Nunavut News - June 12, 2023

Eric Dejaeger arrested in Ontario

Team Nunavut shines at Skills Canada competition

Martha Kyak new executive director at Nunavut Sivuniksavut

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Arctic Bay health centre re-opens with new staff

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Sakku School renovations to begin this fall

Casey Paniyuk earned a skilled trades housing maintainer certificate and accepted his diploma during the Nunavut Arctic College graduation ceremony on May 26. Stewart Burnett/NNSL photo

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Convicted sex offender Eric Dejaeger arrested on 8 new charges

Debate on new health care centre for Baker Lake

Health minister John Main recognized that Baker Lake MLA Craig Simailak may not be satisfied with his answers on when the community would see a new health centre, as the two discussed the issue during the legislative assembly May 29.

Main told Simailak that the Baker Lake health centre is not sufficient for the community, as it was built in the 1990s and is too small and old.

“We look at a number of different factors in terms of looking at which health centres need upgrading or replacement,” he said. “We look at the age of the facility, the floor area, the population projections, and there is also facility condition that is looked at. Those are the main factors that are looked at in terms of prioritizing.

Simailak said the Government of Nunavut’s five-year capital plan does not include a health centre for the community, yet Main had mentioned “on more than one occasion” that the facility was being considered as a capital project in the near future. He asked for clarity on its status and where Baker Lake’s health centre sat in the list of priorities for his department.

Main responded that Qikiqtarjuaq is at the top right now.

“I had the pleasure of bringing the federal health minister to Qikiqtarjuaq and he saw with his own eyes how inadequate and quite sad, to be frank, that facility is,” said Main. “Not to say that the staff and the community aren’t amazing, but the infrastructure in that case is quite troubling to see with your own eyes. Baker Lake is the next facility on our list of prioritizations behind Qikiqtarjuaq.”

Simailak said he was glad Baker Lake was second on the list and noted some of the poor conditions of the health centre, such as having to walk over piles of footwear when entering, little room for health services delivery and even less room for visiting specialists.

“Meanwhile, the tuberculosis screening clinic is basically an oversized closet,” said Simailak. “The community of Baker Lake continues to grow. The need for replacement of our health centre is becoming more and more desperate. Can the minister tell this House when he anticipates Baker Lake will be opening the doors of its new replacement health centre?”

But Main could not answer that.

“I know that the member won’t be happy with this response, but I can’t give a firm a date,” he said. “I can say ‘as soon as possible’ and ‘as soon as possible’ depends on the available funding resources that we are able to secure, and also with the caveat that through the capital planning process, we have limited capital funds and so we put our priorities forward, but there are infrastructure needs in other areas.”

He added that one option being considered is repurposing the Martha Taliruq Centre across the road t make it a usable workspace with health programming as a stopgap measure.

Defrocked oblate priest, who has been convicted of dozens of sexual offences, was arrested again in Kingston, Ontario on June 7

By Tom Taylor Northern News Services Local Journalism Initiative reporter

Defrocked oblate priest Eric Dejaeger, previously convicted of numerous sexual crimes against Inuit children in Nunavut, was arrested again in Kingston, Ontario on June 7, and is facing eight new charges for crimes he allegedly committed during his time in the territory.

The 76-year-old, who was born in Belgium and became a Canadian citizen in 1977, was arrested on a nation-wide warrant, Iqaluit RCMP told the Canadian Press, and will be moved to Iqaluit to appear before the Nunavut Court of Justice.

The new charges he faces relate to investigations conducted from 2011 to 2015, police said, but no specifics in terms of where or when the alleged incidents occurred have been revealed.

Dejaeger has been convicted on dozens of sexual offences over the years, most of which involve young children. Some involve adults and animals.

In 1990, he began a five-year prison sentence for sexual crimes against children, committed between 1982 in 1989 in the community of Baker Lake. However, he was released early in 1992, and later fled to Belgium when RCMP began investigating his history in the community of Iglulik.

In 2011, he was extradited back to Canada, and in 2015, was sentenced to 19 years in prison for 32 crimes committed in Iglulik, including unlawful confinement and bestiality. Later that year, he was sentenced to three additional fiveyear sentences for sex crimes against children in Alberta. His sentences were to be served concurrently.

He appealed the Iglulik sentence in 2018, but his appeal, which was based partly on claims of good behaviour since his 1992 release from prison, was emphatically dismissed.

“Mr. Dejaeger can hardly be considered to have been living a crime-free life back in Belgium during that period, considering that he was unlawfully at large, in breach of both his parole and bail conditions in Canada and was the subject of extradition proceedings,” judges stated at the time.

“The harm inflicted by him, together with the scale and scope of his crimes against vulnerable children in Iglulik must be assessed in determining that this sentence was both proportional to the offender and to the offences he committed. His convictions are almost all for major sexual assaults on both young girls and young boys.”

“Many of his victims have suffered resulting trust issues for their entire lifetimes, leading to addiction issues, violence in their own domestic relationships and continuing emotional consequences.”

Dejaeger was granted statutory release in May of 2022, with a parole that included a litany of conditions.

Eric Dejaeger leaves an Iqaluit, Nunavut courtroom on Jan. 20, 2011. A defrocked oblate priest who has been convicted of dozens of horrendous sexual crimes against Inuit children, he was arrested again in Kingston, Ontario on June 7. NNSL file photo.

Dreaming of child care

Kakivak Association bringing major improvements to day care in Qikiqtani region

By Darrell Greer Northern News Services

The Kakivak Association serves the Inuit of the 13 communities in the Qikiqtani (Baffin) region, and has seen its budget grow from $400,000 in program deliveries in its initial year of operation to $15 million in 2022.

The organization was developed to deliver economic initiatives in 1991 and began with a four-member staff.

As the economic-development arm grew over time, the organization started to focus more on client needs surrounding child care, youth and disability programs through Employment and Social Development partnerships.

The Kakivak Association has spent many years helping Qikiqtani daycares with their operations through its child-care program, which offers support for basic operations and maintenance, attendance-based operations, support for culture and language instruction, operational equipment and worker training. Those efforts have really ramped-up during the past two years with the association now helping with renovations in existing daycares and looking to bring new daycares to the communities still without one of their own.

The five Qikiqtani communities without a formalized childcare service are Sanirajak, Grise Fiord, Resolute Bay, Arctic Bay and Clyde River. In its 2022 annual report, Kakivak provided $7,511,438 towards daycares in the Qikiqtani region with funds from its partners at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA).

A feasibility study is also being undertaken and a review of every daycare facility in the region was conducted to see what was needed.

Kakivak president and chief executive officer Sheila Kolola said daycares in Kimmirut, Pond Inlet and Pangnirtung will receive $2.8 million in desperately-needed renovations which will start in 2024. The funding was secured through ESDC’s short-term-renovations-and-repairment funds in 2022-23. She said Kakivak has conceptualized a new Inuit model child-care-facility initiative that is Government of Nunavut approved for licensing purposes.

“The model child-care centre is designed to have 44 licensed spaces (12 infants and 32 preschoolers),” said Kolola.

