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The Nunavut legislature is still unable to find a suitable candidate for the position of Languages Commissioner of Nunavut and will re-advertise the job starting this week, a legislative assembly spokesperson told Nunatsiaq News this week.
MLAs have been seeking a new languages commissioner for...
Do you live in Nunavut and need help with overcoming addictions?
The Government of Nunavut’s health department said in a recent release that the GN will again help Nunavummiut head south for addictions treatment at the Mamisarvik Health Centre in Ottawa.
The GN said it will provide funding for...
Crime is down, but the number of break-ins nearly doubled in Nunavut’s capital last year, according to an annual report that Iqaluit’s RCMP detachment filed with Iqaluit City Council.
Police in Iqaluit responded to 11,505 calls in 2016, down from 11,815 calls in the previous year, that report...
Canadian Rangers from Quebec’s Inuit and First Nations communities have set off on a 3,690-kilometre snowmobile trek around northern Quebec— the first time these Canadian Ranger patrols have ever conducted a training exercise across the huge region.
The 2nd Canadian Ranger Patrol Group’s Exercise...
The City of Iqaluit and two of its employees now face multiple charges under the Safety Act, following an investigation by the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission that started in April 2016 after a city worker was run over by garbage truck.
Here’s who faces charges:
• the City of
As people in Canada and around the world reacted with grief and shock following news of a deadly attack on a Quebec City mosque Jan. 29, Iqaluit residents gathered for a display of love and solidarity around the local mosque Jan. 30.
More than 80 Iqalungmiut took time from their lunch break Jan....
Nunavik’s new Montreal-based college program is ready and waiting for its first intake of Inuit students.
Recruitment and registration for Nunavik Sivunitsavut starts Jan. 30.
Modelled after the successful Ottawa-based Nunavut Sivuniksavut, the Nunavik version is now slated to begin delivering...
A major Norwegian cruise ship operator has joined international environmental organizations in their call for a ban on heavy fuel oil in Arctic shipping.
They’re in support of the Clean Arctic Alliance’s “Arctic Commitment, which wants to get the polluting fuel, known as HFO—which is already...
The new Arctic policy framework that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government intends to create must involve the three northern territories of Nunavut, Yukon and the Northwest Territories, Canada’s three territorial premiers said Jan. 27 after meeting in Vancouver.
The northern premiers’...
The message is loud and clear: Iqalungmiut want to help the homeless any way they can after showing their support in record numbers during the Jan. 28 annual general meeting for Iqaluit’s men’s shelter.
The Uquutaq Society—a volunteer organization that has overseen operations at the shelter—has...
If you’re a unilingual Inuit elder living in a care home run by a private contractor and you can’t get service in the Inuit language, you can complain to the Office of the Languages Commissioner of Nunavut, right?
Wrong.
Unilingual Nunavut elders—and others— who live in privately-run care homes...
Canadian Rangers who do patrols and represent Canada’s sovereignty in the North on a part-time basis, may not receive the medical and logistical support entitled to them as members of Canada’s Armed Forces, the ombudsman for the Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces warns.
It’s enough...
(Updated 5:00 p.m., Jan. 27)
As of this Monday, Jan. 30, most Nunavut consumers will start to pay less for gasoline, diesel, home heating diesel and other fuel products, the Government of Nunavut said Jan. 27.
The new price list (see document embedded below) for the first time charges uniform...
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