Photo: What does “home” look like in the North? Senators get public housing tour

Members of the Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples tour public housing in Iqaluit April 18, as part of a round of consultations for an upcoming Senate report on the North’s housing crisis. Sen. Lillian Eva Dyck, chair of the committee, said the North presents challenges that are worse than among housing crises elsewhere. “I think the degree of overcrowding here is worse than it is, from what I can understand, in the rest of the country,” she said. After Iqaluit, the senators will visit Igloolik, Kuujjuaq, Sanikiluaq and Nain. Their report is expected to be tabled in the Senate this fall. Read more later on nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO BY STEVE DUCHARME)