GN drops Iqaluit Square

The city of Iqaluit won’t receive help from the Government of Nunavut to finish Iqaluit Square, a project intended to distinguish the territory’s capital.

The GN helped fund the first phase of work during 2005 on the project, which currently resembles a semicircle of boulders located in front of the Elder’s Centre. But the city has been left on the hook to pay $220,000 to continue work in 2006 by themselves.

“They said no, there’s no funding for the GN to continue the project,” said Ian Fremantle, the city’s chief administrative officer, during a special budget meeting on Tuesday.

The project has three stages. When finished, a stage will stand in the middle of a giant circle of stones, meant to resemble an oversized version of stones left from a tent.