The Government of Canada on October 18 announced $5.4 million for four Nunavut communities. This money will go toward safety-related projects and equipment for airports in Cambridge Bay, Clyde River, Coral Harbour and Whale Cove.

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$4.4 million of this will go toward the rehabilitating air-side granular surfaces at the Whale Cove Airport. The Coral Harbour and Cambridge Bay Airports will each be getting $420,000 to purchase 4x4 plow trucks. Clyde River is getting $210,000 to purchase a loader-mounted snow blower.

This funding came through Transport CanadaSA国际影视传媒檚 Airports Capital Assistance Program, a program which has funded over 1,000 airport projects at 199 airports since 1995.