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	Welcome to Nunavut, Canada
		Nunavut is the largest and newest of the territories of Canada: it was separated officially from the vast Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries were established in 1993.
		The capital of Nunavut is Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay) on Baffin Island in the east.
		Nunavut is both the least populated and the largest of the provinces and territorities of Canada.
	www.hometowncanada.com /nu (1289 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Nunavut
		Nunavut is bordered by the Northwest Territories to the west, the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan to the south, and Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea to the east.
		Nunavut is the largest political subdivision of Canada, comprising one fifth of the country's land mass and covering 1,994,000 sq km (769,684 sq mi).
		The territory is a self-governing homeland for the Inuit, the original inhabitants of the region.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554898/Nunavut.html (536 words)

	Nunavut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The capital of Nunavut is Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay) on Baffin Island in the east.
		Nunavut's small and sparse population makes it unlikely the territory will be granted provincial status in the foreseeable future, although this may change when and if the Yukon, which is only marginally larger in population, becomes a province.
		Nunavut encompasses the entirety of the District of Keewatin (which had differing boundaries from the Keewatin/Kivalliq regions), the majority of the District of Franklin and a small portion of the District of Mackenzie.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nunavut (1172 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search View - Nunavut
		Nunavut Arctic College, which is based in Iqaluit but which provides classes in many communities, provides opportunities for further and higher education.
		The premier is the head of the Nunavut government and is elected by the Legislative Assembly, which also selects the seven members of the Cabinet and a deputy speaker of the legislature.
		The Nunavut Court of Justice is a single-level court system with the status of a superior court that deals with both civil and criminal cases.
	au.encarta.msn.com /text_761554898__1/Nunavut.html (2406 words)

	Nunavut 99 - Inuit and The Land As One
		In the west Kitikmeot Region, the Inuit depended on the migration of the caribou.
		Under the direction of the Inuit in Nunavut, they oversee how the land and water are used, and how wildlife is managed and preserved in the Nunavut Settlement Area, the land mass traditionally occupied and used by Inuit, and defined in the NLCA.
		In Nunavut, there are three Regional Inuit Associations (RIAs) — the Kivalliq Inuit Association, the Kitikmeot Inuit Association and the Qikiqtani Inuit Association (for the Baffin Region).
	www.nunavut.com /nunavut99/english/inuit_land.html (1474 words)

	Nunavut - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Nunavut (Inuktitut syllabics: ᓄᓇᕗᑦ) is the largest and newest of the territories of Canada: it was separated officially from the vast Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries were established in 1993.
		As of 2004, Nunavut has a population of approximately 28,000, of whom around 85% are native peoples, primarily Inuit.
		Some Canadians believe that Nunavut is made up of some of the former regions of the NWT, separated in their entirety.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Nunavut (1008 words)

	Nunavut [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The hamlet of Sanikiluaq is on the north coast of Flaherty Island and is the southernmost in Nunavut.
		Nunavut encompasses the entirety of the District of KeewatinThe District of Keewatin was a portion of Canada's Northwest Territories.
		Nunavut's head of state is a CommissionerCommissioner may be used for a variety of official positions, especially that of a high-ranking official, or that of a senior police officer.
	www.wikimirror.com /Nunavut (6527 words)

	Nunavut Article, Nunavut Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Nunavut is the largest and newest of the territories of Canada : it was separated officially from thevast Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land ClaimsAgreement Act, though the actual boundarieswere established in 1993.
		Nunavut is both the least populated and the largest of the provinces andterritorities of Canada.
		Nunavut encompasses the entirety of the District of Keewatin (which had differing boundaries from the Keewatin/Kivalliq regions), the majority of the District of Franklin and a small portion of the District ofMackenzie.
	www.anoca.org /region/territories/nunavut.html (908 words)

	nunavut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Nunavut is the largest and newest of the territories of Canada: it was separated officially from the vast Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries were established in 1993.
		The former Baffin region (the high Arctic Islands) was entirely transferred to Nunavut.
		Nunavut encompasses the entirety of the District of Keewatin (which had differing boundaries from the Keewatin region), the majority of the District of Franklin and a small portion of the District of Mackenzie.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Nunavut.html (961 words)

	Nunavut Planning Commission
		Since April 1, 1999, the Government of Nunavut has been gradually assuming the responsibilities formerly exercised by the Government of the Northwest Territories, with the transfer of administration for programs in areas such as culture, public housing and health care to be complete by 2009.
		Nunavut is made up of three distinct regions (Qikiqtaaluk, Kivalliq, and Kitikmeot) and twenty-eight communities.
		Accordingly, the Nunavut Government is decentralized, with government departments and agencies set up in communities throughout the territory, thereby sharing the economic benefits and responding to the particular needs of each region.
	npc.nunavut.ca /eng/nunavut/gov.html (307 words)