“For the much smaller communities, a smaller model with less required space (24 licensed spaces – eight infants and 16 preschoolers) is also available.

“Like the renovation projects, we are supporting and guiding hamlets and organizations (like daycare societies) who put in the dedication and time to potentially build a brand new child-care facility in their community to a ‘readiness’ stage.

“Funding to build a new daycare can come from various sources, so we’re hoping doing the leg work together with the interested hamlets and organizations would have them ready to build, and it would be a matter of securing the funds to proceed with the project.”

Kolola said Kakivak is expecting new funding to come from the Government of Canada for new child-care facilities, but it’s also looking for partners like QIA to join.

She said the association’s goal, or dream, is for every Baffin community to have a new child-care facility.

“The community has to be the driver…”

Kakivak Association president and CEO Sheila Kolola hopes to be part of a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open a brand new daycare centre in one of the Qikiqtani region’s 13 communities during her tenure with the association. Photo courtesy Kakivak Association

Nunavut youth shine at Skills Canada National Competition

11 young Nunavummiut test themselves in Winnipeg

By Tom Taylor Northern News Services

Local Journalism Initiative reporter

23 young Nunavummiut recently travelled to Winnipeg for the Skills Canada National Competition. 11 of them were involved in the competition, while the remaining 12 participated in the Soaring Skills career symosium. Iqaluit’s Katie Yu was the only medal-winner on the trip, scoring silver in public speaking, but every member of the group has “something to be proud of,” according to Skills Canada Nunavut executive director Janis Devereaux.

Iqaluit’s Brandon Kownirk Donovan hard at work during the heavy vehicle technology competition. Photo courtesy of Justin Tambogon/Skills Canada Nunavut

Iqaluit’s Cassiar Cousins fires up a power tool during the carpentry competition. Photo courtesy of Justin Tambogon/Skills Canada Nunavut

Iqaluit’s Tassia Shirley focuses intently during the baking competition. Photo courtesy of Justin Tambogon/Skills Canada Nunavut

From left, Iqaluit’s Katie Yu poses on the podium with fellow public speaking finalists Lucas Rae of Alberta and Henry Heinicke of British Columbia. Yu won a silver medal. Photo courtesy of Justin Tambogon/Skills Canada Nunavut

Team Nunavut poses proudly at the end of the 2023 Skills Canada National Competition in Winnipeg. Photo courtesy of Justin Tambogon/Skills Canada Nunavut

Rolanda Tiktak does an aesthetics demonstration on fellow Arviatmiut Destiny St. John. Photo courtesy of Justin Tambogon/Skills Canada Nunavut

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Join us for the B2Gold Corp. Kitikmeot Community Tour

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Hamlet makes no comment

By Stewart Burnett Northern News Services Local Journalism Initiative Rankin Inlet

A family in Rankin Inlet issued public pleas for excavation work to stop at the sand pit across First Landing Lake.

Meagan Angidlik started an online petition, which has more than 500 signatures, sounding an alarm that excavation work was getting “dangerously close” to her grandfather Joachim Angidlik’s gravesite.

“This is a campsite for my family and has been for generations,” she wrote in the petition.

In previous communication with the Hamlet of Rankin Inlet, Angidlik said the hamlet committed to a 50-metre buffer zone between the work and the gravesite. However, Angidlik believes that buffer is not being respected, and she’s asking now for a 200-metre buffer to avoid any further disturbance to the gravesite.

Kugluktuk June 23, 2023

Please contact us if you have any questions or comments: John Kaiyogana, Community Liaison Officer, B2Gold Nunavut, (867) 446-2501

Hivayarluta apiqhuutikhaqaruvin uvaluuniin uqagakhaqaruvit: John Kaiyogana, Nunallaani Kivgariyangit Havakti, B2Gold Nunavut, (867) 446-2501,

“The terrain where the gravesite is located is unstable and eroding,” wrote Angidlik. “By continuing with this excavating project, it could cause damage to the gravesite, and our family’s access to our cabins. My grandfather’s intentions were to rest in this place, and when the time comes my grandmother Adele Kumaruag will also rest beside him.”

She urged the issue to be addressed immediately, saying the urgency of it seemed not to be a concern to the hamlet of Rankin Inlet.

Hivayarluta apiqhuutikhaqaruvin uvaluuniin uqagakhaqaruvit: John Kaiyogana, Nunallaani Kivgariyangit Havakti, B2Gold Nunavut, (867) 446-2501,

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Hivayarluta apiqhuutikhaqaruvin uvaluuniin uqagakhaqaruvit: John Kaiyogana, Nunallaani Kivgariyangit Havakti, B2Gold Nunavut, (867) 446-2501

Darren Flynn, senior administrative officer of the Hamlet of Rankin Inlet, told Kivalliq News June 2 the hamlet was working on the issue but at that time had no comment for the media. He predicted being in a position to speak to the subject after press deadline for this paper the following week, which Kivalliq News will follow up on.

Adele Angidlik shows where some of the work is taking place near the gravesite of Joachim Angidlik in Rankin Inlet. The family is concerned the buffer zone is not being maintained or adequate enough, and they are worried about damage to the site. Photo courtesy of Ada Angidlik

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By Tom Taylor Northern News Services Local Journalism Initiative reporter

One of the central missions of the Inuit Heritage Trust (IHT) is preserving the traditional names of geographical features and landmarks in Nunavut. But time is not on the organization’s side, as the people who remember those traditional names are disappearing – particularly in communities like Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord.

“There were people who made it their business to remember these place names,” IHT traditional place names manager Lynn Peplinski said from Iqaluit. “But they’re getting old. Most of them have passed on.”

The process of preserving a place’s official name is complicated.

It begins by interviewing elders living in the region, and recording the names they provide on maps, in Inuktitut syllabics. Those maps are later printed on waterproof paper and distributed for free. IHT also contributes the names it discovers to the popular digital mapping platform SIKU.

The organization has already done that much in many regions of Nunavut.

Peplinski estimates her two-person team has documented the traditional names of roughly 600 places around Naujaat, some 550 around Gjoa Haven, and another 550 around Iqaluit – where she says one

They began to do the same in Resolute in 2007, and Grise Fiord in 2009, but fell far short of the numbers they achieved elsewhere.

“It’s because there’s been a longer history of occupation in all the other places [we’ve mapped],” Peplinski said, referencing the High Arctic relocation of the 1950s, when people from Northern Quebec and Pond Inlet were coerced into moving to Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord in an effort to affirm Canadian sovereignty in the North. “Their history doesn’t go back that long.”

The geographical features around Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord had names before the communities themselves were populated by people from further south. Some of those names were given by Europeans, but other places in the two regions were given traditional Inuit names.

Peplinski points to Polar Bear Pass, a mountain pass to the northwest of Resolute Bay, as an example. During her team’s 2007 interviews in the community, elders referred to Polar Bear Pass by the name Kitturajjaq which, like many traditional names, describes the area’s physical features. However, people in the community no longer use that name, referring to the pass by its English name or the rough Inuktitut translation, Nanuit Itillinga.

