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By Valerie Alia
Canada leads the realm in northern and Aboriginal communications. it is a survey of communications within the circumpolar sector. Radio, tv, magazines, newspapers and websites are all lined, in addition to matters akin to the illustration of Aborigines in print.
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Andrea Buckley, Yukon News, 1991 In many places, weather is a subject for small talk. In the North, it is the stuff of hard news and serious concern. In northern Canada, weather, transportation, and communications are tightly intertwined and fraught with challenges unimaginable in the South. Despite such challenges, virtually everyone interviewed in the course of this study said that northern weather and travel conditions are inadequately addressed in government policy. Northerners tend to view government funding initiatives for northern conditions as drop-in-the-bucket remedies for ocean-sized problems.
New Zealand has twenty-one Maori radio stations linked by Ruia Mai, the national Maori radio service. Founded in 1990, the service began broadcasting in stereo in 1996. The Maori and the New Zealand government are currently discussing ways to improve the promotion of Maori language through broadcasting (Maori Radio Network 1996; New Zealand 1998). The first exclusively Aboriginal station in Australia did not begin broadcasting until 1985 at Alice Springs. Australia's Northern Territory is akin to Canada's North - vast spaces, small communities, several languages.
According to the film historian Eric Rhode (1976, 246), friends of Flaherty who saw the original film found his Outsider's view uninformative, and Flaherty "recognized that if he wished his subject to take on its own life" he would need a new approach. Resolved to continue the project, Flaherty returned to Ungava in 1919 and 1920 to re-shoot. This time his goal was more ambitious: to involve Inuit as both filmmakers and actors and to portray the North as a "day in the life of" an Inuk whom he called Nanook.