Nunavut News

Pond Inlet is gearing up for Canada Day as Nunavut gets ready to celebrate the annual holiday without restrictions for the first time in three years.

The Canadian Government will be spending $4.9 billion over the next six years to improve the security of continental Canada. This will include an expanded Northern Approaches surveillance system for the Canadian Air Force and NORAD.

The Canada Day Parade in Iqaluit is coming back in 2022 after a brief hiatus in 2021. The city’s recreation department is currently inviting residents, organizations and businesses to register floats for the parade.

The Indigo Love of Reading Foundation is committing $20,000 to Iglulik’s Siviniit School.

Calgary Police today are asking people to come forward with details regarding Tara Niptanatiak’s death. The 35-year-0ld Cambridge Bay mother of four was found inside a waste container in the city’s Ramsay neighbourhood on February 25, 2022. An autopsy found her death was not suspicious, but “however, the circumstances surrounding how she ended up in the container remain under investigation”, the Calgary Police added in a social media post.

June 21st is National Indigenous Day and throughout the territory there were celebrations in recognition of Inuit, First Nations and Metis cultures.

Memories of a long-gone era have come flooding back for many residents of Pond Inlet when documentary filmmakers from Thunder Bay visited the community bearing sketches drawn in the community between 1970 and 71 by Susan Ross, an artist from Thunder Bay, Ontario who passed away in 2006.

Kugluktuk RCMP seized an undisclosed quantity of vodka and 10 firearms from Allan Aklok, who has been charged with three offences under the Nunavut Liquor Act and Canadian Criminal Code.

The Nunavut Municipal Training Organization is partnering up with Nunavut’s Department of Family Services to help deliver class 5 and 7 driver training courses for up to 105 participants in Coral Harbour, Arviat, Cambridge Bay, Kinngait, Rankin Inlet, Kugluktuk and Pangnirtung.

The federal government on June 7 announced it will invest $4.5 million to support the cleaning and balancing of air handling units in Nunavut schools alongside the Government of Nunavut, which will be providing around $2.1 million for the same purpose.