Talk:Nunavut

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Date	Process	Result
May 27, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
November 26, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed
April 25, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on April 1, 2008, and April 1, 2013.
Current status: Former good article nominee

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you should add a gallery for this. but it is great already!!!

"Tobacco"

Under Culture/Tobacco, the article states: "Smoking affects both men and women equally, and the overwhelming majority (90%) of pregnant women are smokers.[70]"

The 90% figure is presented as if it has some scientific precision, but it does not. Reading the linked article, the quote is from a government "tobacco-reduction specialist", Freddie Best. Best says "Anecdotally, we hear from community health staff and staff at Qikiqtani General Hospital that upwards of 90 per cent of pregnant women smoke." So it's really just a swag, but it is also not likely to be true.

The article [70] links to "Nunavut has Canada's highest smoking rates at 62 per cent" ( http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/northern-smoking-drinking-rates-highest-in-canada-2014-health-report-1.3125120] ), which describes a government report finding the overall smoking rate in Nunavut is 62%. And somehow pregnant women outpace even this and clock in at 90%? Something seems fishy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cobbzilla (talk • contribs) 00:15, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dispute about Infobox content

An issue has come up: should the infobox to this article contain the field "government_type", filled in with "Parliamentary system with consensus government". Since this issue affects all ten provinces and the three territories, a Request for Comment has been started on the Canadian Wikipedians Notice Board. If you are interested in this issue, please come to the Notice Board and contribute to the discussion. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:21, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nunavut-Ontario Land Border?

Do Nunavut and Ontario share a land border? If you look about 15 km west of Akimiski Island on Google Maps, you can see a Nunavut-Ontario land border. 216.197.134.44 (talk) 20:38, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The border that Google shows in Hudson Bay is fabricated rubbish. So no, the line you were looking at is not a Nunavut-Ontario land border.

Ontario owns all the mainland south of the intersection of the 89th meridian and the shore of Hudson Bay.

Nunavut owns all the Islands in Hudson Bay and James Bay (islands inside river mouths generally do not count).

Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial maps don't usually attempt to show a boundary between Nunavut and Ontario.

Some maps (mostly non-government maps) attempt to draw a boundary along the coastline... but that is more art than geography because the coast is made up of shifting salt marshes and wide tidal flats.

I have mentioned before on another Wikipedia discussion page that West Pen Island (which is theoretically owned by Nunavut) is more of a peninsula than an island; it may be connected to the Ontario mainland when the tide is not high. MapGrid (talk) 23:21, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss island chopping logic

Perhaps discuss the decision of the bounary to chop little bits of e.g., Mackenzie King Island. Jidanni (talk) 08:03, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The boundary is defined by the 110th meridian west, rather than allotting whole islands to one territory or the other. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:51, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It also depended on the traditional usage of the area. See Parker's Notch and File:VictoriaIslandMap Parker's Notch.png where it doesn't follow the 110th meridian because of Cambridge Bay and Kugluktuk in one land claims area and Ulukhaktok in another. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 19:28, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]