March 3, 2006

Nunavut
Kivalliq Inuit strike benefit deal on Meadowbank

Greenland promises trade deals for Nunavut, Nunavik

Hobo Jim to set the tone for AWG 2006

Torrid temperatures smash records around Nunavut

Weatherman saw warm air coming

Nunavut’s correctional system a revolving door

Developers cool to GN staff housing policy

GN continues to rent houses in Iqaluit

Reading, writing and... publishing?

Nakasuk School opts for bilingual education model

Family ties help end Igloolik stand-off peacefully

Deadly STDs travel South-North

Travel chaos just “hiccups,” minister says

In the Legislative Assembly
Netser joins cabinet

Kelowna all the time

Don’t wait for the trees to fight climate change

Sealskin debate continues

Promises for winter trails, improved medical travel and school bus

Igloolik stand-off a wake-up call

Tracking system being tested

New all-male liquor board

Peterson fears transport deficits will hurt region

Remember Nanisivik

Wanted: ice making machine for Kugluktuk

Barnabas decries child care underfunding

Iqaluit
Parking tickets, fines coming to Iqaluit this April

Around Iqaluit
Iqaluit this week

Homeowners call for investigation of city

Nunavik
Budget, elders in need top Kativik Regional Council agenda

Around Nunavik
POV man gets life for murder

Kangiqsualujjuaq woman gets conditional sentence

Makivik to elect new board members, president

Around the Arctic
Greenlandic only, suggests Siumut Party

Arctic ice melt is “significant,” say scientists

Peace column for Iceland

Want to go to C-C-mute?

Dire predictions for a future with unchecked global warming

Greenland melt speeding up

Features
Taking the drugs and thugs out of hip hop

March 10, 2006

Nunavut
Bird flu worries arise in legislature

Nunavut’s first gold mine gets go-ahead from NIRB

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen unveiled this weekend

Cambay “a disaster” fire chief says

Nunavut Film fires its director

Education consultation gets mixed reviews in Baker Lake

Kugluktummiut take wellness into their own hands

First Air improves Resolute-Ottawa connection

Inuit still less than half of GN workforce

Still few Inuit men at GN

Snow Snakes, High Kicks challenge AWG contenders

Health minister in hot seat over spending, travel

Photo: MLA Patterk Netser’s swearing in ceremony

In the Legislative Assembly
The GN wants employees to be happy

GN “not run by employees,” Okalik says

Forest fires no disaster for Nunavummiut

MLA spotlights GN’s “shame”

Training school in the works for Cambay

Musk ox harvest kicks off again

Electoral Commission to review ridings

Small communities’ crying need for infrastructure

Passing of Rankin Inlet elder recognized

Medical problems not “hiccups” — just “situations”

Apprentice program a success, says Picco

Use IQ to defend wildlife management

CLEY assessing GN language training

Severe weather in Baffin keeps Qulliq Energy crews scrambling

Kilabuk takes up plight and rights of the disabled

Absenteeism, not tough exams, makes kids drop-out

Wildlife officers crowd ledge

Keep to music, Paul

Houses challenge elders in Sanikiluaq

Snakes and leaders

Around Nunavut
Every day should be Women’s Day

Iqaluit
Single dad still struggling after court victory

Around Iqaluit
Iqaluit this week

City scrambles to fix broken pipes

City staff monitor new snowfence

Post office purse snatcher

City passes new business bylaw

Charges laid in botched bank robbery

Nunavik
Inukjuak aims to be diesel-free by 2012

Around Nunavik
Former Kangiqsualujjuaq teacher faces 19 sexual abuse charges

Around the Arctic
Polar bear quota ends sport hunt plans in Greenland

Temperatures up in Iceland, too

Bird flu boosts fish sales

Oil spill downs North Slope production in Alaska

March 17, 2006

Nunavut
GN bungling raises sealift costs

Tootoo takes up cause of disabled child

QC guns for deepwater port job

Lots of drunken violence, little chance of treatment

Passing judgment on lack of resources

Elder laments the plight of drunks

Judge strikes unintentional guilty plea

Sageatook takes a long shot at NTI post

‘Rush-hour’ begins at the North Pole

Tracking the mysterious Greenland shark

Nunavut athletes
sweep Inuit games

School honours
returning athlete

Nunavik winners

Photo: Save the baby veal

In the Legislative Assembly
“Care closer to home” gets little help in Clyde River

Innuinaqtun program crashes

Still no houses and no land — why?

