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You could call it a food love-in.
It’s a scene now posted regularly to the popular Facebook group Helping Our Northern Neighbours: a photo of an Inuk child sitting on the floor at home, surrounded by non-perishable food items like boxes of cereal, pasta and canned vegetables.
Above the photo, a...
With a hunting moratorium now in place for caribou on Baffin Island as a stop-gap measure to protect the dwindling herds, the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board now must consider a long-term plan for the eastern Arctic’s iconic species and long-time provider of country food.
The NWMB will host...
Saturviit Inuit Women’s Association of Nunavik is hosting its second regional women’s conference this winter in the Hudson Bay community of Akulivik.
Saturviit is a non-profit organization whose mandate is to give voice to Inuit women and children and to support positive, healthy communities.
The...
In an effort to quell health and safety concerns, Nunavut’s Qulliq Energy Corp. says its new smart meters are transmitted through existing power lines and not through radio frequency or wireless signal.
The energy corporation announced last month that it’s started a pilot project to install 27 new......
The principal at Joamie school in Iqaluit has been recognized as one of the country’s top school administrators.
Sonja Lonsdale, who has served as principal at Joamie for the last three years, is one of 40 recipients of Canada’s Outstanding Principal awards, given out each year by the Learning...
Arctic sea ice disappeared at an alarming rate between 2001 and 2007, and then stayed relatively stable until 2013.
But that doesn’t mean global warming has stopped, according to new research led by Environment Canada and the University of Colorado in Boulder.
A new paper published in the...
When the lights came on at the Astro Theatre in Iqaluit at the conclusion of Sol — a documentary about the death of Igloolik artist Solomon Uyarasuk — silence hovered over the auditorium, full to its 115-person capacity.
As a result, the discussion on suicide that Embrace Life Council and movie...
Jeffrey Salomonie’s murder trial, to decide a charge laid in connection with the 2009 death of Daisy Curley in Iqaluit, has been adjourned for a year.
Defence lawyer James Morton and Crown lawyer Paul Bychok, each confirmed the trial, which was set to begin Feb. 2 at the Nunavut Court of Justice...
Special to Nunatsiaq News
CAMBRIDGE BAY — The goal is to help turn teenagers into informed and engaged citizens, and future leaders.
And next week, Danielle Omilgoetok and Alysha Maksagak, Grade 10 students at Kiilinik High School in Cambridge Bay, will be the next Nunavut teenagers to be part of...
In September 2005, Paula Kigjugalik Hughson flew over Akulliqpaq Qamaniq and Qamaniq Tugliqpaaq with several members of her family, most notably her aging mother, Betty, and her mother’s brother, John Killulark.
That hour-long flight over those water bodies near Baker Lake, known in English as...
A young Nunavik woman is suing the Kativik Regional Police Force for gross negligence, three years after a prisoner raped her in the back of a police car.
On Sept. 19, 2011, the woman, then 17, was visiting friends in Tasiujaq, on Nunavik’s Ungava Bay coast, when she became intoxicated and was ......
A group of Iqaluit parents are calling for the resignation of Nunavut’s French school board director and its elected commissioners for what the group calls mismanagement of the territory’s only French school.
The Association des parents francophones du Nunavut (APFN) alleges that Nunavut’s...
Nunavut’s future appears flecked with more gold after the process leading towards a second gold mine in the territory took a big step forward this week.
That’s after the federal government accepted the Nunavut Impact Review Board’s recommendations — submitted in October 2014 and anchored by 127...
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