The real hypocrites

Near the end of last month, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told international leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland that the world’s richest countries should do more to help pregnant women and young children in the world’s poorest countries.

In those remarks, and in an opinion piece published......

The GN’s bungling haunts us still

Thanks to a big recommendation last week from a respected group of polar bear scientists and wildlife conservation experts, it’s now unlikely that small sports-hunt outfitters in Nunavut will face an unnecessary global ban on trade in polar bear parts.

This is good news, because it means a...

For Nunavut, good times can be bad times

As many readers know already, finance ministers and central bank heads from the group of wealthy nations known as the G7 — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States — will gather in Iqaluit early next month to continue talks on how to make sure the global...

Nunavut’s radioactive issue

If the Nunavut land claims agreement actually worked the way its starry-eyed backers promised it would work nearly 20 years ago, there would be no need in Nunavut for a independent lobby group to scrutinize uranium exploration and mining.

But the public institutions and Inuit organizations set up...

Is Nunavut health care underfunded?

For Nunavut’s much-maligned Department of Health and Social Services, the story never changes.

At the beginning of each fiscal year, MLAs vote to give the department a certain amount of money.

And by the end of each fiscal year, the department almost always needs even more.

You can observe a...