If all goes well, Inuit seamstresses in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, could soon be refashioning those old fur coats gathering dust in southern closets into warm clothes for the family, a form of recycling ...

Martha Munick, an Inuit seamstress, just designed a coat for Canada Goose. It’s an amauti, a traditional Inuit parka specifically designed for mothers to carry their babies on their backs in the ...

But a fur coat is no longer just a fur coat – whether knowingly or not, if you wear the coat in public, ... Inuit or Alaskan or Siberian people wearing it, in small amounts, ...

That is the Inuit tradition -- to provide for the community with the hunting proceeds, she said, unlike the homelessness and poverty rampant where anti-fur activists live. “They treat their pets ...

A pair of women have teamed up to find a solution for those old fur coats in the back of many closets. Gail Pettinger of Victoria, B.C., is collecting the coats for Inuit women who’ll refashion them ...