This page contains archived news from April, 2009.

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April 24, 2009

Features

• Putting the unity back into community

Iqaluit

• Iqaluit This Week
• Around Iqaluit
• Iqaluit to get improved sealift handling facility

Nunavik

• Canadian Royalties Inc. beset by adversity
• Nunavut training program wins museum award

Nunavut

• Kimmirut church ­celebrates 100 years
• Pang man gets 18 years for vicious rape and assault
• Simon wants three more years as ITK head
• Two shippers expand sealift operations in Nunavut
• Around Nunavut
• Urban Inuit suffer with no support, research says
• CamBay mourns youth who jumped from aircraft
• Pang’s proposed airport site hits fog bank
• Suicide prevention group to tour Nunavut
• Uranium boom brought few benefits to Dene
• Scientist unearth ancient walking seal on Devon

April 17, 2009

Iqaluit

• Iqaluit This Week

Nunavik

• Nunavik hunters yearn for those stinky minkes
• Around Nunavik
• Makivik struggles with enrolment snafus

Nunavut

• Oldest contender aces Iqaluit to ­Kimmirut race
• Biologist: mining and caribou herds don’t mix
• Nunavut’s gas tax share doubles to $15 million
• Ottawa pours money into Clyde culture school
• Peterson “welcomes” unflattering AG report
• CITES to ponder bans on bear trophy exports
• Symposium declares Nunavut open for business

Arctic

• Around the Arctic

Climate

• Indigenous communities unite against climate change
• Arctic ice continues to shrink and thin

April 10, 2009

Features

• Standing on the shoulders of a giant

Iqaluit

• Iqaluit This Week
• Toonik Tyme offers something for everyone

Nunavik

• Around Nunavik
• Nunavik social housing in state of crisis

Nunavut

• Nunavut reveals $2-billion ­transport wish list
• Inuit schooling goes national under accord
• Inuit accord highlights
• Nunavut makes plans for 285 housing units
• Observers pack gallery as GN outlines future
• Give us a port and road, mine developer says
• Mineral exploration to drop this year in Nunavut
• In Nunavut, all that glistens really is gold
• Grandmother fights fires in Nunatsiavut
• Safety committee will seek more public input
• Natar Ungalaaq harvests two best actor awards
• IBC plans new media arts centre for Nunavut

Arctic

• Around the Arctic

April 3, 2009

Features

• Hunters get real poop on polar bear populations

Iqaluit

• Iqaluit This Week
• Around Iqaluit
• Iqaluit safety group hits language barrier

Nunavik

• Aatami wins fifth term as Makivik ­president
• Exiles case reviving
• Nunavik governing plan pledged by year’s end

Nunavut

• Pauktuutit conducts elections by flashlight
• Nunavut to lobby EU during seal ban delay
• Aglukkaq to steer language law through Commons
• Wildlife board looks at expanded walrus hunt
• Tories promise $27-million for Nunavut research projects
• Nunavut celebrates 10 trying, triumphant years
• Aariak tables GN’s five-year vision statement
• Improved Qikiqtani hospital gets its cred back
• Will bannock become an unaffordable luxury?
• Backed by Izok owner, BIPAR rises from deathbed
• Kivalliq-Manitoba road study nears completion
• Around Nunavut