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More than one in five Canadian Inuit now live outside the Arctic, where, with some notable exceptions, they live as a tiny and mostly invisible ethnic minority within big and medium-sized cities scattered from one end of southern Canada to the other.
So reported Statistics Canada in 2008, after...
Welcome to Nutrition North Canada. By March 31 next year, most Nunavut and Nunavik residents will rely on this program, which replaces food mail, to keep their grocery bills from ascending to astronomical heights.
So far, the program that Chuck Strahl and Leona Aglukkaq announced May 21 looks...
Given all we know now about the Government of Nunavut’s longstanding administrative weaknesses, the $60 million financial debacle inside the Nunavut Housing Trust, disclosed last week by Housing Minister Hunter Tootoo, ought to come as no big surprise.
The housing trust is a special fund created...
If you happen to have a son, or a brother, or an uncle serving time at the Baffin Correctional Centre, you ought to know their future got a lot darker this past Dec. 1.
That was when regular MLAs, in an act of childish petulance, voted to cut $300,000 from the Department of Justice’s 2010-11...
Say what you like about Finance Minister Keith Peterson and his cabinet colleagues: it took real courage for them to order a sweeping review of the law that covers what may be Nunavut’s most emotional issue: liquor.
A 10-member task force started work on this review last week. We don’t know what...
Because of certain fundamental flaws in the structure of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, the Makivik Corp. was within its legal rights when it decided last week to exclude a Nunatsiaq News reporter from its annual general meeting in Kangiqsualujjuaq.
It’s a private corporation, which...
In March 2007, people lucky enough to own shares in a small Ontario company called Wolfden Resources made a lot of money — on the back of a major set of Nunavut mineral properties that have yet to produce even a single gram of ore.
Wolfden’s shareholders, including no doubt, various company...
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