“The current generation doesn’t remember Kitturajjaq,” she said. “[The name] Kitturajjaq has nothing to do with polar bears.”

“If people don’t have paper maps to look at and pour over and share, they don’t necessarily remember all the names.”

IHT aims to ensure no more names go the way of Kitturajjaq. Unfortunately, preserving the name of a place is not as simple as printing it on a map or adding it to SIKU.

“You can only protect these names long-term if they’re official,” she said. “If it’s in the Canadian system, it’s good for hundreds of years. Until then, it’s vulnerable.”

For a name to be made official – as far as the Canadian government is concerned – it must first be submitted to Nunavut’s toponymist, based in Iglulik. The toponymist then reviews the validity of the submitted name. If the name meets the requirements, it is submitted to the Minister of Culture and Heritage, and finally passed on to federal government staff, who add it to official maps of the country.

It’s a slow process from the beginning, because Nunavut’s toponymist is “a single person with no support staff,” according to Peplinski.While IHT has succeeded in making the names of places around Pond Inlet, Kimmirut, and Kinngait official, the organization submitted names on 27 maps in 2011 and 2012, and all of those remain unofficial.

“There’s still thousands and thousands of names that we need to make official,” she said.

“The people that live in the local area, they should have the priority when it comes to naming their area, because they live there,” she said. “It’s important to Canada and it’s important to Nunavummiut.”

Sakku School renovation to commence this

By Stewart Burnett Northern News Services Local Journalism Initiative Coral Harbour

After much waiting, Sakku School is due to receive renovations starting this fall that will make it almost into a brand-new facility.

Responding to questions from Aivilik MLA Solomon Malliki in the legislative assembly May 25, education minister Pamela Gross confirmed that Arctic Fresh earned the tender for renovations at Sakku School and will be starting this fall, with anticipation to complete in 2025-26.

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“I know the firm is anticipating and excited for the work to proceed,” said Gross through interpretation. “We look forward to the work to be underway this fall, as I mentioned, and we really look forward to the brand-new school in Coral Harbour.”

The school will include two other community resources: a daycare facility and Nunavut Arctic College building in the same area as the school lot.

“The community will benefit with additional resources not just with the school but other infrastructure as well incorporated into this tender and project,” said Gross through interpretation.

Malliki referenced the ground water problems in the school’s crawlspace and asked if the “new technology” planned to address the water issues under the school has been tested yet.

Gross said she knows it has been a concern at the school for a long time and the department has been working closely with the engineering firm on this.

“The department can say that with the engineering firm, the process has been done before,” said Gross through interpretation. “It’s a technology that is newer technology and there are other measures to ensure that the problem will be resolved and that the ground water will be absorbed in the material that the member was speaking about.”

Additionally, added Gross, other infrastructure

improvements like ditching on the side of the school and inserting culverts are being considered to improve the situation.

“I fully trust that the engineers and those that have worked very hard to ensure those needs are being met will be followed through and the problem will be resolved with the new technology and the new work to renovate the school,” said Gross through interpretation.

“Basically the renovation will be from the bones, the construction will go right down to the studs, and the school will basically be a brand-new school but just using the steel frame that is there currently to build it and make it a brand-new, renovated, healthy school.”

ᐅᑕᕿᓯᒪᓚᓚᐅᖅᖢᑎᑦ, ᓴᒃᑯ ᐃᓕᓂᐊᕐᕕᒃ ᓄᑖᙳᖅᑎᖅᑕᐅᓚᓕᖅᐳᖅ, ᓄᑖᙳᖅᑎᑕᐅᒪᕆᒡᓗᓂᓗ. ᓄᑖᖅ ᐃᒡᓗᕐᔪᐊᖅ. ᐊᐱᖁᑎᖏᓐᓂ ᓴᓚᒪᓐ ᒪᓕᑭᐅᑉ ᐊᐃᕕᓕᖕᓂ ᒪᓕᒐᓕᐅᖅᑎ ᒪᐃ 25, ᐃᓕᓂᐊᕐᕕᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᒥᓂᔅᑕ ᐸᒪᓚ ᑯᕈᔅ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᓯᕗᖅ ᐋᒃᑎᒃ ᕗᕆᔅ ᐱᓕᕆᔪᑎᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖅᓴᖅᑖᓚᐅᕐᒪᑦ ᓄᑖᑯᖅᑎᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓴᒃᑯ ᐃᓕᓂᐊᕐᕕᖕᒥ. ᐅᑭᐊᒃᓵ ᐱᒋᐊᖅᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᖅ 202526. ᐱᔭᕆᖅᓯᓯᒪᔪᒪᓪᓗᑎᒡᓗ. ‘ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔪᖓ ᐃᖃᓇᐃᔭᓯᒋᐊᕈᒪᔪᒐᓗᐊᑦ, ᐊᓕᐊᓇᐃᒍᓱᒃᖢᑎᒡᓗ ᓄᑖᖑᖅᑎᕆᓂᕐᒥᒃ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᖕᒥ’. ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ ᑯᕈᔅ ᑐᓴᔨᖃᕐᕕᒃᑯᑦ. ᓂᕆᐅᖕᓂᖃᖅᐳᒍᑦ ᐅᑭᐊᒃᓵᖅ ᐱᒋᐊᖅᑕᐅᓂᐊᕐᓂᖓᓂᒃ, ᐅᖃᖃᐅᒐᒪᐃᓛᒃ ᑕᑯᔪᒪᒻᒪᕆᒃᑲᑦᑕᐃᓛᒃ ᓄᑖᕐᒥ ᐃᓕᓂᐊᕐᕕᒃᑖᕐᒥ ᓴᓪᓕᕐᓂ. ᐃᓚᓕᐅᑎᔪᑦ ᓄᑖᖑᖅᐸᑦ ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓄᑦ ᐊᑐᖅᑕᐅᔪᓐᓇᖅᑐᑦ ᒪᕈᒪᑎᒃ, ᐸᐃᕆᕝᕕᒃ ᓄᑕᖅᑲᓄᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᓄᓇᕗᑦᒥᐅᓄᑦ ᐃᓐᓇᕐᓄᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᖕᒥᑦ. ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᐅᑉ ᐊᕙᑎᐊᓂ ᓴᓇᔭᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ. ‘ᓄᓇᓕ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᒃᑖᑐᐃᓇᔮᖏᒻᒪᑦ, ᐊᑐᒐᒃᓴᒃᑲᓐᓂᕐᓂᒃ ᐃᒡᓗᕐᔪᐊᓕᐅᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖅᓴᖃᑲᓂᕐᒪᑕ.’ ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ ᑯᕈᔅ ᑐᓵᔨᖃᕐᕕᑯᑦ.

