For more than 50 years, the Giant Mine contaminated the air, land and water around Yellowknife with arsenic. Environmental toxicologists Jules Blais and Laurie Chan are monitoring the after-effects in nearby lakes and rivers.

Do the Métis have treaty rights? An unprecedented legal study aims to set the murky record straight.

The shifting climate is affecting what people eat in Canada’s North. Teaching Inuvialuit and Gwich’in youth how to prepare and share food from the land is a first step in building food security and resilience.

Northern Canada has the highest drowning rate in the country. Audrey Giles is working with Arctic communities to reduce that tragic toll.

Ghislain Otis calls for the concerted recognition of Indigenous legal systems around the world.

A symbol of conflict or a model of cooperation? Karine Vanthuyne compares the relationship that Indigenous peoples in Canada and Guatemala have with mining. 

Shrinking sea ice is triggering a tourism shipping boom in the Arctic. But increased traffic may be a mixed blessing for Northerners.

Angela Cameron urges the public inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls to look at the links between poverty, economic development and violence.

Access to nutritious foods is a growing problem in northern First Nations. Michael Robidoux and François Haman are finding local solutions — with a practical twist.