“I was at home trying to find the polling station, but I couldn’t find it anywhere”
A record 4.7 million Canadians voted in advance polls over the Thanksgiving weekend, according to Elections Canada. Residents in 15 out of 25 Nunavut communities had the chance to cast their ballot over four days last weekend.
What the federal parties have to say about Inuit self-determination, the environment and more
“Is Baffinland assuming that behind our backs NIRB or government has pre-approved the project?”
Edible cannabis, cannabis extracts and cannabis topicals will be available by mid-December “at the earliest”
11-year-old girl died from her injuries
Karliin Aariak’s appointment becomes effective Oct. 21
Nunavummiut will elect a new MP on Oct. 21
“ᐊᒥᓱᑦ ᒪᓕᒐᐃᑦ, ᐊᑐᐊᒐᐃᑦ, ᐊᑐᖅᑕᐅᕙᒃᑐ ᐅᕝᕙᓘᓐᓃᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᕝᕕᖕᒥᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᔾᔪᓯᐅᔪᑦ ᐊᑐᖅᑕᐅᕙᒃᑐᑦ ᐊᔾᔨᒌᙱᓐᓂᕐᒥ ᐊᒻᒪ ᓇᓕᒧᒌᙱᓐᓂᕐᒥᒃ ᐱᒋᐊᕈᑎᐅᓯᒪᖕᒪᑕ”
The association will visit Arctic Bay, Clyde River, Grise Fiord, Pond Inlet and Resolute Bay in November
The ribbon is cut Oct. 9 at the opening of a new Royal Bank agency branch in Pangnirtung, located at the Uqqurmiut print shop. Residents of the community of about 1,500 can now access basic banking services, such as deposits, withdrawals and cashing cheques. (Photo courtesy of Kyle Sheppard/Twitter)
Several high temperature records have been broken from the High Arctic to Nunavik
MLAs will discuss capital budget, Education Act and more
“It will give us Inuinnait and non-Inuit alike … a sense of pride and identity”
“Our truth and your diploma together will build the best house”
“ᐅᓇ ᐱᓕᕆᔪᒪᕐᔪᐊᕐᓂᐊᓗᒃ”
Billy Nutaraq, 44, was found dead one day after Kativik police handled a domestic abuse complaint
This doll was collected from Inuinnait living along the Coronation Gulf around 1915 by the Canadian Arctic Expedition’s anthropologist, Diamond Jenness. After being displayed in Cambridge Bay by the Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq (Kitikmeot Heritage Society) it’s now being returned to the Canadian Museum of History to make room for new incoming loan objects. The new exhibit will serve as research tools for a new series of community cultural revitalization workshops on crimped shoe making, the creation and use of amulets, and Inuinnaqtun terminology surrounding ancestral Inuinnait traditions and technologies. A workshop of local elders and language experts also took place this summer to help interpret objects. (Photo courtesy of Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq / Kitikmeot Heritage Society)
“Campaigning in the largest riding of Canada is hard, with four languages and three time zones”
Charge linked to death of 52-year-old woman on Sunday
Out of 29 contenders, 13 were able to attend
Carolyn Bennett, member of Parliament for Toronto-St. Paul’s, makes a campaign stop in Iqaluit at the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum on Saturday, Oct. 12, to promote the Liberals’ platform for Inuit Nunangat, including a framework for repatriating Inuit cultural property and ancestral remains. Bennett and Megan Pizzo-Lyall, Nunavut’s Liberal candidate, are campaigning this weekend in the city. “Families are important to me. And that means shelter, food, water…. It’s not just one thing that I’m looking to fix. So in terms of that, I really truly believe that with more housing and increased units across the territory, then that leads to less health issues that leads to better mental health,” Pizzo-Lyall said. (Photo by Dustin Patar)
Boys in the Maringouin (8–10-year-olds) and Moustique (10–12-year-olds) categories take off from the start line in Kuujjuaq on Friday, Oct. 4, in the hope of qualifying for the cross-country regional championships that will take place in Sept-Îles during the weekend of Oct. 19. The staff at Nunatsiaq News wish our readers a happy Thanksgiving. Our offices will be shut on Monday, Oct. 14. We’ll resume publishing on Tuesday, Oct. 15. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
Kids play hockey after school on a frozen pond in Cambridge Bay on Oct. 4, with the North Warning System radar station in the background. The staff at Nunatsiaq News wish our readers a happy Thanksgiving. Our offices will be shut on Monday, Oct. 14. We’ll resume publishing on Tuesday, Oct. 15. (Photo by Jane George)
Film starring Malaya Qaunirq Chapman and Etua Snowball will show in Kuujjuaq in November
Aaju Peter, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and Ruth Kaviok spoke at the Inuit Studies Conference in Montreal
