Iqaluit

Iqaluit high school to be renovated over four years

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008

The aging Inuksuk High School in Iqaluit will soon be getting a much-needed facelift.

Iqaluit arena needs repairs right away: city administrator

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008

There could be an ice crisis in Iqaluit this coming winter unless the city's 30-year-old arena is fixed up quickly, the city's chief administrative officer said this week.

Part IV, Day 2: 080722

BrummellBlog (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008

Iqaluit is a slightly surreal place, at least in my limited experience. The events of today are the reason I have this opinion. The day started normally enough… Checking out of the Navigator Inn and moving to the Frobisher Inn across town was reasonably smooth. Check in time at the Frobisher isn’t until mid-afternoon, but check-out at the Navigator is at 11:00, so I knew I’d have to kill about 4 hours...

Ambulances, helicopters buzz around Iqaluit as Operation Nanook wraps up

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008

Parts of Iqaluit looked and sounded like an emergency zone Monday, but military officials said the helicopters and emergency vehicles were part of an exercise to train soldiers and emergency crews.

2 injured in Iqaluit building fire

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008

Two people are in hospital in Iqaluit after RCMP found them in a burning shed early Friday morning.

Department of National Defence: Minister Mackay Announces Support for Junior Canadian Rangers

Market Wire - Government: National (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008

IQALUIT, NUNAVUT (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency announced today that the Government of Canada will expand the Junior Canadian Rangers (JCR) Programme to include 17 new JCR Patrols and increase participation by approximately 500 youth by 2012-2013.

Department of National Defence: Media Advisory: Minister of National Defence Announces Increased Funding for JCR

Market Wire - Government: National (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008

IQALUIT, NUNAVUT (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, will announce an increase in funding for the Junior Canadian Rangers (JCR) Programme.

Public Safety Canada: Government of Canada Takes Action to Prevent Crime in Nunavut

Market Wire - Government: State (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008

IQALUIT, NUNAVUT (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Rob Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, on behalf of the Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, today announced close to $570,000 in funding to support four crime prevention projects that focus on helping at-risk Aboriginal youth in Nunavut.

Department of Justice Canada: Government of Canada Continues With its Review of the Youth Criminal Justice Act

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

IQALUIT, NUNAVUT (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of Justice & Attorney General of Canada, will today hold a roundtable discussion in Iqaluit on the functioning of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA). The roundtable is part of the Minister's cross-country tour to meet key youth justice stakeholders and partners in all regions of Canada to seek...

• Department of Justice Canada: Justice Minister Announces Additional $40 Million to Help Support Traditional Aboriginal Justice - Market Wire - Government
• Department of Justice Canada: Media Advisory/REMINDER: Justice Minister to Address Canadian Bar Association - Market Wire - Government

MacKay to observe Arctic sovereignty operation in action

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

Defence Minister Peter MacKay is travelling to Iqaluit Tuesday for a first-hand look as Canadian sovereignty exercise Operation Nanook gets underway.

Department of National Defence and Joint Task Force (North): Media Advisory: Canadian Forces Launch Operation Nanook 2008

Market Wire - Government: National (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

YELLOWKNIFE, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES (MARKET WIRE) Today, the Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, will join General Walter Natynczyk, the Chief of the Defence Staff, in downtown Iqaluit, Nunavut, to launch Operation NANOOK 2008, a sovereignty operation in Canada's eastern Arctic.

• Canadian Forces launch operation NANOOK 2008 - DND/CF

Public Safety Canada: Media Advisory: Minister Nicholson Will Make an Announcement Related to Crime Prevention Projects in Nunavut

Market Wire - Government: National (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

IQALUIT, NUNAVUT (MARKET WIRE) A brief question period will follow. Members of the media are invited to attend.

Talks coming on Greenland-Nunavut air link, Iqaluit-based consul says

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008

There is new hope that direct flights will resume between Greenland and Nunavut, said Denmark's honorary consul in Iqaluit.

Never let it be said...

halls of macadamia (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008

...the CBC isn't all about victims rights... The lawyer for a repeat sex offender who returned to Iqaluit last week said RCMP were wrong to warn the public about her client's release from prison. And, who exactly, is our "victim du jour?" Nunavut RCMP made the rare move Friday of issuing a public notice about Roonie Iqalukjuaq, 33, who recently completed a three-year, nine-month prison sentence for...

• Lawyer criticizes RCMP for warning public about Nunavut sex offender - CBC.ca

Security tight at preliminary inquiry for accused in Kimmirut Mountie slaying

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008

The man accused of gunning down an RCMP officer in Kimmirut, Nunavut, last year appeared in an Iqaluit courtroom Monday morning as his preliminary inquiry got underway.