Most Canadians could be forgiven for assuming a mine in Nunavut pays corporate income taxes. After all, Baffinland Iron Mines is the third-largest employer in the territory, behind the Government of Nunavut and Agnico Eagle Mines.  But Nunavut News could not find any evidence of Baffinland paying a single dollar of corporate income taxes to […]

Smuggling drugs and alcohol into Gjoa Haven through the Yellowknife Airport should warrant improvements in security, Mayor Raymond Quqshuun told a panel at the Nunavut Association of Municipalities’ annual general meeting on Nov. 12. Yellowknife is accessible by road through Alberta, and there’s no airport security on flights from Yellowknife to Nunavut communities. Quqshuun, whose […]