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Finance Minister Keith Peterson fended off questions from Iqaluit-Sinaa MLA Paul Okalik on the Government of Nunavut’s human resource policies Oct. 28 by issuing a challenge: show us your record too.
Okalik, who served as premier of Nunavut between 1999 and 2008, had asked Peterson about when the...
If you’re Inuk from the Qikiqtani region and you’ve ever dreamed of building a traditional qajaq, an Iqaluit-based organization might be able to help you out.
Nunavut Youth LEAP, a non-profit organization that offers land-based education and adventure programming, is hosting a cultural...
More than 40 participants at the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention Association’s conference in Iqaluit Oct. 28 packed a classroom at Inuksuk High School to hear Jack and Caroline Anawak offer tools for fighting suicide gleaned from decades of research and activism.
Jack, an elder from...
Heavy fuel oil, the nasty, climate-warming polluting oil used in Arctic shipping may be phased out in the region by 2020.
That’s the promising news from International Maritime Organization, the United Nations agency with responsibility for the safety and security of shipping and the prevention of...
Alex Sammurtok, MLA for Rankin Inlet South, is pushing for an elder’s care facility in his home community and he’s suggesting the Nanuq Lodge bed and breakfast might fit the bill nicely.
Sammurtok tabled documents in the Nunavut Legislature Oct. 25 showing a commercial appraisal that lodge owner...
An unidentified sound coming from the seafloor beneath Fury and Hecla Strait is making waves not only in the nearby hamlet of Igloolik, but also across desks at the Government of Nunavut and as far away as the Department of National Defence in Ottawa.
Aggu MLA Paul Quassa rose Oct. 24 and Oct. 25...
Canada’s national suicide prevention organization took its message of hope, health and healing this week to a land of deep wounds and shattered hearts, Inuit Nunangat, where more than 750 Inuit have died by suicide since the early 1980s.
The Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention, a national...
Heads up Nunavik: This could be your year to get a piece of the $1-million Arctic Inspiration Prize.
Two of the eight projects shortlisted for the 2016 edition of the prize are based in Nunavik, including the newly-opened Qarmaapik House in Kangiqsualujjuaq, a community-based resource centre that......
The Government of Nunavut’s Family Services department cannot fill a new position for a family resource worker in Sanikiluaq because the Belcher Island community is out of office space, Hudson Bay MLA Allan Rumbolt said Oct. 27.
That’s related to an issue that Rumbolt has raised in the territorial...
Arviat parents, get that candy ready—Halloween is moving back outdoors this year.
Trick-or-treaters will be back on the streets going door-to-door in the Kivalliq hamlet this Oct. 31, with or without polar bears lurking about.
The hamlet has hosted Halloween activities indoors since 2014 for that...
A promise Nunavut’s premier made early in his administration—to end social promotion in Nunavut’s schools—came back to haunt him Oct. 24.
Iqaluit-Sinaa MLA Paul Okalik repeatedly asked Premier Peter Taptuna to explain when he will end the practice of promoting students to the next grade,...
Introductory talks to devolve responsibility for public lands and resources from Ottawa to Nunavut wrapped up this week, with Fred Caron, the federal negotiator, saying the uniqueness of Nunavut will “most definitely” play into how the negotiations unfold over the next three years.
“Having said...
Five Nunavut communities will see more public housing units constructed in 2017-18 than any other in Nunavut.
And those are the five communities—Hall Beach, Kugaaruk, Sanikiluaq, Gjoa Haven and Cambridge Bay—with the greatest need for more public housing.
That’s according to documents, including...
How to make life and love work in a small, remote Arctic community.
That’s the focus of Two Lovers and a Bear, a film, which the title suggests, is a big love story—and an adventure film.
And don’t forget about magic realist fantasy, in the form of a talking polar bear.
Now the film is coming...
A 26-year-old Iqaluit woman convicted of assault with a weapon in a domestic dispute won’t get a criminal record after all, following a Nunavut appeal court decision that overturns a sentence imposed this past November.
In the judgment, Justice Ronald Veale, a Yukon judge who serves on the Nunavut...
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