ᒪᓕᑭ ᖃᐅᔨᒋᐊᖅᐳᖅ

ᑯᕈᔅ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔪ ᐊᑯᓂ ᓱᕈᖅᓯᒪᔫᖕᒪᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖃᑎᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᐃᒡᓗᓕᕆᔨᑯᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᔨᖏᓐᓂ. ᐃᓕᓂᐊᖅᑐᓕᕆᔨᒃᑯᑦ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᓯᔪᓐᓇᖅᐳᑦ ‘ᐱᓕᕆᖃᑎᒋᕋᓂᓚᐅᖅᓯᒪᖕᒪᑕ’, ᑯᕈᔅ ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ ᑐᓵᔨᖃᐅᑎᒃᑯᑦ. ᐊᑐᓚᐅᖅᑕᑦᑎᓐᓂ ᓄᑕᖑᓂᖅᓴᐅᕗᖅ, ᐊᓯᐊᒍᒃᑲᓐᓂᕐᓗ ᐊᑐᕈᓐᓇᖅᖢᓂ, ᓄᓇ ᐸᓂᑦᑎᐊᕋᓗᐊᕐᒪᒐᑦ ᑕᔅᓱᒧᖓ ᓱᕈᐃᖏᓗᐊᔭᐃᑯᑎᒧᑦ, ᐅᖃᐅᓯᐅᓵᖅᑐᒧᑦ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᒧᑦ. ᐃᓚᓯᕗᖅ ᑯᕈᔅ, ᐱᓕᕆᐊᒃᓴᖅᑕᖃᑲᓐᓂᒪ ᐃᓕᓂᐊᕐᕕᐅᑉ ᐊᕙᑎᐊᓂ, ᓱᕐᓗ ᓱᓪᓗᓕᖅᓯᓂᑦ. ‘ᐅᒃᐱᕆᔭᒃᑲ ᐱᓕᕆᖃᑎᒋᐊᓂᓚᐅᖅᓯᒪᔭᕗᑦ, ᓄᑕᕐᒧᓪᓗ ᐊᑐᖅᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᒧ ᐊᔪᕐᓇᖏᑲᓂᕈᑎᖃᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ

ᓄᑖᖑᖅᑎᕆᓕᖅᐸᑕ ᐃᓕᓂᐊᕐᕕᖕᒥ.’ ᑯᕈᔅ ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ ᑐᓵᔨᖃᕐᕕᒃᑯᑦ.

ᑕᒪᓐᓇ ᓄᑖᙳᖅᑎᖅᑕᐅᓂᖓ ᖃᓇᓗᒃᑖᖏᓐᓄ, ᓱᑲᓗᒃᑖᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᓄᑖᙳᒻᒪᕆᖕᓂᐊᖅᑐᖅ ᐃᓕᓂᐊᕐᕕᒃ, ᐅᖃᕆᓪᓗᓂ.

ᓴᑯ ᐃᓕᓂᐊᕐᕕᑦ ᓴᓪᓕᕐᓂ ᓄᑖᖑᖅᑎᖅᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᐳᖅ, ᓄᑖᖑᖂᔨᑎᐊᕐᓗᓂᓗ. ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ ᐸᒪᓚ

fall

ᓴᒃᑯ ᐃᓕᓂᐊᕐᕕᒃ ‘ᓄᑖᖑᖅᑎᖅᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᐳᖅ’ ᐅᑭᐊᒃᓵᖅ ᐱᒋᐊᕐᓗᒍ

School will almost be “brand new” once complete ᐃᓕᓂᐊᕐᕕᒃ ᓄᑖᖑᖅᓯᒪᒪᕆᖕᓂᐊᖅᐳᖅ ᓄᑖᖑᖅᑎᖅᑕᐅᕌᓂᒃᐸᑦ

Sakku School in Coral Harbour is set to receive extensive renovations that make

brand new, said education minister Pamela Gross. NNSL file photo

On to the future

ᓯᕗᓂᒃᓴᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ ᐅᐸᓕᖅᐳᒍᑦ

Nunavut Arctic College students graduate in Rankin Inlet

ᐊᓂᒍᐃᓇᔭᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᒃᓴᖃᖅᖢᓂ. ‘ᐱᓕᕆᔭᑐᐊᑦ ᐃᓱᒪᒋᓗᒍ, ᐊᓯᖏᑦ ᐅᐊᑦᑎᐊᕈ’, ᑭᐅᕗᖅ. ‘ᐅᒃᐱᕆᒍᕕᑦ ᐃᓕᖕᓂ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᕐᓂ ᐊᑏ ᐅᒃᑐᖃᑦᑕᕆᑦ ᐃᓕᓂᐊᒃᑲᓂᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ, ᐊᑑᑎᖃᑦᑎᐊᕋᔭᖅᑐᖅ ᐃᓕᖕᓄᑦ, ᓯᕗᓂᒃᓴᓐᓄᓪᓗ.’ ᐃᓱᓕᑦᑎᔪᑦ.

Riley Adams-Lachance earned a management studies diploma. Stewart Burnett/NNSL photo

25 ᐊᕐᕌᒍ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᒥᓂᒃ ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᐅᓂᕐᒧᑦ, ᐃᓱᒪᓚᐅᖅᓯᒪᕗᖅ ‘ᑕᐃᒪᐃᓐᓂᐊᕐᒥᔪᖓ ᐊᓈᓇᒃᑐᑦ 25 ᐊᕌᒍᑦ ᐊᓂᒍᖅᓯᒪᓕᖅᐸᑦ’.

ᐃᓕᓴᕆᔭᐅᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᑯᑕᖅᑖᕋᒥ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᖅᑖᐳᖅ

ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᐅᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᓈᓇᒥᑎᑐᑦ.

‘ᐊᓕᐊᓇᐃᒍᓱᒃᐳᖓ ᐅᓪᓗᖅ ᖃᐃᖕᒪᑦ,’ ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ ᓴᐅᒪᓐ. ᑲᑎᑦᑐᓐᓇᕋᑦᑕ ᐃᓚᒌᒃᑎᒍ ᐊᓕᐊᓇᐃᒍᓱᖃᑎᒋᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᐊᓂᒍᐃᓂᖅᑎᓐᓂ, ᑕᑯᓪᓗᒋᓪᓗ ᐊᓂᒍᐃᖃᑕᐅᔪᑦ ᐱᑯᓇᒻᒪᕆᒃᖢᓂ.’

ᓴᐅᒪᓐ ᐃᖃᓇᐃᔭᓕᕇᖅᑐᖅ ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᐅᓂᕐᒥᒃ ᐃᓄᒃᑐᑦ, ᐊᓈᓇᒥᑎᑐᑦ, ᐊᓈᓇᖓ ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᐅᓚᐅᖅᓯᒪᖕᒪᑦ ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᕐᓂ 1992-ᒥ

ᐱᒋᐊᕐᓂᑯᓪᓗᓂ, ᑭᓯᐅᓂᓕ ᓄᖃᖓᓕᖅᑐᖅ ᐊᕌᓂᓂ.

‘ᐱᒃᑯᓇᖅᑐᓪᓛᓗᒃ ᐊᓈᓇᒪ ᑐᒥᖏᓐᓂ ᐊᑐᖅᖢᓂᐃᖃᓇᐃᔭᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ.

