Ollie the Omingmak gets ready to frolic in Cambridge Bay
Western Nunavut hub’s spring festival welcomes back warmer, sunny days
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Cross-boundary caribou board struggles to find financial support
Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board hasn’t met in Nunavut for 14 years
Nunavut, Ottawa finally agree on tiny stream of health revenue
Highly diluted fund contains money for home care and mental health
The Grizzlies captures—and captivates—Nunavut
“I think seeing Indigenous kids as heros is a big thing”
Nunavut RCMP seek information on fatal ATV crash in Cambridge Bay
Alcohol and speed are believed to be factors in 24-year-old man’s death
Plan ahead for when the power goes off, QEC reminds Nunavummiut
Have enough supplies for at least 72 hours
Arctic Council suicide prevention project focuses on circumpolar youth
Youth produced digital stories during two-year project
Have some bannock
Mary-Joanne Kauki, the Inuktitut teacher at Jaanimmarik School in Kuujjuaq, makes bannock on a wood-stove. After a day filled with games, students settled down for a picnic as part of their school trip to Three Lakes, just outside Kuujjuaq, on April 18. (Photo courtesy of Isabelle Dubois)
Nunavut RCMP rescue boy from crevasse near Cambridge Bay
Child was cold but unhurt
Why the work of the Arctic Council will continue even without consensus on climate change
America caused a lasting storm at the Arctic Council ministerial, but behind the scenes an accommodation evolved
Nunavut RCMP say no foul play in Naujaat woman’s sudden death
Police found the 33-year-old’s body on April 26
City of Iqaluit seeks expressions of interest for lease of former Iridium Canada site
Deadline is May 24
Looking inside a heart
Dr. Donna May Kimmaliardjuk dissects a caribou heart for Nunavut secondary students as part of a health careers camp in Iqaluit on Friday, May 10. Kimmaliardjuk is a cardiac surgery resident at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and will be the first Inuk cardiac surgeon in Canada. She spent two days in Iqaluit this week talking with students about the different pathways to a career in health care. Read more later at nunatsiaq.com. (Photo by Sarah Rogers)
FASD in Nunavut a health-care rights issue, stakeholders say
“It’s the right of that child, it’s the right of that adult to get some answers”
Quebec prosecutors clear Nunavik police in shooting deaths
DPCP issues decisions on four separate incidents that happened in 2017 and 2018
Former Nunavut lawyer pleads guilty to bigamy, forging divorce documents
Morton continues to be suspended from practising law in the territory
British Airways flight diverts to Iqaluit
A British Airways Boeing 777 lands in Iqaluit at about 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 9. BA Flight 273 was en route from London to San Diego when it diverted to Iqaluit for a reported medical emergency. At least one passenger was offloaded and taken by ambulance to Qikiqtani General Hospital. The aircraft remained on the tarmac and other passengers did not disembark. The flight continued on at about 6:30 p.m. A British Airways spokesperson said later that a passenger had been “unwell.” (Photo by Sarah Rogers)
Nunavut government moves on plans for long-term care in all three regions
Proposals sought for three or four centres, with a total of 156 beds
An imaginative afternoon at Iqaluit Makerspace
Children learn how to make animations and video games at the Iqaluit Makerspace on May 1. “My favourite part is that we get to do art,” said 10-year-old Abby Alainga, on the bottom right. “Me and Abby made a game called Ice Breaker,” said Leah Ray Higdon, 9, to her left. “You have to climb icebergs without falling into the water.” The Makerspace program, run by Pingguaq, opened in September 2018 and offers a daily after-school program that focuses on teaching kids coding and digital arts. That day there were 17 kids in attendance, from 9 years old to 13. (Photo by Thomas Rohner)
ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓂᑦ ᓇᒧᙵᐅᔾᔪᑎᖃᙱᓗᐊᕐᓂᖅ ᓄᓇᕗᒥᐅᑕᒥᑦ ᐊᖑᑎᒥ ᐱᓱᒍᓐᓇᙱᑦᑐᒥᒃ ᕿᒪᒃᑐᐅᒍᑎᐅᕗᖅ
“ᐊᔪᕐᓇᖅᑐᐊᓘᖕᒪᑦ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᙱᔾᔪᑎᖃᖅᑐᒧᑦ ᐃᓄᖕᒧᑦ ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓂᑦ ᐃᓄᑭᑦᑐᒦᑦᑐᒥᑦ”
Canadian Inuit challenge U.S. stance on Northwest Passage
“The Northwest Passage is part of Inuit Nunangat, our Arctic homeland”
Visiting the invisible border
Iqaluit resident Hayley Roberts visits the first retrospective of Inuk artist Alootook Ipellie’s work, Walking Both Sides of an Invisible Border, at the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum in Iqaluit on Sunday, April 28. The exhibition, which continues until Saturday, June 15, features Ipellie’s distinctive pen and ink drawings, posters, cartoons and examples of his poetry. (Photo by Patricia Lightfoot)
Yes, it’s possible to screen for FASD, experts say
“It’s really sad to see the reluctance of people to do screening”
Nunavut led Canada in economic growth in 2018
Nunavut’s GDP rose by 10 per cent
Narwhals display little genetic diversity, researchers say
This could make it harder for narwhals to adapt to change