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Tag Archives: Nunavut
Nunavut is not a “social experiment”
This past Friday, Bernadette Calonego, a correspondent for Süeddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s largest circulation newspaper, interviewed me. She said she was working on a follow-up to the splendid long-form feature on crime in Nunavut that Patrick White wrote and the Globe … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, Canada, circumpolar world, Inuit, Iqaluit, News, Nunatsiaq News, Nunavut, Politics
Tagged Canada, Iqaluit, Jean Chrétien, Nunatsiaq News, Nunavut, Patrick White, The Globe and Mail
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Meanwhile, in my day job…
Your humble content provider today caused this to be published, on Nunavut’s troubled Family Abuse Intervention Act: Noble ends, bungled means
Posted in Arctic, CBC, circumpolar world, crime, Iqaluit, News, Nunatsiaq News, Nunavut, policy, Politics, social issues
Tagged Arctic, Canada, Iqaluit, Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, News, Nunavut, Politics
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The Globe got it right; but will Nunavut?
This time, the Globe and Mail got it right: The young are neglected in Nunavut. Nunavut belongs to the young, and the young are neglected. The most neglected of all are the most vulnerable, those children who have been sexually … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, Canada, Iqaluit, News, Nunatsiaq News, Nunavik, Nunavut, Politics, social issues
Tagged Arctic, Canada, Iqaluit, Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, News, Nunatsiaq News, Nunavik, Nunavut, Politics
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Iqaluit’s market based solution
Based on my inexpert count, this event, a country food market, drew well over 100 people to a downtown square in Iqaluit, despite a windchill that sank below -40 and froze my bared fingers down to the bone. Food producers, … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, circumpolar world, Inuit, Iqaluit, News, Nunavut, polar bears, seal hunters
Tagged Arctic, Baffin Island, Canada, Inuit, Iqaluit, News, Nunavut, Polar bear, seal hunting
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Two degrees of escalation
The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy predicts how two degrees of global warming might affect Canada, including the Far North. Many links, graphics and the report itself available here: Climate Prosperity – National Round Table on … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, Canada, climate change, Environment, News, Northwest Territories, Nunavik, Nunavut, Science
Tagged Arctic, Canada, climate change, Environment, global warming, National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, News, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Politics, Science
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Once again, Nunavut Tunngavik shits the bed
It’s not often you’ll find a reckless distortion of truth and a big whopping post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy packed into three mendacious little sentences. Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. managed to accomplish this feat in a press release issued Sept. … Continue reading
Whither Baffinland?
In a hostile takeover bid announced Sept. 22, a private equity firm based in Texas called Energy and Minerals Group is making financing a big move on the Baffinland Iron Mines Corp., owner of the immense Mary River iron property … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, Canada, News, Nunavut
Tagged Arctic, Baffinland Iron Mines, Canada, Mary River (Nunavut), News, Nunavut
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The Nunavut territory: populist, conservative, conflicted
“Whether the promise of Nunavut set out by the visionary Inuit leaders who made the land claim and the territory a reality – a promise of fundamental importance to all Nunavummiut – will be fulfilled remains an open question.” You … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, Canada, circumpolar world, culture, Inuit, Leona Aglukkaq, News, Nunavut
Tagged Arctic, Canada, conservatism, Conservative Party of Canada, Dennis Patterson, Jack Anawak, Leona Aglukkaq, News, Nunavut, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., Politics, populism
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Deaf as a post
The allegations that gave rise to this story of yesterday, “Police lay charges in Arctic grave desecration,” appear to have created a huge uproar in Baker Lake these past few weeks. Now that the story is widely reported, I expect … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, Canada, circumpolar world, communications, culture, Education, Inuit, language, News, Nunavut, policy, social issues
Tagged American Sign Language, Arctic, Baker Lake, Bobby Suwarak, Canada, Hearing impairment, Inuit, Jamie MacDougall, justice, McGill University, News, Nunavut, Sign language
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