Fulfilling an election promise to create a new regional economic development agency for the North, Stephen Harper will visit Canada's Arctic next month.
Nunavut Day, which is annually celebrated on July 9, commemorates
passing of two Nunavut acts. The Canadian Parliament passed the Nunavut
Land Claims Agreement Act and the Nunavut Act on July 9, 1993. Nunavut
officially split from the Northwest Territories and became a Canadian
territory on April 1, 1999.
Officials with Air Greenland will travel to Nunavut this month to talk
about re-establishing direct flights between Iqaluit and the Greenland
capital of Nuuk, an idea that's supported by nearly 1,900 people on an
online group.
Health indicators among children in Nunavut are approaching the levels of those in Sri Lanka and Fiji, says Mary Simon, President of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.
Canada has the world's worst record among industrialized countries for emitting
greenhouse-gas emissions that cause global warming. Of all the
countries that signed the Kyoto Protocol, Canada's emissions rose the
fastest - faster than even U.S. emissions under George W. Bush.
Climate-change conference in Copenhagen may arrive at the right moment...
Nunavut debut for the Barry Greenwald’s powerful film at Alianait.
The 200-plus people, shivering inside the tent on a wet, windy
Sunday evening, erupted into spontaneous applause when, in a piece of
archival footage from one of the early 1980s constitutional conferences
on aboriginal rights, they saw a determined Nungak say this to ex-Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney:
Dans le cadre de Présence autochtone 2009, festival Terres en vues, Le Grand Prix Teueikan a été décerné au film Le jour avant le lendemain de Marie-Hélène Cousineau et Madeline Piujuq Ivalu.
Le nouveau chef du gouvernement local groenlandais, Kuupik Kleist, 51
ans, a été le grand vainqueur des élections législatives du 2 juin, son
parti Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA, extrême gauche) ayant remporté 44% des
voix.
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