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Nunatsiaq News is a small territorial newspaper. It is one of the few newspapers in the world where a reader can read the Inuktitut syllabics. Inuktitut is the language of the Eskimo or Inuit. This language though to close to the Algonquian family of languages is written in a system called syllabics.
Nunatsiaq news has a website called nunatsiaqnew.com. Nunatsiaq published once a week in English and Inuktitut. Nunatsiaq is the main newspaper of Nunavut, the relatively new territory of northern Canada. Nunavut is one of the homeland of the Inuit. Inuit or Eskimos inhabit the circumpolar regions of Russia, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland.
Nunatsiaq News is one of the websites I wait for every week. The news are published on the net on Fridays. It is one of the things I look forward to, sometimes with trepidation. Not all news is good news as we all know. Nunatsiaq news is a no nonsense kind of paper. It can include swear words, in quotations of course. It can also give gorge, graphic descriptions. Nunatsiaq News gives court and criminal coverage. It also deals with environmental and climate change issues.
In addition, being a responsible citizen and a media outlet it has the political mainstay. That includes international, national (Canada), territorial, or local politics. Nunatsiaq News has been around since 1973 and has been for political information. Nunatsiaq News is older than the Nunavut territory which was created in April 1999. Nunatsiaq News head-quarters is in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
Before the creation of Nunavut (“our land” in Inuktitut), the regional was known as Nunatsiaq for many decades. Nunatsiaq means the beautiful land.
Nunatsiaq News does not disclose it’s circulation but it is available in all the communities or Nunavut and Nunavik, Quebec. One of the features of Nunatsiaq News, I appreciate is the historical column by Ken Harper called Taissumani. Ken Harper is a business man, amateur historian, and columnist who lives in Iqaluit. Iqaluit is the smallest capital in Canada, but it is a booming government town. Taissumani means “back then (when).” The Taissumani column is one of the few places where you can find fresh historical information about Inuit from the contact with Europeans period. Written material about Inuit before then is nil.
You can lean a lot about the Canadian arctic from Nunatsiaq News. There are the classifieds that you would find in regular newspaper and some of the greatest letters to the editors. The north is a large territory with a small population, so many letters tend to be anonymous. All published letters have to be signed by the author, but the paper can publish them as name withheld by request.
The Nunatsiaq News also features irregular columnists and editorials in addition to the readers letters.
In addition, readers can write the website and newspaper on the discussion board forum. This has had limited success due to the rant nature of web surfers and the relative anonymous protection the www gives.
Nonsense News as some sarcastic readers like to call it is one of the last pioneer newspapers. Nunatasiaq News is available on-line anywhere close to earth and is published by Nortext Publishing Corporation. You can check out the archives and read some of the more in-depth features at www.nunatsiaqnews.com