Manitok Thompson, executive director of Inuit Broadcasting Corp., stands surrounded by decades-old videotapes located in the organization’s Ottawa office. Thompson’s team is working to digitize them but needs stable funding to finish the project. (Photo by Kierstin Williams)
Administration of money changed hands from federal government to Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. in 2023, and that’s when it stopped flowing: Manitok Thompson
The Inuit Broadcasting Corp. says its archive digitization project is at risk due to changes to the administration of federal Indigenous languages funding.
Willie Adams, Canada’s first Inuk senator, is invested into the Order of Canada Thursday at a ceremony in Rideau Hall. Adams is pictured with Gov. Gen. Mary Simon during the investiture ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. Adams was appointed to the Senate in 1977, representing the Northwest Territories. He became Nunavut’s first senator when it split from the Northwest Territories to become a territory of its own in 1999. Adams retired from the Senate in 2009, at the mandatory age of 75. (Photo by Anne-Marie Brisson; courtesy of the Governor General’s Office)
Inuit elder Aigah Attagutsiak, who was born and raised in Arctic Bay, shares the cultural significance of the qulliq with visitors during a special open house at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Saturday. The event was held as a lead-up to the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which is Monday. Attagutsiak shared photographs of her mother and sister preparing seal oil or blubber, showed visitors the Arctic cotton used to make the wick, and talked about her life in the North. The qulliq lighting was among other commemorative activities held over the weekend at Rideau Hall, the governor general’s official residence. (Photo by Nehaa Bimal)