
Jennifer Noah of Iqaluit, one of many Iqaluit women who operate small home-based businesses, displays her wares at a craft fair held March 7 on International Women’s Day. Through her business, called “Anaana’s Little Helper,” Noah sells Nunavut-inspired sewn and embroidered baby gifts — with the help of her little son, Noah Noah. The Nunavut Status of Women Council organized the event. (PHOTO BY JIM BELL)
NEWS March 10, 2010 - 7:02 pm
Report: Canada should push for nuclear-free Arctic
“Let’s do this in a coordinated way”
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
JULIET O’NEILL
Canwest News Service
Special to Nunatsiaq News
OTTAWA — Calling for the creation of a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Arctic is not alarmist, says an academic report, as foreign ministers of the world’s Arctic nations prepare for a summit in Canada later this month.
While the...
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NEWS March 10, 2010 - 6:38 pm
Curley: Nunavut to make children’s needs a priority
Health department struggles with severe short-staffing
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Tagak Curley, the Nunavut health minister, said this week that his department wants to make the needs of children a priority in 2010.
This means revamping Nunavut’s Child and Family Services Act and looking at “the most appropriate ways to support Nunavut’s families, and to protect our children in...
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NEWS March 10, 2010 - 6:37 pm
Okalik sticks the needle into Nunavut cabinet
Iqaluit West MLA peppers ministers with questions
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Whenever there’s a chance to needle members of Nunavut’s current cabinet, former premier Paul Okalik, now a regular MLA for Iqaluit West, grabs it.
Speaking March 5 at the current sitting of the Nunavut legislature, Okalik asked repeated questions challenging ministers’ actions on a variety of...
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NEWS March 10, 2010 - 4:45 pm
Inuit TB infection rate 32 times above national average in 2008
ITK wants national Inuit-specific strategy
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Canada’s national Inuit organization wants an Inuit-specific national strategy for handling tuberculosis among Inuit, whose infection rate was 32 times worse than the national average in 2008.
In a joint press conference March 10, representatives of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Assembly of...
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NEWS March 08, 2010 - 10:48 pm
Still no verdict from jury in Nunavut police homicide trial
Eleven-person jury must choose between manslaughter or first-degree murder
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The fate of a Nunavut man on trial for the killing of RCMP Const. Douglas Scott in November of 2007 in Kimmirut rests on one issue: intent.
As of 6:30 p.m. March 10, an 11-person jury sitting in Iqaluit had yet to reach a verdict. The jury has been been deliberating since mid-afternoon March 8 to...
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