by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Jul 14, 2008 | 2008, Press Releases
Monday July 14, 2008 – Ottawa, Ontario – Inuit are calling on the government of Canada to step up its actions against the European Union to avoid an EU-wide ban on the import of Canadian Seal products. “We are clearly not on the same page with Europeans on...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Jun 2, 2008 | 2008, Press Releases
2 June 2008, Inuvik – Canadian Inuit say that the foreign ministers of five Arctic nations that met in Ilulissat, Greenland last week to discuss Arctic sovereignty forgot about the fiduciary obligations toward Inuit in the Ilulissat Declaration they signed. “Our...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | May 15, 2008 | 2008, Press Releases
In the wake of the May 14 listing of Polar Bear as a “threatened species” under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA), Ms. Patricia Cochran, International Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, called upon the Government of the United States to join with Canada,...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | May 1, 2008 | 2008, Press Releases
Thursday May 1, 2008 – Ottawa, Ontario – Canadian Inuit are reiterating their position on the listing of the Polar Bear in the USA as a threatened species and disagree with recent comments made by a US Environmental Group for Canada to alter its listing of...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Apr 9, 2008 | 2008, Press Releases
Wednesday 9 April, 2008 – Inuvik, NT: Circumpolar Inuit have congratulated Canada’s House of Commons for its adoption yesterday of a resolution to support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. “This is a positive step forward for...