Nunavut non-Inuit health travel rules clear as mud

Family gets no answer on cost of travel

The day before Tammy Horn Evans, 34, was scheduled to fly out of Kugluktuk to Yellowknife, with her two-year-old son, Garrett, who was on his way to surgery in Vancouver, she still had no idea how much money the ticket to Yellowknife would cost her.

On Nov. 9 Evans still did not know if she would...

Let’s team up, Aariak tells NTI

Premier pitches report card, collaboration ahead of Assembly session next week

Nunavut Premier Eva Aariak wants to team up with Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. on a wide range of social problems and cultural issues.

Speaking to delegates at NTI’s annual meeting in Apex Wednesday, Aariak said “there is still a lot of untapped potential” in the GN’s relationship with the land claim...

Nunavut court: RCMP cell conditions violate Charter

Violent offender gets one day plus time served

A young Igloolik man who pleaded guilty to crimes committed during a series of drunken rampages should serve only one day in jail plus time served because police violated his Charter rights by holding him in excessively harsh conditions, Justice Earl Johnson of the Nunavut Court of Justice ruled...

Acid in Arctic waters eating away at shellfish

Marine food chain could be threatened

Greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, power stations and industries far to the south are putting shellfish in the Arctic Ocean at risk,  an international team reports in the Nov. 20 edition of the journal Science.

Acidification may put “some species may be at risk,” say the researchers — this...