Nunavut Day is now a statutory holiday in the territory
Previously the holiday applied only to Government of Nunavut employees
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Arctic Bay says farewell to the sun
“Day after the sun has set for the next three months,” photographer Clare Kines says about this shot, taken on Wednesday, Nov. 6. The ship is the SV Vagabond, a research vessel that will spend the winter frozen into the ice. (Photo by Clare Kines)
Nunavut MLAs approve amendments to Income Tax Act
“Our government is taking significant action to recycle carbon revenues back into our economy“
Nunavut Arctic College and Memorial University sign agreement
Pauloosie Suvega, Nunavut Arctic College’s president, and Noreen Golfman, provost and vice-president of Memorial University, sign a memorandum of understanding to finalize an agreement for new joint credential degree programs at a ceremony at the college’s Nunatta campus in Iqaluit. The Nunavut Teacher Education Program—previously accredited through the University of Regina—will be the first program offered as part of the new agreement, as well as the first program in Nunavut to offer graduates a degree from both schools. (Photo by Emma Tranter)
ᐃᒡᓗᕐᔪᐊᖅ ᒥᑭᑦᑐᑯᓗᒃ ᑕᑯᔭᒃᓴᖅ ᑎᑭᑉᐳᖅ ᑰᔾᔪᐊᖅᒧᑦ
ᓄᓇᕕᒃ ᐃᒡᓗᓕᐅᕐᑎᑦ ᒪᓂᒻᒪᐃᓕᕐᐳᑦ ᒥᑭᑦᑐᑯᓗᖕᓂᒃ ᐃᒡᓗᓕᐅᕐᓂᕐᒥᓐ
Spooky students
These are the Grade 1 winners of the best costumes in Pitakallak School’s Halloween parade in Kuujjuaq on Oct 31. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
Two Kitnuna companies declare bankruptcy
Business woes were no secret in Cambridge Bay
Elections Nunavut to hold byelection for Cape Dorset mayor
Kimmirut will host do-over election of alcohol education committee
Following ransomware attack, Government of Nunavut puts hiring on hold
But big consulting company seeks tech specialists to work in Iqaluit
ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᐅᑭᐅᕐᑕᖅᑐᖓᓂᑦ, ᑕᕆᐅᑉ ᓯᑯᖏᑦ ᐊᑦᑎᖕᓂᖅᐹᖑᒻᒪᑕ ᒫᓐᓇ
“ᑕᕿᓕᒫᕐᒥᑦ ᑭᖑᕙᕐᓯᒪᑐᐃᓐᓇᕆᐊᖃᖅᑐᒍᑦ ᖃᓄᐃᓕᖓᔭᕆᐊᖃᕐᓂᖓᓄᑦ ᐊᕐᕌᒎᔪᒥᑦ’
Team Nunavut gets additional travel funding
300 Nunavut participants to attend upcoming Arctic Winter Games in Whitehorse
Nov. 7: a day to celebrate being Inuit
Today is International Inuit Day. Here, Eva Kakolak of Cambridge Bay lights a qulliq at an October event as her granddaughter looks on. International Inuit Day was first declared in 2006 by the Inuit Circumpolar Council general assembly in Barrow, Alaska. Nov. 7 was chosen to commemorate the birthday of the ICC’s late founding president, Eben Hopson. In 1976, Hopson rallied Inuit leaders in Greenland, Canada, the United States and Russia to form an international organization, then called the Inuit Circumpolar Conference. “The single most important issue facing all Inuit, regardless of where they live, is the preservation of a unique culture, identity and way of life before they are destroyed by large-scale industrial development and the intrusions of southern society,” Hopson said at the time. (Photo by Jane George)
Baffinland hearing abruptly ends, with sessions cancelled in Pond Inlet
“Inuit have to be part of the process. It affects every part of Inuit lives,” says NTI president
After ransomware attack, Nunavut will reformat all GN computers
“We’re not even looking at what it’s going to cost us,” premier says
Inuit organizations raise caribou concerns at Baffinland hearing
Company says sloped embankments and underpasses along route should make impacts negligible
Nunavut police resolve late-night standoff in Iqaluit
Distraught 48-year-old man will be held for medical evaluation
Nunavut review board adjourns Mary River hearing to consider NTI motion
The Nunavut Impact Review Board brought its final hearing on Baffinland’s proposed expansion of the Mary River mine to an abrupt halt on Nov. 6, the fifth day of the hearing. That’s because the board needs time to consider a motion from Aluki Kotierk, the president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., to adjourn the hearing for eight to 12 months. Kotierk said many questions are still unanswered and not enough time has been provided to properly review information. NIRB chair Kaviq Kaluraq said the board asks intervenors and others to file written submissions by Nov. 15 on the NTI motion and that Baffinland will have until Nov. 22 to respond. Kaluraq said NIRB will issue written guidance on the motion some time after that date. Also, two community roundtables planned for Pond Inlet on Nov. 8 and 9, part of the public hearing, have been cancelled for now. See nunatsiaq.com later for more on this late-breaking story. (Screenshot)
Baffinland criticized for failing to meet Inuit employment targets
“It’s not even come close”
Baffinland blasted for its approach to community consultations
“This is not consultation”
Bedbug sightings raise alarm among Nunavik patients in Montreal
Hotel manager says repeated inspections by exterminators failed to find the critters
Ransomware attack means Nunavut’s needy to receive food vouchers instead of money
“This will be an inconvenience for everybody,” says deputy premier
Three candidates to contest Kivalliq Inuit Association presidency
Incumbent David Ningeongan will face Stanley Adjuk and Kono Tattuinee
MLAs approve Nunavut Housing Corp. capital budget
Independent review of allocation system and rent scale ordered
Iqaluit firefighters douse morning blaze at Big Racks
Four vehicles, 16 firefighters, two commanders respond to Lower Base fire
In “rare step,” review board rules to extend hearing on Baffinland’s expansion plans
“The public hearing of this assessment will not be successfully concluded at this time”