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Nunavut Trade Show has gotten ‘a lot bigger’ since Covid, says organizer Event

occurred in Iqaluit from Sept. 18-21, and included 104 booths

By Tom Taylor Northern News Services Local Journalism Initiative reporter

The 2023 Nunavut Trade Show and Conference has come and gone, and organizers are happy with the way it went.

“I always say the next one is the best one,” said Chris West, the executive director of the Baffin Regional Chamber of Commerce (BRCC), the organization behind the popular Iqaluit event. “This one certainly met that.”

This was the trade show’s 30th annual return, and participation was up from previous years, according to West.

All told, it featured 104 booths, including a record 17 for artists.

“Normally we would have about 90 booths,” he said. “It’s a bit of increase there. This year we worked a bit harder on the art side too. There’s no organization in the region representing the artists, so we kind of reach out and make sure they’re a part of the trade show, so we have an artist section as well. We provide free booth space for the artists, and normally we would provide 10 spaces. This year we ended up with 17.”

Attendance was also up, with 400 delegates on the scene, and about 3500 people visiting the host Arctic Winter Games Complex and Aqsarniit Hotel and Conference Centre between Sept. 18 and 21.

“It’s become a lot bigger over the last number of years,” West said. “I think since Covid—this is our second event since—you can certainly see that people are eager to get back to face-to-face and back to talking about business in person.”

Planning an event of such a scale requires a huge investment of time and resources.

“It takes lots of time,” West said. “We start out with an idea, set a date, and then get into the nitty-gritty details. It takes quite a bit of planning.

“The trade show has a couple of different components. One of them is the trade show itself, and then the conference sessions, and there’s a social side of it as well. We have a number of evening events, the meet and greet, and we host the Qikiqtani Business Achievement Awards as well as a gala to wrap up the week.”

For West, the award ceremony was the highlight of this year’s event.

This year, the Baffin Business Development Corporation claimed business of the year honours, while Dr. Gwen Healey Akearok took home the business person of the year award, and Brian Twerdin and Elisapee Sheutiapik received lifetime achievement awards. Paul Dainton of Arctic Training Ltd. received the special achievement award, while Ranbir Hundal—nicknamed “Mr. Volunteer”—earned a special recognition award.

“I think my most favorite part is the Business Achievement Awards,” he said. “It gives us an opportunity to recognize some pretty key people in the region.”

West said he has already received positive feedback about this year’s event.

Hani Barento, the founder and owner of shipping company FriendshipFast, had a booth at the show, and said he enjoyed the experience.

“I did enjoy it very much in terms of meeting many people that I’ve served over the course of the year and hearing how happy they were with our mission and project,” he said.

“In terms of whether it was a success, it’s too early to measure that right now,” he added. “I’m optimistic that is was successful simply from the standpoint of getting more exposure for our company and networking with other businesses.”

Jean-Francois Doucet, a recruiter for Baffinland, was also staffing a booth at the show, and shared a similar assessment.

“The Nunavut Trade Show has always been an important event for me,” he said. “As a recruiter for Baffinland, my favorite part of the trade show is interacting with the public and sharing all the amazing things that Baffinland does.

“Really, I like telling people why I like working for Baffinland. During this year’s trade show, I spent a lot of time speaking with the public about the current job positions we have available, how our fly-in fly-out rotation works, what camp life is life and how great it is to have the three weeks off. I’m already looking forward to the next trade show.”

While this year’s trade show only just ended, West is already hoping next year’s event will surpass it.

“We’ve already started planning,” he said.

Jean-Francois Doucet, an Iqaluit-based recruiter with Baffinland Iron Mines, staffs the Baffinland booth. “The Nunavut Trade Show has always been an important event for me,” he said. Laura Whittle/NNSL photo

Survivor of ’60s Scoop lands in Sooke, B.C.

