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This ice carving of a polar bear, which has been displayed already in Quebec City and Ottawa, is now at Montreal’s Place Ville Marie Belvedere, where it will stay until it has melted away.
The ice bear display is part of climate change campaign organized by the Quebec environmental group Equiterre...
KANGIQSUJUAQ — If every dog is meant to have its day, then regular veterinary care just might become a reality in Nunavik.
Animals and their owners could benefit from on-site veterinary services as soon as 2012, including canine and feline sterilization.
That’s because the many organizations that...
Hockey players and skaters will once again skate inside the Arctic Winter Games arena when repair work ends this fall
Iqaluit’s recreation coordinator, Amy Elgersma, told city council this past week that she expects the arena to be ready for the start of the 2010-2011 hockey season in September...
If you have a new Arctic Cat snowmobile, your ride might be hotter than you think.
The 2010 Arctic Cat 500 Sno Pro has been recalled by the U.S. Consumer Safety Product Safety Commission over a potential fire hazard.
The notice of recall on the Arctic Cat company website says the mounting screws...
Police investigating the November 2007 shooting death of RCMP Const. Douglas Scott in Kimmirut found no usable fingerprints at the crime scene, a jury in Iqaluit heard Friday.
Sgt. Ernie Dechant, a forensic investigator with the RCMP, testified he found no fingerprints belonging to the accused,...
The light at the end of the tunnel may finally be approaching for Pangnirtung’s new health centre.
The Government of Nunavut has issued a tender to buy and ship non-medical furniture for the centre by air freight, one of the last steps before the long-delayed facility can open in mid-April, the...
RANDY BOSWELL
Canwest News Service
Two U.S. scientists have published a radical new theory about when, where and how humans migrated to the New World, arguing that the peopling of the Americas may have begun via Canada’s High Arctic islands and the Northwest Passage — much farther north and at...
KUUJJUAQ — A dozen uniformed police officers from the Kativik Regional Police Force and the Sûréte du Québec arrived Feb. 25 at this week’s meeting of the Kativik Regional Government’s regional council to make a symbolic show of beefed-up police activity in the region.
Nunavimmiut listening to a...
Investigators searching Pingoatuk Kolola’s Kimmirut house the day after RCMP Const. Douglas Scott was gunned down found a letter signed by Kolola apologizing to his friends, family and unborn son, a jury in Iqaluit heard Thursday.
The letter, written in orange crayon, was read in court by Sgt....
Long distance telephone, internet and satellite television users throughout most of the Arctic will once again suffer short, daily outages due to the twice-a-year sun transit problem.
Telesat Canada’s sun transit calculator shows that for Iqaluit, short service interruptions of between eight and...
Johnny Issaluk of Iqaluit uses his tremendous body strength to demonstrate the airplane at an exhibition of traditional Inuit sports held during a celebration of Inuit culture at the Olympic Games in Vancouver last weekend. The Feb. 20 event showcased artists and performers from across Canada’s...
The direct ancestors of today’s eastern Arctic Inuit may have come looking for iron.
A new theory by a Canadian archaeologist argues that the ancestors of modern Canadian Inuit traveled rapidly from Alaska to Greenland, in search of iron for tools and trade.
Ruin Island, between Ellesmere Island...
KANGIQSUJUAQ — The southernmost permafrost limit has retreated 130 kilometres over the past 50 years ago in Quebec’s James Bay region, say researchers from Laval University.
If that trend continues, permafrost in that region will completely disappear in the near future, said biologist Serge...
KUUJJUAQ — Nunavimmiut must protect and care for their children and “start acting like adults,” two wellness counsellors said at the Kativik Regional Government council meeting this week in Kuujjuaq.
“We need to act like adults and not do whatever we want,” Lizzie Ningiuruvik told the group of...
KUUJJUAQ — The Kativik Regional Government has fired Jobie Epoo from his job as interim police chief of Nunavik’s Kativik Regional Police Force after he pleaded guilty on Jan. 20 to charges of impaired driving and mischief under $5,000.
Members of the regional council unanimously passed a...
Pingoatuk Kolola told his former common-law spouse he wanted to commit suicide after the shooting death of RCMP Const. Douglas Scott in Kimmirut, Nov. 5, 2007, a jury in Iqaluit heard Wednesday.
Annie Manning, who was in a relationship with Kolola between 1991 and 2002, testified she received a...
Two friends of Pingoatuk Kolola tried to intervene when he chased his common-law wife and his niece through the streets of Kimmirut on Nov. 5, 2007, witnesses said Tuesday at Kolola’s first-degree murder trial in the killing of RCMP Const. Douglas Scott.
Sam Pikuyak, who worked with Kolola at the...
KUUJJUAQ — Ottawa is eyeing a plan to build 1,000 new social housing units in Nunavik, which could possibly see Makivik Corp. throw in some cash to see the deal move ahead.
A commitment from the federal and provincial governments to build 1,000 additional social units in Nunavik, where the...
Const. Douglas Scott stepped into the middle of a heated dispute between Pingoatuk Kolola and his common-law wife on Nov. 5, 2007, the night Scott was killed, an Iqaluit jury heard Monday.
Prosecutors opened their first-degree murder case against Kolola Monday afternoon with a series of recordings...
Enuk Pauloosie, who was elected MLA for Nattilik in the Oct. 27, 2008 territorial election, quit his seat in the Nunavut legislative assembly Feb. 22.
Pauloosie communicated his decision in a letter to the speaker, James Arreak, but Pauloosie’s correspondence did not state any reason for the...
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