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Winds gusting as high as 140-kilometres per hour tore the roof off a five-plex housing unit, flipped over a car and sent boats flying through the air in Pangnirtung Nov. 27.
“I was awakened at about 3 o’clock Saturday morning by a gust of wind that was so strong that it literally moved my bed...
Printmakers from the Uqqurmiut Arts Centre showed off their 2010 collection at the Iqaluit museum Nov. 26, featuring works like this one, Winter Day by Piona Keyuakjuk. Relief, 16 by 16.5 cm. (IMAGE COURTESY OF UQQURMIUT ARTS CENTRE)
KUUJJUAQ — The answer to Nunavik’s energy needs could be blowing in the wind.
Hydro Quebec plans to do a feasibility study in Kangiqsualujjuaq in 2011 to see if this Ungava community is the right site for one or more wind generators which could produce up to 700 kilowatts of power.
The giant...
Rigid views of Inuit identity spread by Inuit and non-Inuit alike may hamper the development of an “authentic” urban Inuit identity, a anthropologist said in a recently published paper.
“The possibility of an authentic urban Inuit identity continues, in many ways, to be frustrated by an...
Iqaluit’s infrastructure needs dominate the platform of mayoral candidate Al Hayward.
The former city councillor, who sat on council from 2006 to 2009 and also served as deputy mayor, said in an interview that finding a way to build badly-needed facilities for Iqaluit is his priority, should he...
Paul Kaludjak attempts to position himself as the heir to outgoing mayor Elisapee Sheutiapik, whose skill at bridging the different ethnic groups in Iqaluit marked her seven-year administration.
“Being able to communicate directly with both Inuit and non-Inuit is very critical and she has been...
From his observations as a city councillor during Mayor Elisapee Sheutiapik’s second term in office, Jim Little says there’s a lot of room for improvement in how city council runs things.
“I went into that position feeling quite humbled by the electorate, that they would give me a chance for...
Madeleine Redfern is touting the vision thing.
Redfern, 40, a consultant and lawyer by training, is running to become Iqaluit’s mayor and promising more consultation and better planning before Iqaluit forges ahead with pricey infrastructure projects like a new dump, recreation centre and...
Inuit art has lost a legend.
One of Cape Dorset’s best-known sculptors and graphic artists is gone.
Kananginak Pootoogook, a figure in the growth of Inuit art for five decades, died in an Ottawa hospital Nov. 23 at the age of 75.
Dubbed by southerners as the “Audubon of the North,”a reference to...
The union that represents teachers of the Kativik School Board says its members will vote on a strike mandate before Christmas if the board does not agree to certain demands.
Those demands include better services for special needs students and lowering the value of the taxable housing benefit for...
Kuujjuammiut enjoy a lunch of country food after participating in a march to mark Nunavik’s day for the elimination of violence against women Nov. 25. It’s the second year of the march, modeled after the United Nations international day held on the same date. (PHOTO BY FABIEN MENÉ)
A national air freight carrier called Cargojet Canada Ltd. says it’s capable of reducing the cost of flying nutritious food to Nunavut by as much as 25 to 30 per cent, the House of Commons northern development committee heard earlier this week.
“What we’re talking about right now is talking to the...
The federal government announced on Nov. 25 the names of six people who will sit on a seven-member external advisory board set up to provide the federal government with advice on its new Nutrition North Canada food subsidy program.
The six members are:
• Wilfred Wilcox of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut....
In a narrow vote Nov. 23, Iqaluit City Council decided to create a new lot in Apex, the first in at least seven years.
With four votes in favour and four against, the council voted to allow Apex homeowners Kirt Ejesiak and Madeleine Cole to subdivide their lot near the old Hudson Bay Co. buildings...
Nominations are now open for an election to fill two expired positions on the Makivik Corp.’s five-person executive: treasurer and vice-president of resources development.
The elections will be held Jan. 21 for the two positions.
Those jobs are now held by Anthony Ittoshat, the incumbent...
Jim Shirley, co-director of the Kangirqliniq Centre for Arts and Learning (on the far left of the middle row), with a group of artists at Rankin Inlet’s Matchbox Gallery, whose educational arm, the Kangirqliniq Centre, received a $50,000 grant from the federal government. (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE...
Rankin Inlet’s had good news to share this week: the Canada Arts Training Fund said it will give $50,000 to the centre.
The fund, distributed by the federal department of Canadian Heritage, supports non-profit organizations that offer arts training at the community level.
And Kangirqliniq,...
Babies don’t always come when we plan for them, but one Nunavik newborn showed up at a higher altitude than most over Ungava Bay last week.
Eighteen-year-old Louisa Pilurtuut was expecting her first baby next month, two days before Christmas.
But the Kangiqsujuaq woman went into labour early...
Eva Aariak insists Nunavut is ready to negotiate a devolution agreement with the federal government.
So ready that the Government of Nunavut has taken out newspaper ads calling on Ottawa to come to the negotiating table and start working on an agreement.
“We have the mandate,” Aariak said in an...
Iqalummiut have four choices when they go to the polls to elect a new mayor Dec. 13.
Former city councillors Al Hayward and Jim Little are in the running, as are former NTI president Paul Kaludjak, and Madeleine Redfern, executive director of the Qikiqtani Truth Commission.
Three candidates have...
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