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Award-winning filmmaker Zach Kunuk has another role to fill: he’s the newly-elected board member for Igloolik on the Qikiqtani Inuit Association’s board of directors, says an April 30news release on the “unofficial Igloolik by-election results.
The QIA held a by‐election April 30 in Igloolik to...
The Arviat man shot April 27 in a dangerous confrontation with police now faces four criminal charges, Chief Supt. Steve McVarnock, the commanding officer of the RCMP in Nunavut, told reporters April 30.
Bernie Okotak, 26, has been charged with possession of a restricted firearm and ammunition,...
After a period of declining heath, Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok of Arviat, one of Canada’s most prominent artists, died April 12. She was 77.
“This is an enormous loss to Inuit art and to Canadian culture generally,” said Judy Kardosh, director of Vancouver’s Marion Scott Gallery, where the artist’s...
A sizeable chunk of the money spent by Canada during International Polar Year — $10.6 million out of about $150 million — went to the 2007-08 Qanuippitali Inuit health survey in Nunavut.
“The Inuit health survey, which was one of the IPY projects has given us an understanding of the health of...
(Updated 12:05 p.m., April 30)
A member of the Nunavut RCMP has been charged with sexual assault in connection with an on-duty incident alleged to have taken place two years ago in the Nunavut community of Baker Lake.
“I wish I was here to tell you a different type of story,” Chief Supt. Steve...
When the Nanisivik lead-zinc mine closed in 2002, the nearby community of Arctic Bay received a present: hundreds of books from the mine’s library.
Today, the District of Education Authority in Arctic Bay, which looked after the community’s library, has decided it doesn’t want to run this library...
Twelve seal hunters from Greenland will lead a protest in Copenhagen May 1, which is celebrated as Labour Day in Denmark and other European countries.
The hunters and their supporters plan to march past the city’s venerable downtown department store, called Le Magasin, which has decided to stop...
(Updated April 28, 4:40 p.m.)
A detective from the Ottawa Police Service is now headed for Arviat to investigate the April 27 RCMP shooting of a 26-year-old man armed with a handgun stolen April 10 from the Arviat detachment, Chief Supt. Steve McVarnock of the Nunavut RCMP told reporters April
MARGARET MUNRO
Postmedia News
The oil and gas industry may be eyeing the energy riches under the Arctic Ocean, but scientists are even keener to start drilling in Canada’s polar waters.
They say the Beaufort Sea, in the western Canadian Arctic, holds clues to several environmental mysteries of...
MONTREAL — Here’s the good news: new houses in the Canadian Arctic are now built to much higher energy-efficiency standards than they were five years ago, by a factor of 50 per cent.
The North is good testing ground for new technology, said Bill Semple of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., at...
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