CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
The Nunavut government says it hopes a special audit of the Nunavut Arts and Crafts Association will help get the beleaguered organization back up and running.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
The former executive director of the Nunavut Arts and Crafts Association disputed criticism by the Nunavut government and the organization's board about her management of its finances.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
A Nunavut health official is dismissing newspaper reports that an Arctic Bay man died of trichinosis after eating fermented walrus meat.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The number of students enrolling at Nunavut Arctic College has fallen in recent years, due in part to less demand for courses from government departments and other organizations, officials say.
Ten Percent (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
The Canadian Coast Guard has confirmed that in a major first, a commercial ship travelled through the Northwest Passage this fall to deliver supplies to communities in western Nunavut. For a ship to be able to travel through the Northwest Passage, which has historically been impassable with thick ice, had some wondering if the MV Camilla [...]
Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
CBC News reports: The Canadian Coast Guard has confirmed that in a major first, a commercial ship travelled through the Northwest Passage this fall to deliver supplies to communities in western Nunavut. The MV Camilla Desgagnés, owned by Desgagnés Transarctik Inc., transported cargo from Montreal to the hamlets of Cambridge Bay, Kugluktuk, Gjoa Haven and Taloyoak [...]
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
A federal researcher says he hopes satellite imagery of the area around Pond Inlet, Nunavut, will help determine how more than 500 narwhals became trapped in sea ice near the Baffin Island community.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans says there were hundreds more narwhals trapped in sea ice near Pond Inlet, Nunavut, than originally thought.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Nunavut's new Premier says responding to the fallout of the global credit crunch on the territory's vital mining industry will be one of her first challenges.In her first interview since taking the reins on Nov. 14, Eva Aariak said that upheaval in world markets is going to make it tough for mining exploration companies to get financing.
Fardels Borne (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
...I use them all the time. This lecture is all about legs--Neil Shubin discusses his recent discovery of missing-link Tiktaalik fossils in the Arctic. If nothing else, it's cool to hear words " Tiktaalik ," " Nunavut ," and " Devonian " used a bunch--make a drinking game out of it!
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Nunavut's second-largest community will once again have a liquor ban this holiday season, but the decision to have a ban came after hamlet council debated for nearly an hour about it on Monday.
Bob's Bites (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
So you think Global Warming is killing the polar bears? Think again. “WE DON’T have no vegetarians here,” says James Qillaq, a long-time resident of Kanngiqtugaapik in Canada’s Nunavut territory. North of the 70th parallel, where winter temperatures regularly drop below -30°C, “nothing can grow in the ground, so the only thing we eat [...]
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Inuit face greater challenges in Nunavut's health-care system compared with any other Canadian province or territory, according to a report on Inuit health by land claims organization Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.
DD&H SERVICES Company Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
As hunters in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, continue to cull about 200 narwhals trapped in the sea ice, federal officials say it's the most humane way to deal with the white Arctic whales.
