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Construction has officially begun on Aqqusariaq, the 24-bed addiction treatment and recovery centre set to open in Iqaluit in 2025.

Igloolik-based Arctic Fresh Projects has been awarded the contract to build a trauma and addictions treatment centre in Iqaluit by 2025.

Iqaluit declares local state of emergency after COVID-19 community transmission detected The City of Iqaluit declared a local state of emergency Monday afternoon at an emergency city council meeting. Iqaluit’s mayor Kenny Bell said the emergency empowers the city’s bylaw officers to enforce the territorial lockdown rules.  Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: May 03, 2021 11:44 AM CT | Last Updated: May 3 The City of Iqaluit declared a local state of emergency after COVID-19 cases rose to...

Posted: Dec 30, 2020 7:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 30, 2020 Tower Arctic has been fined $75,000 for Safety Act breaches in relation to workplace injuries that took place in Pond Inlet in 2018.(Nick Murray/CBC) Nunavut contractor Tower Arctic has been fined $75,000 by the Nunavut Court of Justice, following a Nunavut Safety Act breach that led to an employee being injured in September of 2018. After a steel barrel he was cutting open exploded in his face, the Tower Arctic worker had to b...