Sensitive medical records found at a Fort Simpson landfill last month were sent to the trash long before improvements to privacy legislation were introduced, says the territory’s information and privacy commissioner Elaine Keenan Bengts.
This artifact of culture has long dogged this Inuvialuit observer for its context is identity of individuals, and their society.
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It only takes a quick visit to the online store Condoms Canada to appreciate the incredible variety of condoms out there.
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About a year ago, I re-posted an article on Facebook about Donald Trump that a friend had posted. The article was about some outrageous comments and activities by Trump that completely fit his character. It made him look like an idiot, so I gleefully re-posted it. Eschia (take it easy)!
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By the end of March, 100 people in the GNWT’s health department will have completed cultural safety training, said Health Minister Glen Abernethy in the legislative assembly on Jan. 16.
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A Yellowknife school is warning parents about a type of social media game after learning students at the school were talking about it and some of the dangerous challenges participants are asked to take part in.
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At 72, James Eetoolook says, “I’m not sad about my age.”
He was re-elected as vice-president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. in December and shows no signs of wanting to sit back and enjoy the fruits of his labours.
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Prosecutors say Sasha Cayen, one of four Hay River cousins charged in the 2017 death of Alexander Norwegian, should be sentenced to four years for her role in a robbery plot that left Norwegian “beaten, robbed, abandoned and left to freeze to death,” on a frigid December night.
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NorZinc, a Vancouver-based mining corporation, signed a traditional land use agreement with the Nah?a Dehé Dene Band on Wednesday, Jan. 16, allowing the company to construct an all-season road that would connect their Prairie Creek Mine – an advanced-stage zinc, lead, and silver mine – to the Liard Highway.
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Weledeh Catholic School is proposing changing the spelling of its name to better acknowledge Indigenous culture.
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The keys to success for the newly-created Nalauttaq Fund (which will replace the current bingo slot system in Arviat) lay at opposite ends of the process governing the Kivalliq’s number-one fundraiser.
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Nominations are now in for the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC)’s election.
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One of Nunavut’s three operating mines just became a lot more local: Alex Buchan, born and raised in Nunavut, was promoted to vice president of TMAC Resources Inc. on Jan. 10.
Read More There’s was a sharp spike in crime in Kugluktuk during November and December of 2018 compared to the same months in 2017.
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Players registered with minor hockey and participating with one of the Rankin Rock teams have joined players from across the Kivalliq region in increasing their fundraising efforts with a string of minor hockey tournaments looming on the horizon.
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A petition out of Sanikiluaq has led to a plebiscite scheduled for Feb. 4 on whether or not to change the community’s liquor status from prohibited to a restricted quantity system.
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If TMAC Resources Inc. wanted to, it could start mining two new gold projects on its Hope Bay property, 125 kilometres southwest of Cambridge Bay.
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Unless we’re talking about world peace, no fair-minded person should be expected to provide unequivocal support for anything.
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With technical help, the Spence Bay Hunters and Trappers Association increased the depth of their participation in the draft Nunavut-wide land-use plan process.
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A planned March break trip to China by Sir John Franklin School students is still forging ahead after school officials decided the trip will continue despite rising tensions between Canada and the world’s most populous country.
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After responding to multiple parka thefts in the last month, Yellowknife RCMP are warning parka owners to take precautionary measures to avoid becoming a victim of such crime.
Read More2018 marked the fifth-straight year of increases in the usage of NWT Parks, where they welcomed more than 36,500 visitors to their campgrounds across the territory, an all-time record for territorial parks.
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With the public boat launch at Giant Mine likely to be blocked from access during the next phase of mine remediation, expected to begin in 2021, a popular suggestion has been to use the former Con Mine boat access ramp.
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Habitat for Humanity NWT is planning to complete their third housing project this year, which will see a partner family living in either a prefabricated or mobile home on Bagon Drive once autumn rolls around.
Read More Nunavut’s Department of Health is setting up at Cape Dorset’s community hall for three months, starting Feb. 11, to screen residents for tuberculosis.
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Wednesday was a historic day for the Sahtu Dene and Métis Indigenous people of Norman Wells as they signed an agreement in principle on self governance with the federal and territorial governments.
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Yellowknife residents are in an uproar after receiving property tax assessments showing major increases to the value in their homes, which they fear will translate into a major increase in property taxes.
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Tyler Cayen, one of four charged in connection with the 2017 killing of Alexander Norwegian, was sentenced to two years less a day, after pleading guilty to being an accessory to manslaughter, during an emotional hearing in NWT Supreme Court Thursday.
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Nunavut authors will greet their public in two communities, in Sanikiluaq hens are laying eggs, and nominations are open for a $10,000 arts award.
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The bargaining team representing unionized workers at the Hay River Health and Social Services Authority (HRHSSA) has been relieved of its duties.
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There has been a lot of talk in recent days about the General Assessment notices issued to property owners in Yellowknife by city hall. Many assessments show property values increasing by 15 per cent or more.What does this mean? Are our property taxes going up?
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