CAO estimates $8.4M price tag for new maintenance garage
A new fire truck may soon be on its way to Igloolik, but there isn’t a proper maintenance garage there to work on it or on the hamlet’s other emergency and service vehicles. “It’s just a really bad situation,” said Greg Morash, the hamlet’s chief administrative officer. The fire truck is scheduled to arrive on...
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Since arriving in January 2019, Nunavut RCMP Chief Supt. Amanda Jones says she’s heard from MLAs and community members that her officers’ lack of Inuktut has been a barrier in the territory’s communities. As a result, Jones reached out to the Inuit-language organization Pirurvik Centre to establish an Inuktut phrasebook tailored to the RCMP. “It’s…
The Arctic Council is resuming work on a limited scale — but Russia won’t be allowed to participate. Seven of the eight member states, including Canada, announced earlier this month in a joint statement that Russia will not be a part of future meetings and projects due to its war against Ukraine that started in…
Nunavik will receive $123.9-million for improved high-speed internet service, with the money coming from the federal and Quebec governments and Kativik Regional Government. The funding was announced Tuesday in a virtual press conference with federal parliamentary secretary for rural economic development Stéphane Lauzon and Quebec Indigenous Affairs Minister Ian Lafrenière. KRG vice-chair Lucy Kumarluk and…
A $2-million boost from the federal government aimed at expanding Pirurvik Preschool’s reach to more Nunavut communities is a “huge honour,” according to one of the women who spearheaded the project. Tessa Lochhead, co-director of the school alongside Jedidah Merkosak, said she plans to use the money to set up online resources such as Zoom…
