News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 month ago
Representatives from Canadian Inuit groups will also be included on the commission. "The purpose of this memorandum of understanding is to deal with the sub-populations (of bears) that we jointly harvest and manage with the government of Greenland,"...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
Canada's Environment Minister Jim Prentice made the announcement during a conference call from Kangerluusuaq, Greenland, where he signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Friday with Greenland's Minister of Fisheries, Hunting and Agriculture, Ane...
News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
Efforts to prevent beluga whales from getting trapped in the Husky Lakes near Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., are proving successful. Simon Whitfield and Catriona Le May Doan, the first of 12,000 runners to carry the Olympic flame across Canada, have begun the...
News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
Canada and Greenland are setting up a polar bear commission that will ensure bear populations that are shared between both nations will be protected and managed properly, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Friday.
News Source: Macleans
| about 1 month ago
The governments of Canada, Nunavut and Greenland have signed an agreement to jointly monitor and protect the polar bear populations that wander across their borders. The memorandum of understanding would create a joint commission that would recommend...
News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
Hay River, N.W.T., in 2007, have heard from a witness who helped Bulatci flee to the Alberta capital. The man accused in a shooting that killed three men in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, has a new lawyer, after the one he had fought to obtain became too...