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Arctic Journeys: A Journalist Across the Circumpolar World

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I am ready to take you all on a ten-year trip around the circumpolar world in my new book “Arctic Journeys: A journalist around the circumpolar world.” You can now order “Arctic Journeys” on Amazon.

What is it? This book is a history, a bit of a travelogue and sometimes a memoir, sort of the sum of my life, too, during that time.

You’ll get to know people like Sámi leader Ole Henrik Magga, artist Hans Ragnar Mathisen, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Bob Corell, P.J. Akeeagok, and Aqqaluk Lynge.

You will meet amazing ladies in Cambridge Bay, geologists, miners, scientists and even wanna-be Mars astronauts on Devon Island.

You can order “Arctic Journeys” on Amazon. The Kindle ebook can be free or you can buy it as a paperback or even as a hardcover. I kept the cost as low as possible so anyone should be able to afford it. But I wanted to have some nice photos in it.

And in the North bookstores are a rarity so ordering online is often the easiest option. The book is a bit of a follow to “Like an iceberg: Confessions of an Arctic Journalist,” but I hope it’s a softer more reflective book.

2023, I hardly knew you

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Here’s to the passing of 2023, which for me was a year full of work and other challenges.

Let’s go back 25 years to New Year’s Eve when an avalanche toppled down the hill in Kangiqsualujjuaq in Nunavik into a school where everyone was celebrating: the disaster that killed nine and traumatized many more would occupy my thoughts for months and still brings heartbreak to recall.

You can read about the avalanche here on this blog and more again here.

The avalanche took place during the period when I was spending nearly all my time in the North, unlike this past year which saw me working for CBC Quebec, using my northern journalistic experience in the South (which actually went well.)

In 2023, I did go to Iqaluit in May and early June, but not for work, just mainly to see friends and the bench I bought for Jim Bell, my dear friend and former editor of Nunatsiaq News who died in 2021. Now he always has access to the view he loved through those that take a break on the bench in Rotary Park in Apex.

I went to Iqaluit at the most beautiful time of year, which helped make up for all the days I wasn’t there. I’ll leave you with this image as 2024 starts to take off, hopefully as a good one for all!