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The death of a 39-year-old man who was in custody at the Puvirnituq police station on July 27 appears to be the result of a completed suicide attempt, says the Sûreté du Québec provincial police force.
Investigators from the SQ flew to Puvirnituq from Montreal on July 29 to investigate the
NUUK — Thousands of Nuuk residents flocked into the newest and most striking addition to the city’s ever-expanding skyline July 27 as the ribbon was cut at Greenland’s first-ever indoor shopping mall.
Throughout the weekend, local people and visitors converged on the new mall, constructed at an...
On Aug. 1, 25 young people from Canada’s Inuit regions, along with 50 other students from around the world, will sail from Iqaluit to view icebergs and wildlife before heading from Qikiqtarjuaq to western Greenland.
That’s the plan for their 12-day educational cruise with the organization,...
Twenty years after Inuit from Chukotka finally met with other Inuit from Alaska, Canada and Greenland in Inuvik, Inuit in Chukotka — who call themselves Yuit or Yu’pik — last week welcomed a delegation from the Inuit Circumpolar Conference to their region.
Among the visiting Inuit: Duane Smith,...
Joe Utye, 20, of Kimmirut, faces six criminal charges following a shooting incident July 28 in which a man fired multiple rounds into the community’s RCMP detachment, police said July 30.
Utye, whose date of birth is given as Aug. 20, 1981 in an RCMP news release, but whose age is given as 20,...
With Quebec premier Jean Charest less than two days away from a widely-expected August 1 call for a Sept. 4 provincial election, Quebec’s political parties have lined up to contest the Parti Québécois hold on the northern riding that includes Nunavik.
The PQ’s Luc Ferland is latest in a long line...
Mattusie Oweetaluktuk of Inukjuak, Minnie Molly Snowball of Kangiqsualujjuaq, Gabriel Losier of Kawawachikamach are back home after participating in a clean-up project in the future Nunavik park Ulittaniujalik, located 100 kilometres south of Kangiqsualujjuaq on Ungava Bay.
The project, led by...
While Frobisher Bay and other Nunavut sea lanes remain clogged with ice, Arctic sea ice continued to track at levels far below average through July, with open water in the Kara and Barents seas reaching as far north as typically seen during September, reports the Colorado-based National Snow and...
James Eetoolook, a vice president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., says he has confidence that the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board will make the right decision on the draft narwhal management plan proposed by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
The NWMB, which held public hearings last week in......
The Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services has produced a trilingual user’s guide to the Northern Quebec Module, which provides patient services to Nunavimmiut in Montreal.
The new pamphlet publicizes the basic rules that beneficiaries and their escorts should respect while they’re...
About 10 Kimmirut residents risked their lives in the early morning of July 28 to subdue an intoxicated man who, soon after the arrival of a big alcohol shipment, fired multiple rounds at the community’s RCMP detachment.
“All of these people put their lives at risk to assist our police officers...
Commercial narwhal tusks may get an extra accessory if the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has its way.
The DFO proposes a new narwhal tusk traceability as part of the draft Narwhal Integrated Fisheries Management Plan debated this week in Iqaluit at a public hearing organized by the Nunavut...
Just when you thought the buzzing in your ears couldn’t get any worse, it probably will.
American researcher Lauren Culler, who’s been studying and counting mosquitoes near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, has discovered that mosquito larvae, which grow and develop in melt water ponds, mature faster in...
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