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Curley blasts Globe and Mail for Nunavut feature
“I get angry when I read the national newspaper that tries to portray Nunavut as hopeless”
Health and social services minister Tagak Curley launched an angry broadside May 31 against the author of a Globe and Mail story in which Curley appeared to downplay the problem of suicide in Nunavut.
The article, headlined “The trials of Nunavut: Lament for an Arctic nation” was written by Globe...
No opposition to CamBay Elks liquor license application at May 30 hearing
Nunavut Liquor Licensing Board approves the Elks' application on May 31
(updated, June 1, 7:45 a.m.)
A May 30 Nunavut Liquor Licensing Board hearing in Cambridge Bay attracted only two dozen people eager to discuss an application from the Ikaluktutiak Elks Lodge 593 for a club liquor license.
All but one of those who showed up for the 6 p.m. meeting at the Luke...
Shorter Alianait arts festival still packs in shows
"We will be celebrating the many dimensions of ravens"
More than 20 performers from across the North, southern Canada, France and New Zealand are slated to perform at this year’s Alianait arts festival in Iqaluit.
The festival’s new shorter edition, from June 30 to July 3, will feature concerts by Greenland pop performer Angu, Chesterfield Inlet-born...
Tootoo takes over as Speaker in Nunavut legislature
“I needed to make a change”
(Updated 5:25 p.m., May 31)
Hunter Tootoo is the new Speaker of Nunavut’s Legislative Assembly.
Tootoo, the MLA for Iqaluit Centre, stepped down May 31 from his cabinet job as minister of education and human resources after being nominated by Nattilik MLA Jeannie Ugyuk.
He defeated Akulliq MLA...
Nunavik’s regional government in “sound” financial shape: treasurer
Kativik Regional Government produces $7 million surplus, 52 per cent Inuit workforce
KANGIRSUK — The Kativik Regional Government’s finances are in good shape, KRG treasurer Ghislaine Turcot told regional councillors in Kangirsuk this week.
The regional government’s budget stands at $276.7 million, Turcot said.
That figure does not include educational, health or justice services...
Inuit Women’s Association of Nunavik in disarray, departing president says
“The things we planned to do, we couldn’t do them”
(updated at 4:00 p.m.)
KANGIRSUK — Saturviit, the Inuit Women’s Association of Nunavik, appears to have hit a wall — hard.
Its president, Lizzie Tukai, who was re-elected last May for another term, says she’s resigning.
In her May 30 report to the Kativik Regional Government council, Tukai said...
Expedition could solidify Canada’s Arctic claims
Canada heads to the High Arctic to justify its claim over the Arctic Ocean's resource-rich seabed
RANDY BOSWELL
Postmedia News
A High Arctic mapping expedition this summer along a mysterious undersea mountain chain near the North Pole will mark the culmination of a 10-year federal research project, which aims at adding millions of square kilometres of ocean floor to this country’s territorial...
Greenpeace activists cling to Cairn drill-rig
“I can't help but notice you have two activists currently close to our rig”
Greenpeace activists still hung from the underside of an oil rig off the west coast of Greenland May 30 as they sought to derail Cairn Energy’s summer drilling plans.
Two members of the environmental group were suspended in a “survival pod” hanging 20 metres above the waters of Davis Strait from...
Pang RCMP seize cash and marijuana in three busts
Three young men face charges related to drug trafficking
RCMP members came down hard on drug dealers in Pangnirtung this past month, seizing nearly $2,000 in cash and 35 grams of marijuana in three separate operations.
On May 5, at about 9:00 p.m., RCMP responded to a tip from a member of the public that a man was acting erratically near the bridge in...
Nunavik mulls community food bank plan
Region seeking a "local solution to a local problem"
KANGIRSUK — Nunavik’s regional government is looking at a variety of measures, such as a network of community food banks, to help people in the region eat better.
Quebec, along with Makivik Corp. and the Kativik Regional Government, already supports regional programs aimed at lowering the cost of...
TI looks for eager rowers in Ottawa
Tungasuvvingat Inuit team will race the 15th Annual Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival
Are you between the ages of 15 to 25, living in Ottawa, and craving some exercise?
Then, Tungasuvvingat Inuit, the community centre for Inuit, wants you.
TI is looking for at least 20 youth aged 15 to 25 who are eager to train for two days of races during the 15th Annual Ottawa Dragon Boat...
Photo: Snapshot of suspected proceeds of crime
Warming, a double-edged sword for northern transportation: study
"Much of the landscape will become less accessible“
MARGARET MUNRO
Postmedia News
The Northwest Passage will not open up to shipping anytime soon, according to a study that warns global warming is a double-edged sword for northern transportation.
“And Canada is going to be feeling the harsh edge of the sword more strongly than other Arctic...
Researchers to trace the narwhals’ Arctic journey
“We’re trying to fill in research gaps”
A team of researchers plan to go where few have gone before.
On June 3, an eight-member crew led by the Pew Environment Group’s Oceans North Canada will board a converted crab trawler in Greenland’s Disko Bay en route to Nunavut’s Lancaster Sound.
From the deck of the 45-foot Arctic Endeavour,...
Photo: Hydro Quebec welcomes Kuujjuamiut to an open house
Nunatsiaq News honoured again for excellence
Staff picks up six awards for excellence from the Quebec Community Newspaper Association
The Quebec Community Newspaper Association bestowed six awards on Nunatsiaq News staff May 27 at its annual gala held near Montreal.
Editor Jim Bell won the Bob Phillips Award for the Best Editorial (general) for his Aug. 12, 2010 editorial called “Federal justice minister must act now,” which the...
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