ᐃᓱᒪᒋᔭᕗᑦ ᐊᔅᔨᒌᒃᐸᖕᒪᑕ, ᐱᔪᒪᓂᖅᐳᓪᓗ.’ ᐱᔪᒪᓂᕐᐳᓪᓗ ᐃᓄᒃᑐᑦ

ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖅᐳᑦ, ᐱᖁᓱᕗᓪᓗ ᓴᖏᑏᓇᕋ)ᖕᓂᕐᒥᒃ.

‘ᐱᒃᑯᒋᔭᕋ ᐸᓂᒐ’ ᒪᑯᕆᑦ ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ .

ᐳᓕ-ᒪᐃ Hᐊᐅᕈᑦ ᐃᓕᓴᕆᔭᐅᔪᑎᑖᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐱᓕᒪᒃᓴᓂᕐᒧᑦ

ᖁᕝᕙᕆᐊᕈᑦᑎᒥᒃ , ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᖃᖓᑕᔭᕆᐊᖃᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ

ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓄᓇᒥᓄᑦ ᐃᓕᓴᕆᔭᐅᓂᖃᕆᐊᕐᓗᓂ.

‘ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒃᐳᒐ ᐃᓚᓐᓃᑦᑐᓇᕋᒪ, ᑕᑯᓪᓗᑎᓪᓗ ᐊᓂᒍᐃᓂᕐᓂᒃ’ ᑭᐅᕗᖅ

ᐊᐱᕆᔭᐅᒐᒥ.

Hᐅᕈᑦ ᓇᖕᒥᓂᖅ ᐃᓄᑑᓪᓗᓂ ᐊᓂᒍᐃᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ, ᐊᔪᓇᓚᐅᖅᑑᒐᓗᐊᖅ

ᑭᓯᐊᓂᓕ ᐸᓂᖓᑕ ᐊᔪᕐᓇᖏᓂᖃᖅᑎᓚᐅᖅᐹ ᐊᓂᒍᐃᔪᒪᓂᕐᒥᒃ.

ᑎᒍᒥᐊᖅᐹ ᐸᓂᓂ ᐊᐱᖅᓱᖅᑕᐅᑎᓪᓗᒍ.

ᐊᔪᕐᓇᖅᑐᒐᓗᐊᖅ ᐱᓇᔪᒻᒪᕆᖕᓇᖅᑐᖅ, ᑭᓯᐊᓂᓕ ᐃᖁᒻᒪᕈᓐᓇᖃᑦᑕᕈᕕᑦ ᖃᐅᑕᑦ ᐃᓱᒪᐃᑦ ᐊᕿᑦᑎᐊᖅᓯᒪᓱᖓᖅᐸᓪᓗ, ᐱᐊᓂᒍᒪᔭᑦ ᐱᐊᓂᒍᓐᓇᖅᑕᑦ, ᐃᓱᒪᒋᓗᒍ ᑭᖑᓂᖅᐳ.’ ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ.

ᐊᐅᓚᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦᐃᓱᓕᑦᑎᔪᑦ ᐅᑯᐊᖑᕗᑦ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᑯᑕᖅᑖᖅᖢᑎᒃ, ᔭᓯᒪ ᑭᐱᓐᔅ, ᓕᐅᕋ ᐃᑲHᐃᑦ, ᑳᓕᓐ ᖃᖑᖅ, ᕕᕕᐊᓐ ᐸᓂᔪᒃ, ᔭᐃᑯᐱ ᕗᐃᓯ ᐊᒪᓗ ᐊᐃᐳ ᐅᐊᓚᓐ. ᐊᐅᓚᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᕌᒍᑦ ᒪᕐᕈᒃ ᐊᓂᒍᐃᔪᖅ ᐃᓕᓴᕆᔭᐅᔪᑎᑖᖅᐳᑦ ᐅᑯᐊ, ᓯᐅᕕᐊ ᑲᓪᓗᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᕋᐃᓂ ᐋᑕᒻᔅ.

ᓴᓇᔪᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ - ᐅᐊᔭᓕᕆᓂᖅ, ᑕᑯᓕ ᓇᓄᕐᓗᒃ, ᐊᒪᓗ ᔪᓕᓐ ᑐᓗᕆᐊᓕᒃ. ᓴᓇᔪᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ - ᐃᓗᖁᑎᓂ ᑲᒪᓂᖅ ᓴᓇᔭᐅᔭᕆᐊᓕᖕᓂ, ᑯᓗᓚ ᑯᓗᓚ , ᓗᓯ ᓇᒋᔭᖅ, ᑲᐃᓯ ᐸᓂᔪᒃ ᐊᒪᓗ ᓕᐅ ᑖᑎ.

ᓱᓪᓗᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ, ᓖ ᔪᐊᑕᓐ-ᓇᐅᔭᖅ ᐳᐃᑎ ᑕᒃᑐ, ᐊᒪᓗ ᐊᐃᕙᓚHᐊᒻ ᔪᓂᐊ ᕕᑉ. ᒥᒧᕆᔭ ᔪᓂᕗᓯᑎ ᓄᓇᕗᒧᑦ ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᙳᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᑯᑕᒻᒪᕆᒃ,

ᐳᓕ ᒪᐃ Hᐊᕈᑦ.

Douglas Nanordluk walks the aisle to receive his skilled trades electrician certificate. Stewart Burnett/NNSL photo

Pearlie-Mae Howard flew from Cambridge Bay to Rankin Inlet to receive her certificate in her hometown. Stewart Burnett/NNSL photo ᐳᓕ-ᒪᐃHᐊᖁᑦᖃᖓᑕᓲᒃᑯᑦᑎᑭᑉᐳᖅᐃᖃᓗᒃᑑᑎᐊᓂᖓᖅᖢᓂ, ᓇᓗᓇᐃᑯᑕᖅᑖᒥᓂ ᐃᐃᒃᓯᖅᖢᓂ. ᓱᑐᕈ ᐳᕐᓂᑦ/NNSL

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Jasmine Gibbons was proud to receive her management studies certificate, but also eager to leave the crowded community hall and relax after the ceremony. Stewart Burnett/NNSL photo

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Casey Paniyuk earned a skilled trades housing maintainer certificate. Stewart Burnett/NNSL

Kivalliq Inuit Association President Kono Tattuinee addresses the grads May 26. Stewart Burnett/NNSL photo

Lucy Nagiyak poses with dean Albert Netser upon receipt of her skilled trades housing maintainer certificate. Stewart Burnett/NNSL photo

Edna Hamilton-Nakoolak was one of two graduates of the Nunavut Teachers Education Degree Program. Stewart Burnett/NNSL photo

Pond Inlet’s Martha Kyak takes executive director role at Nunavut Sivuniksavut

Kyak has been working as an educator from age of 16, has held several imporant roles in Nunavut and Ontario

By Tom Taylor Northern News Services

Local Journalism Initiative reporter

Martha Kyak has come a long way from her first teaching job in Pond Inlet.

