Cancelled hunt cancels incomes for fragile Northern towns

APTN National News
Pressure from international media and environmentalists has cancelled a planned sport hunt for polar bears in Nunavut.

It’s a phenomenon that has become increasingly common, as more and more attention is focused on the hunting practices of Canada’s Inuit and Innu.

But, as APTN National News reporter Wayne Rivers asks, what about the Northern communities whose fragile economies depend upon these hunts to survive?

 

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Mark Blackburn

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