Don’t blame Canada.It’s not Canada’s fault that it is an infant of a country in terms of relative age, or that it neighbors the cultural super-imperialist U.S.A., or that, for most of its ...

Fifty years ago the Canadian Government selected Ookpik to represent the country at the 1964 trade fair in Philadelphia. An overnight sensation, the Canadian Government moved quickly to trademark ...

NAIT is offering a reward for the return of its iconic mascot, ookpik, which has been missing for about five years. NAIT is offering a reward for the return of ookpik, missing for about five years.

In his indispensable book of children’s poetry Alligator Pie, Dennis Lee has a verse about the Ookpik, a big-eyed, all-fluff snowy owl figure popularized in the 1960s as an Inuit handicraft toy.

The criteria is simple: furry, goggle-eyed and easily reproduced as souvenirs Evidently our friends in the United Kingdom fail to understand the most rudimentary elements of successful mascot design.