The project will be jointly funded by the federal government and Nunavut, which has already committed $30 million. The cables will stretch from Nuuk, Greenland to Iqaluit through the Davis Strait and will also connect to Nunavut’s Kimmirut. The project will reach up to 3,215 households in the province. Iqaluit and Kimmirut are expected to get the service, with speeds of about one gigabyte per second, by 2023. (The Logic, CBC)

Talking point: Nunavut has some of the slowest internet speeds in the country. In 2017, just 29.9 per cent of households in the province had speeds of between five and nine megabits per second (Mbps), and no household had speeds higher than that, according to data from Innovation, Science and Economic Development and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). In comparison, at the time, 85.4 per cent of the country had speeds of 25 Mbps or higher. In 2018, several Nunavut communities, including Iqaluit, received a faster internet package from Northwestel that, at 15 Mbps, the carrier said was six times faster than what was previously available. But it was still below the 50 Mbps speed that the CRTC said all Canadians should have access to. This investment represents a major speed increase in an area that has long been underserviced.