Shari Fox will work on a community-based research and monitoring plan for Pikialasorsuaq
The longtime Clyde River resident and researcher, Shari Fox, will spend the next three years working with Inuit in Canada and Greenland to establish a community-based research and monitoring plan for Pikialasorsuaq, the North Water Polynya.
Territorial budget includes $2M for shelters and transitional housing
“This must be done without putting undue cost or burden on our communities”
Niivi Snowball sings and Christina Lock plays piano during a performance of “Can’t Help Falling in Love” by Elvis Presley. The performance won the student category of Kuujjuaq’s Got Talent show held at the Katittavik Town Hall on Saturday, Feb. 16. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
“It is essential that we provide sufficient support”
Rita Novalinga, Makivik Corp.’s new corporate secretary, on the left, and Maggie Emudluk, Makivik’s new vice-president of economic development, centre, are sworn into their new roles by Makivik Governor Minnie Etidloie on Feb. 18 at the organization’s board meetings in Puvirnituq. Novalinga and Emudluk were both newly elected to those positions on Jan. 17, marking the first time in more than 20 years that Nunavik’s Inuit birthright organization has had women sit on its executive. (Photo courtesy of Makivik Corp.)
“If anything, the number of complaints has been reduced”
“It is unlawful to hold an unlicensed lottery event or fundraiser in Nunavut.”
Noel Kaludjak of Rankin Inlet built this iglu on Feb. 12, while helping to teach inmates how to find good snow and build the structure. “The Rankin Inlet Healing Facility does this every year,” he writes. (Photo courtesy of Noel Kaludjak)
Bill 20 would give MLAs time to amend Education Act, Inuit Language Protection Act
A home in Iqaluit’s Tundra Ridge neighbourhood is engulfed in flames on Friday afternoon, Feb. 22. A crew of firefighters are working to put out the flames with help from the RCMP. Emergency vehicles with sirens were seen driving towards the area at around 2 p.m. Volunteers are flocking to the area and smoke continues to flow out onto the hillside below. More information to follow later. (Photo by Beth Brown)
Water sample testing complicated by residents who won’t co-operate, says minister
From left: July Papatsie, David Erkloo and Sytukie Joamie celebrate Inuit Day on Feb. 9 in the country foods area of the Ottawa festivities. (Photo by Kahlan Miron)
“We must try to imagine what it must be like to live in fear for your children’s safety”
Nunavut judge dismisses some counts when alleged victim didn’t testify
Chesterfield Inlet still dealing with an outbreak of the infection
“Decentralization is an idea that has been forgotten like a five-gallon can that fell off the back of a qamutik”
“Hopefully in a different version at third reading … I will be able to support it”
“I know it wouldn’t be a huge payment”
As part of Black History Month, Iqaluit residents gathered at St Jude’s Cathedral on Feb. 16 for a celebration of Ubuntu, featuring Inuit and African drumming and Inuit throat singing. “Ubuntu means ‘humanity,’“ said Kb Morena Mokoena from the Nunavut Black History Society. “It is often translated as ‘I am because we are,’ or ‘humanity towards others,’ but is often used in a more philosophical sense to mean ‘the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity.’“ Other events slated for Black History Month include a tribute to the late, great Jamaican singer Bob Marley Feb. 23 at the Ecole des Trois Soleils in Iqaluit and a “kid-friendly event” with storytelling of African and Inuit legends Fev. 24 at the city’s Astro Theatre. (Photo courtesy of the Nunavut Black History Society)
“We will have all the rights and no caribou”
The International Maritime Organization, the United Nations agency responsible for the safety and security of shipping and the prevention of marine pollution, renewed its call this week to phase-out the use of heavy fuel oil, or HFO, in the Arctic. Indigenous representatives, including Lisa Koperqualuk of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (right) and Vernet Wilson of Friends of the Earth U.S. (left), joined the International Maritime Organization’s secretary-general, Kitack Lim, at the High Level Conference on Climate Change and Oceans Preservation, in Brussels on Feb. 19. Lim told IMO delegates that it is “imperative that the organization takes robust action to reduce the risks to the Arctic marine environment associated with the use and carriage of heavy fuel oil as fuel by ships.” Read more later about the discussions set to wrap up on Friday. (Photo courtesy of the Clean Arctic Alliance)
Medical, duty travel contracts won’t be impacted by merger, says Nunavut’s transportation minister
“Everywhere you look, we’re doing more,” finance minister says
The 2019 recipients of the Willy Laserich Memorial Corporate Citizen Award stand together at last week’s 2019 Kitikmeot Trade Show in Cambridge Bay. From left: Marg Epp, Brenda Mercer, Charlie Lyall, show co-ordinator Jim MacEachern, Charlie Evalik and Dan Kane. Award recipients missing from the photo are Wilf Wilcox and Keith Peterson. Many of this year’s award-winners helped start the trade show 20 years ago. (Photo courtesy of Nuna Logistics/Facebook)
