Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national organization representing Inuit interests in Canada, said it welcomes these new changes but are disappointed that support for harvesters of country food has not yet been approved.

Helen Iguptak is leadingseveral workshops as part of the Nunavut Arts Festival this week.

A master planning process is also looking at park boundaries and names at other territorial parks.

Teacher shortages arecontinuingacross Nunavut and Nunavikfor another year, with both regions racing to hire dozens of teachers as schools begin to open for the fall.

Sheriffs arrived at the cruise ship, were greeted by the captain, and served him the documents that placed the ship under arrest earlier this month.

'I'm loving being able to deliver a TV show and delivering music in my mother tongue, Inuktitut,' says Inuk singer Rita Claire Mike-Murphy, who also hosts an Inuktitut children's show.

'By having citizens all over the world mobilized and collecting this data, we're able to get a lot of data, over a lot of space, in a short amount of time.'