Prairie Hearts Quilter's Guild has twinned with the Pigeon Inlet Quilting Guild after president Ann Richey said she wanted to try something new and positiveThe Prairie Hearts Quilter’s Guild has been a staple in the community for many years, and thanks to a new initiative in the quilting world, the guild has reached out to far-away Newfoundland in the spirit of camaraderie and friendship. “I don’t think it’s ever been done before, but we have a twinning quilt group in Newfoundland,” announced the guild’s president, Ann Richey. “These ladies live in (the same general area now), so because they come from all different communities they call the group the Pigeon Inlet Quilting Guild,” Richey explained. “The idea is just starting.”Prairie Hearts Quilter’s Guild is a fun and friendly quilting guild based out of Moose Jaw, and currently has around 100 active members whose ages range from the mid-20s to the mid-90s. To contact the Prairie Hearts Quilter’s Guild, you can send an email to PrairieHeartsQuilters@yahoo.ca.

For all the talk about expensive Jet tickets, I can't believe how *affordable* the tickets are, looking at the resale market. The Rangers who play in Manhattan are obviously a different animal than Winnipeg, sure. Buffalo was hyped as hell coming into the season and are a huge sports town, they only had 66% attendance last night against a good lightning team. The Sharks barely had 60% capacity against Carolina last night, looked like a covid era game with empty house. I doubt the Jets specifically are doing anything different than ohter teams in terms of raising prices of tickets/concessions with inflation etc.

Coverage begins with this weekend’s World Cup in MontrealOTTAWA, ONTARIO – With the start of international short track season just around the corner, Speed Skating Canada is happy to announce that CBC Sports and Radio-Canada Sports will provide fans across the country with live streaming and broadcast coverage of both ISU World Cup Short Track events in Montreal, as well as the ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships in Laval. Fans will have the option to watch races live in both English and French on a variety of digital platforms, including CBCSports.ca, Radio-Canada.ca/Sports, and on the CBC Gem and CBC Sports apps. In addition to live streaming, CBC and ICI Télé will also broadcast select competition days nationally across their television networks. Both CBC Sports and Radio-Canada Sports will also be on-site at the arena to capture post-race reactions from Canadian skaters as they fight for a medal on home ice. ISU World Cup Short Track 1 (Montreal)Date Streaming (EN) Streaming (FR) Television (EN) Television (FR) Friday, October 20 9h30-17h30 ET Saturday, October 21 13h30-18h00 ET 13h30-18h00 ET 17:00-18:00 ET 15h00-17h00 ET Sunday, October 22 13h30 – 17h30 ET 13h30-17h30 ET 16:00 -17:00 LocalISU World Cup Short Track 2 (Montreal)Date Streaming (EN) Streaming (FR) Television (EN) Television (FR) Friday, October 27 9h30-17h30 ET Saturday, October 28 13h30-18h00 ET 13h30-18h00 ET 17:00-18:00 ET Sunday, October 29 13h30 – 17h30 ET 13h30-17h30 ET 16:00 -17:00 LocalISU Four Continents Short Track Championships (Laval)

That's “opinion not fact” according to the CBCMilitary historians often use the term “asymmetric warfare” to describe the recent terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel. To appreciate the significance of the Hamas attack, consider the early accounts of what happened. Since Hamas has been identified as a terrorist entity by the Canadian government since 2002, this designation is not surprising. On October 7, just as the Hamas attack was getting well underway, George Achi sent out an email to all CBC journalists telling his subordinates how to discuss Gaza and Hamas. 2005 simply marked the end of the Israeli military presence there.

(Craig Paisley/CBC - image credit)An international university conference that will examine slavery, reparations and education in Nova Scotia and around the world is being held in Halifax this week. The consortium's annual conference, which was postponed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is set to start on Wednesday. It's being hosted by Dalhousie University and the University of King's College in partnership with the Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia. (Gaspereau Press)Story continuesDr. Sylvia Hamilton, a Nova Scotia artist and the Inglis professor at King's, will also give a talk at the conference. Richard Preston, who founded the African United Baptist Association in Nova Scotia.

Li testified she was working from her downtown home during the COVID-19 pandemic, including when protesters came to Ottawa. Li, wearing a white silky v-neck T-shirt with matching wide-leg dress pants, said during the following weeks of protests there would be scheduled honking. Li described feeling intimidated by an encounter with a trucker who shook his fist and honked his horn, and described protesters establishing structures to become more entrenched as the Freedom Convoy continued, including a makeshift soup kitchen. By the third week, after the injunction had been granted against honking, she said protesters became hostile when she was taking pictures. Li also described convoy vehicles slowing down ambulances that had been responding to a call and roads that were completely blocked off, but she couldn't remember specifics.

