Want to see what’s under Nain water?

Sustainable Nunatsiavut future need your help to take a video of the animals on the bottom of the sea. Borrow a GoPro from the research Centre and take it off fishing with you and they will give you $25 for taking videos of the sea floor.

These videos will build a map of what lives in Nain waters to better understand and protect it. They just want a copy of any footage you take.

You may contact Caroline Nochasak on Facebook for more information or call her at 922-2380 to arrange to borrow a GoPro.

The Nunatsiavut Government will have a new manager at their Illusuak Cultural Centre.

Brenda Jararuse is the Director of Culture.

She says Crystal Allen of Nain will start her new position at the end of October.

And Olivia Edmunds, was also recently hired as Culture Centre Assistant.

Jararuse says the Illusuak Cultural Centre has been without a manager for a few months.

Nunatsiavut Government is looking for tenders to construct seniors’ apartments in Nain and Hopedale.

They are seeking bids from qualified contractors to construct 4 senior apartments.

The breakdown in construction is as follows:

Nain- Duplex on Nanuk Road and a Quadplex on 52 Harmony Road.
Hopedale – single dwelling on Winters Road and a Quadplex on 5-7 Winters Road.

Full details can be found on MERKS Canadian Public tenders at www.merx.com.

Bids are to be submitted online through MERX Canadian Public Tenders no later than 2pm on November 7, 2022.

For more information, please contact Terry Rice – Capital Project Coordinator at Terry.Rice@nunatsiavut.com, cc: infra.ngprocurement@nuntsiavut.com with the subject line CONTSRUCTION OF NAIN AND HOPEDALE SENIORS APARTMENTS (NGINF-110B).

The lowest-cost or any proposal may not necessarily be accepted and the Nunatsiavut Government reserves the right to cancel this RFP. Proposals will be evaluated on the principles of value for money, which include an evaluation of the Inuit Content Factor Procurement Act.

Federal housing advocate Marie-Josée Houle will be visiting Nunatsiavut and Upper Lake Melville next week as part of a tour of Inuit Nunangat to report on the failure of Canada to deliver adequate housing to Inuit.

The Federal housing advocate is an independent, non-partisan watchdog, based in the office of the Canadian human rights commission, and mandated to drive change on key systems housing issues and advance the right to housing for Canadians.

She will interact directly with residents, as well as visiting homes and the community’s emergency shelter to learn first hand some of the housing challenges being faced in the community.

She will be in Hopedale on Thursday before finishing her tour by visiting shelters in Happy Valley-Goose Bay on Friday.

As part of the visit to Hopedale, an Open house will be held at the Nunatsiavut Assembly building today October 20, starting at 7pm.

Residents of the community are encouraged to attend to speak about the challenges being faced in securing adequate housing.

For more information, contact Brenna Jarrar, Director of Housing at 709-896-4081.

Click here to hear the interview with Houle on the work she’s doing as Housing Advocate.

Please note that the interview will be aired in English only.

NL has reported that there have been 5 more deaths from COVID-19, according to the latest numbers from the provinces Health Department.

They raise the provincial death toll to 253 people since the beginning of the pandemic in March, 2020.

According to Wednesday afternoons weekly update, 4 were in the Eastern Health region and 1 in the Central Region. 1 person was in their 60’s, 1 in their 70’s and 3 were in their 80’s.

The number of people in the hospital because of the virus in the province has dropped by 1 since last week, down to 9, with 1 person in critical care.

Health Officials have also confirmed 224 new cases of the virus in the province, but because of strict limits on whose eligible for testing by Public Health, that number is not an accurate reflection of the presence or spread of COVID-19 in NL.

Federal Housing Advocate Marie-Josée Houle is visiting Nunatsiavut and Upper Lake Melville this week as part of a tour of Inuit Nunangat to report on the failure of Canada to deliver adequate housing to Inuit.

The Federal Housing Advocate is an independent, non-partisan watchdog, based in the office of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and mandated to drive change on key systemic housing issues and advance the right to housing for Canadians.

She has been interacting directly with residents, as well as visiting homes and the community’s emergency shelter to learn first hand some of the housing challenges being faced in the community. She will be in Hopedale on tomorrow Thursday before finishing her tour by visiting shelters in Happy Valley-Goose Bay on Friday.

As part of the visit to Hopedale, an Open House will be held at the Nunatsiavut Assembly Building on Thursday, October 20, starting at 7 p.m. Residents of the community are encouraged to attend to speak about the challenges being faced in securing adequate housing.

For more information, contact Brenna Jarrar, Director of Housing, at 896-4081.

We will be airing the interview with the Federal Housing Advocate by the end of this week.

First Light Aboriginal Friendship Centre in downtown St. John’s Spirit Song Festival will be returning.

There will be 5 performance venues over 30 musical and dance acts, comedy, film, art exhibits, demonstrating artists and more, this is biggest celebration of Indigenous arts and culture Atlantic Canada. All events will be free of charge and everyone is welcome. Details and tickets will be available soon. So, keep checking their web page at www.spiritsongfestival.ca.

So, if you happen to be in St. John’s on Sunday, November 20-26, go check it out, it’s the 10th best year yet.

Also, First Light says they will advocate alongside their First Voice partners for policy change to end systemic racism in all public institutions including the police.

In case you’ve missed it, Catherine Fagan, Co-chair of the First Voice Working Group on Police oversight appeared on National news to describe the lack of effective of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary and to call on the Government of NL to show leadership on the issue.

Want to see what’s under Nain water?

Sustainable Nunatsiavut future need your help to take a video of the animals on the bottom of the sea. Borrow a GoPro from the research Centre and take it off fishing with you and they will give you $25 for taking videos of the sea floor.

These videos will build a map of what lives in Nain waters to better understand and protect it. They just want a copy of any footage you take.

You may contact Caroline Nochasak on Facebook for more information or call her at 922-2380 to arrange to borrow a GoPro.

Coming in November.

“TautukKonik” Looking Back shows the strength of our culture.

It shows the strength of our family and family connection. It was strong, the way that we lived. And this book shows that. = Julius (Joe) Dicker Town Mayor.

TautukKonik/Looking Back is a collaborate portrait of a time in change for Inuit in Northern Labrador. Using repatriated photo graphs of Inuit life taken by Candace Cochrane between 1969 and 1986, a group of Inuit from Nain and Hopedale called the Nunatsiavut Creative Group joined with Andrea Proctor and Candace Cochrane to combine the images with Inuit recollection s in both Inuktitut and English. Together they created an inspired portrait of time and place.

Find out more or pre order a copy at memorialuniversitypress.ca/…TautukKonik.

There was an announcement back in October of 1981 from the Federal Government concerning the installation of fish unloading at some sites in Labrador.

Work on the project was expected to commence on October 12 for the 1982 fishing season.

Click here to hear the report from kintauinnamut ilingajuk magazine.