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JOHN BIRD
When Siila Watt-Cloutier - the activist formerly known as Sheila - delivers her LaFontaine-Baldwin lecture tonight at Inuksuk High School in Iqaluit, she will have her largest Canadian audience ever, she says.
The lecture series, established by Canadian novelist and essayist John...
Madeleine Redfern of Iqaluit isn’t happy about the way federal officials are doing a consultation exercise on the possible listing of the polar bear as a “species of special concern.”
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JOHN BIRD
A recent federal consultation in Iqaluit on the status of polar bears under the Species at Risk Act was nothing more than a sham exercise, Madeleine Redfern has told the minister responsible in an open letter.
The consultation “was one of the worst I’ve ever attended in my life - and I...
All levels of government - including the food mail program - need to recognize the importance of country food to Nunavummiut, Iqaluit city councillor Glenn Williams said at a May 26 council meeting
Country food is important to the health of Inuit and strengthens traditional values and lifestyles,...
Jim Bell of Nunatsiaq News picks up his first place award for Best Editorial in the local affairs category, “First Air bonus fiasco contains big lesson,” at the Quebec Community Newspaper Association awards banquet held May 22 in Montreal. Beryl Wiseman of The Suburban took the second place prize,...
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Nunatsiaq News and its staff took home 13 prizes, for work done in 2008, from Canadian and Quebec community newspaper association banquets held at the Sheraton Centre in Montreal this past weekend.
Much to the amusement of Canadian Community Newspaper Association members who...
JOHN BIRD
Premier Eva Aariak said she feels like she has been trying to run Nunavut’s government with the qamutik before the dogs ever since last fall’s election.
But appointing former Yukon premier Piers McDonald to head the long-awaited “comprehensive review of the Government of Nunavut’s...
TASIJUAQ - It’s official: Nunavik now has a second provincial park, Kuururjuaq, located near the community of Kangiqsualujjuaq.
Maggie Emudluk, chairperson of the Kativik Regional Government, said all legislative requirements for the creation of the Parc national Kuururjuaq had finally been met by...
Jason Annahatak of Kangirsuk stands on the steps of Columbia Universit’s Low Memorial Library in New York City last week. Having graduated from the prestigious school with a masters’ degree in psychological counselling, Annahatak also stands on the threshold of a promising career.
(PHOTOS BY JUSTIN...
Jason Annahatak in the northeastern section of Central Park near a small lake called Harlem Meer. The globetrotting Inuk has travelled widely through Asia, Russia, and the United States, but this summer he’s coming home to work as a tour guide for Cruise North.
JUSTIN NOBLE - SPECIAL TO NUNATSIAQ NEWS
NEW YORK - Jason Annahatak has been where few others from Kangirsuk, a community of about 470 on Nunavik’s Ungava Bay coast, have gone: the bush of South Africa, the streets of Hong Kong and Saint Petersburg, the former capital of the Russian empire.
Last...
JANE GEORGE
KUUJJUAQ - A 20-year Kuujjuaq resident faces charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the 1987 shooting death of his uncle.
Patrice Bernard, 41, appeared at the courthouse in Granby, Quebec, a city about 70 kilometres east of Montreal, on May...
JANE GEORGE
KUUJJUAQ - Hunters in Nunavik, who finally convinced the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans that the waters of the Hudson Strait are teeming with belugas, will hunt nearly 60 more whales there in 2009.
“Hunters are a little bit happier than they were last year,” said Paulusie...
Blood, dope, and lethal violence: aside from that, it was just another weekend in Iqaluit.
As of Nunatsiaq News press-time this week, members of the Iqaluit RCMP detachment were still sifting through the wreckage produced by Iqaluit’s latest bout of weekend mayhem.
That includes the “suspicious...
A recent federal consultation in Iqaluit on the status of polar bears under the Species at Risk Act was nothing more than a sham exercise, Madeleine Redfern has told the minister responsible in an open letter.
The consultation "was one of the worst I've ever attended in my life - and I attend a lot...
NEW YORK - Jason Annahatak has been where few others from Kangirsuk, a community of about 470 on Nunavik's Ungava Bay coast, have gone: the bush of South Africa, the streets of Hong Kong and Saint Petersburg, the former capital of the Russian empire.
Last weekend, he graduated with a masters'...
The rights of indigenous peoples need more protection, delegates to an international forum in New York declared this week.
Delegates to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, a 16-member body established by the United Nations in 2000, said they want global recognition of the UN Declaration on...
When Siila Watt-Cloutier - the activist formerly known as Sheila - delivers her LaFontaine-Baldwin lecture tonight at Inuksuk High School in Iqaluit, she will have her largest Canadian audience ever, she says.
The lecture series, established by Canadian novelist and essayist John Ralston Saul, is...
Nunatsiaq News and its staff took home 13 prizes, for work done in 2008, from Canadian and Quebec community newspaper association banquets held at the Sheraton Centre in Montreal this past weekend.
Much to the amusement of Canadian Community Newspaper Association members who attended their...
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