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A rare attack by two polar bears has killed a worker at a remote radar station in the Canadian Arctic. The unidentified victim was attacked and killed by the bears at the facility in Nunavut ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Nunavut is an ongoing viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Until November 6, 2020, Nunavut remained the only province or territory in Canada, and the only place in North America, that had not yet recorded ...
Nunatsiaq News. Nunatsiaq News ( Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᕐᒥ ᐱᕙᓪᓕᐊᔪᑦ) is a Canadian weekly newspaper in operation since 1973 based in Iqaluit, serving as the newspaper of record for the territory of Nunavut and the Nunavik region of Quebec. [1] The paper is published online on a daily basis, and in print on a weekly basis by ...
Nunavut (/ ˈ n ʊ n ə v ʊ t /, / ˈ n uː n ə v uː t /; French:, , ; Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᕗᑦ, , lit. ' our land ' [11]) is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada.It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act [12] and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, [13] which provided this territory to the Inuit for self-government.
The 2021 Nunavut general election was held on October 25, 2021, to return the members of the 6th Nunavut Legislature. Since the adoption of a fixed election date law in 2014, [2] general elections in Nunavut are held in the last Monday of October in the fourth calendar year following the last elections. [3] The Legislative Assembly of Nunavut ...
List of municipalities. [] Iqaluit, Nunavut's capital city and largest municipality. Rankin Inlet, Nunavut's second-largest municipality, largest hamlet and runner-up in the 1995 capital city plebiscite. Nunavut's third-largest municipality and second-largest hamlet is Arviat. Baker Lake is the fourth-largest municipality in Nunavut.
The history of Nunavut covers the period from the arrival of the Paleo-Eskimo thousands of years ago to present day. Prior to the colonization of the continent by Europeans, the lands encompassing present-day Nunavut were inhabited by several historical cultural groups, including the Pre-Dorset , the Dorsets , the Thule and their descendants ...
Geography of Nunavut. Coordinates: 60°N 102°W. The Canadian territory of Nunavut covers about 1.9 million square kilometres (733,594 sq. miles) of land and water including part of the mainland, most of the Arctic islands, and all of the islands in Hudson Bay, James Bay, and Ungava Bay (including the Belcher Islands) which belonged to the ...