News quiz March 28 | Planes, cranes and fishing boats

Let’s see if you’ve been following the news of the North as closely as you should be. Start the quiz!

1. In November 2024, the Government of Nunavut announced six communities would get new airport terminals. Since then, five have been completed and the sixth should be ready by the end of April. Where is that sixth airport terminal located?

A. Kugluktuk
B. Rankin Inlet
C. Whale Cove

2. Nunastar Properties Inc. plans to build an 85-room, six-storey hotel in Iqaluit near the second post office. Nunastar already owns one hotel in the city — which one is it?

A. Frobisher Inn
B. Aqsarniit Hotel and Conference Centre
C. The Discovery

3. Qikiqtaaluk Fisheries Corp. is acquiring a new fishing vessel that come with licence to a new quota that will allow it to become the largest harvester of shrimp in Canada. What’s the name of this boat?

A. Mersey Phoenix
B. Liverpool Viking
C. The Orca

4. Dr. Ekua Agyemang said Tuesday, which was World Tuberculosis Day, she is optimistic Nunavut is on the right track in its goal to eliminate the infectious disease by 2030. Who is Dr. Agyemang?

A. She was specially appointed by the Government of Nunavut to lead its fight against tuberculosis.
B. She’s Canada’s acting chief public health officer.
C. She is Nunavut’s chief public health officer

5. ATCO Ltd. paid $10 million to acquire a large stake in a company that’s leading one of the biggest project proposals in Nunavut. Which project is it?

A. Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link
B. Grays Bay Road and Port
C. Iqaluit hydroelectricity project

The Hotel Iqaluit, seen here in an artist’s rendition, is an 85-room, six-storey building going up next to Iqaluit’s second post office. (Photo courtesy of Nunatsar Properties Inc.)

Answers

1. B — Rankin Inlet’s new airport terminal is expected to open at the end of April and will be the sixth and last of those half-dozen projects named in 2024 to go into service.
2. A — Nunastar Properties owns the Frobisher Inn, where it recently completed renovations on all 95 of its guestrooms.
3. A — The Mersey Phoenix is a factory freezer trawler that can catch, process and freeze fish while remaining at sea for weeks at a time. Qikiqtaaluk Fisheries Corp. hasn’t publicly disclosed how much the vessel cost.
4. C — Dr. Ekua Agyemang is Nunavut’s chief public health officer. “If we consistently put in the effort that is needed and we sustain it, it’s possible,” she said Tuesday of the goal of eliminating TB in Nunavut by 2030.
5. B — It’s the Grays Bay Road and Port ATCO Ltd. spent $10 million to gain 40 per cent control of. The deal was announced Monday.