Nunatsiaq News

1 week ago | nunatsiaq.com | Jorge Antunes

Nunavut’s Conservative, Liberal and NDP candidates might not agree on a lot, but they all say the Inuit Child First Initiative is top of mind. “If we’re going to address health issues, we should address it early and the Inuit Child First program, I would start there,” Conservative candidate James T. Arreak said. “I believe the government must support the [initiative].”Liberal candidate Kilikvak Kabloona took her support one step further.

1 week ago | nunatsiaq.com | Jorge Antunes

The Nunavut government is “giving serious consideration” to declaring a territory-wide suicide crisis, Health Minister John Main said on Monday. One way a “suicide crisis” could be declared is as a public health emergency, Main said in a phone interview. “If a public health emergency [is declared], then there is the ability to acquire or order specific resources to be allocated through the chief public health officer’s purview and through legislation,” he said.

1 week ago | nunatsiaq.com | Jeff Pelletier

An Iqaluit residential street was partially blocked off Saturday as the RCMP investigated what it described as a “suspicious item.”“The Iqaluit RCMP are currently investigating a suspicious item that was located inside a residence in the 2600 area of the city,” the Nunavut RCMP said in a Facebook post made before 2 p.m.Around 5:30 p.m., two police vehicles were guarding a taped-off area around house 2681, located on Ukaliq Street in Tundra Ridge.

2 weeks ago | nunatsiaq.com | Jeff Pelletier

With the premiere of North of North earlier this year on CBC and APTN, the fictional Nunavut hamlet of Ice Cove has joined the list of iconic Canadian sitcom small towns — a class that includes Corner Gas’ Dog River, Trailer Park Boys’ Sunnyvale Trailer Park, and Schitt’s Creek‘s setting of the same name. In real life, North of North was mostly filmed in Iqaluit, Nunavut’s capital, in spring 2024.

2 weeks ago | nunatsiaq.com | Jorge Antunes

RCMP agree with recommendations from a coroner’s jury to improve police relations with Inuit, but the real challenge is finding a way to actually implement the changes. Last week, a six-member jury considered the circumstances around the death of George Arlooktoo, a Kimmirut man who died by suicide on Feb. 9, 2019, during an interaction with police. The jury made 32 recommendations to RCMP, the Nunavut government, the hamlet and health centre to prevent deaths like this in the future.