As of June 5, she is the new executive director of the highly regarded Nunavut Sivuniksavut college in Ottawa, replacing Lynn Kilabuk, who formerly held the position.

“I’m really looking forward to working with the team and to build this school and make it stronger – especially in terms of Inuktitut and Inuit culture,” Kyak said on her third day as executive director.

“I’m just excited right now.”

Nunavut Sivuniksavut offers one and twoyear programs designed to empower Inuit young people. The college’s expansive curriculum covers everything from land claims and research methods to throat-singing and drum-making.

Kyak, who also runs a fashion brand called InukChic, has been working at the school since 2010, when she made the flight south from Pond Inlet to teach Inuktitut and Inuit history at the college.

While she is excited about her new role, she admits she felt some hesitation to apply for

the executive director position because she was “so committed to teaching.”

Her teaching journey began long before she arrived in Ottawa.

She got her start as an educator at just 16 years old, when she began working as a substitute teacher in Pond Inlet out of necessity.

“We needed to work to not be hungry,” she said. “That’s why I started working at a young age, and why I started teaching in Pond Inlet, just to have food on the table.”

A year later, when she was 17, she began working as a classroom assistant, and in the intervening years, has held a number of impressive positions including principal and superintendent.

Four of her sisters have also held teaching jobs, and one still does.

“I come with that background, having educators in the family,” she said. “I’ve always been an educator.”

As an educator, Kyak has seen first hand how beneficial Nunavut Sivuniksavut can be for Inuit young people, noting the way the curriculum promotes a sense of self among students.

“What I really noticed is how positive it is for the young people,” she said. “They come to NS not sure who they are. They aren’t sure where they want to go in their future. By the

end of the year, we really notice how confident they are, how proud they are. They know who they are as Inuit.”

“That’s the most rewarding thing I always see since I started,” she added. “That’s why it has been so successful for many years.”

Despite her appreciation for Nunavut Sivuniksavut, Kyak sees areas where the college can improve. She has already begun addressing those areas with her team with the

goal of enhancing the experience of all the Inuit students that walk the college’s halls.

“We’re meeting as a staff to see what things work and what hasn’t worked, and see how we can improve our school and make it even better and stronger” she said. “The staff has been very supportive.”

“As Inuit, we really want to see the younger generation rise up and be proud of who they are, and to do whatever they want to do in life.”

From front, Michael Pewgatualuk, Jamie Takkiruq, Lily Kilabuk, Martha Kyak, Yvon Aliyak and Surya Angatajuak examine items at the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa. NS students visited the museum as part of Kyak’s Inuit History class. Photo courtesy of Nunavut Sivuniksavut

From back left, NS staff Larissa MacDonald, Robyn Mo-Lian, Samantha Mitchell, Zorga Qaunaq, Melissa Irwin, Murray Angus, Martha Kyak, and Morley Hanson pose for a photo together. Kyak, who has been an educator since she was 16, is the Ottawa college’s new executive director. Photo courtesy of Nunavut Sivuniksavut

Kimmirut time warp for Norma Budden

Community takes writer back to younger days

By Darrell Greer Northern News Services

While Kimmirut may only represent a small portion of Norma Budden’s three decades in Nunavut, the small community has made a lifelong impression on her heart.

The writer and book reviewer (NormasWorld.com) said when she moved to Kimmirut in early 2020, she was immediately taken by what she saw in the community. She said the first thing she noticed when driving through the town was the number of kids playing out on the streets, making their own fun, laughing and chasing each other.

“It seemed like I had taken a significant step back in time to when I was a child,” said Budden.

“It gave me this nice, cozy, warm feeling deep inside.

“The place is surrounded by mountains, so it’s very scenic. But even just the quiet is special. You can actually stand out there and not hear an ATV or a Ski-Doo. There are times it’s just totally quiet, and then you might hear a kid’s laughter echo across the mountains.

“And the place provides photo opportunities galore.”

Budden said despite some of the challenges she would go on to face, there’s just something about the town that will stay with her forever.

She said she’s always approached any town she’s gone into as an outsider coming into someone else’s area.

“I’m no better or worse. I’m just a different human being. My ways may be

different than theirs, and my beliefs may even be different than theirs, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get along.

that I could have that kind of a setting in my own house, in my own life – and Kimmirut provided that to me.

“Suddenly, people were coming to hang out with my kids or grandkids. Different times someone would come and, if I knew they didn’t have all that much food at home, I’d offer up a meal.

“If they came and they were hungry, I’d feed them. If they wanted to watch a movie, fine. And, at times, there may have been a counselling session or two involved.

“It was just a wonderful feeling. Everyone simply referred to me as Norma and I really liked that.”

“Even during some of the more challenging situations I had experienced , when people saw me in a different light, away from the job that they thought defined me, they began to show a little bit more of a commonality with me like, ‘Oh, she likes taking photos and going for walks through the mountains too.’

“So, more and more, I felt I became like one of them, if that makes sense?”

Budden said she grew-up in the Northern parts of Quebec and Labrador, and spent some time in Newfoundland. Her grandmother, on her mom’s side, was always the type of person who would have people coming in and out of her house at all hours.

She said if someone needed someone to talk to, or was just stopping by on their way to the ferry, they would come in and enjoy a little lunch, a cup of tea or coffee and some easy conversation.

“People just felt like her place was a nice, comfortable place to come and I had always wished, throughout my life,

Budden said she really liked that many in the community identified her as someone they could talk to or hang-around with and it didn’t matter if they were six or 60 years old.

She said even now – after injuring herself after 14 months in the community and being treated in Ottawa – when some people come her way, they want to hookup and see her again.

“Just this past week I hung out with a couple of ladies from Kimmirut and took them out to a waterfall.

“I just go where I feel I’m needed sometimes, and they haven’t given up their connection to me in that respect and I really enjoy that.

“Even though I’m not up there anymore — I haven’t been back there since January of 2022 — I feel like I’m still a part of it.

“I really do miss life up there, especially spending time with the kids, and I wouldn’t mind going back to that community again if the opportunity ever presented itself.”

“It seemed like I had taken a significant step back in time to when I was a child.”

Norma Budden thoroughly enjoyed her time in Kimmirut, especially the relationship she forged with a number of kids in the community. Photo courtesy Norma Budden

Rocked by extreme weather, climate change exposes `infrastructure gap’ in Canadian communities

Fires, floods, funding, data collection, insurance and water management the topics during House of Commons committee hearing earlier this month

Canada’s changing climate has rendered a crucial ice bridge to a small municipality near Montreal unreliable, and even studying possible fixes is costly for the small community, the mayor says.

Until there is an alternative, residents must take a 50-kilometre detour to see a doctor at the village just across the Richelieu River, said Jonathan Chalifoux, mayor of Quebec municipality Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu.

Chalifoux told the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities on Thursday that his village can no longer rely on the bridge that connects his community to the village of Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, northeast of Quebec on the Richelieu River, during the winter months.

“It’s an art to create an ice bridge. With the changing climate conditions, it’s impossible to create the bridge,” said Chalifoux in French. The two communities want to have a year-round crossing, but he says it’s expensive to study the options and that the private company the community deals with doesn’t want to offer a ferry service over the winter.

