Nunavut News

An Iqaluit daycare has been closed due to an on-site exposure to Covid-19, announced the Government of Nunavut during an update on Jan. 20. Testing and contact tracing is taking place for close contacts.

The Government of Nunavut is reviewing potential contractors to recommend a solid waste management plan for the entire territory, but with approaches tailored to each region.

Election season, a new government and Covid-19 delayed the signing ceremony, but on Jan. 19, the Government of Nunavut and the Nunavut Teachers Union (NTA) signed into effect a new four-year collective agreement starting retroactively on July 1, 2021 following September negotiations. The new agreement expires June 30, 2025.

A precautionary boil water advisory has been issued as of 4:00 p.m. in Iqaluit following the identification of a breach in the city’s water treatment plant – the suspected cause of the most recent instance of fuel entering the city water supply, announced the City on Jan. 19.

On Jan. 16 around 4:30 p.m., Iqaluit Emergency Services responded to a kitchen fire in the 900 neighbourhood. Firefighters arrived and soon located the fire, extinguishing it. There was no spread to neighbouring units.

Uvagut (Our) TV is celebrating its first year of bringing all-Inuktitut television to Inuit all over Canada, after its Jan. 18, 2021 launch under Nunavut Independent Television (NITV).

Iqaluit’s microbiology lab is closed following the departure of several lab technicians in late November and early December of 2021, with managers and directors at Qikiqtani General Hospital still looking for a qualified replacement.

Jan. 16 to 22 is National Non-Smoking Week, which takes place on the third week of January every year. It is meant to help focus people on the objective of quitting tobacco and to help educate Canadians on the dangers of smoking cigarettes.

A group of camo-clothed hunters roamed along a beach on Quebec’s Magdalen Islands one day this past November, settling themselves along a stretch of shore where grey seals were most active. Some carried rifles, another had a hakapik, which is a club used for harvesting seals.