What does aboriginal women’s leadership mean to me?

NAIOMIE HANSON-AKAVAK
Special to Nunatsiaq News

My name is Naiomie Hanson-Akavak; I am a 25 year old Inuk from Iqaluit Nunavut. 

I have mild cerebral palsy. I have lived most of my life in Iqaluit, Nunavut.

I graduated from Inuksuk High School in 2004.  After I graduated I knew I wanted to...

Plan Nord: a tool to improve our living conditions

“Plan Nord is the best tool”

Maggie Emudluk
Chairperson
Kativik Regional Government

On May 9, 2011, Québec released the Plan Nord. The Kativik Regional Government played an active role in the process leading up to the announcement, participating in the Québec working-group consultations and reporting on developments at every...

Is there a better way to make amends to residential school survivors?

“In all justice… what is the proper reparation?”

ANNE CRAWFORD
Special to Nunatsiaq News

Many of us recently listened to stories from the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from Igloolik and in Iqaluit, and felt the deep reverberation in the community.

It all seems to have ended before it began, too fast, too little and not...

Nunavut voters should decide uranium policy in public vote

Plebiscite could bring quick resolution to "prolonged debate"

NUNAVUMMIUT MAKITAGUNARNINGIT

IQALUIT and BAKER LAKE – A prolonged debate about the possibility of a moratorium on uranium mining in Nunavut could negatively impact on how potential investors perceive the territory. Mining capital can go anywhere it chooses. If investors have doubts about the...

Daycare in Nunavut: its up to people to fill the gap

“Anyone from the public can initiate and create a daycare”

SANDRA OMIK
Special to Nunatsiaq News

When I was pregnant a couple of years back, it was suggested to me that I should list my name in a daycare right away, as the waiting list for space was long. 

I therefore put my name in for a couple of daycares in Iqaluit.  Two years later, I’m still...