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No oil is leaking from a fuel tanker that ran aground near Gjoa Haven, Coast Guard officials said Sept. 2.
The vessel, the Nanny, operated by Woodward’s Oil, is stuck about 30 kilometres from Gjoa Haven, said Larry Trigatti, the Coast Guard’s superintendent of environmental response for the...
Nunavut Arctic College has cancelled a training program for the mining industry before it even began, citing a lack of interested students.
The college’s campus in Rankin Inlet planned to launch a new program called Mine Industry Access this month, to coincide with the opening of the campus’ new...
Kuupik Kleist, Greenland’s premier, slammed Greenpeace today for “an illegal attack on Greenland’s constitutional rights” after four activists from the environmental organization scaled the sides of Cairn Energy’s rig on Aug. 31 and set up housekeeping there.
The climbers have enough supplies to...
Canada needs a concerted effort to help Arctic communities build infrastructure, adapt to climate change and improve living standards, says a new report from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
The report, released in Iqaluit Tuesday, calls on Ottawa to piggyback Northern infrastructure...
Flights to and from Kuujjuaq came to a halt for a period of time on Aug. 30 after a prankster called Air Inuit to plant a false warning that a friend of his, a passenger travelling with the airline that day, was carrying a bomb.
“Hoax” is a good word to use to describe the call, said Air Inuit...
Tommy Palliser, the Inukjuak man involved in a car-surfing incident on June 29, 2009 in Montreal that left another man dead, pleaded guilty Aug. 30 to a charge of criminal negligence causing death.
Palliser entered his plea in Inukjuak before Judge Claude Biguë, said Roger Picard, one of...
The federal government is putting $1 million into documenting the history of leadership among Inuit communities.
Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology, made the announcement at Nunavut Arctic College’s Nunatta Campus in Iqaluit on Aug. 30.
“As has been demonstrated over the...
Updated Aug. 31
Paul Kaludjak has been suspended as president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. for running up a $52,000 tab on the organization’s credit card without following required procedures.
Delegates at an NTI board meeting passed the resolution Aug. 26. James Etoolook, the organization’s first...
Now that the Clipper Adventurer passengers have returned safely back south, the incident which saw them forced to evacuate their 90-metre cruise ship, which grounded Aug. 27 near Kugluktuk, raises many questions.
A Transportation Safety Board investigation will eventually reveal the circumstances...
People in Kugluktuk opened their arms to a tired group of unexpected visitors who arrived in the wee hours of Aug. 30.
More than 120 passengers and crew, taken off their cruise ship, the Clipper Adventurer, Aug. 29 by the Coast Guard icebreaker, the Amundsen, arrived in Kugluktuk after midnight...
RANDY BOSWELL
POSTMEDIA NEWS
The Canadian government scientists hoping for a second major Arctic shipwreck discovery this summer came up empty after a six-day search for the Terror and Erebus, the lost vessels of the 19th-century Franklin expedition.
Parks Canada archeologist Ryan Harris, who...
...This past weekend’s grounding of the Clipper Adventurer cruise ship near Kugluktuk underlines the inadequate charting of Arctic waters, says a leading Canadian ice expert.
This is the “single biggest issue in the Arctic,” said John Falkingham, a sea ice consultant and member of the International...
TOBI COHEN
POSTMEDIA NEWS
The rescue of a cruise ship stranded on a rock in Arctic waters over the weekend is raising questions about whether Canada would have the ability to respond quickly enough to a true disaster in its Far North.
The grounding of the Clipper Adventurer — which struck an...
...The City of Iqaluit is considering a ban on paying municipal bills by credit card.
At a presentation to the city’s finance committee on Aug. 18, corporate services director John Mabberi-Muydoni complained that the city was losing money on the service fees that credit card companies charge for...
It’s rare when material goes from Iqaluit’s beach to a sealift barge rather than the other way around, but that’s exactly what happened earlier this month.
At long last, Iqaluit has gotten rid of much of the scrap metal and vehicle parts that filled the city’s landfill and littered its edges.
“I...
Chris Bishop will serve at least 16 years in prison for the second-degree murders of three men in Cambridge Bay and the attempted murders of two other people, which took place January 6, 2007.
Justice John Vertes gave Bishop a life sentence in an Iqaluit courtroom on the morning of Aug. 27.
The...
No one in Baker Lake has come forward yet with information which could help RCMP in Baker Lake nab the individual or individuals who dug up two graves in the community’s cemetery on the nights of June 5 and 6.
“The Baker Lake RCMP and the grieved families are seeking public assistance,” said an...
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