By Nicole Crescenzi Contributor

This article contains descriptions of abuse that may be triggering. Support for survivors and their families is available. Call the Indian Residential School Survivors Society at 1-800-721-0066, or 1-866-925-4419 for the 24-7 crisis line.

Katie Manomie’s hands are etched with thin black lines in simple, angled patterns.

Traditional Inuit tattoos like this, often seen on hands and faces, are called tunniit. They are more than beatification or a desire to be different; they are a way of reclaiming the Inuit identity after the tattoos were banned by European settlers in the 20th century.

Manomie’s fingers work deftly, threading delicate, coloured beads along cuts of seal skin shipped down from Nunavut. She’s practising a traditional Indigenous art form called beading, which uses small beads, a needle and thread to create jewelry or decorate clothing.

Manomie wasn’t always so in tune with Inuit culture.

“As a kid, I always just told my classmates I was Hawaiian,” she says.

It was easier than telling the truth: that she was an Inuk girl given to a non-Inuit family as part of the tail-end of the ’60s Scoop.

The ‘60s Scoop refers to a government-led initiative to “scoop” Indigenous children from their cultures by removing them from their families and entering them into the country’s welfare system. A majority of the time, this meant placing the children in foster care or adopting them out to non-Indigenous families, often without consent or knowledge from the parents. While a majority of this happened in the 1960s, it ran in some form or another between 1951 to the early 1990s.

Manomie was born in 1987 in what is now Iqaluit. Her mother was very young and was strongly encouraged to partake in a custom of “gifting” her child to a family who could raise her.

A couple consisting of a Caucasian woman and an Inuk man who were living in the community at the time took Manomie. Soon afterwards, the couple split and the woman took Manomie – who was the youngest of six other “adopted” children – to the community of Sooke, B.C., the traditional territory of the T’Sou-ke First Nation.

“I wasn’t raised knowing any of my culture,” Manomie says. “My adoptive mom would say I’m Inuk, but I didn’t know what that meant. She didn’t even know my biological mom’s name.”

Regardless, Manomie was called upon during social studies classes to speak on behalf of Inuit issues. She was called racialized slurs and felt

Inuk woman gets to know herself after hiding heritage

ashamed of her heritage.

“I think I’m still trying to let go of that internalized racism,” she says.

When she was 17, Manomie’s adoptive mother abandoned her family to move to Russia, leaving Manomie homeless. She slept on friends’ couches for two years and got a job in the hospitality industry.

A reliance on alcohol she’d had since she was 13 soon formed into a full-fledged addiction that would last for over a decade.

It wasn’t until Manomie was in her late 20s that she first made contact with her biological family; one of her older adopted sisters who had moved back to Nunavut knew who Manomie’s mother, brother and maternal grandmother were.

“We formed a relationship over the phone. It was a little difficult because they don’t know much English, but it was still comforting to hear the Inuktitut language.”

Going north to visit simply wasn’t possible, since flights to the remote town were nearly $10,000.

In 2018, Manomie’s grandmother passed away, so she was granted bereavement travel from the Qikiqtani Inuit Association.

When she arrived in Kinngait (previously Cape Dorset), Manomie remembers hundreds of people waiting at the airport to welcome her and show her around.

“It was all a big blur,” she says. “My little cousin, who was four, looked at me and asked ‘why can’t she understand us? She looks like us.’”

A few years later, when the 2020 lockdowns closed down her workplaces, Manomie enrolled in the Indigenous Studies Program at Camosun College and found a safe space to learn about who she was and where she came from.

“Studying at Camosun made me want to reconnect with my Inuk identity … I didn’t even know how to introduce myself before I attended,” she says. “In our cohort, there were Indigenous people from so many different places, and we all were disconnected from our identity.”

One of the classes through the program was Indigenous arts, where Manomie was introduced to beading.

Picking up the needle and thread came so naturally, that soon Manomie began creating and selling jewelry.

“I would sometimes look at what I made and think ‘how am I doing this? I don’t even know what I’m doing.’”

