ITK launches Inuktut text conversion tool
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami is the latest organization to launch a digital tool aimed at making Inuktut more accessible.
The national Inuit organization launched its Inuktut...
Ottawa announces $6.4 million for Inuit health research network
A new grant will provide $6.4 million to Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami for an Inuit health research network, federal Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos announced...
How language links Alaska’s Arctic to Greenland
I’ve been living in Nuuk, Greenland for the past three years where my wife and son are from, and despite being more than 2,000...
A fresh shipment ends Sanikiluaq’s fuel shortage
A new shipment of fuel has arrived in Sanikiluaq.
Hudson Bay MLA Daniel Qavvik told Nunatsiaq News the shipment arrived Sunday. The community had been...
Inuit seal harvesters hit the ground running with new Ottawa business
It has been just over one year since ReconSeal Inuksiuti formally launched as a business, and its founders are busier than ever.
Yoanis Menges, an...
How do you say ‘narcissistic’ in Inuktut? Nunavut’s government and Microsoft...
After an estimated eight million words in Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun were translated in the last fiscal year alone, Microsoft and the Government of Nunavut...
France rejects Canada’s request to extradite Rivoire
Canada’s request to have Rev. Johannes Rivoire, a Roman Catholic priest, extradited from France to stand trial in Canada has been denied by French...
Walrus may have triggered the start and the end of the...
I had expected it to be somewhat larger. Perhaps even a whiff of the regal, signs of a Viking ruler, a few glimmering swords...
Don’t feed the polar bears, Nunavut warns
Nunavut’s environment department is warning people not to feed or approach polar bears.
“Polar bears are dangerous and unpredictable so it is important to always...
Gjoa Haven’s Nattilik Heritage Centre moving ahead with expansion
The Nattilik Heritage Centre in Gjoa Haven has awarded Yellowknife-based Northern Industrial Construction and the Taylor Architecture Group a contract to design and build...
