"The intent was never to cause any inconvenience." Dog walkers and hikers can once again freely roam the Road To Nowhere after Iqaluit city council passed a motion June 24 removing three boulders that had blocked the road since last December.

July 6, 2:00 p.m. at Iqaluit Square in front of the elders’ centre. Bring your own drum. Wednesday, July 9, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Legislative Assembly. Politicians serve muskox burgers. The event is free and everyone is welcome. Picnic moves to Cadet Hall in case of bad weather.

About a year ago, 81-year-old Igloolik elder Enoki Kunuk managed to come out alive from a solo hunting trip that went terribly wrong. During his ordeal, he subsisted for more than three weeks on six fish, two ptarmigans and tea from castaway tea bags while he waiting for searchers to find him.

KUUJJUARAAPIK - When you're in Kuujjuaraapik, you can do your laundry any time of the day or night and not worry if you'll run out of water. And the water flowing from the tap is so clean that people fill bottles with tap water instead of buying bottled water at the store.

Rev. James Nassak, appreciated for his passionate and humour-filled sermons as an Anglican minister, died June 24 in Kuujjuaq. Nassak, 61, a former residential school student, was originally from Pond Inlet, although he lived in Kuujjuaq for many years.

After Sept. 1, you should bring a bag when you go grocery shopping in Kuujjuaq. That's because Kuujjuaq's municipal councillors decided to phase out the distribution of plastic shopping bags at their June 25 meeting.

"You used us unwittingly, you didn't ask our parents, you just took us." Inuit who as children were taken south as part of Ottawa's so-called "Eskimo experiment" are suing the federal government, demanding compensation and an apology.

Nunavut’s Department of Justice and the RCMP signed a wide-ranging document late last month that’s intended to tackle the territory’s myriad social problems.

“There is really no alternative for us to get away from diesel generation.” Ottawa needs to come up with more money for housing, transportation infrastructure and alternative energy, while taking steps to cut the cost of living, the three northern premiers said last week.

"Carvers have a gift that I can't teach them." George Roberts has gone from making knives as tools for his old career as a fishing guide to a master of the craft whose pieces can fetch thousands of dollars each.

"If anyone wants to work, we'll find them work." Are you an Inuk living in Montreal and looking for work? Richard Desrosiers, the interim Inuit employment agent in Montreal, can help you, no matter what Inuit region you came from.

Beset by skyrocketing energy costs, the Government of Nunavut will ask us to pay a little more now, hoping we won't be forced to pay a lot more later.