Tag: Nunavut

Blizzard Blasts Nunavut, 135 km/h Winds Rip Off Stairs and Crush Cabins

IQALUIT—Pangnirtung mayor Eric Lawlor couldn’t see out his windows on Sunday. That’s when a day-long blizzard hit the Baffin Island community of about 1,500, shaking houses and crushing cabins. According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, winds reached 135 km/h that day. “It was like an all day thing. The wind was so strong,” Lawlor…


Nunavut Reports First COVID-19 Deaths, Ontario to Announce New Lockdown Measures

The CCP virus has claimed the lives of two Nunavummiut, the first COVID-19-related deaths in the territory. Meanwhile, Ontario is preparing to announce new restriction measures. “Today we are saddened to inform Nunavummiut of Nunavut’s first COVID-19-releated deaths,” officials wrote in a joint statement on Dec. 20. “On behalf of the Government of Nunavut, we…