Canadian North CEO named businessperson of the year at Nunavut Trade Show
Qikiqtani Business Achievement Awards ceremony recognizes businesses, entrepreneurs for ‘positive impact’ on community
Shelly De Caria is this year’s Business Person of the Year for the Qikiqtani Business Achievement Awards, announced Wednesday at the Nunavut Trade Show in Iqaluit. (Photo courtesy of Canadian North)
Five business leaders were recognized for their achievements this week at the Nunavut Trade Show and Conference.
Presented by the Baffin Regional Chamber of Commerce, the annual Qikiqtani Business Achievement Awards was the trade show’s closing event Wednesday at the Aqsarniit Hotel and Conference Centre in Iqaluit.
Allurvik Inc., which provides virtual Inuktitut tutoring services, was recognized as the Business of the Year. The company’s principal founder and CEO Miali Coley-Sudlovenick received the award, which highlights businesses that have a “positive impact” in the community, according to the Baffin chamber website.
Shelly De Caria, the CEO and president of Canadian North airline, received the Business Person of the Year award. De Caria is the first Inuk to lead Canadian North since she took on the position in December 2023.
There were two recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes the “long-term commitment of an individual to the business community.”
Shawn Lester, managing partner of Lester Landau Chartered Professional Accountants, and Chris West, executive director of the Baffin Regional Chamber of Commerce, were both honoured.
Stephen Johnson, co-founder of Ledgers Nunavut, an accounting and tax business, received this year’s Special Achievement Award for his “extraordinary success or innovation” in his economic development activities.
Johnson will be hosting a two-day expo in Iqaluit next month exclusively for smaller businesses and community organizations.
The Qikiqtani Business Achievement Awards were sponsored by Local 797 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, which represents construction sector employees across Nunavut, and the Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario.
Businessperson of the year by jacking up baggage rates like crazy, nice job!
Btw where are those indigenous-designed canadian north uniforms they promised? Asking 4 a friend…
Gotta pay for bonus somehow, expect more increases with CN.
You kidding, is this a joke?
You can get a return flight from Ottawa to Cuba–a distance a bit farther than to Iqaluit–plus all-inclusive food and accommodation for a week, and all for well under a thousand bucks. Also jet engines consume far less fuel in colder temperatures. If no Canadian company wants to compete, then open the skies to any foreign company that wants to come in.
I get you’re upset, but jet engines operate largely irrelevant to the ambient air.
They’re warmed up by APUs on the ground and the operating conditions at altitude are identical.
Northern aviation is limited to servicing limited routes with high ground operating costs and high costs related to crew costs due to duty hour limits.
It’s not due to the operating conditions of the engines…
Search Alaska Airlines from Fairbanks or Anchorage to any remote fly-in community…About $300. Would be great if they would come to Nunavut.
Do they get a frozen scone and free ginger snaps? I think not
https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/65674alaskan_airline_backtracks_on_new_branding/
Corporate welfare company, no GN,No Cdn North.
She is nothing but a ” FIGURE HEAD ”
Makivik Corp Puppet, everyone in Nunavut hates Canadian north, crazy
Who was the second choice, the CEO of the Notthwest Company? LOL
This is absolutely atrocious, what on earth is Qikitani thinking, Canadian North has what positive impact to which community???,
The Canadian North. A flawless monopoly like Northmart. They has the best excuse(s) to increase the prices. Gas prices is their bestest one.
It’s simply horrible that the CEO of Canadian North has received this award.
A slap in the face of all Nunavummiut. The cost is outrages, and the new baggage policy is quite frankly just another possibility to rob Nunavummiut. After being supported and rescued by the GN during the Covid duration, having (obviously) the contracts with the GN for duty and medical travel, and the Canada Post, does not give you the right to unjustifiable increase your prices and baggage rules. You are taking away the freedom of residents to travel to other communities.
Shame on you. Ombudsman here we come
Most ‘awards’ and accolades today are governed entirely by the logic and goals of identity politics. Little else matters or is taken into account.
Lots of Canadian North flights to and from Ottawa to Iqaluit get cancelled, why could they not just cancel the award this year instead of awarding the worst airline in the country? What improvements has she made to the horrible service to Nunavut? What plans has she put in place to provide better service to Nunavut instead of more fees and increased fares?
This trade show is losing its standing with us paying customers.
Calmair is the worst Airline in Canada, let’s all start to vote who is worse Cdn North, 0 Calmair 1
When Canadian North received millions in Covid payment from the federal government they stated they would not change the schedules.