Headline News - December 6, 2002

Nunavut

Romanow inspires hope for better health care in Nunavut
But provincial-federal wrangling could sink health-care agreement

Cape Dorset woman guilty of manslaughter
Lawyers disagree whether Jeannie Manning suffered from battered woman syndrome

Education department sits on crucial report for two years
Plan sets timeline for implementing Inuktitut-based system

Arctic leaders embrace Romanow report
They warn that per capita funding gives little to Inuit

Romanow’s report: What’s in it
A commitment to public health care, equal access for all

Chesterfield Inlet group home to undergo transformation
GN capital budget contains $4.25 million for new facility

Municipal candidates prepare for election
Race to the finish in several communities Dec. 9

Thompson introduces community-empowerment bill
Amendments could give hamlets more control of operations

CGT capital budget the largest since 1999
Nunavut communities need $350 million, NAM says, but get $22 million instead

Nunavut Briefs

Two tusks better than one

Dewar wins second term

Training for home-care workers

Pang student recognized for poster

New phones for Nunavut

Nunavik

Nunavik plans change to rent scale
Concerns dominate Kativik Regional Government meeting

World’s oldest volcanic rocks found near Inukjuak
Geologists estimate rocks to be 3.82 billion years old

POV outfitter branches into France
Demand for Arctic survival adventures growing internationally

Features

Countdown to Christmas
Parade kicks off holiday season

Iqaluit

GN to spruce up Iqaluit schools
Capital budget promises major funding for school renovations

Budget promises a windfall for capital city
$7.2 million in block funding for Iqaluit

Peter Pan in Iqaluit

Pottery sale

Headline News - December 13, 2002

Nunavut

Alikatuktuk returns to QIA’s top job
Only 33 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots

Iqaluit teen, 13, found dead in her home
More than a dozen RCMP assigned to case

Meadowbank boasts of a good year

Unilingual Inuk becomes Greenland’s new premier
Referendum on independence likely by 2005

Seven new mayors elected in Nunavut
Twenty-four communities voted Dec.9

Nunavut Literacy Council in demand
Territorial group working towards program expansion

Teenage gunman runs amok in Iqaluit
Legion closed, taxis parked

Inuit hunters exempted from gun licence prosecution
NTI’s gun law court challenge to be tried next year

Search for Kugluktuk man ends sadly

Nunavik

POV celebrates new co-op superstore
Building houses store, post office, hair salon

Nunavik groups worry as species at risk act looms
No recovery plan, no beluga hunting

Features

Painting from the heart
Iqaluit children produce art and raise money for camping with elders program

Iqaluit

NCC woos Iqaluit with public-private development scheme
Inuit company proposes privatized subdivision

Iqalungmiut want smoking ban in restaurants
Fewer people favour smoking ban in bars

Arctic

NASA study: year-round Arctic sea ice may vanish

Alaskans wonder: where’s winter?

Headline News - December 20, 2002

Nunavut

Youth, elders share the joy of Christmas
A time for the generations

Political warfare breaks out in Resolute Bay
Hamlet councillor pursuing conflict-of-interest allegations against mayor in court next month

Iqaluit man charged with first degree murder in teen’s death
Police grateful for community’s co-operation

Finding their place
Pond Inlet elders consulted about Inuktitut place names

Ending the abuse: GN mounts anti-violence campaign
Three-poster series promoting prevention of violence against women unveiled in Iqaluit

Iqalungmiut pitch in to rescue food bank
More than 200 Iqaluit families will have food to eat this Christmas, thanks to the generosity of Iqaluit’s warm-hearted residents

Nunavik

Inuktitut on rise in Nunavik
Region is strongest area for any aboriginal language in Canada

Leaders push for Nunavik riding
Say presentations fell on deaf ears

Nunavik’s MP recovers from heart attack

Aupaluk’s new mayor to press for youth center

Nunavik anti-smoking contest set for January

Features

One culture’s justice is another’s crime
Shelagh Grant’s Arctic Justice uses oral history to explain why Robert Janes was executed by Inuit

Iqaluit

Iqaluit, GN, sign five-year, $31-million deal
Ratepayers to vote next year on borrowing

Higher taxes, service fees in 2003 Iqaluit budget
City to spend $11.3 million on infrastructure next year

Holiday church services