Two youths have been arrested with arson charges pending in connection with a fire that destroyed the warehouse of Iqaluit’s largest grocery store. The fire was extinguished overnight after raging for 22 hours. No injuries were reported. RCMP announced Friday morning in a news release that police are working withRead More →
An early-morning fire at the Northmart store in Iqaluit has forced the evacuation of nearby homes, including for seniors, as crews work to put out the blaze and respond to other fires reported in the area. “We got a call at 2 a.m. that there was a fire in theRead More →
Researchers aim to limit the amount of mercury in the ecosystem in the Northwest Territories by removing contaminated fish from lakes, leaving young, healthy fish to grow mercury-free. The University of Waterloo, Environment Canada and the Dehcho First Nations are leading this work, dubbing Sanguez Lake, near Jean Marie River, N.W.T. as the test site for the project. HeidiRead More →
In the last two decades, Michael Dougherty figures he’s saved at least $200,000. How? The Whitehorse man hasn’t owned a car since 1998 and walks everywhere. He made the decision while faced with a conundrum in August of that year. His wife was moving to Montreal to support their 14-year-old’s figure-skatingRead More →
Two sperm whales spotted near Pond Inlet, Nunavut, are a sign of underlying shifts in the High Arctic ecosystem, according to a scientist who saw the pair when out with an Inuit guide at the end of September. The group was out at Eclipse Sound, about ten minutes by boat outsideRead More →
Angus Andersen doesn’t have internet at home. Every day he goes to the mall, Tim Hortons, his favourite bakery in downtown St. John’s, N.L. — somewhere with wireless. He connects to the internet, logs on to Twitter, and sends out an Inuk word of the day. “Today’s first one was tassiujak —Read More →
A Northwest Territories judge has reluctantly accepted a plea bargain for a man who repeatedly lied to police and flew a drone in airspace used by planes taking off and landing at the Yellowknife airport. It marks the first time somebody has been convicted under the Criminal Code of dangerous operationRead More →
The federal government is poised to apologize for how it treated Inuit who were plucked from their communities across the North and taken to sanatoriums in southern Canada for tuberculosis treatment in the mid-20th century. The president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI), the organization that speaks for Inuit in Nunavut, made theRead More →
The first Inuk to play in the National Hockey League is retiring. Jordin Tootoo, 35, made the announcement Friday afternoon in Brandon, Man., where he began his hockey career playing for the Brandon Wheat Kings of the Western Hockey League in 1999. “This community has embraced me and looked beyond Jordin Tootoo theRead More →
What were billed as the oldest fossils on Earth may just be some rocks, according to a new study. Two years ago, a team of Australian scientists found odd structures in Greenland that they said were partly leftovers from microbes that lived on an ancient sea floor. They were saidRead More →