Media Centre - 2003 September

NTI helps establish a Nunavut Inuit voice on the environment

Released | September 26, 2003 | No Comments | Print this article

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(SEPTEMBER 26, 2003 — Iqaluit, Nunavut) Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) hosted a productive workshop in Iqaluit on developing an Inuit Environment Policy. Inuit representatives from across Nunavut met for three days from September 23 to 25th.
The care and protection of the land and water of Nunavut has been [...]

NTI calls on Senate Standing Committee to enforce Canada’s land claim obligations for off-shore fisheries

Released | September 17, 2003 | No Comments | Print this article

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(SEPTEMBER 17, 2003 — Iqaluit, Nunavut) Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated today asked the Canadian Senate to ensure the Government of Canada keeps the promises it made in the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement with respect to off-shore fisheries.
The NLCA was signed by the Prime Minister on behalf of the Government of Canada, which [...]

NTI to strengthen elections process, review own operations

Released | September 15, 2003 | No Comments | Print this article

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(SEPTEMBER 15, 2003 — Iqaluit, Nunavut) The Board of Directors of Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated advanced the organization’s accountability agenda through a number of resolutions passed at their meeting in Pond Inlet September 9-11. A priority was the process to be followed in the March 2004 elections for NTI’s President and [...]

NTI supports launch of “World Suicide Prevention Day’

Released | September 10, 2003 | No Comments | Print this article

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(SEPTEMBER 10, 2003 - Pond Inlet, Nunavut) Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated today offered its support to the organizers of the first-ever “World Suicide Prevention Day.’ The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP), in conjunction with the World Health Organization, have designated September 10 as a way of focusing world-wide attention on [...]