After months preparing, Rankin Inlet gets its first cases of COVID-19
With Jordan Tootoo, the first Inuk to play in the NHL, calling it home, Rankin…
Kent Driscoll
Kent has been APTN’s Nunavut correspondent since 2007. In that time he has closely covered Inuit issues, including devolution and the controversial Nutrition North food subsidy. He has also worked for CKIQ-FM in Iqaluit and as a reporter for Nunavut News North.
Season opening hockey camp welcomes hundreds to new arena in Rankin Inlet
Ask anyone who knows anything about Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, people there are crazy about hockey….
Embattled minister removed from Nunavut cabinet
MLAs voted 14-3 to turf Patterk Netser after he dissed #BlackLivesMatter
‘Sorry if I offended you’: Iqaluit councillor says in post to Black community in Iqaluit
Malaiya Lucassie digs in on social media with post aimed at community
Iqaluit city councillor quits following fall out over response to her father’s Facebook post
Council demands resignation, councillor says she’s being labelled as a racist
Nunavut Cabinet Minister Patterk Netser stripped of duties over Facebook post
Daughter Malaiya Lucassie, an Iqaluit city councillor, also adding comments online about BLM.
In Nunavut outside police forces investigate the RCMP, but that could be changing
Justice minister says civilian oversight high on the fall agenda of the legislature.
Nunavut’s top cop defends RCMP mistaken arrest
‘Would you prefer us just to say that there’s somebody out there with a rifle, pointing it?’
‘I can’t even describe how terrifying it was’: Mother watches Iqaluit RCMP wrongly arrest her son
23 year old arrested after receiving call about a person pointing a rifle in Iqaluit.