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The Current“Welcome to Iqaluit” – The Current in Canada’s North At a store in Iqaluit, Ainia Nooshoota is trimming the fat from a batch of narwhal meat — a rare treat, freshly caught by hunters 750 kilometres away in northern Nunavut. “Narwhal is not always available around this area, so …

Nunavut hunters and environmental groups say shipping activity from Baffinland’s Mary River mine is having a real and potentially lasting effect on narwhal numbers in the area. They’re calling on the mining company to, again, alter its shipping plans this year as a precaution.    In a letter to Nunavut regulators last week, the Pond …