No water-related states of emergency in effect in Iqaluit
City’s Aug. 12 declaration was revoked when GN issued its own on Aug. 18, city spokesperson says
Survivors’ Flag a symbol of ‘love and kindness,’ former MLA says
Flag dedicated to residential school survivors to fly over Parliament Hill for two years
Former NDP MP running for Parti Québécois in Ungava
Christine Moore hopes to take back riding PQ once held for over 40 consecutive years
Quebec Conservatives name Nancy Lalancette as Ungava candidate
52-year-old nursing assistant prioritizes health-care reform in campaign announcement; provincial vote set for Oct. 3
Conservatives’ northern affairs critic meets territorial leaders in Nunavut visit
British Columbia MP Bob Zimmer, right, the federal Conservative party critic for northern affairs and Arctic sovereignty, was in Nunavut recently to meet with territorial, business and community leaders. He is pictured here with Canadian Coast Guard Capt. D. Barron and the coast guard’s assistant commissioner for the Arctic region, Neil O’Rourke, touring the coast guard icebreaker Henry Larsen. (Photo courtesy of MP Bob Zimmer’s office)
Nunavut MP to pressure government to give bilingual bonus to Indigenous speakers
Some federal employees get $800 per year extra for knowing English and French
Nunavut Housing Corp., Inuit-owned firm reach development deal
Not clear whether agreement in principle includes any financial obligations
Trudeau, NATO chief face busy agenda in Cambridge Bay visit
Stop there part of larger visit in Canada to discuss defence and security
Deep in the southern hemisphere, a qulliq is lit
Gerri Sharpe, president of Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, is seen here lighting a qulliq at New Zealand’s parliament in Wellington, the nation’s capital. Sharpe, along with federal Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu, is part of a delegation of Canadian Indigenous leaders to the southern Pacific island nation to build relationships with Māori and government leaders. Both countries are working on an arrangement to promote socioeconomic development of Indigenous Peoples and communities, an emailed statement from Pauktuutit said. (Photo courtesy of Adrian Heke/Pauktuutit)
Planned 3-storey Iqaluit public housing complex gets first approval
Building will have 18 units in Lower Iqaluit; committee gives its OK, sends proposal to city council
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Kugluktuk to return to restricted liquor system Sept. 4
Hamlet voted for new liquor rules in May 16 plebiscite
‘It’s inhumane’: Napartuk accuses CAQ of playing politics with Nunavik health care
Sitting Ungava MNA responds, points to signing bonuses, scholarships to retain staff
Iqaluit declares local state of emergency over water drought
Declaration shows other government bodies that the city’s water situation is dire, says CAO
Federal government to spend $84M on mapping Arctic Ocean floor
Funding is part of Liberal government’s Ocean Protection Plan
Nunavut’s 1st information and privacy commissioner remembered as truth finder
Elaine Keenan Bengts, 63, died Monday in Yellowknife
City of Iqaluit applies for $7M to upgrade Akilliq Drive
Total project cost is estimated at around $9.7M, says chief administrative officer
Qulliq Energy to add, fix Iqaluit street lights
Council voted in favour of hiring energy corporation to better light city streets
Former Kuujjuaq mayor Tunu Napartuk running for Quebec Liberals in Ungava
Party leader Dominique Anglade promises to bring campaign to Nunavik
GN employees to get $3,500 on Wednesday from new contract signing
Nunavut Employees Union and GN sign labour deal in ceremony at legislature
2 candidates officially in race for Ungava riding in Quebec election
Maïtée Labrecque-Saganash currently is the only challenger to incumbent MNA Denis Lamothe for Oct. 3 vote
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Inuktitut could be on ballots by next federal vote: Canada’s head of elections
Stéphane Perrault looking to make headway on recommendation from recent report
Six Nunavut hamlets get $3.7M for better water treatment
Funding from federal, Nunavut governments marked for improving water facilities, studies into treatment
Anawak to help guide federal committee on unmarked residential school graves
Former Nunavut MP one of six members of survivors’ circle
Koperqualuk acclaimed as new Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada president
Leadership changes announced following ICC conference in Kuujjuaq this week
‘We’re ready when Ottawa’s ready’: premiers await federal response on health care
Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok said he’s looking forward to discussing increase in federal health-care spending