CNS and CFF Midsummer Celebration
When our previous CNS midsummer party hosts in Cantley moved out of the area, we thought it was very unlikely we would be able to find...
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Hilde Huus
- Jul 10
- 1 min
Midsummer Music
This short video is a glimpse of our wonderful Midsummer Celebration held on June 24. Our sing-a-long included songs in Finnish, Swedish,...
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Hilde Huus
- May 17
- 3 min
Blue Ocean, Green Future
What an appropriate title for Norwegian Ambassador Jon Elvedal Fredriksen’s April 19 talk! Our future is certainly dependent of the...
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Hilde Huus
- Apr 22
- 2 min
New Nordic Cuisine
New Nordic cuisine is based on traditional Nordic cuisine since part of “New” cuisine means being sustainable and when food is involved,...
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Hilde Huus
- Mar 28
- 2 min
Vertigo Sea at the National Gallery
“Vertigo Sea” is a video installation on view at the National Gallery of Canada. As such, it is not a film, but more like an art...
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Hilde Huus
- Mar 26
- 2 min
Nordic-Canadian Fellowship in Environmental Journalism
Cover photo from “Dispatches: Stories of hope, resilience and change” Laura McLeod, Director of Cultural Engagement at Harbourfront...
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Hilde Huus
- Feb 7
- 3 min
Danish Health Diplomacy in Canada
I hadn’t given much thought to how the Danish health system might differ from our own Canadian system before the evening of November 16,...
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Hilde Huus
- Jan 3
- 1 min
Christmas Lunch at Last!
We were so pleased with the excellent turnout at our first Christmas lunch since the pandemic. This year there was a real feeling of...
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Hilde Huus
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min
Why is Danish so... unusual?
If you have ever heard Danish spoken, perhaps when watching the tv series “Borgen,” or that wonderful classic Danish movie “Babette’s...
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Hilde Huus
- Oct 19, 2022
- 2 min
Nordic Languages Evening
Our first event of the season was a really fun and light-hearted way to get a “taste” of all five Nordic languages. Nectaria Karagiozis,...
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Doreen Riedel
- Oct 8, 2022
- 13 min
Remembering Henry Larsen and his "Ugly Duckling"
Remembering Henry Larsen and his “Ugly Duckling”, on the 80th Anniversary of St. Roch’s NW Passage. 80 years ago on October 11of 1942,...
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Hilde Huus
- Sep 26, 2022
- 1 min
REYKJAVIK READING
The New York Times recently published an article on what to read when planning to visit Reykjavik. This is one of an ongoing series of...
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Hilde Huus
- Sep 23, 2022
- 1 min
Geir Kløver Awarded Prize For Best Polar Book
Five years ago, in June 2017, the CNS had the pleasure of hosting Geir Kløver, the Director of the Fram Museum in Oslo...
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Hilde Huus
- Jun 1, 2022
- 3 min
Annual General Meeting Plus!
photo by Dalva Lamminmäki Our annual general meeting is a necessary but often fairly routine event. As a non-profit organization, we are...
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Hilde Huus
- May 1, 2022
- 3 min
Green Economies and Iceland
Skogafoss is one of Iceland’s many beautiful waterfalls (photo by Hansueli Krapf) Tiny Iceland is a world leader when it comes to...
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Hilde Huus
- Mar 31, 2022
- 2 min
Danish Lunching with Marianne Bournes
Marianne’s smørrebrød creations If it was indeed the Earl of Sandwich who invented the sandwich, it was certainly the Danes who turned...
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Hilde Huus
- Feb 28, 2022
- 4 min
Raija Hilska’s Finnish Design Favourites
Temppelinaukinon kirkko What is it about Finnish design that is so appealing? And what is it that gives it that look that is somehow...
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Hilde Huus
- Jan 31, 2022
- 3 min
Nordic Bridges: Sharing Art and Culture of the Nordic Countries
We have been catching glimpses of quite a variety of activities under the “Nordic Bridges” purview for some time now and Nordic Bridges...
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Hilde Huus
- Nov 30, 2021
- 4 min
Nordic Noir in November
We had an excellent turnout of CNS members and friends to hear Professor Gunnar Iversen of Carleton University talk to us about Nordic...
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Hilde Huus
- Nov 29, 2021
- 3 min
Vikings and rodents - all over the place!
Recreation of Newfoundland Viking settlement (photo by Dylan Kereluk) People and animals have moved around the world much more than we...
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