A Saskatchewan Dene perspective on uranium

Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit “misleading,” First Nations leader says

DON DERANGER

Readers of the position statement written by the Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit group that was published in the June 28 edition of Nunatsiaq Online were given a highly, misleading picture of the relationship the uranium mining industry in northern Saskatchewan has with local...

How to respond to a peace officer…

…and how peace officers should treat citizens

COLIN ALEXANDER

There are lessons in this for everyone, both for Inuit and for police officers everywhere, especially including Nunavut.

I have this story from an eyewitness believed to be reliable but, in any case, the lessons hold.

There’s a middle-aged Inuit woman living in public housing in...

Protecting Lancaster Sound

“Seismic data is not legally required to create a marine conservation area”

CHRISTOPHER DEBICKI
Oceans North Canada

At the eastern edge of the Northwest Passage, two glacier-capped islands mark the entrance to one of the greatest ecosystems in the northern hemisphere.

This is Lancaster Sound, a migration route for 85 per cent of the world’s narwhal, as well as home to...

Why Nunavut needs a public inquiry into uranium mining

A position statement from Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit

BY NUNAVUMMIUT MAKITAGUNARNINGIT

IQALUIT and BAKER LAKE — A petition initiated by Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit has been tabled in the Legislative Assembly calling for a public inquiry on whether or not to open Nunavut to uranium mining.

Nunavut is in danger of being on the receiving end of one...

A new role for the Inuit Circumpolar Council?

“Everything it has done and said has been agreed to”

POUL KRARUP
Editor of Sermitsiaq, Greenland’s leading newspaper

The Inuit Circumpolar Council general assembly in Nuuk this week will reveal whether it is still relevant or whether it is an organization that has outlived its purpose.

At age 30, most organizations are still trying to define their...