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Government announces $5 million Arctic park study
Ottawa :: Canada | about 13 hours ago
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The federal government will spend $5 million on a study that will lead to the creation of a new protected marine area at the eastern end of the Northwest Passage. Environment Minister Jim Prentice officially announced Tuesday a feasibility study of Lancaster...
Tags: Northwest Passage, Parks Canada, Canada, Ottawa, Environment, Indigenous peoples of North America, Lancaster Sound, Politics, Hunter-gatherers, Aboriginal peoples in Quebec, Nunavut, Baffin Island, Arctic Ocean
Iqaluit woman found dead in home
Toronto :: Canada | about 18 hours ago
Credibility 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
N.W.T. community with TB outbreak safe to visit: official
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility 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
Government to announce Arctic marine park
Ottawa :: Canada | 5 days ago
Credibility The Canadian government is expected to announce a deal next week to create a protected marine area at the eastern gates of the Northwest Passage. Environment Minister Jim Prentice will make an announcement relating to the long-term protection of Lancaster...
Tags: Northwest Passage, lancaster sound, Canada, Ottawa, Politics, Environment, Indigenous peoples of North America, Hunter-gatherers, Aboriginal peoples in Quebec, Aboriginal peoples in Canadian territories, Baffin Island, Inuit, Narwhal, Polar bear, Beluga, Inuktitut, Eskimos, Nunavut, Arctic, Monodontidae
N.W.T. union's office staff give strike notice
Winnipeg :: Canada | 5 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: polar bears, Manitoba Hells Angels, bears sculpture, animal art, Winnipeg, skeleton inside, climate change, change concern, sculpture shapes, sculptor carving, Canada, Environment, Manitoba, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Law Crime, Hells Angels, Nunavut, Point Douglas, Labor, Yukon, Provinces and territories of Canada, Eva Aariak, Human spaceflight, Bears, Poles, Gendarmerie, Ares, Iqaluit, Project Constellation, Glaciology, Arctic
No trapped narwhal in Pond Inlet
Toronto :: Canada | 5 days ago
Credibility The Yukon's politicians have started working towards a ban on using cellphones while driving, but it will likely take a while before any legislation takes effect. The late formation of Arctic sea ice may be forcing some hungry and desperate polar bears...
Tags: Canada, Toronto, Environment, Education, Provinces and territories of Canada, Aboriginal peoples in Northern Canada, Nunavut, Arctic Ocean, Baffin Island, Narwhal, Pond Inlet Nunavut, Diavik Diamond Mine
Nunavut MLAs spike jail study proposal
Toronto :: Canada | 7 days ago
Credibility 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
Whitehorse students stage climate change 'die-in'
Whitehorse :: Canada | 8 days ago
Credibility 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
Nunavut flight inquest postponed
Yellowknife :: Canada | 8 days ago
Credibility A Nunavut coroner's inquest into the death of a Cambridge Bay man who jumped out of an airplane in mid-air has been postponed until 2010. Julien Tologanak, 20, died on April 15 after he forced open the door of a charter plane flying from Yellowknife to...
Tags: Cambridge Bay, Julien Tologanak, Canada, Yellowknife, Inquest, Coroner, Nunavut, Cambridge Bay Nunavut, Adlair Aviation, Civil procedure
Her quest for justice started early
Ottawa :: Canada | 9 days ago
Credibility High Arctic exile Martha Flaherty was forced to wear a tag and answer to the number on it...The white people running things on the journey to exile expected quiet submission from the Inuit and usually got it...When they were herded into a damp, dimly...
Tags: Rynee Flaherty, Canada, Ottawa, Grise Fiord Nunavut, Inuit, Inukjuak Quebec, Ellesmere Island, Arctic Cordillera, Indigenous peoples of North America, High Arctic relocation, Hunter-gatherers, Aboriginal peoples in Quebec, Martha Jones, Robert J. Flaherty, Aboriginal peoples in Canadian territories, Nanook of the North, Nunavut, Arctic Ocean, Doctor
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