Headline News - May 3, 2002

Nunavut
GN budget promises good news and bad

Ng showers tax cuts on Nunavummiut

How much will you save in taxes?

Budget 2002: Spending highlights

JP slams lack of correctional space for women

Former deputy premier dies in Iqaluit

National poverty rep has sights set on Nunavut

Nunavik, and perhaps Nunavut, to administer strong vaccine

Nunavut legislature’s 6th session so far

Chesterfield Inlet waits for news of group home

Federal revolt puts Species at Risk Act in danger

Mayors want road system to the South

All is well at the North Pole

Crossing the line

Business In Nunavut

Jobs, not profit, make NDC worthwhile, GN says

Atuqtuarvik loans not always easy money

In The Courts

Former QIA president vacates staff housing

Sentencing appeal dropped

Crown wants murder trial heard in Iqaluit

Inquest into principal’s death delayed until fall

Teachers, GN, in negotiations

Nunavut a finalist in Attractions Canada awards

Governor-General to visit Nunavut

Nunavik
Non-Inuttitut speakers can’t run in Makivik elections

Non-Inuttitut-speaking Inuit feel deprived of rights

Nunavimiut spurn construction training and jobs

Features
Searching for a northern star

Judged by one’s peers

Iqaluit

Potholes: they’re big, they’re back and they’re here to stay

Managers head back to school

Students stay awake for a cause

The ultimate sore loser?

Brown water woes

Accepting food

Air service agreement

More recycling bins

Arctic

Voisey’s Bay close to deal

Russians to take part in contaminant monitoring

Indigenous Forum opens in NYC

High rates of violence in Greenland

Headline News - May 10, 2002

Nunavut
Okalik: NTCL may be liable for bad gas

Education budget approved after lengthy debate

New Education Act concerns DEA, union

Grim-faced Nunavut ministers admit the obvious

Kivalliq hunters want compensation for snowmobile repairs

Nunavut must be realistic, DIAND minister says

Nunavut a bonanza for southern businesses, report says

Inuit not getting fair share of aboriginal money

Ottawa still searching for third Nunavut judge

Partnership with Canada a must, Greenland premier says

Greenlanders find nothing to buy in Iqaluit

In The Legislative Assembly

Child benefit clawed from welfare cheques

Women’s shelters getting more money

MLA "distressed" by education department

New tax revenue for addictions treatment?

Hydro dams for Nunavut?

Few Inuktitut-speaking social workers

What you don’t see on television

In The Courts

Home invasion

Sewage spill settling?

Hunters turn to the Canadian Constitution

Women pleads not guilty to fraud charges

Sexual assailant gets federal time

Nunavik
Nunavik gives the nod to billion-dollar deal with Quebec

Kuujjuaq man honoured for work with char

Nav Canada unveils Kuujjuaq radar station

Beluga studies to get federal money

Kuujjuaq man charged with murder

MP files notice for inquiry on dog killing

Features
The kids are all right

Pond Inlet SAO honoured by peers

So long and thanks for all the fish

Iqaluit
Iqaluit HTO to vote on rights assignment

Going, going, gone

Snowmobile group association issues safety warning to stunt drivers

Arctic
Health workshop promotes knowledge of Inuit practices

Nunavut artists inducted to academy

Teachers’ contract negotiations put on hold

Bomb threat forces emergency landing in Kangerlussuaq

Heat wave hits northern Europe

Sámi art show scuttled

Headline News - May 17, 2002

Nunavut
GN holds firm on decentralization, for now

Police seize prints in suspected Nunavut art scam

Late artist left her mark on community

Benefits deal means little without federal money

NTCL won’t pay for gas damage without seeing report

Contaminated gas stalls cars and trucks, too

Kilabuk responds to IDEA concerns

Inuit share health knowledge at workshop

An traditional use for rabbit droppings

Mental health crisis overflows into jail cells p

Day shelter could become mental health facility

MLAs pick up speed to approve budget

Montreal tests show harmful effects of contaminants

Gjoa Haven polar bear hunt revived

Don’t overlook Nunavut, mayors plead

In The Legislative Assembly

Idea doesn’t fly

MLA asks for suicide data

Who gets to stay in hotels?

GN staff grows, despite high turnover

Carrying her weight

In The Courts

Kids set fire to Gjoa Haven co-op

U.N. forum on indigenous issues holds inaugural meeting

Nunavik
POV co-op destroyed by flash fire

Salluit gears up for eastern Arctic music festival

Features
Surfing on the snow

Learning off the land

Governor General deepens friendship with Nunavut

Iqaluit
Pitted road covered by warranty

Kicking up a storm

Toilet testing

ATV bylaw amended

Arctic
Voisey’s Bay close to deal

Russians to take part in contaminant monitoring

Indigenous Forum opens in NYC

High rates of violence in Greenland

Shattered ice threatens whalers, ruins hunt

Arctic Warming puts polar bears at risk

Headline News - May 24, 2002

Nunavut

Sanikiluaq pleads for Nunavut's help

Nunavut needs new energy corporation, report says

Iqaluit, Alert possible NMD sites, watchdog says

Shipping company charged over oil slick in Frobisher Bay

GN rejects advice on Igloolik, Kugluktuk job moves

Business behind glass

Looking for answers on Ellesmere Island

In The Legislative Assembly

Nunavut won’t stay quiet, Okalik vows

MLA steams as extension denied

Gas questions? Call Kattuk

MLAs take the summer off

Jury summonses translated into Inuktitut

Adults responsible for keeping kids out of trouble, MLA says

Thompson can’t answer to bad gas

Nunavut Tourism business plan identifies goals

Nunavut briefs

Bernier exhibit begins Nunavut tour

NTI names new head of NSDC

Mayors, SAOs elect new executives

ICC unveils logo for Kuujjuaq conference

Inuit art on exhibition in Austria

Nunavik
Poachers fined for illegal possession of falcon eggs

Nunavik self-government talks set to start

New co-op store opens in POV

DFO gives beluga hunters an ultimatum

Features
Colours of the imagination

Iqaluit
Naming streets isn’t the Inuit way, residents say

HTA members reject densely worded ballot

Headline News - May 31, 2002

Nunavut
GN goes it alone on gasoline payout

Capital city caught in development squeeze

Iqaluit council rejects Road to Nowhere rezoning

Strike vote hits phone service in Nunavut

Commission bans bowhead whaling in Russia and Alaska

Kivalliq residents frustrated by the road not taken

Mental health strategy a blueprint for Nunavut

In The Courts

Horne’s sentencing appeal rejected

Teen pleads guilty to jaw-dropping assault

Jury still out on Nunavut’s third judge

Nunavut briefs

Suicide report shows frightening numbers

More prints added to art fraud investigation

Respected Iqaluit hunter, community leader dies

Akesuk owes more than $10,000 in back rent

U.N. Indigenous Forum winds up

Nunavik
Only seven communities to receive new housing

Former crown prosecutor kicked out of town

Two men wounded in camp melee

Nunavik police nab booze and drugs bound for POV

Features
Urban Inuit find their roots

Captain Bernier lives on

Radio Heads

Sanikiluaq student chosen to attend national science camp

Iqaluit
Taxi drivers oppose public transit

Kuujjuaq street names mirror history and geography

ATV bylaw faces challenge

Council fired up for smoking bylaw consultations

Council votes to approve bridge

Justice committee members resign

Arctic

Puffins die off in large numbers

Alaska and Chukotka draw closer

Winters, volcanic eruptions to burst Arctic ozone layer

Sámi records show boys are tough on their mothers