	Links: Nunavut - Legislative Assembly of Nunavut
		Association representing the Inuit of the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut.
		Association representing the Inuit of the Kivalliq (Keewatin) region of Nunavut (telephone: 1-867-645-2500).
		Association representing the Inuit of the Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin) region of Nunavut.
	www.assembly.nu.ca /inuinnaqtun/links/nunavut.html (241 words)

	Nunavut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It wanted the eastern region of the NWT to be the Nunavut Territory because of Inuit land claims in that area.
		The Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (the former Tungavik Federation of Nunavut), Nunavut Arctic College, the NWT government and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) organized training programs to prepare Inuit for government and private sector jobs in the territory.
		The Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (the former Tungavik Federation of Nunavut), Nunavut Arctic College, the NWT government and the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development organized training programs to support preparation of Inuit for government and private sector jobs in the territory.
	www.ainc-inac.gc.ca /pr/info/info100_e.html (2186 words)

	The Creation of Nunavut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement was ratified by the Inuit in November of 1992, signed by the Prime Minister of Canada on May 25, 1993, and passed by the Canadian Parliament in June of the same year.
		The Territory of Nunavut is made up of three distinct regions (Qikiqtaaluk, Kivalliq, Kitikmeot) and twenty-eight communities.
		Accordingly, the Nunavut Government will be decentralized, with government departments and agencies set up in communities throughout the territory, thereby sharing the economic benefits and responding to the particular needs of each region.
	www.pco-bcp.gc.ca /aia?Language=E&Page=federation&Sub=TheCreationofNunavut (1244 words)

	Explore Nunavut - Qikiqtaaluk Region - Explore Canada's arctic!
		Qikiqtaaluk Region or Qikiqtani Region (formerly called the Baffin Region) is a region of Nunavut.
		In Inuktitut - the language of Nunavut's Aboriginal people, Inuit - Auyuittuq means "the land that never melts".
		Although Auyuittuq was established in 1976 as a national park reserve, it was upgraded to a full national park in 2000.
	www.explorenunavut.com /qikiqtaaluk.php (301 words)

	Nunatsiaq News
		Last week, First Air, the airline that provides Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk region with its only transportation link to the South, admitted to experimenting with a new marketing plan that could have far-reaching consequences for Nunavut's economy.
		Right now, people in most of Nunavut's 19 new constituencies are privately considering the idea of whether or not to run in Nunavut's first election next February.
		Nunavut is still a highly bureaucratized society, in which arrogant, vindictive public officials wield enormous power over the lives of many residents.
	www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut980831/editorial.html (2670 words)

	EZGeography - Nunavut
		For the electoral district of the same name, see Nunavut (electoral district).
		Nunavut's vegetation is paritally composed of rare berries, lichens, arctic willows, moss, tough grass, and small willow shrubs.
		Several diamond projects are in the works and the Tahera property will become Nunavut's first diamond mine.
	www.ezgeography.com /encyclopedia/Nunavut (1088 words)

	Boreal Laboratories - Nunavut
		The event is the culmination of two decades of hard work and negotiations to provide the indigenous peoples of this region their own self-governing territory which combines Canadian traditions of social and political philosophy wtih the needs of Inuit culture.
		The first change to Canada's map in 50 years, Nunavut comprises 1.9 million square kilometers of land and water, extending from Davis Strait in the east north of Labrador to Amundsen Gulf in the west, and north to Cape Columbia - the northern most tip of Canada at the top of Ellesmere Island.
		Nunavut's three regiions are Qikiqtaaluk (or Baffin), Nivalliq (or Keewath) and Kitikmeot.
	www.boreal.com /article.asp?ai=124 (284 words)

	Nunavut Travel - Destinations & Vacation Spots
		Nunavut is the newest Canadian province, and boasts the largest number of Canada's Inuit people as inhabitants.
		Near the Arctic, the Nunavut economy relies on hunting, fishing, and trapping, and governmental jobs which prop up the wage economy.
		Nunavut split from the Northwest Territories April 1, 1999, and is divided into three sections; Qikiqtaaluk Region, the Kivalliq Region, and the Kitikmeot Region.
	www.buzzle.com /chapters/travel-and-tourism_favorite-travel-spots-and-destinations_north-america_canada_nunavut.asp (98 words)

	info: NUNAVUT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Nunavut Snow Challenge - Annual race in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, near the Arctic Circle.
		Nunavut - Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in Iqaluit..
		Nunavut Bibliography - Focuses on the negotiation and implementation of the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement and the design and implementation of the Nunavut Government..
	www.digital-innovations.net /Nunavut (1539 words)

	Nunavut curriculum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In Nunavut, it's known as I.Q.—Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit—and it's the central component of a 10-year plan to produce a completely new curriculum for Nunavut, Canada's newest territory, created in April 1999.
		Part of Nunavut's long-term plan includes the development of a new curriculum for use in 42 schools in a territory that covers about one-fifth of Canada's land mass.
		In the communities of the Kitikmeot region, students will learn Innuinnaqtun, a dialect that nearly became extinct but is now being reclaimed.
	142.206.72.67 /02/02c/02c_supp/02c_supp_001_e.htm (345 words)

