A moving moment at Trudeau’s apology to Inuit

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hugs elder Alacie Joamie of Iqaluit after delivering his government’s apology in Iqaluit today for the mismanagement of the tuberculosis epidemic among Inuit between the 1940s and 1960s. At the event, Joamie recounted her husband’s departure to a TB sanatorium in 1967. He never returned, leaving her and her children to a life of hardship. Read more from the ceremony later today at Nunatsiaq.com. (Photo by Beth Brown)

By John Thompson

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