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Photo: Youth talk education at ITK conference
Police seize stolen assault rifle in Pangnirtung
A 37-year-old man faces numerous charges
Police in Pangnirtung seized an assault rifle Oct. 19 in Pangnirtung, the RCMP said in an Oct. 31 news release.
The rifle, a Galil model 372, belongs to a group of light military firearms first designed and manufactured in Isreal during the late 1960s.
Members of the RCMP in Pangnirtung found the...
Adlair Aviation Ltd. loses medevac contract appeal
NNI board says GN properly awarded Kitikmeot medevac work
(updated Oct. 31 at 4:10 p.m.)
The Nunavummi Nangminiqaqtunik Ikajuuti appeals board has denied an appeal filed by Adlair Aviation Ltd. of Cambridge Bay to overturn the Government of Nunavut’s decision to award the Kitikmeot region’s medevac contract to Aqsaqniq Airways Ltd.
In August, the...
Photo: Women heal in CamBay
Photo: Resolute Bay tank leaks, clean-up, investigation underway
Police suspect foul play in Resolute Bay fuel spill
“It looks like someone opened the valves"
The Oct. 28 leak at the Resolute Bay tank farm was likely a deliberate act, the Nunavut RCMP said Oct. 31.
“It looks like someone opened the valves,” said RCMP spokesman Sgt. Kevin Lewis Oct. 31. “But as it stands, we have no suspects and we’re still investigating.”
RCMP launched an investigation......
Nunavut to propose amendments to privacy act: Aariak
"The major change to be considered is to make privacy oversight mandatory"
After completing a review of its Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the Government of Nunavut now promises action.
The GN will deliver amendments to the act by the end of 2012 to ensure better “accountability and transparency,” Nunavut Premier Eva Aariak told the legislative...
Nunavut Housing Corp. gets board of directors
New body includes members from Iqaluit, Cambridge Bay, Arviat
The Nunavut Housing Corp. has a new seven-member board of directors, Tagak Curley, Nunavut’s minister responsible for the housing corporation, said Oct. 28 in the Nunavut legislature.
The Nunavut Housing Corp. solicited interest for board appointments, following the approval last June to amend the...
Inuit Heritage Trust slams pull-back on Nunavut Heritage Centre project
"Inuit are unable to reclaim our historical tools and belongings"
Luke Suluk, president of the Inuit Heritage Trust, said Oct. 28 that he’s disappointed that the Government of Nunavut has decided to shelve plans to build a Nunavut Heritage Centre.
The centre was missing from the GN’s current five-year capital plan, brought up last week before the Nunavut...
Photo: GN’s internship program sees new graduate
Tory crime bill spells trouble for Nunavut: lawyer
Tough sentences won’t deter drunks from doing crimes
The Conservative government’s omnibus crime bill means trouble for Nunavut if the territory doesn’t tackle the root causes of crime, Cambridge Bay lawyer Peter Harte warned this week.
If passed, Bill C-10, also known as the Safe Streets and Communities Act, will not address the underlying causes...
Soldier dies on rescue mission in Nunavut
"I extend my deepest sympathies to the family, friends and comrades of Sgt. Janick Gilbert"
(with files from Postmedia News, updated, Oct. 31, 7:40 p.m.)
The body of a Canadian search-and-rescue technician who died during an Oct. 27 rescue operation in Nunavut arrived in Ontario on Saturday afternoon.
Sgt. Janick Gilbert, 34, from Baie-Comeau, Que., died Thursday night during a mission...
Photo: A scary $50 bill?
Monitoring shows contaminants still pollute the Arctic
“These chemicals are known to be harmful for humans and wildlife"
Monitoring in the Arctic for toxic substances produced in farms and factories located far to the south continues this year, with scientists like Anya Gawor on the look-out for traces of these contaminants in the Arctic air and waters, and even in tiny sea creatures.
Gawor, 24, a graduate student...
RCMP denies knowledge of residential school abuses
"Our role was not involved specifically within the school"
AMY CHUNG
Postmedia News
OTTAWA — The RCMP was not aware of the abuses happening in the Indian residential schools, according to a report that covers more than 100 years of the Mounties’ involvement in one of Canadian history’s darkest chapters.
On Saturday, RCMP Deputy Commissioner Steve Graham...
Photo: A new logo for Air Inuit
Resolute tank farm spills 100,000 litres of fuel
GN works on clean-up, RCMP investigates
A massive clean-up effort will get underway in Resolute Bay, where on Oct. 28 the community’s tank farm spilled an estimated 100,000 litres of fuel.
The cause of the spill remains unknown and the RCMP have launched an investigation.
In the meantime, the spill has been contained and there are no...
China enters the Arctic equation
"The Canadian Arctic has what China wants"
MARK SIBLEY
Postmedia News
OTTAWA — A new Great Game is making a quiet appearance in Canada’s Arctic.
In a speech Friday in Beijing, the Danish ambassador to China, Friis Arne Peterson, said the communist country has “natural and legitimate economic and scientific interests in the Arctic” even...
SAR tech died “in the water” during rescue mission: RCMP
"Tragically, one of the SAR Tech Rescuers was found to be non-responsive in the water"
The RCMP in Nunavut has revealed more about the circumstances that led to the death of a search-and-rescue technician from Canadian Forces Base Trenton who died Oct. 27 during a rescue mission near Igloolik.
Sgt. Janick Gilbert died Thursday night during a mission near Igloolik, the Department of...
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