The detour without the winter crossing is “too long,” he says. Chalifoux’s side does not have a medical clinic, and the detour deters people from making doctor’s appointments across the river or seeking jobs in the neighbouring village.

“For vulnerable people, it’s more difficult for them to travel, and also for services, it has a huge impact,” he said, referring to fire and police services and the general need for the two villages to pool their resources.

Fires, floods, funding, data collection, insurance and water management dominated the conversation in the committee’s June 1 meeting studying how to best adapt Canada’s infrastructure to the inevitable impacts of climate change as wildfires continue to rage across the country.

This was the third time the committee met to study climate change and infrastructure adaptation. MPs heard from more than half a dozen witnesses, including mayors from two municipalities in Ontario and Quebec, two representatives from the Insurance Bureau of Canada, one salmon conservation charity, a Western Canada think tank and a former chief of the Kanaka Bar Indian Band.

Patrick Michell, a resident of Lytton, B.C., and retired chief of the nearby Kanaka Bar Indian Band, attended via Zoom video conference. He began his remarks by pointing out that it is almost the two-year anniversary of the fire that “wiped out the entire town” and killed two people.

The devastating fire — and the atmospheric river that flooded the region in November 2021 — were no surprise to his community, said Michell, testifying before the committee as an individual.

“We’ve been warning the people that come to our region — the north end of the Fraser Canyon — for years, that the infrastructure that they had built … needs to be upgraded,” said Michell, specifically referencing culverts dating back to 1957. Culverts channel water past obstacles for example, the pipe-like structures guide small streams and water flow underneath roads.

The atmospheric river “wiped out the roads, which are still not rebuilt because nobody expected that much rain,” said Michell. “We did. We warned people to change the culvert sizes.”

The Insurance Bureau of Canada estimated insured costs of the Lytton fire at $102 million and flooding from the atmospheric river at $675 million. A 2022 report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives estimated that non-insured damages from the flooding are between $1.5 billion and $4.7 billion, depending on how much private insurance companies covered.

Canada is one of the few G20 countries not to regularly engage in long-term, 10- to 30-year national infrastructure planning, said Carlo Dade, director of the trade and investment centre at the Canada West Foundation.

Amy Martin, mayor of Norfolk County in southern Ontario, described the “growing infrastructure gap” and associated climate concerns as alarming and “largely unfunded.”

Only $102,000 of Norfolk County’s $119-million annual operating budget is earmarked for climate initiatives, Martin told the committee.

“We simply cannot afford to fulfil our routine infrastructure upgrades, such as keeping our taps on, let alone switching our focus to climate change initiatives that we fundamentally agree with,” said Martin. She said the community climate adaptation plan identifies Norfolk County as high-risk for things like flooding, power outages, contamination of drinking water systems and more, but “municipalities aren’t equipped with financial resources to update our infrastructure.”

and water management were the topics of conversation during a meeting of the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities earlier this month. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Upgrading all the municipal waste, water and transportation infrastructure Statistics Canada identifies as being in “poor” or “very poor” condition would cost more than $175 billion, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities estimated in its 2023 budget priorities.

In her opening statement, Martin called on the federal government to provide local governments with dedicated, ongoing and additional funding to support critical infrastructure projects that respond to climate change. She also pointed out that rural and urban municipalities of similar size to Norfolk County are typically competing against the Greater Toronto Area for funding and resources, and urged the government to level the playing field by “having them judged fairly.”

On the flood front, Chris Rol and Craig Stewart of the Insurance Bureau of Canada commended the federal government for announcing Canada’s National Flood Insurance Program in Budget 2023. The budget allocated $31.7 million over three years for the creation of a low-cost flood insurance program, to be developed by Public Safety Canada, Finance Canada and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

They also strongly supported the Federation of Canadian

Municipalities’ recommendation for the federal government to inject $2 billion into the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund by the end of this year, followed by $1 billion every year for 10 years thereafter.

“The Canada Infrastructure Bank should be allocated a further $2 billion for disaster mitigation and challenged to find a further $4 billion in matching private capital: The challenge is too great for the public sector to meet alone,” said Rol. On the local level, Michell highlighted the importance of having accurate data.

“One of my recommendations is to create a new system of weather stations,” he said. “If we’re going to have a climate change adaption strategy, we need site-specific data, we need to know your wind, we need to know your temperature, we need to know your precipitation.”

Invoking the old adage of “garbage in, garbage out,” Michell warned that if communities and governments continue using data that is out of date, “we’re not going to come up with a proper plan.”

-By Natasha Bulowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer

Fires, floods, funding, data collection, insurance

Arctic Bay health centre reopens with five new staff

Centre was closed from May 31 to June 6 due to shortages

By Tom Taylor Northern News Services Local Journalism Initiative reporter

The Arctic Bay health centre has resumed its normal operations after a brief closure. The centre, which serves the community of just under 1000 people, closed its doors on May 31 due to staffing shortages. It was unclear at

that time how long the closure would last, but on June 6 – less than a week later – it reopened, having added five new staff to its roster.

“Nursing staff were hired and onboarded on site,” a Government of Nunavut spokesperson said. “Staff were not transferred from another community.”

During regular operations, the centre is staffed by three community health nurses, one

supervisor of health programs and with one licenced practical nurse.

Throughout the closure, paramedics remained at the centre to provide “emergent or life-threatening care.”

Despite the addition of new staff, the paramedics will remain in the community until further notice.

The recent closure was a first for Arctic Bay’s

health centre. It was briefly scheduled to temporarily close its doors in January of this year, but that plan was ultimately nixed.

However, the communities of Kinngait, Chesterfield Inlet and Clyde River have all seen their health centres close for varying periods in the last year.

At present, all community health centres in the territory are open.

The Arctic Bay health centre was closed from May 31 - June 6, 2023, but has now reopened with five new staff. Paramedics will also remain on site until further notice.

Community on the rise

SAO oversees number of development projects in Sanikiluaq

By Darrell Greer Northern

Sanikiluaq is a community on the rise and a good portion of that growth can be attributed to the efforts of Ron Ladd, who took the senior administration officer’s (SAO) position in the community about two-and-one-half-years ago.

Sanikiluaq is in the process of building a women-and-children’s shelter.

SAO Ladd said he’s been working on the project for about two years and Sanikiluaq is one of the fortunate communities to be getting a seven-bedroom, 14-bed shelter.

He said the (foundation) piles are already in for the project and building materials will be coming-in during this month’s sealift.

“The contract has been awarded and we have to thank our partners Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp. and the hamlet, itself,” said Ladd.

“Construction is scheduled to begin this month and will be completed by March of 2024. We’ll be holding a community celebration and cutting the ribbon to open the new facility on April 1 of 2024.”

Ladd said the piles are also in for the construction of a new hamlet office, with the estimated move-in date being August of 2024.

He said the roof blew off the old office more than two years ago and his office is currently located in a small trailer.

“The Government of Nunavut (GN) is responsible for that project, not the hamlet. The design for the new building is beautiful and the entire project is pretty exciting.

