This page contains archived news from July, 2007.

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July 27, 2007

Climate

• Water levels continue to drop

Iqaluit

• Iqaluit This Week
• Tax deadbeats owe $1.1 million to Iqaluit
• A bylaw officer sees his shadows
• Small footprints mean big news for Iqaluit parents

Nunavik

• Man hangs himself in Kuujjuaq jail
• Around Nunavik

Nunavut

• “It smelled like a dump, like chemicals”
• Hunter disputes caribou “experts”
• Icebreaker records changes in iceless land
• Crime rate eases, but Nunavut courts need 4th judge
• Why Nunavut courts are busy
• Nunavut’s declining crime rates
• Around Nunavut
• Exposed permafrost melting rapidly on Ellesmere Island
• Inuit infants may suffer life-long lung damage
• Child lung infections impose big costs on GN

July 20, 2007

Climate

• Scientists get $26.5 million from the government to study huge ice cracks

Features

• Where dreams become Ranger reality

Iqaluit

• We’re innocent, Wisintainer says
• Iqaluit This Week
• Behind the green door
• Pooch parole gives young offenders a break

Nunavik

• KRPF grab drugs worth $800,000
• Nunavik self-rule accord looms
• Around Nunavik

Nunavut

• Arctic waits for Harper’s port announcement
• Electrical engineer a first for Nunavut
• Archaeologists aim to restore plundered past
• Is Nuuk what Iqaluit wishes to be?
• Tusaalanga lets you hear it
• Watt-Cloutier to establish advocacy group for Arctic
• Nunavut’s population ages slightly, still bucks Canada’s overall gray tide
• Around Nunavut
• Hanging out with black hole physicists
• Council offers mixed review of GN suicide strategy
• Inuit Heritage Trust gets $190,000 in funding

Arctic

• Around the Arctic

July 13, 2007

Features

• Nunavik’s digital revolutionaries

Iqaluit

• Iqaluit This Week
• Iqaluit gun drama ends without bloodshed
• Around Iqaluit
• Iqaluit spends $58,000 for planning consultant

Nunavik

• Junior Rangers get Duke of Edinburgh awards

Nunavut

• Knives out for Okalik
• Western provinces back North in devolution fight
• New scholarships unveiled on Nunavut Day
• The most expensive eggs in the world
• Where have all the gulls gone?
• Flying squad gives Igloolik dogs shot of good health
• Around Nunavut
• Kugluktuk man drowns in watercross race
• Iqaluit-born soldier killed near Kandahar
• We’ll buy eight Arctic ships, PM says
• Arts Award Picture

July 6, 2007

Climate

• Ellesmere wetlands turning into parched deserts

Features

• An eye on next year, Alianait 2007 wraps up

Iqaluit

• Iqaluit This Week
• White Stripes’ Arctic adventure hits Iqaluit
• Ice cap trekkers close to goal
• Library back to regular hours

Nunavik

• Charest urged to take charge of youth protection fix
• “Nobody’s really putting in the effort.”
• What the commission recommends
• Bullet-proof vests latest source of KRPF discontent
• Cruise North crew puts accent on youth
• Around Nunavik
• Charges dropped because cops lacked paperwork
• Greenland looks to the future

Nunavut

• Women’s group dumps on premier
• Floating health survey readies for launch
• Top-level bureaucrat lured to Yukon
• Eastern arctic transplant overcomes barriers
• Crazy for kayaks in Greenland
• Expert: anti-suicide plans will need follow-up