Nunavut premier receives King’s coronation medal
Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok, left, receives King Charles III’s Coronation Medal Monday from Nunavut Commissioner Eva Qamaniq Aariak. Akeeagok is one of 30,000 Canadians to receive the medal, which is 32 millimetres in diameter and silver in colour. The medal celebrates the 2023 coronation of King Charles and honours those who “made a significant contribution to Canada or to a particular province, territory, region or community in Canada,” according to the official description by the Government of Canada. (Photo courtesy of Nunavut Premier’s office)
PJ was so instrumental in the creation of Nunavut. 🤣😂😱
Nice picture. Now will you help the people of Nunavut. By the way thank you for creating none of it.
Colonialism at its finest. Someone with a backbone would have refused.
WHERE S MINE ?
ummmm…Congrats??
I wish “MIGA” would invent her or his own handle and not use mine. That said, I wish they would get rid of all of these medals and “honours” because they are hardly ever awarded to those who really deserve them. I’ll give you an off the cuff example: Anyone who has lived in Iqaluit for a long time, remembers our extraordinary former resident Bill Riddell. Bill was a tireless advocate for the poor and disenfranchised of our community for over thirty years. Every community initiative to help the poor on the streets had his fingerprints on it. But is he considered for any of these “honours”? Not a chance because Bill was never part of the political establishment, and was very proud of that. These awards are all about politics and thats what I think about these things.
It’s sickening really… a self congratulations club, congratulating itself.
Hey buddy,
Why don’t you make yours a 2.0…..I’ve had this headliner for a while now 😀
Well deserved! And enough is not said about how hard our commissioner works! All the things she’s done for us! Wow
Commissioner. That’s a pure patronage position given to the connected. A waste of money.
He should get a chest full of medals like a russian general.
“The medal… honours those who “made a significant contribution to Canada or to a particular province, territory, region or community in Canada…”
Cool, so what did he do?
He forced my football team to change the name from “Edmonton Eskimos” to “Edmonton Elks”. His legacy. Now, I root for the Montreal Allouettes all because of the Gen Z doing.
He attended the prestigious, world renowned N.S. special education system for two whole years.(Gasp!)
Must’ve been tasking. 🤣
Those who like em, like em a lot! You know photo ops.
Two of Nunavut’s best photo oppers to ever do it. I bet the medal has an inscription commemorating him for most photo ops in one term.
Congrats on your latest photo op! Keep piling em up for the record book.
Our ruling elite .
The scarecrow received a brain (much like a degree) from Oz.
The tin man received a pocket watch.
The cowardly lion received a medal marked “courage.”
The Premier of Nunavut received a “Coronation” medal honouring those who “made a significant contribution…to a territory”. Nunavummiut stared at the photo op, scratched their heads in wonder as the yellow brick road faded away.
They opened their eyes and realized they had reached The Road to Nowhere.
The end!
I see the dripping sarcasm in this one.
😱🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😄
What contribution to canada or province did he do, oh the devolutio, He relocated central power to Nunavut.
Nice try. Sounds like a staffer trying to come to his aid. Probably a Chief of photo ops.
Let’s be clear. HE didn’t do All or most of that. He did some of that and some is a key word.
While he may have had a small part, you are not really acknowledging that Devolution “deal” is not really what’s implied by your selective communications.
It’s certainly not mission accomplished even though HE and staff celebrated it like it was. Of course all of that phoney victory dance occurred while completely leaving out some of the godfathers of Nunavut like Tagak Curley.
Devolution was an ongoing process for many years. It’s like a relay race, where the first guys each ran 5km, then passed the baton to PJ who ran the last kilometre and then was the only one that received a medal.
Honestly the comments are great, who else reads all the comments everyday instead of working, you guys win lots of awards, all be it not much competition but we love the comments………
Evidently NN is PRO PJ
Sent comment twice but has not been published. I’m done now anyways, I am wasting my precious time, no one knows what really goes on. How does the saying go again, picture does not do justice! There you go! Thank you Eva for all your hard work too.
his office and house must be full of pictures of himself by now. can i get a signed picture while they last. they might not be available next fall get them while supplies last
I have tried to comment several times on this photo opp premier also but NN does not allow them on. He is protected by media like Trudeau and Biden. Let’s go Paul!