COMMENTARY August 03, 2010 - 4:00 pm
How to respond to a peace officer…
…and how peace officers should treat citizens
SPECIAL TO NUNATSIAQ NEWS
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...
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COMMENTARY July 29, 2010 - 9:47 am
Protecting Lancaster Sound
“Seismic data is not legally required to create a marine conservation area”
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
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...
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COMMENTARY June 29, 2010 - 9:29 am
Why Nunavut needs a public inquiry into uranium mining
A position statement from Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
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...
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COMMENTARY June 28, 2010 - 9:14 am
A new role for the Inuit Circumpolar Council?
“Everything it has done and said has been agreed to”
SPECIAL TO NUNATSIAQ NEWS
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...
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COMMENTARY June 09, 2010 - 2:01 pm
How one school teaches the Inuit language
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
GINA PIZZO
Special to Nunatsiaq News
TALOYOAK — Let me start off by saying that I am not a linguist. I am just a teacher and a principal and I have lived in Nunavut for 25 years.
I want to wade into the discussion about language that I read about in the story “Study: Inuit language schooling......
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