Report: Canada should push for nuclear-free Arctic

“Let’s do this in a coordinated way”

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...

Curley: Nunavut to make children’s needs a priority

Health department struggles with severe short-staffing

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...

Okalik sticks the needle into Nunavut cabinet

Iqaluit West MLA peppers ministers with questions

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...

Inuit TB infection rate 32 times above national average in 2008

ITK wants national Inuit-specific strategy

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...

Still no verdict from jury in Nunavut police homicide trial

Eleven-person jury must choose between manslaughter or first-degree murder

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...