Photo: Bearing cheque book, PM Harper visits Nunavut

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, with Senator Dennis Patterson (centre) greets an Iqaluit resident during his visit to Nunavut Feb. 23. Harper announced $11.1 million in funding for Nunavut Arctic College, to be spent between 2011 and 2016 on basic adult education. The money, which flows from the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency, is aimed at helping adult Nunavut residents who did not graduate from high school prepare for job training. Arctic College will use the money to hire more adult educators, and create a new qualification called the Nunavut Adult High School Diploma. Altogether, the federal government will spend $27 million on adult education across the three territories. (PHOTO BY JIM BELL)