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As a musician, Joe Otokiak of Cambridge Bay knows how to whip up a crowd, while as a skilled Inuinnaqtun interpreter, he's able to translate the most complex discussions.
Now, as the new president of the Kitimeot Inuit Association, Otokiak, is set to guide the organization for the next three...
Only half of the Government of Nunavut's employees received orientation before starting their jobs, says a recent survey, and of those, only a fraction afterwards understood their job duties, the land claims agreement, and how the territorial government works.
Not surprisingly, only 36 per cent of...
After losing millions of dollars last summer, Air Greenland has pulled the plug on its non-stop jet service to North America.
After First Air ended its weekly service from Iqaluit to Kangerlussuaq in October 2001, Air Greenland's flights from Kangerlussuaq to Baltimore, Maryland offered the only...
Two Iqaluit residents are worried that their visions of serene walks on the west bank of the Sylvia Grinnell River will be crushed under the tire treads of all-terrain vehicles.
The Government of Nunavut plans to start construction this summer on a bridge crossing the river that bears the name of...
Public health officials in Nunavut are trying to clear something up: just because you're sick, it doesn't mean you need to take antibiotic drugs.
Nunavut's Department of Health and Social Services launched the "Not all bugs need drugs" campaign earlier this month.
The rise of antibiotic-resistant...
Too much sugar can kill you, warns former Nunavut Commissioner Peter Irniq, who learned recently he has diabetes.
After reflecting on his experience, Irniq feels the Government of Nunavut isn't doing enough to warn Nunavummiut about the risk of developing diabetes.
"The GN needs to promote healthy...
The Northern Quebec Teaching Association says the Kativik School Board violated Quebec's charter of human rights and its collective agreement with unionized teachers when they fired an Inukjuak teacher who suffers from a chronic medical condition.
The KSB, who says the teacher missed too much work...
Doug "Qimmiq" Wilkinson, 88, remembered fondly by many Eastern Arctic residents for his numerous films, photographs and books, died March 12 at Southbridge Lodge in Brampton, Ont.
He leaves his wife, Vivian, to whom he was married for 65 years; his daughter, Beverly; her husband, John Brady; and...
KIMMIRUT - A small crowd of children marvel as Peter Qisiiq races across the frozen bay on cross-country skis, pulled by a harness attached to a big kite.
He hits a snow hummock and launches into the air. "Whoah," says one kid. "He's fast," says another.
Qisiiq, who is from Kangiqsujuaq, has...
Another Toonik Tyme is almost ready to go in Iqaluit and organizers are putting out the call for volunteers.
"There are tons of odd jobs," said Olivia Brown, the festival's organizer. "Anything that you want to do we can probably find a place for you to do that."
Organizers are looking for people to...
Fearing that the Qikiqtani Regional Hospital might shut down, an Alberta doctor recently nixed a job-transfer request from a federal government employee in the South who wanted to work in Iqaluit.
That's because the doctor is worried that a hospital shut down might be unwise for the 50-year old...
Kimmirut - Simeonie Aqpik, 76, grew up with sled dogs.
This was during the 1930s and ‘40s, when Aqpik was a boy, and his family lived in camps near Kimmirut, then called Lake Harbour.
It was Aqpik's job to chew on sealskin traces to keep them supple. He can't do this any more, he says with a laugh....
After winning dozens of ulu-shaped medals, athletes from Nunavut and Nunavik are back from the 2008 Arctic Winter Games in Yellowknife.
The week-long event, which wrapped March 15, featured 1,800 young participants from Nunavut, Nunavik, the Northwest Territories, Yukon, northern Alberta and other...
After five months of foot-dragging, the Government of Nunavut has begun to move the Nunavut Business Credit Corp. to Iqaluit, after it finally acknowledged last week that Cape Dorset is a poor place for the territory's lender of last resort to be based.
Patterk Netser, Nunavut's minister of economic...
One day, they could be calling Canada's military shots in the Arctic.
So it's fitting that students from the Joint Command and Staff Program at Canadian Forces College Toronto were in Iqaluit and Pangnirtung earlier this month for an in-person look at Nunavut.
"It's about learning about Canadian...
Canada's Coast Guard has the expertise to protect Canadian interests in the Arctic but lacks money and political support, the Senate's fisheries committee heard last week.
Rob Huebert, a political scientist at the University of Calgary, told the committee the Coast Guard has more experience...
MLAs have sent Nunavut's proposed midwifery profession act, Bill 20, back to the drawing board, because they say the health department never responded to their concerns.
Speaking in the legislature March 11, David Alagalak, the MLA for Arviat and chairman of the standing committee on health and...
Inuit beneficiaries of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement will soon chose two executive members for Makivik Corp. - a treasurer and a vice-president for renewable resources.
The vote, scheduled for April 4, takes place on the final day of a week-long annual general meeting to be held in...
Canadian North plans to expand its scheduled service into seven Baffin communities as of April 1, a move that could lead to more choice and cheaper air fares for many Baffin residents.
Igloolik, Pond Inlet, Clyde River, Qikiqtarjuaq, Pangnirtung, Cape Dorset and Hall Beach have all been added to the...
Levi Barnabas, MLA for Quttiktuq, will serve as minister responsible for the Department of Human Resources and the Worker's Compensation Board, Premier Paul Okalik announced March 17.
Barnabas landed in cabinet by acclamation on March 13, when members of the legislative assembly met in a special...
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