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Qikiqtaaluk Corp. says it is looking to find new ways of investing in the territory’s marine transportation industry.
The development arm of the Qikiqtani Inuit Association announced this week that – as of September, 2011 – it had sold all of its interest in Nunavut Eastern Shipping Inc. to...
Nearly 700 students, elders and community leaders crowded into Inuksuk High School Feb. 8 to watch a once-in-a-lifetime live communication event with the International Space Station.
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, a volunteer group, organized the event, as part of the U.S....
The Nunavik region has seen a 12 per cent population increase since the last census, numbers from the 2011 census reveal.
Nunavik is not enumerated as a distinct region for the purpose of the census, but a look at its community populations shows that Nunavik grew to 12,090 residents in 2011, up...
Iqaluit residents may delve deeply into Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen’s remarkable visits to the Canadian Arctic, at an exhibit of photos that opened Feb. 3 at the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum.
Most of the photos date to the two-year period when Amundsen lived at Gjoa Haven, from 1903 to...
Mining company Xstrata and commodities dealer Glencore International have agreed to a merger that creates the world’s fourth largest natural resources group.
The deal, reached Feb. 7, is worth about $90 billion (U.S.).
The combined company’s properties would include major nickel mining and...
Nunavut’s population continues to grow faster than the national average, according to the latest census numbers released Feb.8.
The territory’s population has risen roughly eight per cent to 31,906 since 2006 — compared with the six per cent growth recorded Canada-wide within that period.
In...
An Ottawa-area organization hopes to help young Nunavut hockey players gear up in brand new equipment — one piece at a time.
Project North, which has delivered hockey equipment to nine Nunavut communities since its launch, has started a new fundraising drive that allows people to choose which...
Canadian Orebodies Inc. says its early estimates show there could be up to 230 million tonnes of iron ore within its Haig Inlet project near Sanikiluaq, on Nunavut’s Belcher Islands.
The Toronto-based mining company conducted a drill program at the Haig Inlet site in 2011, revealing iron ore...
The Inuit sub-commission of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission launched a tour of Baffin Island communities Feb. 7.
The community forums begin today in Pond Inlet before heading on to Clyde River, Pangnirtung and wrapping up in Qikitarjuaq Feb. 16.
Jennifer Hunt-Poitras and Robert Watt,...
The Government of Nunavut hopes to attract more Inuit students into the field of nursing through a new, shortened health care program.
Nunavut Arctic College plans to add the new two-year Nunavut Practical Nursing diploma to its roster of programming in September, 2012.
“There’s been a call from...
A Puvirnituq man has been charged with second-degree murder in the Jan. 30 stabbing death of his spousal partner.
Police were called to Puvirnituq’s health centre Jan. 31, where they discovered the body of 26-year-old Talasia Tukalak-Ivilla-Nutataluk, said Sgt. Claude Denis of the Sûreté du...
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Research from University of Alberta biologist Isla Myers-Smith and about 30 other researchers from 10 countries suggests that sizable chunks of the alpine/tundra world are being taken over by shrub cover that is increasingly crowding out those plants that many Arctic...
A team of five RCMP members continues to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct in Igloolik against disgraced priest Father Eric Dejaeger, the Crown prosecutor said in court in Iqaluit Feb. 6.
This means the RCMP’s investigation into Dejaeger won’t be finished until a May 7 court appearance...
The former Marijuana Party candidate for Nunavut, David “Ed” deVries, will appear in court Feb.29, where he is expected to plead guilty to a number of charges currently before the court, his lawyer, Alison Crowe, said in court Feb.6.
Following RCMP searches conducted in August 2009, January 2010,...
Managers of a Makivik Corp. subsidiary hope that Nunavik seaweed will soon make its way onto dinner tables across the world.
Makivik first launched its subsidiary, Nunavik Biosciences, in 2005, when the company first decided to bottle a species of brown seaweed found in Ungava Bay for its line of...
OTTAWA — They came from across the world, across the Canadian Arctic and from as close as Parliament Hill.
More than 1,200 businesspeople, politicians and artists descended upon the Ottawa Convention Centre last week for the third — and largest — edition of the Northern Lights business and...
OTTAWA - Building basic infrastructure across Nunavut continues to be a massive challenge for the Government of Nunavut, the territory’s minister of economic development and transportation told the Northern Lights conference in Ottawa Feb. 4.
That’s why the GN is eyeing the territory’s growing...
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