“We’re also pretty excited about another project we’re moving ahead with through the generous donations of CanNor (Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency) and the GN’s Community and Government Services – and that’s a new wellness park.

“The wellness park will consist of a baseball diamond, a soccer field and a basketball court all featuring artificial turf.”

Ladd said he’s in year two of the wellness project, so all of the materials are in the community sitting in sea containers. He said the sub-base for the turf is being finalized now and beginning this coming month, in July, the manufacturer will arrive to install everything and put the project together.

“When the project manager from the manufacturer arrives, he’ll be hiring 10 students to help put it all together this summer.

“The 10 students were able to be hired through the Kakivak Association, which supplied the funding for the positions.

“Another interesting aspect is that there’s a trail at the back of the wellness park that leads out to hunting and fishing, so we also have a $100,000 bridge being installed as part of that project.

“The bridge, basically about 40- or 50-feet long, is already here and we just have to put it together. It’s manufactured by Algonquin Bridge (Thornhill, Ont.), and we’ll bolt it together

in 10-foot segments and drag it across the river.”

Ladd said Sanikiluaq will also be installing its first floating dock this month, which will allow 10-or-11 boats to be put into the community’s marina.

He said the docks will aid in traditional hunting and fishing, but the community is hoping they might also aid in attracting tourists to Sanikiluaq.

“We hope to attract some tourists from Northern Quebec to come over on a boat for the weekend and park at our floating docks.

“I’m putting in floating docks for 10 or 11 people in one section this month, and I’ll be putting in a second set of

floating docks this coming September, so there will be enough floating docks for about 20 boats here.

“We, as a community, are thankful we’re moving forward with these projects. It is pretty exciting. There’s no doubt about that.

“These projects were started the day I landed on the ground, so it’s been a two-year process and it feels good seeing them all coming to fruition.

“I’ve also ordered a refrigerated three-person morgue and that will be arriving on this sealift. We do have to find a building to put it in so, unfortunately, for the present time, we’ll have to use a sea container for that service until we (the hamlet) figure out what building we can put it in.”

Once completed, the new 14-bed women-and-children’s shelter in Sanikiluaq will also feature a solar-panel system for its roof courtesy of Municipal Green Infrastructure funding. Photo courtesy Ron Ladd

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Getting the job done

Longtime Resolute businessman still “happy camper” in the community

By Darrell Greer Northern News Services

Many in the know refer to Resolute’s Aziz (Ozzy) Kheraj as a true ‘legend’ in the Arctic’s world of business.

Kheraj, originally from Tanzania, East Africa, came to Canada in 1974 and, eventually, onto Nunavut (then still the NWT) in 1978.

Like so many other immigrants to the country, the successful businessman said he came to Canada to find work and a better way of life.

Kheraj, now 69, said he originally immigrated to Newfoundland and, after four-years there, he began looking for something else and ended-up in the NWT.

He said other than one month in Iqaluit, he and his family have spent their entire time in Nunavut in Resolute.

“The best way to describe what I’ve done over the years is that I make things happen,” said Kheraj with a good-natured laugh.

“We’ve had various company names over the years. First it was Kheraj Enterprises Ltd. And then we started a numbered company operating as South Camp Enterprises Ltd.”

Kheraj lists himself as semi-retired these days, then laughs and adds that means he only works 12 hours per day instead of his usual 18. He said over the years, his company has

done construction, heavy-equipment rentals, earth work, built and owned hotels, and delivered the fuel contracts for Resolute and other communities among numerous other projects.

“Basically, if you want to spend a dollar, come see me.

“I love it here and have a large family of five kids, 14 grandkids and 15 great grandkids.”

There has been tragedy mixed in with Kheraj’s success over the years. On Aug. 20, 2011, First Air flight 6560 crashed during its approach to Resolute, claiming the lives of 12 on board.

Among those travelling on the ill-fated flight were Kheraj’s two granddaughters, Gabrielle Pelky, 7, and her sister, Cheyenne Eckalook, 6. Pelky miraculously survived the crash along with two others, but Eckalook did not.

More than 20 years later Kheraj still deeply loves Resolute and the people who call the community home.

He said Resolute, over the years, has been a transportation hub similar to that of Rankin Inlet in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut.

“Stuff comes in and is then moved out. Grise

Fiord is supplied out of here. Back in the old days the weather stations were supplied out of there, when they were building the Nanisivik Mine everything was migrating out of Resolute, so it was a hub. Now it’s just another town.

“The population now is about 190. We were up to about 250 a few years back. When I first came up it was around 450.

“I’m a workaholic. Full retirement is not for me. So, I guess, it’s still all work and no play.”

Kheraj has expanded his businesses into the Kivalliq communities of Rankin Inlet and Arviat, owning an auto-parts store and a garage in Rankin, as well as having heavy equipment there. The company has a garage in Arviat, as well as delivering the fuel contract in the community.

“The economy, I would say, is steady in Resolute. The military is up here and there’s government agencies up here, so it’s fairly stable.

“There’s new babies being born all the time but, as the new population grows, the older population migrates out to college and the larger centres like Iqaluit. But you can’t blame

them for going where the work is.

“I’m still content here and I don’t see myself leaving unless, of course, the wife decides it’s time to leave and then we’ll leave.

“But I don’t think that’s going to happen. I’m still a happy camper here.”

“Basically, if you want to spend a dollar, come see me.”

Longtime successful Resolute businessman Aziz Kheraj doesn’t see his family leaving the Qikiqtaaluk Region anytime soon. Photo courtesy Aziz Kheraj

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INVITATION TO SUBMIT AN EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

As to the Availability of Residential Space for Lease in Iqaluit, Nunavut Public Services and Procurement Canada is asking interested parties to submit a response with respect to residential units available for lease in Iqaluit, for a term of five years. If interested parties do not currently have units available, the information they provide may also be used for potential future requirements.

To view the complete text of this invitation, consult CanadaBuys at https://canadabuys.canada.ca/ en/tender-opportunities or contact Christie Koch at 780-224-6378 or christie.koch@pwgsc-tpsgc. gc.ca.

INVITATION À SOUMETTRE UNE EXPRESSION

D’intérêt Concernant la Disponibilité de locaux Résidentiels à Louer à Iqaluit (Nunavut)

Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada invite toutes les parties intéressées à soumettre une réponse concernant la disponibilité de logements à louer à Iqaluit, pour un bail de cinq ans. Si les parties intéressées n’ont pas de logements libres à l’heure actuelle, l’information communiquée pourrait être utilisée pour d’éventuels besoins.

Pour voir la version intégrale de cette invitation, consultez le site AchatsCanada à https:// canadabuys.canada.ca/fr/occasions-de-marche ou communiquez avec Christie Koch au 7802246378 ou à christie.koch@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca.

Tenders on the Web

All tenders advertised in the current editions of Inuvik Drum, NWT News/North, Nunavut News/North, Kivalliq News and Yellowknifer are also available on the NNSL website.

For more information on how to access them, contact circulation@nnsl.com

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