For days, the Katuarpalaaq drum dancing festival brought performers from Alaska, Canada and Greenland together in Nuuk to share their own ways of dancing and singing.Sylvia Cloutier, who now lives in Montreal, takes part in the Katuarpalaaq drum dancing festival in Nuuk, Greenland. “Sometimes we feel like there’s very few of us cultural performers, but when we…
Horns honked, people cheered — “you could feel the happiness,” said CBC Nunavut’s Pauline Pemik, as Nunavut elder Raymond Ningeocheak returned home after a year of medical care in Ottawa.Raymond Ningeocheak, right, spent a few hours in a bed on board a special medevac flight from Ottawa to Coral Harbour, Nunavut, on Monday. He returned…
Residents of Iqaluit are being urged to boil water from the city’s supply for a full minute before consuming it, after Nunavut’s Health Department issued a boil-water advisory on Wednesday afternoon.City of Iqaluit staff delivered clean water to the Elders’ Qammaq on Monday, Jan. 17. On Wednesday, the Nunavut government issued a boil water advisory for the city.…
The Nunavut government has confirmed that traces of fuel have been found in Iqaluit’s water supply, again.Iqaluit residents gathered at the Sylvia Grinnell River on Friday to collect water. The territorial government confirmed on Saturday that there is fuel present in the city’s water supply, but the fuel levels are below what Health Canada deems…
The organization that represents Inuit in Nunavut claims the territorial government is discriminating against Inuit, by not offering education in Inuktut to the same degree as English and French.Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) president Aluki Kotierk, centre, enters the Nunavut Court of Justice to file a lawsuit against the territorial government. NTI claims the Nunavut government…
Mumilaaq Qaqqaq says she keeps her parliamentary badge close every time she enters the House of Commons — just in case she has to prove who she is. NDP MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq delivers a farewell speech in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday. (Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press)Mumilaaq Qaqqaq says she keeps…
There are eight active cases in Arviat, Nunavut as of Saturday. (Submitted by Dylan Clark)Nunavut is reporting two new cases of COVID-19 Saturday in the hamlet of Arviat. The territory says six other cases have recovered. It brings the total number of active cases in Nunavut to eight, all in Arviat. The community has seen…
Mumilaaq Qaqqaq, MP for Nunavut, returned to parliament last month after an eight-week hiatus from politics. Now she’s speaking out again about the issues northerners face — and the importance of self-love as an antidote to despair.Nunavut MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq said since her return to politics in January, ‘it’s been absolutely great.’ (Submitted by Mumilaaq…
Inuit Canadians will have 24/7 access to Inuktitut-language television programming starting first thing on Monday, at 12:01 a.m. Singer Rita Claire and husky Qimmiq are shown in a scene from the television show Anaana’s Tent, filmed in Nunavut. A new Inuit-language television channel called Uvagut TV launches Monday. The name means ‘Our TV’ in English. (Arvaaq Media…