Does the GN follow the Canada Health Act?

Jurisdictional confusion makes federal health money hard to track in Nunavut

SANDRA OMIK
Special to Nunatsiaq News

The Government of Nunavut is responsible for health issues, conferred upon it by the Nunavut Act.  Even though the GN is a territorial government, it received most province-like authorities upon becoming a territory in 1999.

Because of this, the federal...

Reclaiming the moral high ground

Indigenous peoples, climate change and human rights

SHEILA WATT-CLOUTIER

Editor’s note: This commentary is made up of speaking notes that Sheila Watt-Cloutier used for a panel presentation at Indigenous Peoples Day, held inside the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, Dec. 12, 2009, during the COP15 climate change talks.

Good morning.  It is...

ITK calls for pan-Inuit swine flu strategy

National Inuit org not happy with Ottawa's H1N1 plan

Gail Turner
Chair of ITK National Inuit Committee on Health

The following is excerpted from a recent ITK presentation to the House of Commons standing committee on health.)

I am honored to speak on behalf of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), representing Canadian Inuit on the issue of H1N1 and its...

Harper’s Northern Strategy fails northern people

COLIN ALEXANDER
Special to Nunatsiaq News

The Globe and Mail’s recent front-page picture of young boys sleeping outside in Iqaluit, and the accompanying story about homelessness in Nunavut, shows how bad things are for a growing underclass.

With the Inuit population doubling every 25 years, the...

Northern strategy needs spirit of Inuit consensus building

“The way we see our land may be very different from the way that Ottawa sees it.”

MARY SIMON
President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

I live in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik’s largest community, located on the western shore of Quebec’s Koksoak River, about 50 kilometres upstream from Ungava Bay.

Along with my birthplace, Kangiqsualujjuaq to the east, Kuujjuaq sits almost directly on the 58th...