Josefina Skerk, vice-president of Sweden’s Saami parliament, explains how some climate mitigation policies have hurt indigenous peoples in Arctic Europe and why we in North America should pay attention.

“One thing that Canadians don’t know in general and the world doesn’t know about Canada is that our competitive strengths lie very often in the areas of services,” said Daniel Schwanen. “And one of the areas of increasing strength for Canada is in the area of financial services.”

rof. Karen Benzies says early relationships are critical to babies’ long-term learning and health.

“I think it appeals to people because there is so much going on,” said Michael Davies, who admits at first he didn’t like the picture that much. “It almost looks like that hair flip when people get their hair wet in the Caribbean and flip their hair back, so it’s almost like an Arctic version of that. But there is also the signs of the evaporation going on, there is the pretty colours in the sunset, there is the way that arc formed.”

“We were taken aback by the severity of the sentence,” said Rev. Lisa Pak. “But at same time we recognize that this is now an open door for discussion.”

Prof. Eileen Hutton says the outcomes were very similar for low-risk women who delivered at home and at hospital.

"This is the first time that the AU has said that it will send troops to a country without the consent of the government," Prof Rita Abrahamsen said speaking on the phone from Ottawa. "Given the way in which the AU operates, with a large degree of African consensus, stressing consensus and unity, this is a very clear sense that the AU is very, very concerned that the conflict in Burundi might escalate and become something very much more serious than what we've seen to date."

Susanna Fuller says conservation groups are scrambling to work with the new government to protect marine areas.

Listen to our Eye on the Arctic conversation with Okalik Eegeesiak, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council:

“The C Series is an outstanding product, it’s what the call a ‘clean sheet’ design, that five people sat in a a room 13-14 years ago and came up with ‘if you didn’t have any constraints what would the plane look like’ and this is what they came up with,” said Prof Karl Moore. “It’s much more quieter, much more fuel efficient than the competitors from Boeing and Airbus.”