CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The RCMP plans to change the way it investigates its own officers across Canada, including in Nunavut, where two Mounties were recently accused of inappropriate behaviour.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Nunavut's Inuit land claim organization plans to cut back on spending as the result of a $4.4-million deficit it is projecting this year.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Nunavut Housing Corp. is launching its first comprehensive survey of the territory's housing needs, but not all communities are being surveyed right away.
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
On to a less weighty Canadian affair, this time relating to cafeteria food. Seal meat is about to join beef tenderloin and baked salmon on the haute-cuisine menu for MPs and senators in the parliamentary restaurant. MPs say Parliament is taking a cue from Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean, who triggered a global controversy last May by eating seal meat while on a visit to Nunavut in a show of support...
H5N1 (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Via CBCnews.ca, a report from the Arctic: Nunavut vaccine blitz could 'wave H1N1 goodbye': medical officer. Excerpt:Nunavut might avoid a second wave of the swine flu pandemic now that 60 per cent of its population has been vaccinated, according to...
The Arctic (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
From February 5-6, 2010, in the dead of the Arctic winter, the finance ministers and central bank governors of the G-7 will meet in Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut. The meeting will serve as preparation for the actual G-7 summit to be held in Ontario next summer. The population of Iqaluit is 7,500, the average temperature [...]
Climbing Out Of The Dark (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
(Yikes polar bears kill seals....who knew?) It is just so right on so many levels. At first I thought it was an April Fools joke. I'm still not sure that they are going to do this, but if they do, it will be awesome. G7 ministers to meet in Arctic, kick sand in face of G20 wimps That should have been "snow" not "sand", then it would have been the perfect headline. OTTAWA (Reuters)...
Today In the Sky (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
You wouldn't think it would be controversial for a global carrier to add flights to a small, remote city of about 6,000 near the Arctic Circle. Yet that's what seems to be playing out in the Canadian territory of Nunavut,...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Many people across northern Canada got their swine flu shots over the past few weeks, to the relief of health officials who have encouraged everyone to be vaccinated.
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
G7 finance ministers are gung-ho enough to weather a meeting in Nunavut in February, where the temperature is reliably reported to average 7 zillion below zero. OTTAWA (Reuters) - Top finance officials from the G7 countries will meet in the remote Arctic town of Iqaluit on Feb 5-6 but may not issue a communique [editors note: because it's too frickin cold], Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Wednesday....
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, will host a major meeting of G7 finance ministers in early February.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
An announcement on how many polar bears can be hunted in Nunavut's Baffin Bay region is still weeks away, following a month-long extension.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The murder trial of a man accused of gunning down an RCMP officer in Kimmirut, Nunavut, will begin in late February.
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
This seems ill-judged. Nunavut's elected MLAs will review the territory's decentralization program, which promised to spread jobs and wealth outside the capital when the territorial government was formed 10 years ago. The program has been a cornerstone of Nunavut's public life but has come under criticism from a recent report on the government's policies and operations. Officials with Premier Eva...
Bucket Truck Bonanza (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
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