The Arctic Institute
The Arctic This Week: 2 March 2013 - 8 March 2013
The Arctic Institute
Ottawa will be accepting bids for oil and gas licenses for the Bent Horn oil field on Cameron Island off of Baffin Island, Nunavut. The field, discovered in 1974, has been abandoned since 1996 (EOTA). Interesting dynamics are playing out in British ...

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Canadian Skies
Northern lifeline
Canadian Skies
It's never easy flying in and out of Pangnirtung, Nunavut. The Inuit village on the east coast of Baffin Island sits on a coastal plain beside the steep peaks of Pangnirtung Fjord. To land here, aircraft such as First Air's combi ATR 42 twin turboprop ...

CBC.ca
Nunavut premier questioned on staff spending
CBC.ca
South Baffin MLA Fred Schell questioned Nunavut's Premier on Friday about the $1.2 million she is spending on five staff members in her office. The money is included in the proposed budget for Executive and Intergovernmental Affairs. Eva Aariak has a ...
Nunavut MLAs continue to press Aariak on social promotionNunatsiaq News

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Nunatsiaq News
Nunavut MLAs continue to press Aariak on social promotion
Nunatsiaq News
South Baffin MLA Fred Schell pursued a line of questioning he started earlier in the week, asking Aariak what would happen if a parent didn't want their child to go on to the next grade because he or she wasn't academically prepared. “My question is ...

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Anchorage Daily News
Ned Rozell: Snowmachining from Alaska to the Atlantic
Anchorage Daily News
At the May conclusion of this year's trip, he hopes to store the two snowmachines in Iqaluit, a village on Baffin Island. Next year, he plans to drive from Baffin Island to villages along Hudson Bay. In 2015, he will continue eastward to villages in ...

Scientist snowmachining from Alaska to Atlantic
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
At the May conclusion of this year's trip, he hopes to store the two snowmachines in Iqaluit, a village on Baffin Island. Next year, he plans to drive from Baffin Island to villages along Hudson Bay. In 2015, he will continue eastward to villages in ...

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Fairbanks scientist plans epic Arctic climate change study by snowmachine ...
Alaska Dispatch
At the May conclusion of this year's trip, he hopes to store the two snowmachines in Iqaluit, a village on Baffin Island. Next year, he plans to drive from Baffin Island to villages along Hudson Bay. In 2015, he will continue eastward to villages in ...

Big spike in Arctic shipping anticipated
Regina Leader-Post
Their scenarios show that by mid-century, the principal shipping lane through Canadian waters will become the Parry Channel that runs between the north end of Baffin Island in Nunavut and the north side of Banks Island in the Northwest Territories.

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A need to learn
The Telegram
The National Post's Joe O'Connor interviewed Fred Schell, a high-school dropout who worked in construction most of his life and is now the Nunavut representative for South Baffin Island. Talking to his own constituents, Schell is alarmed by the ...

Big spike in Arctic shipping anticipated
Regina Leader-Post
Their scenarios show that by mid-century, the principal shipping lane through Canadian waters will become the Parry Channel that runs between the north end of Baffin Island in Nunavut and the north side of Banks Island in the Northwest Territories.

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Nunatsiaq News
Stompin' Tom Connors' saucy wit extended to Nunavut
Nunatsiaq News
To pay tribute to Stompin' Tom Connors, one of Canada's best-known country and folk singers, who died March 6 at the age of 77, South Baffin MLA Fred Schell rose in the Nunavut legislature March 7. “He was a true Canadian who wrote songs about every ...

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National Post
Nunavut school system sets students up to fail by not failing them
National Post
Construction work took him to Cape Dorset where he put down roots, got elected mayor and, in 2008, got elected to the Nunavut Legislative Assembly as the representative for South Baffin Island. A big part of the job involves talking to people. And one ...

Nunavut MLA questions social promotion of students in GN schools
Nunatsiaq News
The Department of Education should reconsider using “social promotion” or “continuous progress” in Nunavut schools, said South Baffin MLA Fred Schell. “Whatever name we put to the practice, it is doing a great disservice to the youth of Nunavut ...

Luxury Travel Magazine
Great Canadian Travel Company Offers 'A Touch of the Arctic'
Luxury Travel Magazine
Kimmirut lies on the southern coast of Baffin Island and is home to just 400 people. It is a "new" community, first settled in the early 20th century. There is evidence of habitation of the Dorset people from thousands of years ago. Kimmirut prides ...

Nunatsiaq News
Nunavut MLA complains about delays on new power plant for Grise Fiord
Nunatsiaq News
A January 2011 QEC assessment of infrastructure in Nunavut's Baffin region found the Grise Fiord power plant, built in 1963 (and the oldest power plant in the Baffin region), was “poor condition; foundation degradation; flooding, too small.” That ...

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Nunatsiaq News
Spring warmer, wetter for parts of Nunavut: meteorologists
Nunatsiaq News
Above normal precipitation is likely in southeastern Northwest Territories as well as central Baffin Island. Near normal precipitation is forecast elsewhere. For Iqaluit, temperatures and precipitation are likely to be normal. The average spring ...

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Canada re-opens bidding for abandoned High Arctic oil field
Alaska Dispatch
Canada's federal government plans to hold a call for bids for oil and gas discovery licenses for the Bent Horn lands off Baffin Island in Canada's eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut. Related: Swift reaction as Shell suspends 2013 Arctic Alaska ...

Nunavut to table family violence strategy soon, minister says
Nunatsiaq News
Speaking in the Nunavut legislature in response to a question from Akulliq MLA John Ningark, Peterson explained that the strategy's release was delayed because “I'm not the kind of person just to put a strategy out there with a lot of flash and dash ...

Oil Market Update (March 5, 2013)
Resource Investing News
The Canadian federal government plans to hold a call for bids for oil and gas discovery licenses for the Bent Horn lands off Baffin Island in Nunavut, according to a report by CBC. The oil field is on Cameron Island, northwest of Bathurst Island, and ...

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US study foresees big spike in Arctic shipping by mid-century
Ottawa Citizen
Their scenarios show that by mid-century, the principal shipping lane through Canadian waters will become the Parry Channel that runs between the north end of Baffin Island in Nunavut and the north side of Banks Island in the Northwest Territories.