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Kivallirmiut are one step closer to cleaner, more affordable power via a Manitoba-Nunavut hydro link, thanks to a resolution passed unanimously by the Hudson Bay Regional Roundtable in January.
That resolution, tabled at Nunavut’s legislature Feb. 25, gives the green light for the project’s...
The Saturviit Inuit Women’s Association of Nunavik wants to help Nunavimmiut women have better access to leadership roles in their communities — and beyond.
That’s why the organization is working to launch week-long training program sessions the region to offer support and skills training that...
Nunavut MP Hunter Tootoo came home to Iqaluit Feb. 29 to announce millions in funding for arenas, playgrounds and other pieces of infrastructure across the territory.
Under the federal New Building Canada Plan’s Small Communities Fund, Nunavut gets just over $25 million, money that had already...
You can’t have a Nunavut comedy show without raw meat.
Well, you could, but it wouldn’t be as interesting.
Asukuluk Entertainment and Iqaluit Queer Pride teamed up Feb. 27 to put on a raucous all-women Mahaha Comedy show in Nunavut’s capital that was ripe with local jokes about love, ravens,...
Canadian Inuit women continue to play catch-up with other Aboriginal women in Canada.
That’s among the many conclusions from a recently-released chapter on First Nations, Métis and Inuit Women contained in a Statistics Canada study on women in Canada.
Here’s some good news from the study: Inuit...
As federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s budget speech looms March 22, the Government of Nunavut has added another piece of transportation infrastructure to its shopping list: the Grays Bay Road and Port Project.
That project would revive the moribund Izok corridor zinc-lead mining project...
The Iqaluit airport waiting area was crowded with people, but remained quiet the afternoon of Feb. 26 — except for the sobs of a woman crying into her son’s shoulder.
That man, this woman’s son, was one of seven crew members working aboard the Qikiqtaaluk Fisheries Corp.’s MV Saputi in Davis...
Nunavut’s health minister, Paul Okalik, says the territory wants to provide more support to the Ottawa-based Mamisarvik Healing Centre.
But the Government of Nunavut cannot commit to giving the centre what Mamisarvik needs: core funding.
Tungasuvvingat Inuit (TI), which runs the Mamisarvik...
Nunavut’s interpreters and translators want more regulation, a comprehensive language database and standardized pay for their work.
Those priorities, and others, are outlined in a series of recommendations drafted at an Inuit Uqausinginnik Taiguusiliuqtiit-sponsored conference held earlier this...
KUUJJUAQ — Nunavik public health officials have pledged to dramatically reduce tuberculosis rates in the region, but Kativik Regional Government councillors say they need more information and faster action to tackle the highly infectious diseas.
Following a TB outbreak in the community of Salluit...
It seemed fitting that when Zacharias Kunuk was in Berlin last week to screen a film about elders’ knowledge and climate change, the capital city of Germany was experiencing particularly warm winter weather.
The people who came to see his documentary were apparently keen to hear what he had to...
KUUJJUAQ — The Nunavik community of Kangirsuk would like to know more about why a small aircraft crashed just outside the Nunavik community last summer.
Residents of Kangirsuk, population 550, also want to make sure they’re better prepared to deal with that kind of accident, should one ever take...
People in Pond Inlet can help fend off the hunger pangs of poverty, thanks to the opening of a new soup kitchen called Tununiq Ikajuqtiit [Tununiq Helpers], their MLA Joe Enook said in the legislative assembly in Iqaluit Feb. 24.
The volunteer-run effort in this north Baffin community of 1,500...
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