The COVID-19 pandemic and outbreaks in several communities across Nunavut have brought the Inuit housing crisis into focus. Inadequate and unsafe housing is endemic in many Inuit communities and has ...

In the late 1940s and early 1950s when Inuit art was introduced to southern Canada's art scene, the federal government established a trademark to protect artists' work from copycats. That trademark, ...

Any grade school kid can tell you that an igloo is a scoop-shaped home made of compacted snow and ice by Inuit tribes. What they might be less capable of describing is why igloos work so well as ...

When building materials are hard to come by, you make do with what you have! We’re discovering how one of the coldest materials can help you stay warm at the top of the world. * The “igloo” -- the ...

Adami Sakiagak, his tongue poking out of the side of his mouth in concentrated effort, trimmed the edges on a block of snow above his head. Ice crystals cascaded around him as the block settled into ...

One of the classic symbols of winter is the igloo. Because Santa lives in the Arctic, you will sometimes see igloos in the Santa story as well. And igloos show up in cartoons all the time. But all of ...