Manomie’s grandmother was also a beader, and she believes the practice of beading is a way to connect to her.

“It’s like blood memory … I feel like my grand-

ma is with me every time I bead, and that’s why I like it so much.”

Manomie has been sober for more than four years. She was voted the Indigenous director for the Camosun College Student Society, and this summer she graduated from Camosun College with a certificate in Indigenous Family Support and a diploma in Indigenous Studies. This fall she started at the University of Victoria in the Indigenous Studies degree program, with a goal of enrolling in UVic’s Indigenous Law Program.

“I don’t want to see Indigenous children treated the way I was while growing up … I just dream of a world where everybody can be kind to each other because there’s been so much in my life that hasn’t been so kind.”

Reconnecting with her Inuit identity has been a slow process. Much like beading, it took time, patience and some help from her ancestors. It’s an identity that’s still growing, slowly revealing something beautiful — one bead at a time.

Katie Manomie is a survivor of the ’60s Scoop. Photo courtesy of Nicole Crescenzi

Katie Manomie is a survivor of the ’60s Scoop. Photo courtesy of Nicole Crescenzi

Katie Manomie works on a beading project.

Photos courtesy of Nicole Crescenzi

Kinngait’s Ningiukulu Teevee wins 2023 Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award

Award comes with $20,000 prize, and an artist residency and solo exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq

By Tom Taylor Northern News Services

Local Journalism Initiative reporter

Ningiukulu Teevee is finally getting a new outboard motor.

The Kinngait artist has been in need of a new motor since she was nomimated for the biennial Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award (KAMA) in May, and after beating out four other Inuit artists to win the award on Sept. 22, she now has the means to buy one.

“I’m definitely getting a new outboard motor,” she said several days after receiving the award, which comes with a $20,000 prize.

KAMA was created by the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq (WAG) and the Inuit Art Foundation (IAF) as a way of celebrating and nurturing Inuit artists. Along with the $20,000 prize and the prestige of the award itself, each winner receives an artist residency and ultimately, a solo exhibition in the gallery, which houses the largest collection of Inuit art in the world.

“Winning this prize means a lot to me,” Teevee said. “It helps me reach a wider audience.”

Teevee received her award at the gallery, at a ceremony that included a qulliq lighting and throat singing. Her competition for the award was Newfoundland’s Billy Gauthier, Maureen Gruben of the Northwest Territories, Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona from Ontario, and Alberta’s Kablusiak.

She admits she was surprised to win the award with so many talented artists in the running.

“I was up against the most talented artists that I felt were all better than me,” she said. “I felt unqualified, even guilty for winning.”

Teevee got her start as an artist in Kinngait, drawing early inspiration from her grandfather Abraham Etungat, who was a carver, as well as esteemed local artist Joanasie Salomonie.

Today, Teevee draws most of her inspiration from Kinngait and the North, and is happy that her art plays a role in preserving her Inuit culture.

“[I’m inspired by] old Inuit stories, stories from different parts of the North,” she said. “It’s important to keep our stories and to remember them and to pass them down to be heard.”

Winning a KAMA is a great honour, but certainly not the first big achievement of Teevee’s career. She has already had her work displayed in over 40 exhibitions and 10 solo shows around the world.

Despite all her accomplishments, she is still motivated to expand her creative horizons.

“Creating art allows me to be able to share stories in images or imaginations,” she said. “My goal is to see how else I can put something out in different mediums.”

Teevee also hopes to inspire the next

generation of artists in Nunavut, and was happy to share a bit of advice after collecting her latest award.

“Be accepting of any form of crit-

icism and don’t quit because of criticism,” she said.

Before Teevee, the most recent KAMA winner was Coral Harbour’s

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Tarralik Duffy, whose resulting solo exhibition kicked off at the gallery the same night Teevee received her award.

