Photo: Leona Aglukkaq fields questions at the Arctic Council

Nunavut MP Leona Aglukkaq, Canada’s minister responsible for the Arctic Council, fields questions May 15 in Kiruna, Sweden at the end of the morning ministerial meeting. Her main message: that the Arctic has been home to indigenous Arctic peoples who will have a voice in the circumpolar region’s future. During the news conference Aglukkaq referred questions about Greenland Premier Aleqa Hammond’s boycott of the ministerial meeting to the Danish foreign minister. More n Nunatsiaqonline.ca about the applications for observer status at the council, which were not accepted — and the many other issues discussed at the ministerial where Sweden passed the chairmanship of the council to Canada for the next two years. (PHOTO BY ALEX BOYD)