{"id":913609,"date":"2026-09-29T03:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913609\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T03:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:52:22","slug":"new-airport-terminal-opens-in-rankin-inlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913609\/","title":{"rendered":"New airport terminal opens in Rankin Inlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\"><a class=\"category business\" href=\"https:\/\/nunatsiaq.com\/tag\/business\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Sep 28, 2026 \u2013 4:59 pm EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"subhead\">Ministers and community members celebrate new addition to Rankin Inlet airport<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_8139-scaled.jpeg\" title=\"New airport terminal opens in Rankin Inlet\"><br \/>\n                                <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_8139-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" title=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members and politicians gathered to celebrate the opening of Rankin Inlet\u2019s new airport terminal on Monday. (Photo by Corey Larocque)<\/p>\n<p class=\"author custom\">By Nunatsiaq News<\/p>\n<p>Community members and politicians gathered at the Rankin Inlet airport Monday morning to celebrate the opening of its new terminal.<\/p>\n<p>The event featured a qulliq lighting, prayer, ribbon-cutting and a barbecue, wrote Department of Transportation and Infrastructure spokesperson Greg Belanger in a public service announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new larger air terminal building is a key transportation hub for the community of Rankin Inlet and the Kivalliq region, connecting people, goods and communities across Nunavut and the rest of Canada,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Minister George Hickes, Rankin Inlet South MLA Annie Tattuinee, Nunavut MP Lori Idlout, and Northern and Arctic Affairs Minister Rebecca Chartrand attended the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Nunatsiaq News requested an interview with Hickes, but he was unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>Chartrand was set to make a funding announcement on behalf of federal Transportation Minister Steven MacKinnon, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>Belanger did not respond to questions about the announcement.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nunatsiaq.com\/ads\/260925-nti-communications-coord\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"373\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/260925.100.95.gif\" class=\"no-lazy-load wp-post-image\" title=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business\u00a0\u00a0Sep 28, 2026 \u2013 4:59 pm EDT Ministers and community members celebrate new addition to Rankin Inlet airport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-913609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}