Pangnirtung, Rankin Inlet to vote on liquor laws
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
People in two Nunavut communities will cast ballots Monday on whether to change how alcohol is imported and consumed.
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Kaminak Gold Corporation: Kaminak Options Churchill Project Non-Diamond Rights to Shear Minerals Ltd.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Kaminak Gold Corporation (TSX VENTURE: KAM) today announced that the Company has signed an agreement whereby Shear Minerals Ltd. ("Shear") can acquire the non-diamond rights from Kaminak's Churchill Gold Project located in the Rankin Inlet area of Nunavut, Canada. Shear currently owns the diamond rights on the Churchill Property and this agreement...
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Rankin Inlet elder Patterk dies at 92
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Bernadette Okpik Patterk, a highly respected elder in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, died Thursday night at age 92.
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Canada: Vancouver English Bay Inukshuk
360 Cities (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
Panoramic photo by CodeForArt.com . The Inukshuk Below is the text casted on the plaque at the bottom of the statue. "Ancient symbols of Inuit culture traditionally used as landmarks and navigation aids, this grey granite statue representing a human form with outstretched arms is a well-known symbol in Canada of northern hospitality and friendship. Constructed originally by Alvin Kanak of Rankin...
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Rankin Inlet teen's sentence to be appealed
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
A youth jail sentence handed to a Rankin Inlet boy for a string of break-ins will be challenged in the Nunavut Court of Appeal.
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Canadian Visitor
Dickiebo (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
I don’t know about you, but I love to Google the areas from which cometh our readers. A recent visitor to these shores this blog, came from the West side of Canada’s Hudson’s Bay. Brrrr, looks very cold to me. Here are some google pics of Rankin Inlet; [...]
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Rankin Inlet passed over in survey of government services: council
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 20/07/2009
The hamlet council in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, says it was not consulted by a group that's preparing a report card on the Nunavut government's performance.
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Bleeding Hearts
The Monarchist (Free subscription) | 28/05/2009
The Queen's Governor General in Canada is being accused of being a blood lusting Neanderthal after swallowing a dripping chunk of raw seal heart as hundreds of Inuit looked on at an Arctic community feast in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. Her Excellency Michaelle Jean, on a week-long trip to the Arctic, knelt above a pair of seal carcasses and carved out the meat using a traditional ulu blade. After slashing...
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A Heartfelt Display of Patriotism
nonamedufus (Free subscription) | 28/05/2009
You gotta have heart Miles and miles and miles of heart Oh, it's fine to be a genius of course But keep that old horse before the cart First you've gotta have heart The media in Canada is all agog over Governor General Michaelle Jean eating raw seal heart. While visiting the Inuit village of Rankin Inlet in the northern territory of Nunavut Jean witnessed the carving of a seal and asked the locals...
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Meat-eating sushi fans agog at seal-eating Governor General
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 27/05/2009
Full Comment's Araminta Wordsworth brings you a regular dose of international punditry at its finest. Today: Canadians travelling abroad often have the sensation their country has disappeared from the map — according to news organizations elsewhere, little of interest occurs in our sprawling nation. Then along comes a story that confirms their suspicions we are a nation of bloodthirsty baby...
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Hats off to GG Michaëlle Jean
Russ Campbell's Blog (Free subscription) | 27/05/2009
T oday, I doff my hat to our governor general Michaëlle Jean who showed her support for the Inuit community in Nunavut by her symbolic defiance of an upcoming European Union ban on our seal products. “It’s like sushi,” she said, after tasting raw seal meat at a meeting of hundreds of Inuit at a community festival in Rankin Inlet in Nunavut on Monday. Earlier this month,...
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Governor-General gets her teeth into heart of seal debate
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 27/05/2009
RANKIN INLET, NUNAVUT - Canada's Governor-General ate a slaughtered seal's raw heart in a show of support to Canada's seal hunters, a display that a European Union spokeswoman called "too bizarre to acknowledge". Governor-General...
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Canada's Gov. General sparks seal uproar
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 27/05/2009
OTTAWA, May 27 (UPI) -- Both praise and scorn are swirling around Canada's governor general after she ate a slice of raw seal heart at an Inuit community ceremony. Michaelle Jean created the stir Monday in the Nunavut town of Rankin Inlet, Sun Media reported. She assisted an Inuit elder woman slice open the seals and cut the meat before sampling a piece of the heart. Paul Watson, founder of the Sea...
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Controversy Hits Governor General's Eating Of Raw Seal Heart Meat
WayOdd (Free subscription) | 27/05/2009
Controversy hounded Canada's Governor General Michaelle Jean a day after she ate a slice of raw seal heart in a public gathering in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut as part of her week-long Arctic visit. Green and animal rights groups denounced her act. Bruce Friedrich of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said, quoted by Globe and Mail, "The Canadian Governor General's sick PR stunt is predictable,...
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A gesture to hearten seal hunters
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 27/05/2009
RANKIN INLET, Nunavut - Canada's governor general ate part of the raw heart of a slaughtered seal in a show of support to the country's seal hunters, a display that a European Union spokeswoman yesterday called "too bizarre to acknowledge."