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The Canadian government has decided to approve Nunavut's proposal to declare Inuktitut, English and French its official languages.

The territory's Official Languages Act was passed by Nunavut's politicians last June, but it needed final approval from the federal government before it could become law.

 

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Fulfilling an election promise to create a new regional economic development agency for the North, Stephen Harper will visit Canada's Arctic next month.

 

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Mary Simon

President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

See this article on Globe and Mail...

 

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Reportage paru dans le quotidien Le Monde (France) - édition du 07.07.09.

 

PANGNIRTUNG (TERRITOIRE AUTONOME DU NUNAVUT) ENVOYÉE SPÉCIALE

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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...

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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:

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New Brunswick filmmaker Greg Hemmings, of Hemmings House Pictures in Saint John, has won first place in this year's Commonwealth Vision Awards.

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

Selon les membres du jury :

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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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