“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?”
Updated July 3, 11 a.m. My name is Marley Angugatsiaq Dunkers and I am a Finnish-Inuk. In my 27 years I have lived in all three regions of Nunavut and have called Iqaluit home for the last 10 years. I lost my father at the age of 16, and my mother at 23. This makes…
Employment lawyer Sandra MacKenzie explains how the pandemic affects Nunavut workplaces
“The upcoming Canadian federal budget is a critical opportunity to begin implementing Canada’s Arctic and Northern Policy Framework”
“No matter your background, it urges readers to surrender themselves to it and to engage with the emotional geographies of the North”
“The Nunavut and Canadian governments must listen to health experts and make life-saving antibody drugs available to combat RSV”
The big events that shook the territory last year
“Industrious, an entrepreneur and successful businessman, a gifted raconteur”
“We are hopeful that the impasse we are currently seeing will be overcome in short order”
“Over a decade later it remains the most viable solution in my mind”
“The Mary River iron ore mine appears to be at an unfortunate and dangerous impasse at the moment”
“For 10 years, the Nunavut government has been indifferent to the goal of a fully bilingual education system”
“We focus on enhancing opportunities for Inuit to participate in decisions about their cancer care”
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ᑐᓂᕐᕈᑎᒋᔭᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᒥᐅᔪᖅ ᕿᑐᕐᖓᑎᓐᓄᑦ ᑭᖑᕚᖑᓛᕐᑐᓄᓪᓗ
“It is a gift to our children today and the generations to come”
“Trauma has pervasive physiological, psychological and emotional impacts”
“Project Reconciliation is presenting a progressive, constructive way forward that addresses both Indigenous and environmental concerns”
“They monitor the harvest and decide whether hunting limits should be set”
“With a simple and effective cure at our disposal … all it takes for us to join the other 193 countries committed to eliminating hepatitis C is political will”
“If Nunavummiut want it, direct election for the premier could be implemented for the 2021 election”
“This new model empowers Inuit. It is built on mutual trust and respect for Inuit rights”
“The main lesson of the report may be more introspective and one that requires a slow reckoning”
“In the U.S., there are far higher levels of violence towards American Indian and Alaska Native women”
“It is time to demand that this concept do what it was intended to do”
America caused a lasting storm at the Arctic Council ministerial, but behind the scenes an accommodation evolved
“I feel more like a proper citizen of Nunavut, and have never felt more proud”
