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TORONTO—As a line-up forms outside the Art Gallery of Ontario, Lachaolasie Akesuk takes advantage of the city’s concrete sidewalks to pull out his skateboard.
There aren’t many places for the 16-year-old to skateboard at home in Cape Dorset, with its long winters and dusty summers, but Toronto’s...
Two adults and a youth from the central Nunavut community of Whale Cove continue to recover from injuries they received June 29 from an “accidental discharge” of a high-powered rifle by a five-year-old child.
This latest firearms incident comes a little more than two weeks after a boy, 11, in...
Quebec’s education minister has invited Makivik Corp. to sit down and discuss how to address problems within Nunavik’s education system.
The invitation comes as a response to Makivik President Jobie Tukkiapik’s request to Quebec to launch an independent audit of the education system.
In a May 30...
The weather couldn’t have been better as the royal family, Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, descended on Iqaluit for the first stage of the Prince’s 18th visit to Canada, June 29.
“Quviasuttunga Iqalunnuurama,” Charles said in Inuktitut, during a speech outside the...
If you’re in the western Nunavut town of Cambridge Bay July 1, you’ll find many events planned to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday.
But there’s one major event that is not included on the list of activities for the day: the opening of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station.
CHARS, with a...
It may seem illogical to fly north to head south—but that’s what people who live in the central Nunavut town of Arviat must do in order to travel to Winnipeg in Manitoba.
And they tired of the long travel-time and delays due to transferring to southern flights in Rankin Inlet.
That’s why hundreds...
Foxes can be cute, but you’re better off not feeding them.
That because, among other things, they can transmit rabies, which has recently been detected in Igloolik.
And the Government of Nunavut says it’s also against the law in Nunavut, under the territory’s wildlife act, to feed wild...
News about the June 18 tsunami along Greenland’s northwestern coast, which left four people missing and presumed dead and devastated the village of Nuugaatsiaq, population about 100, continued to attract the greatest number of readers on Nunatsiaqonline.ca during the past week.
The tsunami’s...
Iqaluit councillors unanimously passed the final draft of their first strategic plan in nearly half a decade, during a city council meeting June 27, concluding more than a year of debate and planning for the over-arching strategy that will help direct long-term goals for the city.
But with an...
With the June 28 appointment of members to a Nunavut Judicial Advisory Committee, Nunavut should move closer to seeing new judges in the territory.
As of last October, there were two empty judicial seats out of six in Nunavut.
And over the past years, Nunavut has lost nearly half of its 92......
For the third summer on record, the Government of Nunavut has issued a boil water alert for the community of Whale Cove.
The measure is in place due to coliform bacteria found in the local water system, a June 27 release said—as has been the case in past years.
Until further notice, health...
Iqaluit might lose a hotel following the sale of the Hotel Arctic downtown, but another may spring up near the Qikiqtani General Hospital, after city councillors approved a development permit for a new 85-room hotel, June 27.
According to the proposal summary submitted to the city, developer Jam...
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