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August 22, 2008 First Air to drop Kivalliq passenger service in September"I'm in shock. It shouldn't happen."Badly wounded by its loss of a lucrative medical travel contract, First Air will drop its thrice-weekly Winnipeg-Thompson-Rankin Inlet passenger jet service as of Sept. 14. "It's a sad day for the Kivalliq region," Scott Bateman, First Air's vice-president of commercial operations, said in an interview Aug. 15. Passengers on that route with ticket reservations beyond Sept. 14 should call First Air or their travel agent for a full refund, Bateman said. First Air, owned by Nunavik's Makivik Corp., will continue to operate a freight service between Winnipeg and Rankin Inlet, three times a week, using a Boeing 737 jet.
Bear management demands mutual respect: researcherInuit, scientists face "divide more political than scientific"Inuit and scientists need to develop more respect for each other and their differing views of the world, or they risk undermining Nunavut's polar bear co-management system, says a researcher who studied Nunavut's polar bear hunt for more than 30 years. "Each side says: ‘I'm right, you're wrong' - it's not a matter of debate," George Wenzel of McGill University said in a telephone interview from Montreal. Inuit and scientists also need an attitude change, he says. Inuit need to become less rigid about what their traditional knowledge says about polar bears and scientists need to become less rigid about their polar bear data. "As one digs in deeper, the other one digs in because to give, you lose," Wenzel said.
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