	Indoor air quality and the risk of lower respiratory tract infections in young Canadian Inuit children -- Kovesi et al. ...
		Figure 1: Forest plot (univariate logistic regression) indicating the association between demographic and housing variables and lower respiratory tract infection among 49 young Inuit children in Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin) Region, Nunavut.
		Indoor air quality risk factors for severe lower respiratory tract infections in Inuit infants in Baffin Region, Nunavut, Canada: a pilot study [abstract].
		Costs associated with infant bronchiolitis in the Baffin region of Nunavut.
	www.cmaj.ca /cgi/content/full/177/2/155 (3566 words)

	Nunavut Implementation Training Committee
		The study was commissioned by the Government of Canada, in conjunction with the Government of Nunavut and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. to identify the factors that affect success in ensuring Inuit participation in government employment.
		One of the latest developments in territorial training and education is an extensive paper released by the Department of Education of the Government of Nunavut.
		The Qikiqtaaluk Wildlife Board (QWB) is the organization responsible for overseeing harvesting and supporting the work of Hunters and Trappers Organizations (HTOs) in the Qikiqtaaluk region.
	www.nitc.ca /english/news-newsletter-3.html (2121 words)

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		Nunavut's government-in-embryo, led by its eleven newly hired deputy ministers, will work within the OIC office until April 1.
		The role of the surface rights tribunal, under the Nunavut land claims agreement, is to arbitrate disputes over access to lands, compensation payable to the surface titleholder for access, wildlife compensation claims and rights to carving stone or other specified substances in the Nunavut settlement area.
		Nunavut's arbiters of academic rectitude, the Science Insititute oversees the issuance of licences — yes, licences — to anyone wishing to do research in Nunavut.
	www.nunanet.com /~jbell (1116 words)

	Nunavut Communities
		The Qikiqtaaluk region includes all communities on Baffin Island, Grise Fiord (Ellesmere Island), Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Hall Beach and Igloolik (Melville Peninsula), and Sanikiluaq (Hudson Bay).
		The Kitikmeot region includes central Arctic communities on the coast of the Arctic Ocean and includes Pelly Bay (Simpson Peninsula), Gjoa Haven (King William Island), Cambridge Bay (Victoria Island).
		The capital of Nunavut is Iqaluit, located in the Qikiqtaaluk region.
	www.polarnet.ca /~taloyoak/genweb/nunatowns.htm (168 words)

	Consilium/ARDOS/Aarluk: Our Times
		The Service Review includes a survey of all clients in the thirteen communities served by Kakivak, and personal interviews with a sample of clients and focus group sessions with community organizations in all of the communities, and interviews with all Kakivak Board members and senior staff of the organization.
		Stakeholder representatives came from Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., Government of Nunavut Department of Economic Development and Transportation, Department of Justice and Department of the Environment as well as Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and the Nunavut Chamber of Mines.
		From the workshop proceedings Gartner Lee and Aarluk have developed a Draft Strategy to be used in early 2005 as the basis for an extensive consultation process.
	www.consilium.ca /newsletters/january_05.html (1487 words)

	Solar energy still not quite there for the North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But panels alone only allow for the gathering of energy -- meaning, use it or lose it -- which is no help during the dark winter months when people use the most energy.
		"Your maximum pay back for the solar panel is the time of the year when you have the minimum consumption," says Mac Maidens, area superintendent for the Qikiqtaaluk region at Nunavut Power Corp.
		For example, energy derived from diesel and hydro sources is heavily subsidized for the first 700 kilowatt hours under the current pricing structure in Nunavut and the NWT.
	www.nnsl.com /frames/newspapers/2004-09/sep6_04wood2.html (373 words)

	Nunavut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Fullname = Image:Nunavut.png55pxThe word "Nunavut" in Inuktitut
		Motto = Nunavut Sannginivut (Inuktitut, Nunavut our strength / Our land our strength)
		'''Nunavut''' (Inuktitut syllabics: ᓄᓇᕗᑦ, Image:Nunavut.png55pxThe word "Nunavut" in Inuktitut) is the largest and newest of the territories of Canada: it was separated officially from the vast Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the [http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/N-28.6/fulltoc.html Nunavut Act] and the [http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/N-28.7/ Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act], though the actual boundaries were established in 1993.
	copernicus.subdomain.de /Nunavut (1178 words)

	Nunavut Planning Commission
		The settlement of the Nunavut land claim and the creation of the territory of Nunavut provide a solid and stable environment for future economic development in this picturesque and resource rich region.
		growth of native development corporations, such as Nunasi and Qikiqtaaluk Corporation, representing concerns as varied as shrimp fishing, trucking and the hotel industry;
		Inuit carvings and prints are prized by fine art collectors around the world.
	npc.nunavut.ca /eng/nunavut/economic.html (153 words)

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