The $150-million Rapid Response Stream fund aims to boost capacity for applicants by November 2021
Northern internet service providers say they welcome the federal government’s latest financial boost toward high-speed internet in the North. Earlier this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau launched his government’s $1.
A boat makes its way through the frigid waters off Inukjuak on Monday, Nov. 2, shrouded in fog created by a cold snap that saw temperatures drop to -17 C. (Photo by Sylvain Paradis)
The region is otherwise considered low risk
“It pretty much guarantees that we can cover the construction costs of this project”
“We want to ensure that we strengthen cultural training and cultural safety”
$1.43 million to help protect Arqvilliit, also known as the Ottawa Islands
Maxence Chavanne took this photo on Stewart Lake near Kuujjuaq on Oct. 31. “The hockey season has started,” he writes. (Photo by Maxence Chavanne)
Sea-ice monitoring program to expand to Grise Fiord, Kugluktuk, Taloyoak and Iqaluit
“There is a reason these organizations were created, and there is a reason why there is a process to follow”
Members of the Kativik School Board’s auto mechanics program are seen in the shop on Thursday, Oct. 29. From left: teacher Mike McRae and students Lance May, Jana Peragumskum and Leanna Angatuk. There is a total of six students in the program. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
Mary Saviadjuk, 37, found dead on Nov. 1
Glencore Raglan announces second case, unrelated to first one
“It is crucial for government to work with us to put a better solution in place in the near future”
Elisapie, the Nunavik singer and songwriter, received the Indigenous Artist of the Year award from Québec’s music industry association on Nov. 1. “Very proud of this beautiful award, ‘Indigenous Artist of the Year,’ given to me by the great Kent Nagano and my favorite person, the very great Florant Vollant. This award seems more important than ever to me,” Elisapie said on social media. (Photo courtesy of Elisapie/Facebook)
“Would you like to notify the authorities, but you don’t know how? This is now possible.”
“I made the difficult decision to leave my family and stay alone in Montreal as the quality of internet in Nunavik is too unstable and inconsistent to support my online courses”
Grade 1 students at Kuujjuaq’s Pitakallak elementary school dress up for Halloween on Friday, Oct. 30. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
Sûreté du Québec asked to take over investigation
Julie-Ann Tuglavina and her children receive candies from Rosena Imak in Kujjuaq when trick-or-treating on Saturday, Oct. 31. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
On Friday, Oct. 30, from 5 to 7 p.m., the Northern Village of Kuujjuaq’s Recreation Department held a “trunk-or-treat” event in the parking lot of the Katittavik Town Hall, inviting kids, who were already in their costumes from celebrating Halloween at daycare and school, to trick-or-treat from one decorated truck’s trunk to another. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
Behind Jason’s goalie mask is seven-year-old Jase Pilurtuut, scaring the neighbours while trick-or-treating this Halloween in Kuujjuaq. (Photo by Ida Saunders)
Election period no longer straddles Christmas holidays, and incumbent executives must step away from role while campaigning
“The KRG is using almost 100 per cent of the capacity on its existing satellite”
Kindergarten students at Pitakallak School in Kuujjuaq receive a lesson on the anatomy of a ptarmigan from Etua Snowball, Kativik Ilisarnilirinik’s director of education services, as he butchers several of the birds on Monday, Oct. 26. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
