Nunavut News

Covid-19 has infected everyone at the Continuing Care Centre in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut’s Department of Health announced on Sept. 23.

A plebiscite will be taking place in Iqaluit on October 24 to determine whether or not breweries will be be able to sell beer from their premises.

The afternoon of September 23, Nunavut’s Ministers and MLAs gathered outside the Nunavut Legislative Assembly in Iqaluit to raise an Every Child Matters flag in recognition of Canadian residential schools, reconciliation and ongoing Indigenous struggles.

The Inuit-specific Piruviapik Childcare Centre has opened up in Ottawa’s east end, situated in the former Rideau High School it brings together traditional values and culturally sensitive programming for Inuit infants, pre-schoolers and toddlers living in the nation’s capital.

On September 8, the British Queen Elizabeth II passed away at Balmoral Castle. In response, flags at government buildings across the country, including the Nunavut Legislature were flown at half-mast to mourn Canada’s monarch and to commemorate her reign over the past 70 years.

The Transglobal Car Expedition has recovered the truck they lost near the Qikirtat (Tasmania) Islands on March 23, 2022 while travelling overland from Yellowknife to Resolute Bay.

The Government of Nunavut’s acting Minister of Community and Government Services, Joanna Quassa, has ended the State of Emergency in Iqaluit, effective midnight, August 30.

The Government of Nunavut today announced the territory’s ninth death due to Covid-19 which took place on August 26.

With heightening tensions in Europe following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Jens Stoltenberg visited Cambridge Bay on August 25, the first in his position to do so. Specifically to shore up the strategic importance of Canada’s Arctic to the defence of North America and to the defensive alliance.

The Transglobal Car Expedition which travelled by vehicle overland to Resolute Bay from Yellowknife earlier in March is commencing operations to recover one of their trucks which was lost through the ice during their journey.