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The Nunavut Association of Municipalities website promises visitors that an English version of the site will be available by March 17, 2009, and an Inuktitut version by April 28.
Turns out the site isn’t available yet in any of Nunavut’s four official languages.
The organization, which lobbies...
The situation of health and social workers in Nunavik is “pathetic” said Michelle Audy, a hospital laboratory technician at Kuujjuaq’s Tulattavik hospital.
And, if there’s no improvement, workers will leave in droves, said Audy, the president of the local union for Ungava Bay’s health and social...
Iqaluit’s still-new Public Safety Committee says it can’t pull together a public safety plan for the city before its mandate runs out with the dissolving of council in early October for municipal elections.
Instead, the committee will prepare a “strategic direction” for council that will
Cable television in Iqaluit went digital this week.
Iqaluit Cable, run by Arctic Co-ops Ltd., announced last month they’ll expand the number of channels available and eventually offer high definition television.
The TV provider will also move away from its current one-size-fits-all package of...
Disappointment over the lack of Inuit representation on the federal Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been eased by the new TRC chair’s verbal promise to ensure Inuit voices are properly heard through an Inuit sub-commission.
Commission chair Justice Murray Sinclair assured Inuit Tapiriit...
The Quebec provincial cabinet ministers responsible for social services and native affairs will visit Nunavik by mid-July to deal personally with the region’s worsening youth protection crisis.
Pierre Corbeil, the provincial native affairs minister, told the Nunatsiaq News that he and social...
Iqaluit drivers could be cruising on smooth black layers of asphalt by mid-August.
The City of Iqaluit hopes to finish work on 13 kilometres of new asphalt by then, paving almost all of Iqaluit’s roads. In the process, city staff hope the work will cut down on plumes of summer dust and ease the...
The Iqaluit audience inside Alianait’s big top knew Zebedee Nungak had the best line in the moving documentary film, The Experimental Eskimos, when they watched it’s Nunavut debut June 28.
The 200-plus people, shivering inside the tent on a wet, windy Sunday evening, erupted into spontaneous...
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Pita Aatami, president of Makivik Corp., seen here with Jean Charest, the premier of Quebec, is now a knight or “chevalier” of the Ordre du Québec, the province’s honor society. Aatami was inducted into the Ordre June 17 in Quebec City for “helping...
Nunavut’s education department plans to bring more elders into the schools and try to keep more students — especially young males — in school, education minister Louis Tapardjuk said in the Nunavut legislature last week.
His department wants to spend $800,000 this year to determine how to...
Nunavut may have given itself a bad rap when it comes to the H1N1 virus.
With 285 lab-confirmed cases as of Friday, June 26, the territory’s rate of infection appears to be much higher than anywhere else in the country.
The Northwest Territories, to compare Nunavut to a jurisdiction of similar...
There was one night during her bout of swine flu, Patricia Bell said, when she was afraid to fall asleep.
Breathing felt so difficult that she feared she wouldn’t wake up.
But she did fall asleep eventually — and she did wake up — and she did recover, after more than a week of illness as...
The job of Nunavut’s official language commissioner Alexina Kublu gets bigger July 1 when some sections of the territory’s new Inuit Language Protection Act come into force.
As of July 1, Kublu will be able to accept oral complaints about language-related issues from Nunavummiut and take action on...
Nunavut needs a massive overhaul of its transportation network, including deep-water ports, small craft harbours, airport improvements and roads, according to the latest Government of Nunavut transportation strategy.
Ingirrasiliqta or “Let’s Get Moving”, tabled June 5 in the Legislative Assembly,...
A space science research station will go in Resolute Bay, thanks to $10 million that Eric Donovan, a space physicist from the University of Calgary, received last week from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation’s New Initiatives Fund.
His “Resolute Bay Incoherent Scatter Radar” will allow...
Justice Browne to leave Nunavut
Nunavut’s justice minister Keith Peterson rose in the Nunavut legislature June 16 to acknowledge Justice Beverly Browne’s 20-year contribution to Nunavut’s justice system.
Browne, who handed in her resignation earlier this month, plans to leave Nunavut this fall...
Katimavik, a national program for youth that takes its name from an Inuktitut word for “meeting place,” is returning to Nunavut this fall after a long absence.
And Patricia Peyton couldn’t be happier.
Peyton, originally from Pangnirtung but now living in Iqaluit and working for the Nunavut...
Many Nunavummiut stand to benefit from amendments to Nunavut’s income tax act, to which MLAs gave their thumbs up June 16 in the territorial legislature.
The amendments in Bill 4 provide tax relief to Nunavummiut in the following forms:
Jimmy Stotts, a member of the first executive of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in 1980, is taking over the leadership of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, a June 18 ICC new release said.
Stotts, an Iñupiaq from Barrow, Alaska, takes over from Patricia Cochran, who resigned as ICC Chair two weeks...
Canada’s Arctic waters should be better protected through amendments to the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act, which were announced by Canada’s transport minister John Baird June 17.
“With these amendments, Canada increases its ability to protect its Arctic waters from pollution by...
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