Kinngait artist Ningiukulu Teevee, left, poses for a photo with Heather Campbell, the Inuit Art Foundation’s strategic initiatives director. Teevee is the winner of the 2023 Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award, which comes with a $20,000 prize and a solo exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq. The piece of art in this photo is by the award’s namesake, Kenojuak Ashevak. It is called Audacious Owl, and was created in 1993. Photo courtesy of Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq.

Connecting over a tough subject

Embrace Life Council hosts suicide prevention awareness

By Stewart Burnett Northern News Services Local Journalism Initiative Rankin Inlet

Trevor Nordman was anxious leading up to Embrace Life Council’s community feast in recognition of suicide prevention week in Rankin Inlet Saturday, Sept. 23.

“I’m really happy with the turnout,” said Nordman, a program coordinator with Embrace Life Council, after the

feast began, seeing roughly a hundred people in the community hall enjoying a bevy of country food. “When I saw all the food, I was like, ‘This is insane.’ But it’s getting eaten and people will take home whatever’s left.”

The feast also came with a mountain of door prizes, which Nordman thanked mental health and community justice staff for assisting with. Following the food was a square dance that saw children running around for a long time.

“We just wanted people to come out, have some good food, maybe win some prizes and have a square dance,” said Nordman.

The event followed a community walk in recognition of suicide prevention week the previous weekend in Rankin Inlet.

“It’s such an important think to keep in mind, the loved ones, the people we care about that can’t be here tonight, and there’s a lot,” said Nordman. “That’s why we do it.”

Jeannie Alariaq, right, feeds a morsel of country food to Jo Bourque. Stewart Burnett/NNSL photo

From left to right, enjoying the feast, are Petula Panigoniak, Charlene Panigoniak and Alikammiq Gibbons. Stewart Burnett/NNSL photo

Families and friends gather to enjoy a bounty together at the community hall. Stewart Burnett/NNSL photo

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Words of encouragement

By Stewart Burnett Northern News Services

As part of the Baker Lake Youth Council’s week of activities for Sui-

cide Prevention Week, participants wrote out positive messages and words of encouragement for those who may need it. Photos courtesy of youth coordinator Rachel Tagoona-Tapatai

STREET talk with the Baker Lake Youth Council

submitted by Rachel Tagoona-Tapatai

your positive

Q: Why is Orange Shirt Day important to you?

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada.

Nous reconnaissons l'appui financier du gouvernement du Canada.

“Because it shows that Indigenous people are still here.”

- David Kalluk, 13

“Why I think Orange Shirt Day is important to me is that it represents those who had to go through very tough times without any support. And also that the colour orange is almost like the colour of the sun that will always be shining.”

- Rick Aningaat, 17

“It’s important to me because my late grandpa made it back. Knowing that there was hope in those who came back.”

- Scarlette Iksiktaaryuk, 14

”Because it brings honour to Inuit and other Indigenous Peoples that experienced residential school.”

- Charlie Niego, 17

“Because it reminds us that we are still here.”

- Vicky Nakoolak, 13

”Orange Shirt Day means having to go through hard times, even though we didn’t want to, helped us become who we are today, and having this experience is teaching us what we can do better in the future.”

- Mary Ikuutaq, 15

Quin Uqayuittuq says, “You matter.” Tyrese Tulurialik has a simple message.

Marissa Scottie says, “Stop bullying each other.”

Keisha Inukpak asks people to stop bullying.

Josiah Nuilaalik presents an anti-bullying message.

Kaylie Niuqtuq’s message reinforces

qualities.

Providing youth an outlet

ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᑦ ᐃᓂᖃᖅᑎᑕᐅᓂᖏᑦᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᑦ ᐃᓂᖃᖅᑎᑕᐅᓂᖏᑦᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᑦ

ᐃᓂᖃᖅᑎᑕᐅᓂᖏᑦ

Baker Lake Youth Council hosts week of suicide prevention activities

ᖃᒪᓂ’ᑐᐊᒥ ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᑦ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᖏᑦ

By Stewart Burnett Northern News Services

What keeps David Kalluk, deputy mayor of the Baker Lake Youth Council, level-headed is dance, self-care and volleyball.

