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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.
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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 81 in the city over the weekend. (Sara Frizzell/CBC News)
The City of Iqaluit declared a local state of emergency Monday afternoon at an emergency city council meeting.
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 be medevaced out of his community of Pond Inlet, first to Iqaluit and then to Ottawa, according to a court decision released to the public last week.