Nunavut

From the ground, it looked like a second moon floating across the sky. A research balloon that was the size of a football stadium recently passed over Nunavut and the N.W.T. studying the galaxy, and generating a buzz in some of the…

COVID-19 pandemic restrictions kept the doors of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station in Cambridge Bay largely closed to the public and researchers for more than a year, but the station is throwing those doors open once more.The recent…

The Nunavut Impact Review board has recommended Baffinland's Phase 2 expansion not be allowed to proceed.In a letter to Dan Vandal, the federal northern affairs minister, Nunavut Impact Review Board chair Kaviq Kaluraq said the mine has the…

Nunavut hunters and environmental groups say shipping activity from Baffinland's Mary River mine is having a real and potentially lasting effect on narwhal numbers in the area. They're calling on the mining company to, again, alter its…

Hunters in Nunavut say they've been finding plastic inside the bellies of Arctic char — a fish that's an essential part of Inuit culture, often eaten raw, frozen or boiled.  Bobby Greenley, chairperson of the Ekaluktutiak Hunters and…

The manager of the hunters and trappers group in Taloyoak, Nunavut, says a truck sunk by an Arctic expedition in one of his community's prime hunting grounds feels like a "stab in the back."  "We live off the land. We're not farmers. We're…

Iqaluit is getting $214 million from the federal government to fix its water infrastructure after the Nunavut capital’s water was contaminated with fuel twice in the last six months. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the funding…

With a couple more silver wrestling medals in hand, Eekeeluak Avalak is already looking forward to future competitions. The 18-year-old from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, is fresh from competing in the Alberta Amateur Wrestling Association's…

A Welsh company plans to test a wind-powered machine in Nunavut next winter that, if successful, will thicken sea ice as part of an effort to keep it around longer. "What we can do then is, hopefully, mitigate some climate change through…

Some gently used hockey equipment completed its journey from Nanaimo, B.C., to Nunavut last week. Two shipments of skates, hockey sticks, and other equipment made the roughly 3,200-kilometre journey from Vancouver Island to…