Insights and Stories on Nunavut

Iqaluit declares state of emergency over water shortage

Aug. 12, 2022 at 7:50 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — The northern Canadian city of Iqaluit declared a state of emergency on Friday after scarce rain this year left water levels in the local Apex River at a four-decade low. Iqaluit warned it may not have enough water in its reservoir to sustain its population of […]

Cold and hungry: Food inflation bites Canada’s North

Aug. 8, 2022 at 3:30 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

Northern egg harvesters cautioned over avian flu

Jun. 8, 2022 at 5:10 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Iqaluit confirms ‘exceedingly high levels’ of fuel in water supply

Oct. 15, 2021 at 8:03 pm CDT

By Moira Warburton

Churchill shipping resumes but grain still on back burner

Jul. 11, 2019 at 2:45 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Ottawa budgets $117 million to reconnect Churchill

Sep. 15, 2018 at 11:13 am CDT

The federal government’s latest commitment to restore and maintain rail service from the eastern Prairies up to Hudson Bay will involve $117 million over the next 10 years. Ottawa’s pledge follows the Aug. 31 announcement of a deal for a private/public partnership group to buy the Hudson Bay Railway line, […]

By GFM Staff

Deal in principle announced for Churchill railway, port

May. 30, 2018 at 8:54 pm CDT

The federal government has announced an “agreement in principle” which will see a new partnership fix up northern Manitoba’s washed-out Hudson Bay Railway and take over the mothballed Port of Churchill. Details of the agreement were slim at best in the government’s announcement Wednesday, except to say the buying group […]

By Staff