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If you are a talented Inuit carver in Nunavik, the Federation des coopératives du nouveau Québec is putting on a carving contest with big prizes.
The contest applies to artwork purchased by the co-op and sent to the federation.
Just bring your artwork for sale to the co-op as usual, but make...
A small crew of people with the Canadian Forces started their first Arctic training exercise Jan. 30 about nine kilometres northwest of Iqaluit with members from the Canadian Rangers and the Civilian Air Search and Rescue Association.
“They’ve been trying to get up to do this exercise outside of...
For the first time in at least three years, there were no “defense of life or property” polar bear kills in Arviat in 2012.
That’s after two years of a three-year project the hamlet is undertaking with World Wildlife Fund Canada in a polar bear conflict reduction project.
The project provides...
More women in Nunavut need to run for political office, Monica Ell, minister responsible for Qulliit Nunavut Status of Women Council, said after Kathleen Wynne became premier of Ontario by winning the leadership of the provincial Liberal party Jan. 27.
Eighty-seven per cent of Canadians now have...
The understaffing of health and medical services in Nunavut is just one of the issues under discussion at a three-day forum on tuberculosis at the Hotel Arctic in Iqaluit, Dr. Gonzalo Alvarez of the University of Ottawa said Jan. 30.
The purpose of the forum, which started Jan. 29, is to develop...
Discussions at an academic conference on Arctic security and sovereignty in Toronto are going well, but Inuit need to be more involved in Arctic talks, said Rosemarie Kuptana, a former president of the Inuit Broadcasting Corp., the Inuit Circumpolar Conference and the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada....
Meetings to find a new total allowable harvest for the Southern Hudson Bay polar bear sub-population shared by Nunavut, Quebec and Ontario are delayed until a final report on the status animals becomes available, said Drikus Gissing, the director of wildlife management with the Government of...
The Government of Nunavut’s finance department is encouraging Nunavut businesses to begin rounding cash transactions.
That’s because on Feb. 4, the Royal Canadian Mint will stop distributing pennies.
Jim Flaherty, the federal finance minister, announced the impending demise of the penny in his...
A single-family public housing unit in Gjoa Haven suffered serious fire damage Jan. 27, but that damage could have been prevented if the response from firefighters was faster, Troy Beaulieu, lands administrator and development officer with the hamlet told Nunatsiaq News
The fire, which occurred...
Terry Audla, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, released what his organization calls a “compendium of Inuit ideas” and attitudes Jan. 29 at a big academic conference on Arctic security and sovereignty.
The Munk-Gordon Arctic Security Program’s third annual conference, this year called “Arctic...
Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. is holding a “President for a Day” contest for Inuit high school students in Nunavut.
The contest celebrates the 20th anniversary in 2013 of the coming into force of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement on July 9, 1993.
Inuit high school students who wish to enter the contest...
Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. gave the Nunavut Impact Review Board its draft environmental impact statement for the Meliadine gold project Jan. 25, a major milestone in the project’s environmental review.
The proposed Meliadine gold mine, to be connected to Rankin Inlet by a 24-kilometre all-weather...
Romeo Saganash, the New Democratic Party MP for Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou, introduced a private member’s bill Jan. 28 that would make all federal laws compatible with the 2007 UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights.
“It is time for the Conservative government to establish a nation-to-nation...
A new privately held firm called TMAC Resources Inc. has signed a deal with Newmont Mining Corp. to buy 100 per cent of the mothballed Hope Bay gold property in the Kitikmeot region, the company announced Jan. 28.
Newmont, which had acquired Hope Bay from a company called Miramar, was widely...
Most fires started by people in Nunavut are preventable, Arviat’s volunteer fire chief, Joseph Kaviok, said at a 10-day fire training workshop Jan. 28 in Iqaluit at the Navigator Inn.
He’s one of 20 volunteer firefighters from across Nunavut attending the event, put on by the Nunavut Municipal...
Northwestel said Jan. 28 that they’ll offer a 2.5 Mbps DSL internet service in Rankin Inlet starting next month.
It’s identical to a new service the company brought to Cambridge Bay in mid-January, and provides Rankin Inlet residents with the fastest internet speeds ever offered in their...
Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. plans to extract about 200 tonnes of ore from its CH-6 kimberlite pipe near Iqaluit this year in a bulk sample project aimed at proving it’s one of the highest grade kimberlite pipes in the world, the company said in a Jan. 28 release.
Peregrine will pay for the work out of...
The Nunavut Court of Appeal has ruled that Chris Bishop, 27, who in June 2010 was convicted on three counts of second degree murder and two counts of attempted murder, must get a new trial.
In the ruling, issued Jan. 28, two of three judges sitting on the Nunavut appeal court panel found...
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