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Nunavut hunters urge for reassessment as Baffinland eyes 2026 construction of Steensby rail
The Steensby port and rail project was approved in 2012. But Inuit hunters believe environmental conditions, and the climate, have changed a lot since then. They're calling for an environmental reassessment before the project can commence.
Nunavik advocates push for more Inuit-led suicide prevention efforts
Two youths in Umiujaq, Que., took their own lives within the span of several weeks in late 2024. Now, advocates are calling for mental health services oriented toward the Inuit way of doing things.
First Inuk RCMP cadet out of Nunavut in decades on being more than a uniform
RCMP Const. Inuuki Burke says he's admired the RCMP’s Red Serge for years. Now he gets to wear one, as the first Inuk cadet recruited out of Nunavut to graduate from the RCMP Academy since 2003.
Northerners, experts question Conservatives' pledge to build military base in Iqaluit
Some northerners and Arctic security experts say the federal Conservatives' pledge to build a permanent military base in Iqaluit is a move in the right direction, but they also have questions about how it'll be done.
'You can do it,' says this Sanirajak, Nunavut, man to others who live with a disability
Tyrone Epak is proud to call himself a deaf person – but it’s taken him many years to come to terms with his disability. Fortunately, he had support from a teacher at school who also shares his struggles.
Nunavut elder builds traditional sod house, as researchers uncover others from the past
The Kitikmeot Heritage Society is working with archaeologists to excavate sod houses near Cambridge Bay – and collect elders' testimonies. Inuit lived in those dwellings, even in the harshest of winters, for thousands of years.
3 decades later, survivor of Nunavut boating tragedy reflects on healing power of dialogue
Abraham Oolalaaq said he sought guidance from an elder to help him process the grief of losing seven of his family in a boating tragedy in 1991. Now, he himself has become an elder who helps others with their struggles.
No criminal charges in 2023 death of woman in Nunavik police custody
Quebec's Crown prosecutors are not pressing charges against the Nunavik Police Service (NPS) in relation to the death of a woman in a holding cell in Inukjuak in 2023.
Number of justices of the peace declining in Nunavut
The number of justices of the peace (JPs) in Nunavut has gone down by 40 per cent since 2016, according to numbers from the territory's justice department.
Lack of housing for builders delays construction of new daycare in Sanirajak, Nunavut
Roger Beaudry, chief economic development officer for Sanirajak, Nunavut, calls it the "biggest infrastructure project since the 1990s" in his community — but construction on the new daycare facility has been hampered by a local housing shortage.