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A police team is investigating after a 54-year-old man was found unresponsive in police holding cells in Nunavut...The man wasn't responding to police officials when he was checked in his cell around 8 a.m. He was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced...
Tags: holding cells, Canada, Iqaluit, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Autopsy, Gendarmerie, Yellowknife, Nunavut, Public Safety Canada, Law Crime
Iqaluit are investigating the death Wednesday of a man in their custody. A festival of films documenting the impact of climate change by Indigenous filmmakers from around the world opened Wednesday in Copenhagen in conjunction with the United Nations...
Tags: Denmark, Copenhagen, Environment, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Indigenous peoples of North America, Mᅢᄅtis people, Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Hunter-gatherers, Social Issues, Inuit, Iqaluit, Ethnic groups in Canada
Police say they and paramedics were sent Saturday to Iqaluit's 100-block area, where the body of Pitseolak Kilabuk was found inside a home.
Tags: Canada, Toronto, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Nunavut, Iqaluit, Law Crime
The federal government says it will spend $5 million to study a proposed marine conservation area in Lancaster Sound at the eastern gate of the Northwest Passage. An outbreak of tuberculosis in Déline, N.W.T., has some in the remote community worried...
Tags: New York City, Environment, Exclaves, Oil sands, Politics, Snowmobile, Eva Aariak, Year of birth missing, West Coast of the United States, Yukon, Provinces and territories of Canada, Nunavut, Arctic Ocean, Iqaluit, Alaska
The federal food mail program must allow traditional "country" foods such as game meat to be shipped between northern communities, Nunavut Premier Eva Aariak says. Eighty per cent of the Yukon's Peel River watershed region should be protected from industrial...
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Nunavut's regular MLAs have dashed the government's hopes of replacing the territory's aging, overcrowded jail. Two sisters from Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., have been found safe after being missing for 22 hours. Doctors and nurses in Canada's North are...
Tags: Yukon Supreme Court, N.W.T., Yukon Human Rights Commission, Canada, Toronto, Politics, Nunavut, Paul Okalik, Yellowknife, Inuktitut, Iqaluit, Swine influenza, flu pandemic, Provinces and territories of Canada, Yukon, Pandemics, Inuit, Yellowknives, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Disaster Accident
A large fire that started at the Yellowknife dump nearly three months ago is still not fully out, as firefighters had to contain some newly-surfaced hotspots over the weekend. Iqaluit MLA and former premier Paul Okalik has apologized for allowing his...
Tags: Canada, Toronto, Paul Okalik, Politics, Yellowknife, Iqaluit
Nunavut MLAs have voted to call on Iqaluit MLA and former premier Paul Okalik to apologize for allowing his re-election campaign team to solicit donations from top government bureaucrats. Ten office staff with the Union of Northern Workers could serve...
Tags: Paul Okalik, nunavut mlas, Canada, Whitehorse, Politics, Nunavut, Iqaluit, Environment
The Northwest Territories member of Parliament took the federal government to task on Friday over climate change, on the heels of a federal advisory body's warning that Canada's North needs help in dealing with the effects of global warming. Whitehorse's...
Tags: Canada, Toronto, Pangnirtung Nunavut, Pangnirtung, Adamee Komoartok, Nunavut, Peter Kilabuk, Law Crime, Politics, Iqaluit
People living in Canada's far north aren't prepared for what global warming will do to their homes and infrastructure, a federal agency warned the government. The independent National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy report to Parliament...
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