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Editor at Nunatsiaq News
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia
Joined May 2010
The Nunavut Land Use Plan is a wide-reaching document which, if approved, would designate protected habitats for animals such as caribou and polar bears, while setting aside land for development. https://t.co/l4SxkoQSMH
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Nunavut MP Lori Idlout is calling on the federal government to approve the Nunavut Land Use Plan, which she says has been unnecessarily delayed for more than two years.
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AingAI Indigenous Language Labs, based in Apex, was created in 2022 to help incorporate Inuktitut into artificial intelligence. https://t.co/HrCYvFLTMi
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To follow proper “net-iquette,” check your fishing nets regularly to make sure the fish are safe from birds and the net doesn’t rot in the water.
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If you're in Iqaluit, head to the Apex bridge Saturday where there are plans to celebrate the bridge opening. https://t.co/e1XsU6VNPr
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Drivers in Apex can expect to shave a minute or more off their daily commute starting Wednesday afternoon. That’s when the new Apex bridge opens to traffic, Geoff Byrne, spokesperson for the City of...
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“The family needs financial support for housing,” said Nukaya's doctor in a support letter to the Non-Insured Health Benefits program. https://t.co/JAstKbE7iG
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This story was updated on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, at 1:38 p.m. ET.
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The GN is entitled to keep Do Not Hire lists, says Nunavut's info commissioner. But these lists raise “a number of privacy and access issues," including how someone gets on or off the list, whether they are made aware of it, and who gets to see the list. https://t.co/Nl04yTFw80
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Job applicants are entitled to know whether they have been blacklisted from employment by the Government of Nunavut, says the territory’s information and privacy commissioner.
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In Inuktitut, a shaman is called an angakkuq - meaning someone that is in touch with the spiritual world Since the arrival of christianity on Inuit land, shamanism went extinct But, retelling the stories of Angakkuit is to keep that history alive #History #Inuit #Arctic
Travellers walk in the footsteps of a shaman in Pingualuit National Park. https://t.co/duJ6vGi3AG
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There was a big development in a 38-year-old unsolved murder Wednesday in an Iqaluit courtroom. https://t.co/n3wD0xebWC
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In a chilling scene inside the Iqaluit courthouse Wednesday, family members of 15-year-old Mary Ann Birmingham gathered for the news they waited 38 years to hear. A suspect has been arrested in the...
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Pay stubs for three pay periods — between Feb. 8 and March 12 this year — show nurse Jennifer Corcoran received no pay. But the GN is trying to claw back $9,000 worth of salary between these dates. https://t.co/4zyqAzCE0o
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A former Nunavut nurse says the Government of Nunavut is going after her for more than $30,000 based on what she believes is an inaccurate audit of her payroll — and nobody is helping her sort the...
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i feel like the elephant in the room is the political potential of b2b
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Six month inspection of my Miraculous Wonderbread. It has been sat in my cupboard six entire months. Never refrigerated or frozen. Still no mold.
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#Iqaluit-bound passengers stuck in Nuuk as Denmark grounds international flights out of Greenland capital #Nunavut @AirGreenlandSAS
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This story was updated at 2:40 p.m. ET to include an interview with passengers hoping to fly to Nuuk from Iqaluit Wednesday afternoon.
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Kinngait's lone pastor Martha Jaw has opened her Full Gospel church to everybody in town after fires destroyed two out of three churches in the hamlet last year. https://t.co/eBKtWRI122
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Martha Jaw first attended a service at a Full Gospel church in Kinngait at the age of 28. It was 1978. “My heart was touched,” she recalled recently of the experience.
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Nunavut is building 3,000 homes by 2030 to combat the territory's housing crisis. But will any of these new homes have space to accommodate multi-generational families? https://t.co/O8s2qAntwZ
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Sarah Samayualie and Qiatsuq Ragee have lived in their three-bedroom burgundy house for the past 20 years. It was built in the 1960s just across from Kinngait’s local Northern store and “sometimes...
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#Iqaluit family reunited with stolen walrus carving given to them by husband, father before he died. “It looked a little weather-beaten, but right away I knew it was our carving.” #Nunavut
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Nunatsiaq News has been unable to reach Naujaat Mayor Kevin Tegumiar about why the hamlet declined the funding or whether the council is reconsidering the decision. https://t.co/3OrKV3orCV
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There is $6.8 million in Jordan’s Principle funding approved for Naujaat, but it won’t be coming to the community because the hamlet’s council turned down the money.
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"And then I see this thing with eight legs and pincers, and I'm like... oh my God." This is the tale of a scorpion that showed up in a Yellowknife bathroom. https://t.co/HuiAlMxtbL
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"And then I see this thing with eight legs and pincers, and I'm like... oh my God." This is the tale of a scorpion that showed up in a Yellowknife bathroom.
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Idlout suggests law modelled on American law that protects Indigenous artists https://t.co/7YSGcd0jvg
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Like many Nunavummiut, Janet Pitsiulaaq Brewster was very young when she made her first carving. She carved a little seal head while in Grade 5 at Nakasuk School in Iqaluit.
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Killer of Grizzlies movie actor to be sentenced Friday https://t.co/AqCBjncWn8
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Scott Hala has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2021 death of actor, artist and activist Emerald MacDonald near Kugluktuk.
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Water treatment plants in three Nunavut communities — Naujaat, Coral Harbour and Baker Lake — are under orders from the Government of Nunavut’s public health branch to fix health and safety issues. https://t.co/lzzz1viOnn
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Disgraced priest accused of numerous historical sex assaults against children in Nunavut https://t.co/auoSLTw1Ez
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Rev. Johannes Rivoire, a former Nunavut priest accused of sexually abusing multiple Inuit children, has died. Rev.
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