Isuarsivik receives $21,000 to pay for kayaks, bicycles for guests to use
Director general Etua Snowball says on-the-land activities a ‘big’ part of healing process at centre; donation comes from Canada Post foundation
Isuarsivik is bolstering its on-the-land outdoor equipment collection with funding from Canada Post. (Photo by Cedric Gallant)
Isuarsivik Regional Recovery Centre will use approximately $21,000 received from Canada Post’s community foundation for additional outdoor equipment for guests to use during their on-the-land healing activities.
Isuarsivik director general Etua Snowball said the donation will pay for new kayaks, bicycles and other equipment for guests and children to use at the centre.
“We have a big lake that we can have our guests explore and learn how to kayak again,” he said Wednesday in an interview at Kuujjuaq’s Canada Post office, where the cheque was handed to Isuarsivik representatives.
“This is a big healing concept that we must provide to our guests.”
People staying at Isuarsivik in Kuujjuaq usually go out on the land twice a week during their usual eight-week stay.
Canada Post supervisor Guy Desmarais returns to where he first started working at Canada Post, back in 1995, to present a cheque to Isuarsivik Regional Recovery Centre on Wednesday in Kuujjuaq. (Photo by Cedric Gallant)
Guy Desmarais, Canada Post’s supervisor in Nunavik, said the donation was an emotional experience because his first-ever position at Canada Post was in Kuujjuaq, when he started with the Crown corporation in 1995.
“To come back here is a gift,” he said in an interview at the Kuujjuaq office.
Canada Post’s community foundation collects money at every office in the country. This year, the $1.3 million that was raised was split among 106 organizations that applied for funding.
The case for Isuarsivik “really pleased us,” Desmarais said. “We know where the funds are going, and it will benefit all of Nunavik at the same time.”
Since 2012, Canada Post’s community foundation has collected and distributed $14.8 million to more than 1,300 different initiatives around the country.
“We will keep investing in our people,” said Snowball. “This is something that has to be done to make a better future for ourselves.”
That place looks more and more like a resort. Ah , the healing business .
Concerning. What’s a comparable theme used by treatment facilities else where? Do they have special boats and other equipment, say in other remote areas of the province and country , just to adjust the concepts of here in the nord to south, east west whatever? Someone need to do the reality check, for all too often , much of core therapy and treatment could go out the door in the name of ignorance and assumption in that these program and equipment will make people heal and be well. , just assuming that Inuit heals only in a certain environment only. Bad decisions I think. Needs challenged
Already the isuarsivik outdoor program got the land torn up with 4wheeler going all through the sensitive wet land rather than sticking with known trails to get out fishing on lakes. Those guides need education. And the toys added to the fleet becomes more important than the reasons for the program’s in the first place. Kuujjuaq and lot of Nunavik has become so dysfunctional that what we have now committee after committee existing in itself to substantiate it’s own world of limitations of participation based on friendship relatives and favourite persons only. A few days ago s wellness committee had berry picking and bbq all the while same day there was another committee host elders outing, with no consideration of combining the efforts and having one event for all. Committees exist where the community are dysfunctional. Committee is the new way to express life rather than efforts to live a healthy productive life. The community has almost as many committees as it do residents. Unhealthy functioning and funding that has literally killed off the culture and keeping the people, aside from the smart ones from living a full healthy independent life. Not providing or contributing to anything good.
Inuit, those with their dignity and other vitality still intact, stand up for your culture, your future. Start looking around your community, and calling out those dead beat committees that are destroying all initiatives and motivation. Those committees are nothing more than self serving nothingness. It’s born out of unhealthy living that’s enhanced into further devastation by leaders and those other twits and twats that have promoted excuses for deviant behaviour, blame on upbringing that’s considered the worse among Canadians, it’s not true , it’s just an excuse to hurt others and thereby run a useless Committee, funding overflow and keeping Inuit in the third world with money that is wasted, not providing any contribution to anything good. Call them out, and we all know who they are.
Canada Post’s own words: “from 2018 to 2023, Canada Post lost $3 billion before taxes.”
Jumping to the first 3 months of this year, a loss of $221 million and $748 million loss in 2023.
But, but… people can donate to the free money fund which has given out $14.8 million since 2012.
Yup, in today’s mindset of endless free money is looked upon as top dog smart. Or is it walking the smooth whopper of a distraction path from reality and not seeing future pain?