POLAR XPRESS – Friday, July 5, 2019

FROM THE TOP
Record Number of Recipients from Canada’s North Win ACUNS Awards
POLAR Screening of C3 Video Documentary
Timesheet Reminder System
POLAR’S PEOPLE
POLAR Scientist Matilde Tomaselli Co-Authors Article in Science
Canada Day Festivities in Cambridge Bay and Ottawa
LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE
Inuinnaqtun/Inuktitut Word of the Week - Tulugaq - ᑐᓗᒐᖅ
Are you ready to Talk the Talk?
WORKPLACE NOTICES
Current 170 Laurier Internet Connectivity
Information Management Tip of the Week
UPDATES
POLAR Events Calendar
POLAR Priorities Update
SOCIAL MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
Lots Happening on POLAR’s Social Media Channels

FROM THE TOP!

Record Number of Recipients from Canada’s North Win ACUNS Awards

In June, the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) announced the recipients of their 2019-2020 academic awards. For the first time in the 37-year history of ACUNS’ awards programs, a record number of applications were received from post-secondary students from Canada's northern and Arctic communities. According to ACUNS’ President: “The ten POLAR Northern Resident Award winners are a positive indication of the successful academic programs at Canada's northern post-secondary institutions and southern post-secondary institutions that have partnerships in the north”.

The ACUNS awards program supports college and university students who demonstrate academic excellence, leadership and commitment to northern science, and whose research projects contribute to the understanding of the North through the facilitation of collaborative research, knowledge mobilization, and education.

POLAR presented $80,000 in scholarships and awards to some of Canada’s top northern scholars:

POLAR Scholarship of $10,000, awarded to:
- Caitlynn Beckett, PhD, Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland

POLAR Northern Resident Scholarship of $10,000, awarded to:
- Robin Mennell, MsC, Geography, Queen’s University
- Crystal Milligan, PhD, Health Services Research & Collaborative Specialization in Indigenous Health, University of Toronto
- Isobel Ness, MSc, Renewable Resources, University of Alberta
- Tyler Ross, PhD, Biology, York University

POLAR Northern Resident Award of $5,000, awarded to:
- Iris Binger, Bachelor of Social Work, Yukon College in partnership with University of Regina
- Nicole Lamb, Northern Outdoor and Environmental Studies, Yukon College
- Karen Lepine, Bachelor of Education, University of Saskatchewan/Aurora College
- Trisa Ngo, BSc Honours, Environmental Science, Dalhousie University
- Christine Spencer, Renewable Resource Management/BSc ENCS, Yukon College/University of Alberta
- Joni Tsatchia, Bachelor of Education, University of Saskatchewan/Aurora College

Other 2019-20 ACUNS awards recipients include:

Canadian Northern Studies Trust (CNST) Scholarship of $10,000:
- Janna MacLachlan, PhD, Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto

Dr. Jim McDonald Scholarship of $5,000:
- Léa Plourde-Léveillé, PhD, Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal

For more information about the winners, including their photos and areas of research, and for descriptions of ACUNS' awards, please visit the ACUNS website: www.acuns.ca.

POLAR Screening of C3 Video Documentary

Canada C3 was a signature project for Canada’s 150^th Anniversary of Confederation in 2017. The centerpiece was an epic 150-day sailing journey from Toronto to Victoria via the Northwest Passage that connected Canadians from coast to coast to coast and inspired a deeper understanding of our land, our peoples and the past, present and future of our country.

The C3 expedition was uniquely divided into 15 legs and had a cross-section of Canadian society on board, including scientists, artists, Indigenous Elders, historians, community leaders, youth, journalists and educators. These diverse and accomplished Canadians connected with communities, conducted research, created art and music and together celebrated Canada.

On June 21, the C3 documentary was presented to POLAR staff in Cambridge Bay. A viewing is also being planned for the Ottawa office. For more information, please contact POLAR Communications at communications@polar.gc.ca.

Timesheet Reminder System

HR is implementing a new reminder system for POLAR staff who are responsible for completing timesheets. HR has now created a recurring reminder that will automatically appear in your Outlook calendar.

Reminder: Please accept all three bi-weekly reminders for Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

For any questions, please contact HR at: HR_RH@polar.gc.ca.

