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The young Inuit man who coerced a group of teenagers into a committing a chain of robberies around Iqaluit two years ago has been sentenced to five years in jail, in a court decision that condemns southern correctional faculties, and Nunavut, for their “shameful” treatment of the accused.
Michael...
(Updated July 11 at 3:15 p.m.)
Two men are now dead and one is still recovering in a southern hospital after an explosion destroyed a boat that was parked alongside an Iqaluit house, July 6.
Nunavut’s chief coroner, Padma Suramala, confirmed that a 50-year-old man died the day of the explosion...
Two Cape Dorset residents are facing gun charges after reports that they were shooting off rounds outside a home in the South Baffin town.
Nunavut RCMP issued a news release July 10 saying that three days prior, on July 7, they arrested Joanne Weedmark, 19, and Johnny Bou Ashevak, 35, in relation...
She was only ever looking for a grave.
In the process, she found a whole branch of extended family that she never knew she had.
After seven years of sleuthing through Hudson’s Bay Company archives and ancestry.com, along with a lucky Facebook message, Emma Grey has solved the 100-year-old...
UMIUJAQ—It’s the end of May and the temperature has climbed to 24 C in Umiujaq, the second most southerly community in Nunavik and situated along the eastern Hudson Bay coast.
Umiujaq is the unlikely hot spot in Quebec. The sea ice on Hudson Bay has already broken up and drifted away from the...
The weather was miserable and the venue location changed but nobody seemed to mind, July 9, as they crammed into Iqaluit’s Inuksuk High School for good food, music and games: commemorating the seventeenth annual Nunavut Day.
And as yellow, red and white painted faces swirled through Inuksuk’s...
In typical Inuk fashion, when Zacharias Kunuk heard that he’d become a member of Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he didn’t think much of it and instead went fishing.
“We got about, maybe, 13 char that we plan to smoke,” said Kunuk, at his Kinguliit Productions office in...
Baker Lake’s Sanavik Co-operative Association says it’s looking for ways to encourage business at the Kivalliq community’s co-op store.
The co-op association hosted its annual general meeting in Baker Lake July 5. One of the bigger points of discussion was how to bump sales at the store, one of...
One of Canada’s most recognizable art certifications will continue into the future under Inuit management for the first time in its history—and it’s got a new name to mark the occasion.
“Eskimo art” Igloo tags, a certification program for Inuit art that began in 1958, was formally transferred from...
A 12-year-old boy, who had been missing for “up to five days,” has been found dead in an industrial area in Rankin Inlet.
Nunavut RCMP say they received a complaint of a missing youth on July 7 and, with help from Search and Rescue personnel, eventually located the boy, according to a July 9 RCMP...
The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has announced its first set of community hearings for the fall, including a stop in Nunavut.
Rankin Inlet will be the inquiry’s final hearing in a nine-community tour starting in September.
Commissioners will visit Thunder...
There’s something fishy going on at Iqaluit’s visitors centre—but no gutting required.
Four sculptors of all ages, skill levels and artistic styles have set up shop this week outside the Unikkaarvik Visitor Centre, and will be there showcasing their art through to July 9, Nunavut Day.
Artists...
A young man from Taloyoak has been released from custody after assaulting a man with a machete and getting Tasered by police June 25.
According to a July 6 RCMP news release, officers responded to reports June 25 that a teenager, 17, had assaulted another young man, 19, with a machete, which sent...
Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. owes the Qikiqtani Inuit Association more than $7 million in back pay after an arbitration tribunal ruled that the corporation breached the sprit of its agreement with the regional Inuit group over advance payouts from its Mary River iron ore mine.
The ruling, dated...
As workers roll away the iconic purple and yellow big-top tent outside Nakasuk Elementary School in Iqaluit, more than a hundred artists are probably catching up on sleep on the way home from another busy year at the Alianait Music Festival.
Sleep deprivation is a likely outcome from a frantic...
The Nunavut Employees Union and Qulliq Energy Corporation have reached a tentative agreement on behalf of the power utility’s 160 employees throughout the territory.
Unionized QEC employees have been without a contract since Jan. 1.
NEU president Bill Fennel called the agreement “fair and...
Nunavut tourism operator Arctic Kingdom is facing multiple charges under Nunavut’s Wildlife Act, stemming from alleged unlicensed activities the company organized last winter in Qikiqtarjuaq.
According to documents filed with the Nunavut Court of Justice, dated June 15, the company was charged...
Among the many places on which you can land in Nunavut’s High Arctic islands, Axel Heiberg Island, just south of Ellesmere Island, stands out as being among the most remote and isolated.
The island’s closest neighbours: the listening station and research base at Eureka and the community of Grise...
Updated July 5, 4:40 p.m.
A 25-year-old man is in custody awaiting charges following the death of a Pond Inlet woman who was found dead outside the hamlet, according to a July 4 RCMP news release.
Police now say they have charged Tommy Mucpa with second-degree murder in the death of Dorkas...
Makivik Corp.’s new development corporation has its first board of directors in place, the Nunavik Inuit birthright organization announced this week.
Makivik announced the launch of Nuvviti Development Corp. earlier this spring, a new arms-length body aimed at managing the organization’s business......
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