Pangnirtung

Nunavut MLA quits committee over drunken incident

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009

Pangnirtung MLA Adamee Komoartok has quit as chairman of a Nunavut legislative committee due to a drunken incident at an Ottawa medical boarding home.

Pangnirtung prepares for flu

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

As communities across Nunavut host H1N1 vaccine clinics this week, Pangnirtung officials say they intend to be ready if swine flu hits their community again this fall.

Pangnirtung votes to keep liquor out

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009

Residents in the Nunavut hamlet of Pangnirtung voted Monday to remain a dry community.

Pangnirtung, Rankin Inlet to vote on liquor laws

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009

People in two Nunavut communities will cast ballots Monday on whether to change how alcohol is imported and consumed.

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PM announces construction of new small craft harbour in Pangnirtung

Conservative Party of Canada (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009

New harbour will create jobs and open up new opportunities for local community

Harper visits Baffin Island's Pangnirtung

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009

Prime Minister Stephen Harper continues his Arctic tour with a visit to the Baffin Island community of Pangnirtung before travelling to Yellowknife.

Canada: Pangnirtung prepares own pandemic plan

H5N1 (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009

Via CBCnews.ca: Pangnirtung prepares own pandemic plan. Excerpt: Hamlet officials in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, say they've stopped waiting for territorial health officials to tell them how to deal with the swine flu pandemic, opting instead to develop their own plan. Officials...

• Pangnirtung prepares own pandemic plan - CBC.ca

Study examines hazardous weather's impact on northerners

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009

A study underway in eastern Nunavut is probing the impact snowstorms, strong winds and other hazardous weather conditions have on northerners. Researchers are interviewing about 100 elders, hunters and other longtime residents of Iqaluit and Pangnirtung.

Tundra fire near Pangnirtung under investigation

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009

Municipal officials in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, say a recent fire on the tundra may be suspicious.

Gas pumps dry in Pangnirtung

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009

Residents in the Baffin Island community of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, are upset with a lack of gasoline this week, which has forced fishermen to stay on land and parked some people's cars and trucks.

Governor General of Canada: Update: Governor General's Visit to Pangnirtung Postponed to Sunday

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009

OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Continuing poor weather conditions have forced Their Excellencies the Right Honourable Michaelle Jean, Governor General of Canada, and her husband Jean-Daniel Lafond to cancel their visit to the community of Pangnirtung, in Nunavut today.

Governor General of Canada: Governor General in Pangnirtung

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009

OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaelle Jean, Governor General of Canada, hopes to be in the community of Pangnirtung, in Nunavut today. The visit was cancelled yesterday due to poor weather conditions.

Teen arrested in Pangnirtung Co-op store blaze

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 05/09/2009

A 15-year-old in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, has been arrested in a fire that damaged the local Co-op store this week.

Pangnirtung man gets 18 years for brutal sexual assault

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 04/21/2009

The 18-year sentence handed a Nunavut man for a brutal sexual assault is one of the toughest ever imposed in the North.