June 2, 2006

Nunavut
Pedophile sentenced for molesting young girls

Troubled teen becomes test case for social safety net

Photo: the tundra is greener than usual

Feds charge Miramar for two-year-old fuel spill

Child sexual assaults climb in Baker Lake

Mystery skull sets tongues wagging

Rankin shoots, hopes to score

Fix the funding formula, premiers’ group says

Bring on the devolution

Around Nunavut
Former SAO faces fraud charge

Prelim set for vicious Pang assault

Igloolik man died cooking: Fire marshal

Two Kugluktuk hunters missing, presumed dead

Rabid foxes near Kugluktuk

One teen stabbed, another charged in Gjoa Haven

New NORAD deal still a question mark

Climate change
Welcome to the Great Green North

Photo: difficult travelling for Pangnirtung hunters

Iqaluit
Half-buried asbestos holds up gravel quarrying

Arts community plans ambitious annual festival

Photo: a bulldozer sits in front of St. Jude’s Anglican Cathedral

Visiting vets give Iqaluit pets a tune-up

Around Iqaluit
Iqaluit this week

Third gas station for Iqaluit?

Bring the folk school to the capital

Lori Idlout joins IDEA

Land trips pay off

How many Inuit teachers are there?

Oil spill info needed

Photo: IDEA member Jeannie Eeseemailie

Nunavik
Conflict over evolution “internal problem:” education ministry

Teachers’ union backs evolution

Visiting clergyman witness to Kangirsuk’s violent crisis

Montreal corner store busted for pot

Tundra Trot marathon races around Kuujjuaraapik

Around Nunavik
Photos, carvings from POV displayed on web

Sinuupa, Tanya Tagaq chosen for aboriginal CD

Around the Arctic
Sacred island to become protected park

Pink salmon moving north

Kyoto countries plan next steps

Congress approves Alaskan oil drilling

Greenland bears loaded with pollutants

Greenland talks about Hans in Ottawa

Whale watching by webcam in Barrow

AIDS, development on UN indigenous agenda

New self-government movement in Greenland

Features
Judo blowout marks farewell to Iqaluit teacher

June 9, 2006

Nunavut
GN touts Kimmirut, not Iqaluit, as deep-sea port site

Beluga hunters face cuts if quotas exceeded

GN hosts dog-and-pony show in Ottawa

Photo: Sienna Gordon practices her golf game

EU lawmakers campaign for total seal product ban

Okalik hops onto Tory anti-Kyoto bandwagon

Deputies must master Inuktitut or lose jobs: Okalik

Panel urges more funds to fix Nunavut’s problems

Man wants cash for mystery skull

Around Nunavut
Bitter rivals will split new turbot quota

Western premiers to meet in Iqaluit next year

Don’t renew that gun licence!

Iqaluit
St. Jude’s set to rise from rubble

Around Iqaluit
Iqaluit this week

Nunavik
Provincial funding focuses on crime prevention

Three shacks, one container, but no homes ruined in accidental fire

How do you divide 160 houses by 14 needy communities?

Driving while high makes roads riskier

Around Nunavik
Nunavik goes nearly smoke-free

No road to nowhere for Kuujjuaq

Internet growing by leaps and bounds

Police seize bootlegged alcohol

Regional projects get go-ahead

Crime figures up

Around the Arctic
The High Arctic: from hot to cold

We want your photos on climate change

Arctic microbes may speed global warming

Photo: mummified wood

Features
No joy in Trashville

June 16, 2006

Nunavut
Discipline issue pits parents against teachers

It’s a bear-eat-bear world as climate changes

New law to help victims fight abusers

Overcrowded and mad as hell

One hundred homes by early 2007

A snoozer of a week

Teachers union slams lax conduct policy

GN fights HTLV-1 by screening all pregnant women

Aboriginals three times more likely to be victims of violent crime

City worried about GN mix-up on sea port

Like a polar bear with horns

Photo: Jacob Hess races

Climate Change
Air conditioners come to the Arctic

Around Nunavut
Kivalliq smashes temperature records

Iqaluit
$2,400 tarp fix solves Iqaluit’s gravel woes

Around Iqaluit
Iqaluit this week

Who’s funding bilingual education?

32 graduate from Inuksuk High

Kids, artists want to spray paint city hall

More wooden posts, piles to come

Iqaluit wants voters to pick premier

Iqaluit developer scales back apartment plans

Sewage lagoon no place for a stroll

City approves dam work

Composters dump on city

Green schools lead the way in Iqaluit

Nunavik
Corrections Canada pleas for community help

Money woes, self-government dominate mock parliament

Kuujjuaq businesses interested in selling booze

Around Nunavik
New partner for Nunavik Mineral Exploration Fund

Kids book goes into second printing

Montreal First Peoples’ Festival underway

Nunavik Parks: moving ahead

In the Legislative Assembly
Kilabuk picked as house speaker

GN waffles on climate change

Cabinet slow to ponder finance “recentralization”

Around the Arctic
North Pole teams airlifted to Resolute

UArctic celebrates fifth birthday

Features
Trash fire leaves Pang smelling like a dump

June 23, 2006

Nunavut
Law would ban accused wife beaters from family home

New mine to bring Nunavik hundreds of jobs

NTI office workers join union

Ellesmere spring excites NASA scientists

Pride brings own rainbows as drizzle dampens picnic

Don't just "live with" cancer, women urged

Pang project offers help to troubled Inuit

Nunavut out-smokes rest of Canada

Miss Nunavut hopes to steel beauty title with something borrowed

Picture: Carving by Alec Lawson Tuckatuck

In the Legislative Assembly

Nunavik
Garage wins environmental award by recycling oil

Jobs double in Nunavik since 1993

Who holds Nunavik's jobs?

Nunavik awaits better, cheaper cell phones

Features
New Brunswick's Inuk artist-in-exile

Around the Arctic
Homelessness hits Murmansk

Beluga found up-river near Fairbanks, Alaska

Saami seek traditional leave

Scientists call for listing of polar bear as endangered

Permafrost melting may increase global warming

Quebec hatches plan to combat climate change

June 30, 2006

Nunavut
Res-school deal set to close this fall

Inuk senator demands inquiry into Baffin fishery

NWMB wants comment on fishery report

Iqaluit Baha’is fear for Iranian counterparts

Land claims film an eye-opener for teens

Akitisirak grad plans Nunavut’s first Inuit law firm

Old beacon beats high-tech GPS

A feast for the eyes, ears and belly

Photo: Caroline Palliser receives her Bachelor of Education Degree

Photo: Jamasee Pitseolak from Cape Dorset and his carving of a chopper motorcycle

Around Nunavut
Nunavut housing on the web

Backhoe knocks CBC Iqaluit off the air

ITK: Canada should approve indigenous rights pact

Nunavik
Europe on 200 photos a day

Around Nunavik
Watt gives Inuktitut speech in Senate

Nancy dumps on the Tories

Around Iqaluit
Iqaluit this week

Climate Change
Looking at Greenland’s ice sheet... melt

Earth running a fever?

Noah’s Ark for seeds

Arctic sea levels dropping steadily

Features
Redrawing the boundaries of Inuit art