Event Location: Iqaluit, NU

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair (Outremont, Que.) will hold a photo-op at Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park Pavilion.

Members of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami’s Autausiq Inuktut Titirausiq Task Group will host a Summit on the Unification of the Inuit Language Writing System at Iqaluit’s Parish Hall August 25-26. Task group members will discuss findings from a series of consultations that took them to more than a dozen communities in the four regions that make up … Read more

Conservative leader Stephen Harper (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) will deliver remarks. He will be joined by Conservative candidate Leona Aglukkaq (Nunavut). This event will take place at the Arctic Hotel, 923 Federal Road. Call 613-755-2035.

Youth from across Inuit Nunangat, the Inuit homeland in Canada, will gather at Inuksuk High School in Iqaluit from August 20-24 for the biennial National Inuit Youth Summit. The summit is organized by members of the National Inuit Youth Council, and the Iqaluit event will be the first hosted by president Maatalii Okalik, who was … Read more

As host of the ninth Arctic Council Ministerial meeting, Environment Minister and Minister for the Arctic Council Leona Aglukkaq (Nunavut) will welcome international delegations to Iqaluit, NU on April 24-25. Aglukkaq will be joined by Arctic state ministers and leaders of the Council’s Indigenous Permanent Participant organizations, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who will succeed Aglukkaq as Arctic Council chairman. Before the … Read more

Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Minister for the Arctic Council Leona Aglukkaq (Nunavut) and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut David Saint-Jacques will visit Nakasuk School to address students on Canada’s role in space. This event will take place at Nakasuk School, Bldg 601, Queen Elizabeth Way. Call 450-926-4370.

On behalf of Health Minister Rona Ambrose (Edmonton-Spruce Grove, Alta.), Environment Minister and Minister for the Arctic Council Leona Aglukkaq (Nunavut) will make an announcement the event will be held at Minister’s Regional Office, 630 Queen Elizabeth II Way, Qamutiq Building, 4th floor. Call 613-957-2983. 

This is Day Two of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau‘s (Papineau, Que.) visit to Iqaluit, Nunavut, which is also the final day of his five-day visit to the North from Jan 9-13, 2015. Today he will will visit the Qayuqtuvik Society (Iqaluit Soup Kitchen), located at Building 655, Mattaaq Crescent. Call 613-947-5100.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) will be in Iqaluit, Nunavut, as part of a five-day visit to the North from Jan 9-13, 2015. He will host a closed-door roundtable discussion with Nunavut business and economic development leaders. Then he will host an open community feast at the Nakasuk School, Gymnasium Building 601, Queen Elizabeth Way. After that he will host a public meet and greet with … Read more

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair (Outremont, Que.) will do an ATV tour of Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park. Call 613-323-7974.