Feds to clean up Nutrition North
Northern-based committee to review program audits
Updated on Thursday, Aug. 22, at 10:45 a.m.
Cancelling state visit, Trump earns more scorn for Greenland purchase plan
Danish, Greenlandic politicians call Trump’s actions “disrespectful,” “absurd,” “insulting”
Playing inugaq in Pangnirtung
Parts of inugaq, a game played with seal flipper bones, are seen on display at the Angmarlik Visitors Centre in Pangnirtung. Ooleepeeka Arnaqaq, coordinator of visitor experience at the centre, says you start by putting the bones in the bag and use the string to pull out as many as you can. Then you use the bones to form a family, qammaq and dog team. Arnaqaq recalled how the elders who spend time at the centre were amused because she’d put the smallest of the bones representing dogs nearest to the sled, whereas you should always put the youngest dogs at the front, because they have the most energy. (Photo by Phillip Lightfoot)
Federal bureaucrats get new marching orders to help Inuit firms win contracts
“An important step towards the betterment of Inuit society”
NASA airborne study takes aim at Nunavut’s changing tundra
“So using remote sensing and any of these airborne instruments is really key to understanding the North”
Landmark settlement includes more than 40 day schools attended by Inuit
Eligible Indigenous day school survivors can apply for payments ranging from $10,000 to $200,000
Canadian High Arctic Research Station set to officially open
Opening ceremony set for Wednesday, followed by community activities on Thursday
Inuit Circumpolar Council creates scholarship for young Inuit
Annual awards honour Hans-Pavia Rosing, ICC’s first president
Saali rocks Aqpik Jam
The charismatic singer-songwriter Saali Keelan, a Nunavik favourite, wows the crowd at Kuujjuaq’s Aqpik Jam Music Festival on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
Feds commit to help fund Nunavut’s addictions treatment centre
“It is long overdue”
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Nunavik evictions taking place earlier than last year
With 16 tenants out in May, another round will be released in September, allowing time before the winter months
Two Pond Inlet candidates to contest Sept. 16 Tununiq byelection
Charlie Enuarak, David Qamaniq to contest vacant seat in Nunavut legislature
Feds commit to funding addictions treatment centre for Nunavut
Nunavut Premier Joe Savikataaq, Indigenous Services Minister Seamus O’Regan and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. President Aluki Kotierk sign a joint declaration of intent in Iqaluit in August 2019 to build an addictions treatment centre. (File photo by Emma Tranter)
Canada commits to connecting Iqaluit to fibre optic internet
Feds will contribute $151 million to lay undersea cable across Davis Strait
ᐊᕙᑎᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑐᓕᕆᓂᖅ ᒐᕙᒪᑐᖃᒃᑯᓐᓂᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᕆᐊᖅᑕᐅᕗᖅ ᓄᓇᕗᒥᑦ
ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕈᑎᒃᓴᖅ ᑐᕌᖓᔪᖅ ᐊᓯᐅᑎᑦᑎᑦᑕᐅᓕᓂᕐᒧ ᐊᒻᒪ ᓯᓚᐅᑉ ᐊᓯᙳᖅᐸᓪᓕᐊᓂᖓᓄ
Quick action by Iqaluit firefighters prevents loss of three units
Firefighters responded to fire at building 174 on Aug. 15
Alan Doyle headlines Aqpik Jam
Alan Doyle, the Newfoundland folk-rock singer, performs at Kuujjuaq’s Aqpik Jam on Wednesday, Aug. 14. In what was unquestionably one of the music festival’s main acts, Doyle energized the crowd with his rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
Feds announce fibre-optic cable funds for Iqaluit
The federal government announced today that it will spend $151 million to string an undersea fibre-optic cable across the Davis Strait from Nuuk, Greenland to Iqaluit, Nunavut, to help bring faster, more affordable internet connections to territory’s capital. The Government of Nunavut is contributing $30 million towards the project, which will also include a branch to Kimmirut. Today’s announcement at Iqaluit’s Nunavut Arctic College campus also reiterated plans to build a hybrid solar and diesel power plant in Kugluktuk. From left: Bernadette Jordan, the federal minister of rural economic development; Qulliq Energy Corp.’s president and CEO, Bruno Pereira; and Lorne Kusugak, Nunavut’s minister of community and government services. See story later at Nunatsiaq.com. (Photo by Kahlan Miron)
Simeonie Akpalialuk named new chair of Nunavut’s power utility
Keith Peterson to serve as vice-chair, while Andrew Nakashuk, Martha Lenio named as board members
Canadian Forces plan surveillance of Northwest Passage during Nunavut operation
“We want to make sure we know what’s going on in the North”
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Baffin Business Development Corp. seeks scholarship applicants
Two awards of $1,000 will go to students enrolled in post-secondary business or commerce programs
Former administrator of Taloyoak’s hamlet charged with fraud
SAO and his associate failed to appear in court this week
Out camping
Participants in Jeunes Karibus’s summer program head off on a weekend camping trip to Dry Bay, about 80 km north of Kuujjuaq. The program offers Nunavik youth between the ages of 14 and 19 exposure to a range of outdoor activities centred on camping and the outdoors. From left: team leader Henri-Bastien Gendreau, cultural guide Elijah Thurber, participant Sarah Saunders, team leader Valérie Raymond and cultural guide George Peter. (Photo courtesy of Jeunes Karibus)
ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᖅᑎᐅᔪᑦ ᓄᓇᕕᒃᒥᑦ ᐃᓅᓕᑦᓯᕕᒃ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕕᒻᒥ ᑐᓴᖅᑕᐅᑎᑦᑎᒻᒪᕆᒃᐳᑦ “ᐱᐅᙱᓪᓚᕆᒃᑐᒥ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᕐᕕᒻᒥ”
“ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᕐᕕᒻᒥ ᓈᒻᒪᙱᓕᐅᕈᑎᐅᔪᑦ ᓈᒻᒪᙱᓕᐅᕈᑎᐅᕗᖅ ᐱᔨᑦᑎᕋᐅᑎᓕᕆᓂᕐᒥᒃ”
Nunavut regulators invite comment on Iqaluit mercury study
University of Waterloo project aims to look at contamination levels in fish, clams