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Zacharias Kunnuk
Isuma, the production company that made Attanarjuat and The Journals of Knut Rasmussen, have a website dedicated to promoting Indigenous Film. Check out IsumaTV for some unique films. But first go read this interview with Zach Kunnuk, the force behind Isuma. Thanks to Michael of Canadian CKayaker for pointing the way to the interview.
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Heat, and the germ of an idea.
I just got in from enjoying a coffee on our deck. It has been a lazy day so far, and I’m actually the only one awake right now. But it is a typically bright sunny day and I headed out to the corner of the deck between the living room and Hilary’s room to enjoy…
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Thoughts on the Sidebar
I’ve grown frustrated with my collections of links on the sidebar. I need to do a bit of spring cleaning, and remove the dead links and inactive blogs I know, but that’s not it. It is the growing length of the links I put up there. I have to admit I’m conflicted. On one hand…
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I and the Bird 74. For the price of song.
The latest I and the Bird is up at Con’s World. As always the best bird posts from around the world, including Sri Lanka can be found there. Now I can’t get that Goldfinch song out of my head.
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Because words aren’t flowing from my brain to my fingertips
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Avalanche!
Saturday afternoon I headed out to the St George Society Cliffs to check on the Gyrfalcons. It was a beautiful sunny day, but a little breezy. I wasn’t too concerned that I couldn’t see any birds. I assumed that one bird was on the nest, tucked back in the aerie where I couldn’t see, and…
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Notebook tales
Kate Nova, of Port town Ghosts, recently confessed her fear of the dreaded little black notebooks that police carry. I found a notebook to be a crucial piece of equipment, taking good notes at a scene can prove invaluable in court. The wheels of justice can turn very slowly at time, and when you’re testifying…
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Species at risk
The appearance of this news item on the CBC’s site was especially timely in light of my last post. Some of my readers, I know, are wondering how an animal that has been in the news a lot, as a threatened species, can be hunted. Some of my readers I know, wonder how any animal…
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Best NWT Blogs
Megan, she of the fantastic, occasionally scary (in a David Hasselhoff stalking sort of way), Reflections in the snow-covered hills has created the NWT equivalent of the Nunies – Best NWT Blogs. The nominations are now open so head on over there and contribute darn it.
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Leah’s hunt
Warning. This post does NOT contain graphic images. Every year the community is allocated a certain amount of Polar Bear tags for which to hunt Polar Bear. The community decides how the tags are to be handed out, and normally the community tags are allocated by a draw. If your name is drawn you have…
