Four hamlets get repair money from CanNor

The federal government’s new northern economic development agency, CanNor, will pay for badly needed repairs to recreation facilities in four Nunavut hamlets, Northern Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl announced this week.

The Government of Nunavut will receive $567,000, then contribute $567,000 of its own money, to pay for the following projects:

• renovations for the community gymnasium in Chesterfield Inlet, which has fallen into disrepair since it was built in the 1980s, at a cost of $300,000, split 50-50 between Ottawa and Nunavut;

• renovations for Taloyoak’s indoor swimming pool, at a cost of $200,000, split 50-50 between Ottawa and Nunavut;

• cement pad for Igloolik’s arena, at a cost of $400,000, split 50-50 between Ottawa and Nunavut;

• a cement pad for Sanikiluaq’s arena, at a cost $234,000, split 50-50 between Ottawa and Nunavut.

Ottawa’s portion of the money flows through the CanNor agency from a federal program called Recreational Infrastructure Canada, part of the Conservative government’s stimulus package.

On the same day, CanNor also announced $635,000 for the production of tourism commercials in the Yukon and $975,000 to pay for the planning of an all-weather road in the Northwest Territories between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk.