When we negotiated the Nunavut Agreement 30 years ago, we had a vision for Nunavut as a vibrant, economically self-sufficient territory that leveraged its
ᐊᔩᖃᑎᒌᒍᑕᐅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᓄᓇᕘᑖᕈᑎ 30 ᐊᕐᕌᒍᑦ ᐅᖓᑖᓂ, ᑕᐅᑐᒐᖃᓚᐅᕋᑦᑕ ᓄᓇᕘᒧᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᑦᑎᐊᖅᑐᑐᑦ, ᓇᖕᒥᓂᖅ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᓕᐅᕈᓐᓇᖅᑐᑐᑦ ᓇᖕᒥᓂᖅ ᐊᑐᖅᖢᒋᑦ ᑭᓱᒃᓴᖁᑎᖏᑦ ᓄᓇᒥᖔᖅᑐᑦ. ᓴᓇᓚᐅᖅᑐᒍᑦ ᓱᖅᑯᐃᓇᖅᑐᒥᒃ ᒪᓕᑦᑎᐊᕆᐊᓕᖕᒥᒡᓗ
Raising a hand for openness in government isn’t enough. Elected officials and government workers need to embrace it. To live it. To voluntarily make it
Well, at least it isn’t benzene. That was a bit of a silver lining to come out of the City of Iqaluit and Nunavut government’s joint news conference Oct.
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Call it the Seinfeld election — an election about nothing. When the dust settled Monday night, after a five-week campaign, the political landscape had
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I didn’t expect to write about Nunavik, worried I would draw an incomplete picture. Today I feel the need to do it, to show the beauty, to share my love
I first met Jim Bell in 1985, when we became the new publishers of Nunatsiaq News. At that time the tiny staff, including Jim’s colleague and friend Bill
Jim Bell’s ink-stained fingerprints are not just all over Nunatsiaq News, they’re all over the North. On the walls and shelves of our Iqaluit office,
Jim Bell is hunched over the keyboard of an old Macintosh computer, the office thick with cigarette smoke, a stained mug of coffee cooling beside an
Welcome to Iqaluit, where Liberal cabinet ministers have been deboarding airplanes like circus clowns piling out of a Volkswagen. For the last few weeks,
Watch for Mary Simon, who becomes Canada’s first Inuk Governor General on Monday, to quickly put her own stamp on the job. As the Queen’s representative,
With one deft move, Nunavut MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq advanced the fight for justice over Canada’s mistreatment of Indigenous Peoples and, at the same time,
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And just like that, Nunavummiut are powerbrokers in the next federal election. The sudden but not-surprising announcement that Mumilaaq Qaqqaq will not
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Pledging $18 billion to “narrow the gaps” between Canada’s Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations was a bold move by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s
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There’s no doubt about it. Nunavut’s housing shortage represents a major humanitarian disaster. For Canada, a rich, self-satisfied G7 nation, it’s a
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ᖃᖓᑦᑎᐊᖅ ᖃᓄᐃᓚᐅᖅᑐᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᐅᔪᓪᓗ ᐃᓄᓕᒫᖅᑎᑦᑎᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᑐᓴᐅᒪᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒥᒃ ᐹᕙᓐᓛᓐᑯᑦ ᐊᖏᒡᓕᒋᐊᕈᒪᔭᖓᓄᑦ ᓄᓘᔮᖕᓂᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᕐᒥᑦ ᐱᕕᖃᖅᑎᑦᑎᓯᒪᕗᑦ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᔪᓂᒃ ᕿᒥᕐᕈᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᖏᒡᓕᒋᐊᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ. ᑐᑭᓯᕗᒍᑦ ᐃᓚᖏᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑐᖅᐳᑦ ᐊᓯᖏᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑐᙱᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ, ᐊᓯᖏᓪᓗ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᖏᑉᑐᑦ ᓱᓕ ᐊᐱᖅᑯᑎᒃᓴᖃᖅᑐᓪᓘᓐᓃᑦ.
Recent events and the public hearings on Baffinland’s proposed expansion of the Mary River project provide an important opportunity to scrutinize the
ᖃᖓᑦᑎᐊᖅ ᖃᓄᐃᓚᐅᖅᑐᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᐅᔪᓪᓗ ᐃᓄᓕᒫᖅᑎᑦᑎᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᓈᓚᖕᓂᕐᓂᑦ ᐹᕙᓐᓛᓐᑯᑦ ᐊᖏᒡᓕᒋᐊᕈᒪᔭᖓᓄᑦ ᓄᓘᔮᖕᓂᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᕐᒥᑦ ᐱᕕᖃᖅᑎᑦᑎᓯᒪᕗᑦ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᔪᒥᒃ ᕿᒥᕐᕈᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᖏᒡᓕᒋᐊᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ. ᑐᑭᓯᕗᒍᑦ ᐃᓚᖏᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑐᖅᐳᑦ ᐊᓯᖏᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑐᙱᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ, ᐊᓯᖏᓪᓗ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᖏᑉᐳᑦ ᓱᓕ ᐊᐱᖅᑯᑎᒃᓴᖃᖅᖢᑎᒡᓘᓐᓃᑦ.
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There’s a certain body of opinion in this country — much of which lurks within the darker corners of social media — that claims the Nunavut territory and
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Smidge and Friends is a weekly feature in Nunatsiaq News. It is drawn by Ayla Kreelak, an artist from Baker Lake.
All of us who care about Nunavut will be relieved that the protesters who occupied the Mary River mine’s airstrip and tote road for most of this past week