“We have to follow the experts’ guidelines”
Questions about the Government of Nunavut’s choice of Cambridge Bay over Kugluktuk for a new 24-bed continuing-care home surfaced in the territorial legislature on Monday afternoon.
Tower Arctic marine equipment sits at Iqaluit’s municipal breakwater on Monday night in preparation for a storm that is expected to blow in tomorrow. The storm, which should pass through Kinngait and Kimmirut tonight, is predicted to bring heavy rain, heavy snow and very strong winds. According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, stormy conditions will last in some form until the weekend. Once those conditions have subsided, Tower Arctic will remove the heavy equipment. (Photo by Dustin Patar)
Community roundtable to be held on Sept. 28 through 30
“The pandemic should not operate as an automatic reduction of sentence”
Move comes “in response to a continuing decline in the population, which has led to a conservation concern”
Charlie Audlakiak, the Nunavut legislature’s sergeant-at-arms, carries the mace of Nunavut into the assembly at the start of a special sitting on Monday, Sept. 21. It’s the first time Nunavut’s MLAs have gathered for a legislative sitting since March 12, when the winter sitting ended. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the spring sitting. In addition to extra physical distancing, some in the chamber, like Audlakiak, are wearing masks. (Photo by Dustin Patar)
“The individual was not exposed to the virus in Nunavut”
Posting highlights the high cost of living in the territory
“No evidence of transmission” at TMAC’s Hope Bay mine, says chief public health officer
Woman attacked last Sunday evening
Elders centre would house 24
“The communicable disease COVID-19 continues to present a risk to public health in Nunavut”
Employee recently arrived at mine site and remains asymptomatic, company says
ᐱᓕᕆᓂᒃᓴᖅ ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᖕᒥᐅᓂᒃ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕈᑎᐅᔪᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᖃᑦᑕᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ ᕿᑭᖅᑕᓂ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕕᐊᓗᖕᒥ
Crumbling Roman Catholic church, built in 1940, deemed dangerous
“Business just died in March”
Nunavut’s newest members of the legislative assembly were sworn in at a ceremony in the legislature on Tuesday, Sept. 15. Calvin Aivgak Pedersen, on the far left, was acclaimed as the MLA for Kugluktuk on July 24. Craig Atangalaaq Simailak, centre, was acclaimed the same day as MLA for Baker Lake. The ceremony was closed to the public and media, following Nunavut’s COVID-19 public health orders. The new MLAs are at work this week in committee meetings, and they will join other MLAs during the next sitting of the legislature starting on Sept. 21. (Photo by Michel Albert)
“Beavers are great colonizers”
“We are experienced in streaming for television”
Ellie Tungilik wins BMO 1st Art! prize
Whale Cove’s new plant now scheduled to be in place by 2023
Members will discuss $173.2 million in urgent, unbudgeted special warrant spending
Program will remain ready and seek an exemption in the event of an oil spill
Technical meetings, stalled since March, to be held this week via teleconference
56-year-old man succumbed to injuries
