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CBC
15-05-2025
- Climate
- CBC
Iqaluit blizzard shuts services, closes schools
A blizzard is disrupting power and services across Iqaluit Thursday and the city is asking residents to prepare for extended disruptions. In a news release at about 6:40 a.m. Thursday the City of Iqaluit said all city services will be closed until further notice, including water delivery, sewer and garbage services. Nakasuk School, Joamie School, Aqsarniit School and Inukshuk Highschool are all closed this morning due to the weather conditions, according to the Iqaluit District Education Authority's Facebook page. The district said it would provide an update at 11:30 a.m. Government of Nunavut offices in Iqaluit are also closed. The Qulliq Energy Corporation said the outage is affecting the entire community and that operators are working to restore power as quickly as possible. Road-clearing crews have been pulled from the roads for their safety and emergency services are only responding to critical calls when it's safe to do so. Environment Canada writes that the blizzard is expected to continue until Thursday afternoon with winds in Iqaluit blowing at about 50 kilometres per hour and gusting to 70 km/h.
CBC
30-04-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Too young to vote? Not at this Nunavut school
While eligible voters were casting their ballots in the federal election on Monday, some students in Iqaluit also cast a ballot. As part of a unit on civics, Grade 5 students at Nakasuk School participated in the Canada-wide Student Vote program, which is run by a charity called Civix, in partnership with Elections Canada. Nakasuk School was one of 12 schools in Nunavut and two in Nunavik that participated in the program, which saw students learn about the parties and their platforms as well as the electoral process. Results of the Civix Student Vote and the 2025 federal election 7 hours ago Duration 3:29 Who won the Student Vote 2025? How do those results compare to the adult vote? CBC Kids News contributor Matthew Hines breaks it down. But first, check out how the Student Vote happens. We visited Central Technical School in Toronto, Ontario, on the day its students voted. One of the Nakasuk School students who voted was Brea Killulark. "I've always really wanted to do it because I saw my parents doing it," she said. "I really thought it looked fun." That response allows for students to hold their parents accountable, according to Cathy Welsh, the teacher who organized Nakasuk School's vote. She says parents have told her their children come home with questions about the process. "They often say, 'I asked my mom, did they vote?'" Welsh said of her students. "It increases the discussion and the awareness about the election and we get more people talking about it in great ways." Another goal of the program is to show that voting is not scary or complicated, says Welsh. She says this will create lifelong voters and students can learn that democracy is something they can participate in. "If we make it exciting and teach them about it [when they're] young, they will continue doing it forever," Welsh added. One of Civix's goals is to make voting a habit. "If you don't vote when you're young, if you don't vote when you turn 18, there are good chances that you're never going to vote," said Dana Cotnareanu, director of Civix-Quebec and French programming. "Right now, voter turnout for younger people [aged] 18 to 24 is pretty low, especially when we compare it to [elders]." The numbers from Elections Canada back this up. In the 2021 federal election, 46.7 per cent of eligible voters aged 18 to 24 cast a ballot, compared to 74.9 per cent of voters aged 65 to 74. The data shows that the higher the age group, the higher percentage of ballots were cast, with the exception of voters aged 75 and up, where only 65.9 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot. "This pattern has been seen in every general election since 2004," Elections Canada's website says. Civix's post-election results say Nakasuk School's students voted to re-elect Lori Idlout of the NDP, who gained 28 of the 48 votes cast. Kilikvak Kabloona of the Liberals and James T. Arreak of the Conservatives gained 10 votes each. Registered voters in Nunavut also re-elected Idlout in Monday's vote.
