Lesley Hill, Quebec’s national director of youth protection, gives her thoughts about Inuit youth protection services Wednesday in Montreal. (Photo by Cedric Gallant, special to Nunatsiaq News)
Self-determination key topic with 263 youths from region in southern care
With 263 Nunavik children fostered down south, community leaders are calling for more say over youth protection in the region. The data was presented Wednesday at the Nunavik all-organizations meeting hosted by Makivvik Corp. in Montreal.
Two people play hockey on the ice in Umiujaq on April 3. “I was waiting for the perfect hockey skate position,” said photographer Anne Lapierre, who is in the community for census work and saw a group of about six players on the frozen riverbank, roughly 150 metres from the Co-op Hotel, that evening. (Photo courtesy of Anne Lapierre)