Jose Bautista does the flip seen around North America.

“I believe like any other occupational group, whether it be doctors, lawyers, journalists, police officers, there are a minority of members out there that may hold racist views,” said Rob Creasser, a retired RCMP officer and spokesperson for Mounted Police Professional Association of Canada (MPPAC).

“How is the public supposed to respect officers now, after their own Commissioner throws them under the bus?”

Fireworks over Toronto marked the opening of the Pan Am Games last summer.

David Calderisi

“I think one of the most significant events of the year is something that happened really recently – the creation of the Coast Guard Forum, which is a really interesting organization for the region where you have all the coast guards of all of the Arctic states who are now going to be working together,” Joel Plouffe said. “It clearly demonstrates that beyond the Arctic Council we other kinds of organizations, other kinds of arrangements, multilateral agreements that favour collaboration and cooperation in the north, and that includes Russia, it includes the United States.”

“I think the single most important development in 2015 has been the continuation of cooperation in the Arctic, including centrally with Russia,” said Prof Michael Byers, Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at University of British Columbia. “There has been no interruption of Arctic cooperation despite the significant tensions elsewhere over Ukraine.”

"I had two choices: either I go into the woods and leave myself to the wolves or I move on,” Matthias Liniger said, fighting back tears. “And, Claudia is a person who would have kicked my butt and said, 'You'd better move on.' And she gave me signs to move on."

"What transpired at that property on that day was an absolute, catastrophic collision of events," Kirsten Macdonald, Yukon's chief coroner, told RCI Thursday. “Everything that could go wrong went wrong.”

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.”