Specialists on the run?

Taking jobs from whom?

We want energy guide evaluations, too, says Tootoo

“Hiccup Minister” still sparring on medical travel

Barnabas fights for “the backbone of Nunavut”

Army needs northern seamstresses

Voting is civic duty, that’s all

Making the most of Nunavut’s reserves

Help for outpost camps

Praise and criticism for social workers

Promote traditional knowledge, says Curley

Around Nunavut
Inuit woman earns PhD

Five-year-old girl found dead in Kugaaruk

Call for photos of Inuit midwives, mothers, children, families

DIAND drops $2.5 million on mapping

Iqaluit
Iqaluit dives into a 30-year plan

Around Iqaluit
Iqaluit this week

Parking fines in effect

160 more posts on the way

Walkway plan expanding this summer

New lots slated for Plateau

Women’s shelter becomes homeless shelter

Nunavik
Nunavimmiut like their country food and home

Second year bigger than the first for Makivik cruise company

Features
Where the sludge goes

March 24, 2006

Nunavut
Why Baffin’s health system flunked out

Inuktitut teachers need Inuktitut training: report

Baffin Fisheries Coalition pleads case with new minister

Photo: Joe Tikivik receives a Commissioner’s Award for Acquisition of Special Skills

Rankin considers move to collect property taxes

Photo: Land claim beneficiaries watch the votes roll in

Maliiganik’s executive director departs

Two more sexual abuse cases coming to court

GN hammered on housing shortages

Youth to lead the way

Man gets life after raping murdered parole officer

Less sea ice, more harmful gases

Around Nunavut
Income support numbers

Kugaaruk case is murder

New website for francophones

Iqaluit
Daring rescues, special skills mean 23 commissioner’s awards

Soup kitchen back on its feet

Fremantle quits top job at City of Iqaluit

New Governor General on Toonik Tyme guest list

Around Iqaluit
Iqaluit this week

Air rally coming to Iqaluit

Around Nunavik
Convicted killer heads back to jail

Features
The greatest show in town

March 31, 2006

Nunavut
Berger urges big, bold fix for Inuit education

Another award for Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Murder trial touches painful nerve in Rankin

Photo: Students from Iqaluit’s French-language school

Berger’s education proposals, at a glance

NTI, GN, Ottawa reach deal to pay for IPGs

Firefighters quit CamBay hamlet

New turbot quota is all Nunavut’s

Hunters need one-stop funding shop

Nunavut’s power corporation gets thumbs-up review

Two succeed, four give up on Pole treks

Around Nunavut
Wanted: Northern women writers

New VP at Qikiqtaaluk Corp.

Okalik speaks out at EU gathering in Brussels

Kugaaruk murder still a mystery

Nunavut’s population still growing

Mining symposium starts today in Cambay

Canadians in Greenland

Iqaluit
No help for struggling students in Iqaluit schools

Five rivers under study for Iqaluit hydro dam

Photo: Students capsize a cardboard boat

Contamination at new dump could haunt city

Photo: Jeremiah Groves plays the role of someone who suffered a serious head injury

Around Iqaluit
Iqaluit this week

For IDEA, Inuktitut as important as French

New Plateau lots up for grabs

Nunavik
Puvirnituq earthquake a sign of things to come

What to do when the Earth begins to shake

Aatami, Tulugak face-off again in bid for Makivik presidency

Mushers head overland in sixth annual Nunavik dog team race

Around Nunavik
Raglan South moves ahead

Around the Arctic
Warmer Arctic summers, higher sea level by 2100

NASA plane measures sea ice snow