POLAR’S PEOPLE

POLAR Scientist Matilde Tomaselli Co-Authors Article in Science

In a new article in Science, one of the world’s most respected science magazines, research veterinarians Susan Kutz and Matilde Tomaselli explain how bridging Indigenous and scientific knowledge can improve arctic wildlife surveillance and foster reconciliation. Both these scientists are well known to POLAR.

Susan, a professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Calgary, leads a POLAR-funded study that uses the knowledge of Inuit wildlife experts in Cambridge Bay and Kugluktuk alongside veterinary science to find out why muskox populations on Victoria Island have been declining in recent years. This issue is of great importance to Inuit in both communities because these animals are part of their diet. Susan and her colleagues, including Matilde, who is one of her graduate students and now works for POLAR in Cambridge Bay, have identified a lung parasite which has spread from the mainland to Victoria Island because of climate change, as one of the factors.

The study aims to help ensure the health of muskox populations into the future. One of its major strengths lies in its effective and ethical integration of Indigenous knowledge with science.

We congratulate Susan and Matilde on their fine article in this prestigious publication. You can read it here.

Canada Day Festivities in Cambridge Bay and Ottawa

Canada Day was celebrated with great pride in Cambridge Bay and Ottawa last weekend. Employees in the National Capital Region attended a variety of concerts and fireworks on Parliament Hill, and Cambridge Bay staff took part in a community parade, BBQ and traditional food celebration. Here are some of the best moments from these festivities:

LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE

Inuinnaqtun/Inuktitut Word of the Week - Tulugaq - ᑐᓗᒐᖅ

The Inuktitut word of the week is “tulugaq”. This word is the same in both Inuinnaqtun and Inuktitut. It means “Raven”.

It is pronounced: too-loo-gaq

Listen to the pronunciation here.

Are you ready to Talk the Talk?

WORKPLACE NOTICES

Current 170 Laurier Internet Connectivity

Any staff encountering network Internet connectivity and Microsoft Outlook exchange issues are encouraged to send a ticket to ALT Consulting at ITsupport@polar.gc.ca and tdu@alt-consulting.ca to request support.

We would like to thank everyone for their patience as we work to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.

Information Management Tip of the Week

Outlook – Conversation Clean Up

The Conversation Clean Up feature in Outlook can reduce the number of messages in your mail folders. Redundant messages throughout a Conversation are moved to the Deleted Items folder.

What is a Conversation?

You might know a Conversation by the term email thread. A Conversation is the complete set of email messages from the first message through all responses. The messages of a Conversation have the same subject.

For example, when you send a message to someone and then they reply, a Conversation results. In many Conversations, there might be many replies back and forth. Multiple people might reply to different messages in the Conversation.

What does Conversation Clean Up do?

Conversation Clean Up evaluates the contents of each message in the Conversation. If a message is completely contained within one of the replies, the previous message is deleted. Consider the following example.

Jeff sends a message to Anne and Tim. Anne replies to both Jeff and Tim and in her Outlook message body, Jeff’s complete original message is included. Now, Tim sees Anne’s message and replies to both Jeff and Anne. Tim’s reply includes all of the previous messages in the Conversation. Conversation Clean Up can delete all of the messages except the last one from Tim because within that message is a copy of all the previous messages.

Conversation Clean Up is most useful on Conversations with many responses back and forth, especially with many recipients.

Remove redundant messages – PC USERS ONLY

On the Home tab, in the Delete group, click Clean Up.
Click one of the following:
- Clean Up Conversation The current Conversation is reviewed, and redundant messages are deleted.
- Clean Up Folder All Conversations in the selected folder are reviewed, and redundant messages are deleted.
- Clean Up Folder & Subfolders All Conversations in the selected folder and any folder that it contains are reviewed, and redundant messages are deleted.

View Conversation in Outlook for MAC USERS

When you arrange messages by conversation, messages in a folder that share the same subject appear together in the message list. The messages within each conversation are sorted with the newest message on top. When a new message is received, the entire conversation moves to the top of your message list.

Collapsed conversations appear with a right-facing arrow , and expanded conversation appear with a down-facing arrow . Click the arrows to expand or collapse conversations.