Former NDP MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq is an honourable mention for Nunatsiaq News’s Newsmaker of the Year. (Photo by Madalyn Howitt, special to Nunatsiaq News)
Some high-profile people and some ordinary folks doing extraordinary things grabbed headlines over the past year
The story of the Nuluujaat Land Guardians’ blockade of the Mary River iron mine captivated the country’s attention for two weeks. It stood out in a year of startling, inspiring, infuriating news stories, which is why Nunatsiaq News picked it as its Newsmaker of 2021. But there were some other big newsmakers in 2021. Here...
“Peterloosie was one of ours at Uquutaq, one of the younger men who use the shelter, who needed care, attention, guidance and support, and now we will never be able to give it to him”
“Racial injustices, fears and concerns are not new for Inuit or people of African descent living their lives resisting a Eurocentric institutionalized racist and oppressive system of government”
“Will I find employment with housing quickly enough after I graduate, or will I end up like my younger sister, moving south simply to find a decent place to live?”