This page contains archived news from June, 2007.

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June 29, 2007

Features

• It’s a sell-out show

Iqaluit

• Iqaluit This Week
• Around Iqaluit
• Hip-hop crew rhymes across Davis Strait

Nunavik

• KRPF cuts back on arrests
• Warming threatens Nunavik water supply
• Quebec miners ante up to clean old messes
• Around Nunavik

Nunavut

• QIA wants language laws dumped, re-written
• Francophones dole out first-ever Uiviit awards
• How Greenland curbed alcohol abuse
• Inuit language thrives in Greenland
• British social network a hit with Arctic teens
• Four Inuit among 2007’s aboriginal role models
• Igloolik holds out hope for lost hunter

June 22, 2007

Arctic

• Around the Arctic
• Isuma flick opens in Nuuk, Igloolik

Iqaluit

• Ten-day arts fest kicks off in Iqaluit
• Iqaluit This Week
• Meth fears overblown, says RCMP

Nunavik

• Nunavik could get financial services centre
• Top hockey trainers lauded in Nunavik
• Safer Communities program starts handing out money
• Former mayor acquitted of sexual assault
• Firm warned over helicopter landing in crater

Nunavut

• Family abuse act to be in force by 2008
• GN revamps FANS in step with AG report
• AG: FANS needs targets, better collections
• Can swamps solve sewage crisis?
• Cookies make world safer place for women
• Endangered designation no slam dunk
• Nunavut Tourism eyes old Butler
• In the Legislative Assembly

Climate

• Warming melts snow bunting numbers
• Coming soon: migratory Arctic plants

June 15, 2007

Features

• Mystery of the serpentine musket

Iqaluit

• Hockey league looks to score with Iqaluit franchise
• Iqaluit This Week
• QEC zaps council over streetlights
• City seeks sewage solutions
• Light Bulb Picture

Nunavik

• Beluga hunters laud quota increase
• Nickel mine construction set for early 2008
• Rain aids effort to douse forest fire
• Around Nunavik

Nunavut

• Go slow on devolution, report urges
• In the Legislative Assembly
• Peary caribou now on endangered list
• Around Nunavut
• A new deal for the disabled
• Tootoo takes aim at KBDC

June 8, 2007

Arctic

• Around the Arctic

Features

• Nunavut’s first symphony

Iqaluit

• Church breaks ground for new St. Jude’s
• Iqaluit This Week

Nunavik

• Staff woes plague Kuujjuaq child care centres
• KRPF seeks help with serious sex cases
• Around Nunavik
• News from the Kativik Regional Government

Nunavut

• Mudslinging between union, GN hits assembly
• Summer brings return of war on garbage
• Nunavut student joins climate change expedition
• In the Legislative Assembly this week
• AIDS crisis moves Iqaluit retailer to action

Climate

• Ice melt threatens Arctic

June 1, 2007

Arctic

• Around the Arctic

Features

• Can traditions cure criminals?

Iqaluit

• Iqaluit This Week
• Around Iqaluit
• Energy costs eat away at city’s bottom line

Nunavik

• Mud gives clear picture of ancient climate

Nunavut

• Northern premiers unite on devolution fight
• Troubled waters threaten Arctic whales
• Nunatsiaq News scores five first-place awards
• Polar performers to headline at Alianait festival
• Nunavut’s telephone trouble-shooters
• In the Legislative Assembly this week
• The clown princes of suicide prevention

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