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Baker Lake’s Trevor Attungala has trained upwards of a thousand Agnico Eagle miners in the Kivalliq to operate heavy equipment, to work safely and to properly use and store energy-based equipment.

Nunavut’s next port looks destined to be built in Qikiqtarjuaq, but the project isn’t guaranteed to go ahead just yet.

Nunavummiut workers and contractors will begin to reintegrate at Baffinland’s Mary River iron mine during the week of March 7, the company revealed on Friday.

Nunavummiut workers will once again be welcomed back to Agnico Eagle’s Kivalliq projects as of the week of March 14, the mining company announced on Thursday afternoon.

While the Covid-19 pandemic did serious harm to many businesses, Agnico Eagle Mines managed to achieve record gold production at its Kivalliq sites and on the whole across all of its operations in 2021.

Canadian North will be offering a weekend summer Iqaluit-Toronto route this year from June 3 until Sept. 30, the airline announced Wednesday.

The Kitikmeot’s Doris North gold mine on the Hope Bay property will not be churning out gold in 2022, Agnico Eagle Mines announced on Friday afternoon.

The Government of Canada has awarded a $592-million contract to Nasittuq Corporation to operate and maintain the North Warning System for the next seven years.

Nunavut business owners have withstood another Covid-19 lockdown but nearly two years of pandemic disruptions has left them reeling, says Clarence Synard, president of the Baffin Regional Chamber of Commerce.

The latest wave of Covid-19, combined with weather delays and cancellations, is creating a cargo backlog for Canadian North across the Qikiqtaaluk region.