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When John Sperry first went as an Anglican missionary to Coppermine - now Kugluktuk - in 1950, Christmas was still new for the Kitengmiut people of the region.
Even when Sperry arrived in Coppermine, the camps were scattered across the coast and inland region, and people didn't even come to the...
After using up the last of its cash, the Tahera Diamond Corp. shed all remaining staff this past Friday, Dec. 12 and ceased all operations at its moribund Jericho diamond mine in the Kitikmeot region, the company said this week in a statement.
At the same time, the Department of Indian Affairs and...
You don't end up spending Christmas in a shelter unless something has gone horribly wrong in your life.
The women and children at the Qimaavik Transitional Home in Apex, known to most people as the women's shelter, have come here to escape violence in the home, whether emotional, verbal, physical or...
Like Christmas, Diwali and other holy festivals celebrated at this dark time of year, Chanukah centres on the symbolism of light.
When the Jews recaptured Jerusalem from Syrian invaders in 161 B.C., they found a menorah, or lamp, in the desecrated temple, with just enough sanctified olive oil to...
Dr. Priya Gaba remembers the excitement of getting a new outfit to wear on Diwali, the Hindu New Year that celebrates the triumph of good over evil.
Usually it was custom-tailored, she recalled in an interview, because manufactured clothes in India were more expensive.
For Gaba, a doctor at the...
Christmas for Vincent Dobson as a child in Port of Spain, Trinidad, meant home-baked bread, boiled sweet ham, and "black cake" made with rum and dried fruits, followed by "music all weekend."
"And if you don't have apples and grapes, you can't enjoy Christmas," Dobson said. Apples were exotic...
Canada needs to boost its ability to enforce Canadian law in the Arctic, and requires new ships, infrastructure and a push to recruit Inuit to work in the Coast Guard, says Bill Rompkey, a Liberal senator from Labrador.
Rompkey is the chair of the Senate's standing committee on fisheries and oceans,...
Ottawa and Iqaluit are pouring $400,000 into a program that aims to use hip hop as a way to promote health, reduce crime and prevent suicide.
The federal government is adding nearly $200,000 to the same amount that's already been spent bringing Blueprint For Life, the Ottawa-based organization that...
There are so many special memories of Christmases I have experienced over the years, starting with Kimmirut when I was a little girl.
Christmas in the 1950s around Kimmirut was very different from the ones today. My Uncle Annugaq was a special guide and helper for the nurse in Kimmirut, so we...
John Ningark is the new MLA for Akulliq. Maybe.
Ningark, a veteran of the old Northwest Territories legislature, appeared to squeak past incumbent Steve Mapsalak by two votes in a by-election held this past Monday, Dec. 15.
But Ningark's narrow margin of victory means the results will go to a...
Hamlets across Nunavut's three regions held council and mayoral elections this past Monday.
Here's a list of those who were elected or acclaimed to mayor and council seats across Nunavut.
To make room for results from all communities, we have omitted the names of council candidates who did not win...
Michaëlle Jean's decision to prorogue Parliament may have taken some of the wind out of their sails, but a handful of union members and Liberal activists gathered Dec. 4 to denounce the Conservative government and promote the idea of a Liberal-NDP coalition.
Jean, the Governor General, granted a...
As his Cessna Skymaster plane dropped rapidly and silently towards the dark, ice-floe-speckled sea off the south shore of Baffin Island, pilot Troes Hansen peered desperately into the darkness, seeking the best possible option for the inevitable crash landing.
His colleague, Oliver Edwards-Neil,...
The Nunavut health department has said no thanks to an offer of free research on a lung disease that sends nearly a third of Nunavut children under six months old who live outside Iqaluit to hospital.
And every one of those children has to be medevaced, at great expense to the Government of...
Nearly 40 per cent of Inuit children in Nunavut experienced hunger in 2006, according to new figures released by Statistics Canada.
Data from the 2006 census found that 39 per cent of Nunavut children experienced food insecurity because their family ran out of food or money to buy food at least once...
A crack dealing operation broken up by police this past spring was unlike anything seen before in Iqaluit, says a member of the RCMP's drug section.
"They were building themselves a market with the amount of crack cocaine that they had," said Cst. James Morrison. "Since they've been taken down...
Thomasie Alikatuktuk won re-election to the presidency of the Qikiqtani Inuit Association with 25.2 per cent of the vote this past Monday, Dec. 8, defeating eight other candidates.
Only 34 per cent of eligible Qikiqtani region beneficiaries cast ballots - which means two of every three did not...
The European Union's new ban on polar bear imports from Baffin Bay and Kane Basin will kill Titus Allooloo's outfitting business in Pond Inlet and deprive Nunavut of much-needed income.
Since "nothing is importable to the United States anymore, the only thing we had left was the Europeans," Allooloo...
An Edmonton woman arrested in March carrying nearly $240,000 in drug profits from Iqaluit will spend a year in jail.
Alicia Belcher, 22, was arrested after arriving in Yellowknife on a flight from Iqaluit. The money came from a crack cocaine operation that was run out of two apartments in the...
It took a bit of shouting, but Iqaluit is on its way to setting up a formal public safety committee of council.
Councillor Jim Little had been spearheading the city's response after a series of incidents last summer, including a vicious sexual assault behind the high school, led to a public call for...
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