Open letter to NTI executive candidates

Should candidates declare contributions from uranium firms?

NUNAVUMMIUT MAKITAGUNARNINGIT
Iqaluit-Baker Lake

Peter Irniq made a good point on CBC news this past Monday morning — it’s time to open the books on the salaries of the NTI executive positions.

He said that “the salaries of the individual executive members at NTI should be transparent and have...

The next step in Nunavut’s journey

We are ready to negotiate devolution, premier says

EVA AARIAK
Premier of Nunavut

When Inuit leaders began to meet back in the 1970s, they were setting out on a journey. 

The first step of this journey was the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. The second step was establishing our territory and the Government of Nunavut. 

The next step of Nunavut’s...

Canada needs a university in the North

Only federal government can fund an Arctic university, academics say

FRANCES ABELE and LESLIE SEIDLE
 
Northerners have changed the map of Canada and the way their homeland is governed.

But these achievements are incomplete. Now, northerners must build a new society that can sustain the dreams embodied in the new institutions.

As Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami leader...

In Greenland, a quadrilingual kid’s first day of school

Six year-old hears three languages at home — and Greenlandic at school

VICTORIA SIMIGAQ

NUUK-Let me tell you about Gabriel’s first day of school in Greenland.

My son, Gabriel, is six years old and turns seven in November.

He’s starting school only this year because his entry-level exam was too low last year, so we had to wait another year to register him in the...

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...