Peregrine Completes Chidliak Purchase
Rapaport
Peregrine Diamonds completed the purchase of BHP Billiton's 51 percent participating interest in the Chidliak diamond project in Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. The deal was first announced on December 20, 2011. The purchase gives Peregrine full ...
PEREGRINE COMPLETES CHIDLIAK PURCHASE FROM BHP BILLITONTacy

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Crime bill will hurt Nunavut, territorial minister says
CBC.ca
He gave the committee a clear message — that the bill will have “severe” consequences for Nunavut at facilities like the Baffin Correctional Centre. Shewchuk told the senators that conditions in the territory are bad enough to make him concerned about ...
Nunavut jails already 'busting at the seams,' minister saysGlobalNews.ca

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Peregrine Completes Chidliak Purchase and Announces Senior Management Appointment
MarketWatch (press release)
... that it has completed the purchase of BHP Billiton's 51 percent participating interest in the 8580 square kilometre Chidliak diamond project ("Chidliak" or "the Project"), Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada that was announced on December 20, 2011.

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Peregrine Completes Chidliak Purchase and Announces Senior Management Appointment
MarketWatch (press release)
... that it has completed the purchase of BHP Billiton's 51 percent participating interest in the 8580 square kilometre Chidliak diamond project ("Chidliak" or "the Project"), Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada that was announced on December 20, 2011.

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Response agencies look back at Resolute air disaster
Nunatsiaq News
Workshop participants also recognized no single agency has the training, specialized equipment, or resources, to respond to a major disaster in the north and that it will continue to take a “team Nunavut” or “team Canada” approach, McVarnock said.

Volcanic activity behind Little Ice Age
Vancouver Sun
Melting icefields on Baffin Island, one of the clearest signs of climate change on Earth, have yielded the strongest evidence yet for the timing and cause of another major climate event from the planet's past: the so-called Little Ice Age, ...

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Evidence behind 'Little Ice Age' found
Canada.com
Melting icefields on Baffin Island, one of the clearest signs of climate change on Earth today, have yielded the strongest evidence yet for the timing and cause of another major climate event from the planet's past: the socalled Little Ice Age, ...

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Killer whales finding prey further north as Arctic ice melts, Inuit tell ...
Toronto Star
After spending three years interviewing more than 100 Inuit hunters from 11 different Nunavut communities, researchers from Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the University of Manitoba believe killer whales, also known as orcas, are increasingly ...
What do killer whales eat in the Arctic?EurekAlert (press release)

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Nunatsiaq News
Inuit traditional knowledge reveals steady migration of killer whales into Nunavut
Nunatsiaq News
A new study shows that melting sea ice is attracting more killer whales, or orca, to Nunavut, where the whales are preying on mammals like seals, belugas, narwhals and even the much larger bowhead whale. (PHOTO COURTESY OF DFO) Researchers from the ...
Orcas Moving towards Northern Zones In Search of PreyFrench Tribune
Global warming: How will Arctic ecosystems change?Summit County Citizens Voice
Inuit insight into killer whale (Orcinus orca) predation and preyThe Earth Times
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Evidence for cause of 'Little Ice Age' found in Canada's North
Vancouver Sun
Melting icefields on Baffin Island, one of the clearest signs of climate change on Earth today, have yielded the strongest evidence yet for the timing and cause of another major climate event from the planet's past: the so-called Little Ice Age, ...

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Nunatsiaq News
Northern Lights set to showcase best of North, eastern Arctic
Nunatsiaq News
And event organizers, which include the Baffin Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Labrador North Chamber of Commerce, say they expect the trade show's largest turnout this year. More than 1000 participants are already registered to take part in the ...

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Nunavut suffers second-worst suicide count in 2011
Nunatsiaq News
In 2011, many Nunavut residents continued to suffer the paralyzing grief of seeing family members and friends die by suicide in staggering numbers. (PHOTO BY JIM BELL) Thirty-three Nunavut residents, including a 12-year-old boy from Kugaaruk, ...

Science Codex
Fear of killer whales makes sea creatures run, dive or hide
EarthSky
Researchers from Manitoba visited 11 Canadian Nunavut Inuit communities and collated information from over 100 interviews with hunters and elders as part of this research. They published their results on published January 29, 2012 in the open access ...
Global warming: How will Arctic ecosystems change?Summit County Citizens Voice

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Global warming: How will Arctic ecosystems change?
Summit County Citizens Voice
Researchers from Manitoba visited 11 Canadian Nunavut Inuit communities and collated information from over 100 interviews with hunters and elders. The Inuit reported that killer whales would 'eat whatever they can catch', mainly other marine mammals ...
Fear of killer whales makes sea creatures run, dive or hideEarthSky

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Don't hang around here anymore: Iqaluit mulls anti-loitering bylaw
Nunatsiaq News
If either of these store refuse to do anything and allow this type of activities to continue (by not doing anything, they are allowing it) there is always Baffin Canners, I have never seen a drug dealer in front of that store. Do you complain, nag, ...

Eider duck population declining in Arctic as polar bears devour eggs
Toronto Star
The eider populations in Nunavut and Nunavik, Que., are declining partly because the bears have been eating more of their eggs, which are laid on the southern coasts of Baffin Island and Southampton Island. “The bears were essentially eating every ...
Polar bears eating more eider duck eggsCBC.ca

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Alaska Dispatch
Avian cholera could spread into Arctic, scientists warn
Alaska Dispatch
Common eider duck colonies along the southern coast of Baffin Island, in Foxe Basin and in Ungava Bay have been devastated by avian cholera. In the summer of 2006, Gilchrist found more than 3000 common eider ducks dead from the infection on Nunavut's ...

Polar bears eating more eider duck eggs
CBC.ca
Thousands of eider ducks in Nunavut and Nunavik have perished in a large-scale outbreak of avian cholera over the past six years. Now, Grant Gilchrist with Environment Canada, said the birds have another threat - polar bears.
Eider duck population declining in Arctic as polar bears devour eggsToronto Star

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Peregrine Announces 2012 Chidliak Program
Mineweb
... located 120 km from Iqaluit, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. This review was prompted by the Company's opportunity to increase its interest in the Project to 100% by acquiring BHP Billiton's 51% interest, as announced on December 20, 2011.

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Former priest appears in Iqaluit court on sex charges
CBC.ca
This was Dejaeger's first appearance in person in a year, but after a few minutes he was escorted back to the Baffin Correctional Institute where he has been held since arriving in Nunavut in January 2011. Erik Jose Dejaeger, 64, appeared in an Iqaluit ...

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