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If you’re in Iqaluit and feel some change rattling around in your pocket, head over to the Northmart and put your pennies into a blue barrel.
Your spare change can help the “penny push” fundraising effort for the new St. Jude’s Anglican Cathedral, which is now close to completion.
“We’re pushing...
A new study from the Norwegian research institute Nofima suggests a concentrate from Arctic coldwater shrimp may be “a revolutionary natural ingredient to help people maintain a healthy blood pressure.”
The shrimp concentrate can be used as a dietary supplement or food ingredient to lower blood...
April Verch, an internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter and fiddler will play a concert May 26 in Iqaluit, for the third concert in the Alianait Arts Festival’s 2012 concert series.
Verch, who was recently nominated for an Independent Music Award, performed at Alianait in 2011 where she was...
As sea temperatures rise, stocks of some fish species may decline while others may increase, says a May 14 news release about a Swedish research project.
It found the gastro-intestinal system in fish is much more sensitive to temperature changes than previously believed and may prevent some...
Vanida Plamondon, an in-transition transgendered woman from Nunavut, paces in her emptied Edmonton apartment, retelling the story of how her life led up to her packing her belongings into a storage facility. She’ll be officially homeless in a day.
She’s frightened she won’t have a place to sleep,...
Canadian Orebodies Inc. plans to continue exploration at its iron-rich Haig Inlet project on Nunavut’s Belcher Islands starting next month.
A May 15 news release didn’t say how many millions the company plans to spend this summer, but the company said it will evaluate a number of “high priority...
Jeannie Sala of Kuujjuaq is looking for her father, who never got to meet her and likely never realized he had a daughter in northern Quebec.
The 55-year-old wife, mother of six and grandmother to 18 wants to find her father so that her family can know “its roots.”
“I would like to fill that...
Newmont Mining Corp.‘s decision to mothball its Hope Bay gold mine near Cambridge Bay means the company will shutter its Doris North camp.
And it also means 150 people in the Kitikmeot will be looking for new jobs by the end of the summer.
That’s prompted Chris Hanks, a vice-president of Newmont...
The airport in Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador is much busier than similar airports in Nunavut and Nunavik, which lack control towers, show flight numbers reported this week by Statistics Canada.
Goose Bay, the most active small airport in February 2012, recorded 2,488 aircraft landings and...
Arctic climate change can affect food security, suggests a new study that looked at how unseasonably warm weather during the winter of 2010-2011 affected country food supplies in Iqaluit.
That winter was worth looking at because changing environmental conditions, which affect the ability of Inuit...
The city is looking into making more snow ramps next winter to help snowmobilers get across roads safely on Iqaluit streets.
A ramp made of snow, created this past winter on Queen Elizabeth Way next to the Northmart store received praise, according to Iqaluit city planner Arif Sayani. Now there...
Norman Tarnow is Nunavut’s new deputy minister of justice, after filling in as acting deputy minister since last January, when his predecessor, Janet Slaughter, resigned for personal reasons.
Tarnow formerly served as legal counsel and director of the legal and constitutional law division within...
In sleds loaded with camping supplies, about 30 RCMP youth academy students waited patiently May 14 to start their 20-kilometre snowmobile day trip, part of the RCMP “V” division’s third installment of its youth outreach effort.
The joint RCMP-Canadian Ranger program is designed to teach high...
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