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The Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat has released a new video to help claimants prepare for their hearing in the Independent Assessment Process.
“Telling Your Story” provides claimants in the Independent Assessment Process with information about what to expect at their IAP...
A preliminary hearing for a prominent Inuit carver charged with multiple historical sexual abuses stemming from Pond Inlet got under way March 31 at the Nunavut Court of Justice in Iqaluit.
Billy Merkosak, 47, along with lawyers and Justice Earl Johnson, listened to evidence March 31 from four...
OTTAWA — When the haters and online trolls called her client a wagon-burner and threatened to do a tomahawk dance on the lawn where the Ojibway father lives with his wife and two daughters in Ottawa, Qajaq Robinson just kept picturing all the people who had thanked her.
The memories bring back a...
Emergency measures planning for northern Canada must focus on the safety, training, and equipment needs of people who live in the region, where residents are exposed to ever-increasing risks of natural disasters, violent weather, and health emergencies, a national report says.
Northern Canada’s...
A 32-year-old Pond Inlet woman will go to trial in the Nunavut Court of Justice March 31 on three charges of procuring a young person for prostitution.
The jury trial will take place in Pond Inlet, population about 1,400, before Justice Neil Sharkey and a 12-person jury. The court has set aside...
If the extent of climate change continues to increase, “the very social stability of human systems could be at stake,” Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told journalists March 31 in Yokohama, Japan following the release of an IPCC report on the future...
Musical talent might run in the family, but that doesn’t mean it came naturally to Jaaji Uppik.
Growing up in the Nunavik community of Quaqtaq, Uppik was surrounded by his mandolin-playing grandfather, song-writing uncles and cousin Beatrice Deer, who has carved out a musical career of her...
Iqaluit councillor Terry Dobbin can’t understand the territorial government’s move to phase out a group home for young children and is hoping they’ll reverse their decision.
“I care deeply for the kids whose lives are being uprooted, and these children being separated from their friends at...
The curtain went up on Iqaluit’s newest theatre company this month, thanks to the efforts of Yoan Barriault.
The French-language Théatre Uiviit took flight March 21 and 22, when Barriault — founder, artistic director, and actor — opened performances of the company’s première show to capacity...
Justice Bonnie Tulloch has ruled that 60-year-old Simeonie Issigaitok is a dangerous offender and barred the man from returning to his home communities of Hall Beach and Igloolik for the better part of a decade.
Tulloch sentenced Issigaitok March 28 at the Nunavut Court of Justice to two years...
In the 31 months since flight 6560 crashed on a hillside east of the Resolute Bay runway, First Air has been quietly settling compensation claims from survivors and the families of victims.
First Air’s executive vice-president Chris Ferris said March 27 that the company’s insurance firm has been...
Halfway through Canada’s chairmanship of the Arctic Council, its members say they’re making “good progress” on the council’s initiatives and have signed off on creating a new circumpolar economic council.
Senior Arctic officials wrapped up a two-day, closed-door meeting in Yellowknife March 27,...
Nunavut’s Pediatric Complex and Chronic Care Clinic team was one of seven organizations to take home a “Connected Care Award” from the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, at a ceremony held March 26 at Funhaven Family Entertainment Centre in Ottawa.
The ceremony was featured in a live......
The Iqaluit-wide search for Benjamin Palluq has sparked concern among some city councillors, who suggested March 27 that the city does little to help homeless Iqalummiut who suffer from poor health.
The RCMP, in collaboration with Nunavut Search and Rescue, the City of Iqaluit and the Qikiqtani...
For the second time in four months, Iqaluit firefighters have doused a fire at Iqaluit’s overflowing dump.
Fire crews rushed to the landfill at Iqaluit’s West 40 subdivision just after 1 p.m. March 27, when they saw 150 square metres of burning debris.
“Fire was brought under control within an...
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