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When political leaders and senior bureaucrats across Nunavut woke up May 3 to contemplate the previous night’s election result, it’s a fair bet that most were smiling from ear to ear.
Given Nunavut’s utter dependence on the federal government, stability and predictability are crucial. The...
Ordinary people are dying in the streets as you read this, in countries like Libya, Syria and Yemen, for the right to choose who will govern them in free elections.
But this past April 27 in Nunavik, a majority of voters said no to that very idea: an elected government leader and an elected...
During the October 1993 federal election campaign, many Canadians got angry at Kim Campbell, then the prime minister, when she suggested that election campaigns are poor occasions for the discussion of serious issues.
But this year, the candidates running in the federal riding of Nunavut have so...
It’s wise of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. to wait until after the Government of Nunavut finishes its uranium consultation work on May 15 before starting a review of its own uranium policy.
By then the emotionalism that surrounds this issue may have cooled. NTI’s board should then take the time they need...
We should consider ourselves fortunate that members of the Nunavut Legislative Assembly sit each year for only a few weeks at a time — because this puts a severe limit on their ability to pass bad or unworkable laws.
Such is the Family Abuse Intervention Act, which the assembly passed Dec. 6,...
The Nunavik region’s long-suffering medical travel clients, a category of persons that includes virtually all residents, learned this past week that their regional health care brainiacs have just found a new second-hand patient hostel in Montreal.
This time, it’s an old YMCA building in lower...
Though the Inuit Circumpolar Council billed the event as an exercise in collective unity, the circumpolar Inuit summit held in Ottawa this past week isn’t likely to fool anyone.
On the big question, offshore drilling for oil and gas, individual Inuit within each national region hold a variety of...
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