“My father was a hunter, a pilot and a natural born leader,” Larry Watt told Eye on the Arctic in a phone interview. The book is based on 30 hours of interviews with Bryant, with Larry acting as translator. His father’s recollections of the dog slaughter by police in the 1960s was just one example, Larry said. “I knew it had happened but not how much losing his dogs and traditional way of life impacted him,” Larry said. Potential for schoolsLarry Watt says he hopes this father’s experiences and accomplishment can inspire other Inuit and potentially be used in educational settings as well.

Paul Knox, a professor emeritus at the Toronto Metropolitan University school of journalism, said he believes the Tories' motion is unprecedented — and "out of line." Despite the Tories' motion failing, Knox said it shouldn't go unnoticed, and the public shouldn't allow politicians to stray into territory where they shouldn't be. Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said the Tories' motion demonstrates that they don't understand how the law works, and they don't understand what journalistic independence is. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 17, 2023. Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press

Tories want House to study CBC editorial choice, despite broadcaster’s independence Oct 17, 2023 | 12:44 PMOTTAWA — The official Opposition is attempting to have a House of Commons committee study an editorial decision of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., despite its independence from the government being enshrined in law. Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman introduced a motion today to summon the head of CBC and its director of journalistic standards to testify over the broadcaster’s policy not to call Hamas militants “terrorists.”The CBC is defending the policy, saying it uses the words “terrorist” or “terrorism” when they are attributed to someone, but is asking reporters to avoid using the words in their own voice because they are loaded with meaning, politics and emotion that can impede their journalism. Paul Knox, a professor emeritus at the Toronto Metropolitan University school of journalism, says he believes the Tories’ motion is unprecedented, and he thinks it is out of line because it infringes on freedom of the press.

OTTAWA – An attempt by the Conservatives to summon CBC top executives over the network’s refusal to describe Hamas as terrorists was blocked Tuesday by the Liberals, the Bloc Québécois and the NDP. She had specified the executives as CBC president and CEO Catherine Tait, english-services ombudsman Jack Nagler and director of journalistic standards, George Achi. That includes statements from the Canadian government and Canadian politicians,” wrote Achi. Hamas has long been officially labelled a terrorist group by the government of Canada. It unveils certain ideals from the Conservative Party of Canada regarding the financing of the CBC,” said Bloc MP Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, adding that Parliament does not control CBC news coverage.

The hour-long program broadcast at noon on Monday came together following a year-long collaboration between the high school and Concordia University’s Journalism department. “I’m Indigenous and I would absolutely love to see more Indigenous journalism students and more Indigenous journalists. They worked alongside journalism students in the department, who mentored them along the way, helping them produce reports about local ironworkers, firefighters, Kanien’kéha instructors and even the tradition of spirit stories. He also said he was impressed at just how hard Snell and the journalism department worked to keep them motivated and engaged. “After that we became really successful.”He’ll be spending the next year in Dawson’s one-year transition program for Indigenous students before deciding his next steps.

(Marc-Andre Hamelin/Radio-Canada - image credit)The University of Ottawa's independent campus radio station, CHUO 89.1FM, is losing the funding it gets from students after they voted to end a levy. "It's still really early to say definitively that it will end the radio station, but it's going to definitely be a different radio station," he said. 'No inquiry, no discussion'The referendum question that ended CHUO's funding was one of 10 that students voted on during the recent byelection. "This type of radio, this particular radio station, serves the needs of a very important niche community that unfortunately sometimes don't get seen or heard through mainstream radio," Coddett told Ottawa Morning on Tuesday. "We might see another referendum question to kind of re-evaluate this question ... as it comes into play in September of 2024.

Police say a 57-year-old man is dead after his vehicle went into a ditch on Friday afternoon near Grand Bank. (CBC/Radio-Canada - image credit)A 57-year-old man is dead after crashing his vehicle into a ditch south of Grand Bank on Friday, according to the RCMP. The crash was reported at 2:30 p.m. on Friday and happened on Route 210 on Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula. Local RCMP officers responded along with the Grand Bank Fire Department and local ambulance service. The man was sent to the Dr. S. Beckley Health Centre, where he was pronounced dead.

October 16, 2023 —Paul Thomas, professor emeritus of political studies at the University of Manitoba, said Stefanson’s remarks do not rise to the level of a fulsome apology. “She didn’t say, ‘You know, that was a bad mistake. If I had known about it, I would have vetoed it when it was proposed’,” Thomas said Sunday in an interview. “To say that she wasn’t at all meetings gives her some sort of an out, for not addressing that, but I mean, she made the remarks so many times.”Read here