Photo: Canadian Bar Association law conference in Iqaluit

Paul Crowley, an Iqaluit lawyer who served as principal secretary to former premier Eva Aariak and who advised climate change activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, speaking June 20 at the Canadian Bar Association’s aboriginal law conference in Iqaluit, at a panel discussion on governance. Crowley said that though the quality of governance in Nunavut is strong, government has not succeed in bettering the lives of Nunavummiut because of a structural poverty trap that afflicts the government and the people alike. Read more later on nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO BY JIM BELL)