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Looking to cut back on your heating and electricity costs?
If you live in Rankin Inlet, the territorial government might be able to help.
The Government of Nunavut is looking for 10 homeowners in the Kivalliq community who want to get a free energy audit done at their home in October.
“This is...
The head of Nunavik’s new youth association says mental health awareness and Inuit cultural values will sit at the top her agenda over the next three years.
But the rest of the association’s work will be guided by Nunavik youth themselves, Alicia Aragutak says.
Aragutak, the former director of...
On Oct. 1, members of the European Parliament will get a chance to sample seal meat at the Brussels launch of a new pan-Inuit organization.
Its goal: to defend and promote the right of Inuit seal hunters to market seal products within the European Union member states.
Those EU officials at the...
The New Democratic Party electoral machine didn’t pull its punches as it rolled through Iqaluit Sept. 29 with visiting leader Tom Mulcair and Nunavut candidate Jack Anawak, their sights fixed on the Conservative-backed Nutrition North program.
“Stephen Harper has used northern communities as...
The Conservative candidate running to represent Nunavik in the country’s second-largest riding says one major issue continues to dominate the conversation in northern Quebec — and that’s how to drive economic development.
Steven Hébert, 28, is hoping to unseat New Democratic Party MP Romeo...
To help inform our readers, Nunatsiaq News posed seven questions to candidates from the three major political parties contesting the Nunavut seat in the Oct. 19 federal election — Canada’s biggest riding and the only one that spans three time zones. We will run them in alphabetical order.
Here’s...
Maybe you’ve got a rap song bouncing around in your head. Maybe it’s more of a gospel song. Maybe it’s just a melody you’ve been humming that your anaanatsiaq used to sing when she was sewing.
If you feel like writing a song with Inuktut lyrics, there’s no better time than right now.
The...
Nunavut continues to be the youngest jurisdiction in Canada. That’s according to a Sept. 29 Statistics Canada report.
StatsCan reveals that in 2015, 31 per cent of Nunavut’s population — slightly less than one in three Nunavummiut — is under the age of 14.
This makes Nunavut by far the province...
Defrocked and disgraced, ex-priest and convicted pedophile Eric Dejaeger pleaded guilty to four more charges involving sex crimes against children Sept. 29 during an appearance before Justice Sue Cooper at the Nunavut Court of Justice in Iqaluit.
The four charges relate to incidents involving...
CAMBRIDGE BAY — By next year this time, Cambridge Bay should be the first community in Nunavut to create a land farm for the storage of contaminated soil.
Right now there’s “nowhere to put it,” said Cambridge Bay’s SAO, Stephen King.
Every year, between three and four diesel spills, generally...
The Inuit and Canada’s North have “arrived,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a federal leaders’ debate Sept. 28 — in no small part thanks to his government’s efforts in the Arctic.
If Inuit in Canada feel they’ve been largely left out of the election campaign so far, they wouldn’t be wrong, but...
This week, Nunatsiaq News is running profiles of major party candidates running in the upcoming federal election, including four who are vying for the Abitibi-James Bay-Nunavik-Eeyou seat. We will run them in alphabetical order.
Our second feature focuses on the Bloc Québécois’ Luc Ferland. Right...
Two stories led this past week’s top five online stories, according to Google Analytics which tracks reader traffic on Nunatsiaqonline.ca: the gripping story of a successful search and rescue operation near Iqaluit and the death of a man at Baffinland Iron Mines Corp.
Thousands followed the search...
To help inform our readers, Nunatsiaq News posed seven questions to candidates from the three major political parties contesting the Nunavut seat in the Oct. 19 federal election — Canada’s biggest riding and the only one that spans three time zones. We will run them in alphabetical order.
Here’s...
Nunavik women are at the heart of their families and communities, but that comes with a number of challenges, they say.
A new report on the life and concerns of Nunavimmiut women shows that they consider the housing shortage, domestic violence, substance abuse and shortfalls inthe education and...
We work for you.
That’s the message Sherry McNeil-Mulak, the appointed representative for children and youth, wants to broadcast to Nunavut’s young people ahead of opening their headquarters Sept. 30.
“As of Sept. 30, Nunavut’s children, youth and their families will have an organization to go...
Residents in Cape Dorset voted Sept. 28 to keep their existing liquor restrictions, in which a local alcohol committee issues permits and sets limits for those who want to buy alcohol.
Elections Nunavut announced at about 9 p.m. that a proposal to get rid of those restrictions failed to get the 60...
Hammered by rock-bottom iron ore prices and missed production targets, Baffinland Iron Mines Corp., operator of Nunavut’s Mary River project, has temporarily cut wages by 10 per cent.
“Baffinland is experiencing the challenge of ramping up production against a market of global iron ore prices...
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