“We have to be one of many, many people who are taking part in solving the current housing problem”
When Alex Cook of Baker Lake began thinking about building a home for himself, he knew he wanted something that was novel and purpose-built for the North. Nearly two years later, those ideas have been incorporated into a project called Qammaq, a prototype that will take the form of a three-bedroom house partially built with…
Minister says 400 to 500 workers will come to Nunavut this season to work in 19 communities
Workers making less than $20 an hour eligible for extra $5 per hour
KRPF drafts simplified disciplinary code for its officers
“We know that there is important work yet to do"
Air travel expected to relaunch June 8, but only within the region
Giant Bear walked away from the final night of the Canadian Screen Awards with the award for Best Animated Short. Last night’s win of one of Canada’s most prestigious screen awards also qualifies Giant Bear for Oscar consideration. Produced by Iqaluit-based Taqqut Productions and Montreal-based edfilms, the short animation, which is based on a book of the same name, tells the story of a lone hunter who stumbles across an unusually large aglu—or breathing hole—before realizing it’s being kept open by a nanurluk—a mythological giant polar bear—sleeping under the ice. (Photo courtesy of Taqqut Productions and edfilms)
Against all odds—Jens Munk’s fight for survival in Hudson Bay
Police had put out a call for help to find David Inutiq, 31
“ᓈᒻᒪᓪᓚᕆᒍᓐᓈᔾᔮᙱᑦᑐᖅ, ᑭᓯᐊᓂᓕ ᑕᐃᒪᐃᑉᐸᓪᓕᐊᓇᓱᒃᑐᖅ”
“We are listening to Indigenous peoples,” says prime minister
Vinnie Baron wrestles with her catch on an ice fishing trip outside of Kangiqsualujjuaq earlier this month. Baron and her family return to the same fishing spot on Makaluu Lake every spring. (Photo by Felix St-Aubin)
There’s less ice, more capelin and lots of hungry polar bears
Police say 40-year-old Rankin Inlet man failed two screening tests
“We do not think this represents a risk or a threat to any other communities in Nunavut”
“New appointments support…efforts to increase Nunavut Inuit and regional representation, and expand gender diversity on the board of directors”
Clare Kines shared this photo of people heading out on the land on Adam’s Sound, just outside Arctic Bay on May 14. Their destination was a fishing derby at Kuugaarjuk. (Photo courtesy of C. Kines)
“We are unprepared for what’s really in store for us”
Museum of Nature tapping “citizen scientists” to help catalogue entries
“It’s an advantage to be an isolated region. We have that control.”
“That is unprecedented in my time here”
Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. gets another extension to continue producing 6 million tonnes of ore at Mary River annually
Here is one of the numerous houses that Jens Edvard Brandt Steenberg built in Iqaluit in the 1990s, which are still sought after more than 20 years after he built them. Many in the city remember Steenberg, who died May 19 in Pincher Creek, Alta., at the age of 77. “Steenberg built” is still mentioned on realtors’ advertisements as a selling point. Kalman Strauss wrote on the funeral home memory wall that “Jens was not only a really nice person he was also the best homebuilder that Iqaluit ever had! His homes are still the nicest ones in town 20 years later.” You can find an online memory wall for Steenberg here. (Submitted photo)
Jason Kunnuk of Igloolik prohibited from possessing firearm for three years
“Numbers of caribou in the Arctic herds have dropped by as much as 98 per cent”
KRPF chief recommends all communities consider local alcohol sales
Daniel Anowak, now disabled, hopes to join family in Sanikiluaq
KRG has applied for funding to extend the fibre network to more communities
It’s time to stop for a cup of tea at Ikpikittuarjuup Ittillinga, which is at the bottom of Moffet Inlet, about 150 kilometres from Arctic Bay, and about 70 kilometres from this group’s destination of Kuugaarjuk on May 14. They caught char the following day at the fishing derby at Kuugaarjuk, but then left that evening due to a storm. (Photo by Clare Kines)
Spring sitting cancelled because of COVID-19