“People really don’t talk about mental health,” said the 13-year-old, whose council and youth coordinator Rachel Tagoona-Tapatai organized a week of activities such as painting, journaling and more, all to be capped off with a Saturday night bonfire and teen dance.

Kalluk thinks talking about mental health challenges would help those going through them feel less judged.

What works for him is dance, selfcare and sports like volleyball. He thinks youth need more outlets, and so does Tagoona-Tapatai.

“Especially with my work, I see a lot of youth that are struggling and they have no outlets, no resources, nothing, and they don’t know what to do,” said Tagoona-Tapatai as inspiration for the activity week.

She’s not sure if that feeling is because she wasn’t aware of the people around her when she was younger, but she does feel a palpable change.

“This generation, I’m really seeing a huge difference in the youth and their mental state and the problems they’re going through,” she said.

“I feel like this generation is really struggling and I don’t know why, so I was doing this to find out why and see how I can help.”

A handful of people showed up the first night, but by Wednesday, the evening activity sessions were seeing up to 20 participants. In one session, youth learned the importance of the semicolon, while in others, they expressed emotions through art.

ᒪᐃᔭᐅᑉ ᑐᖏᓕᖓ ᖃᒪᓂ’ᑐᐊᒥ

ᑭᐱᓯᑦᑕᐃᓕᑎᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑲᑎᒪᑎᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᑦ ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᖅᑎᑎᕙᒃᖢᑎᒡᓗ

ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᑦ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᖏᓐᓄᑦ, ᖃᓄᐃᖃᑦᑕᖏᑉᐳᖅ

ᒧᒥᖃᑕᐅᖃᑦᑕᖅᖢᓂ, ᐃᖕᒥᓂᑦ ᑲᒪᑦᓯᐊᖃᑦᑕᖅᖢᓂ

ᐊᒻᒪ ᕙᓕᐹᖃᑕᐅᕙᒃᖢᓂ.

“ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖃᖃᑦᑕᖏᒻᒪᑕ ᐃᓱᒪᒃᑯᑦ

ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕈᑎᓂᒃ,” ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ 13-ᓂᒃ

ᐅᑭᐅᓕᒃ, ᕆᑦᓱ ᑕᒍᕐᓈᖅᑕᐸᑕᐃ ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᑦ

ᑲᑎᒪᔨᖏᑦ ᐃᓚᐅᑉᓗᑎᒃ ᐱᓇᓱᐊᕈᓯᒥ

ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᕈᑎᖃᖅᑎᑎᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᒥᖑᐊᖅᓯᖃᑦᑕᖅᖢᑎᒃ, ᑎᑎᕋᖃᑦᑕᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᓂᒃ ᐊᓯᖏᓐᓂᒡᓗ, ᑕᐃᒪᓐᓇᐃᓕᐅᓚᐅᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᓴᓇᑦᑕᐃᓕᐅᕌᓂᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ

ᐅᓐᓄᒃᑯᑦ ᐃᑯᐊᓛᖅᑎᑎᓚᐅᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᓯᓚᒥ

Tyrese Tulurialik works with others during suicide prevention activities in Baker Lake.

ᐱᓕᕆᖃᑎᖃᖅᑐᖅ ᐱᖃᑎᒥᓂᒃ ᓴᐳᔾᔨᓇᓱᐊᖅᖢᓂ ᐃᓅᓯᕐᒥᒃ ᑭᐱᓯᓇᓱᐊᖅᐸᒃᑐᓂᒃ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖃᖅᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᖃᒪᓂ’ᑐᐊᒥ. ᐊᔾᔨᓕᐅᖅᑕᐅᔪᖅ

Lyla Niego shows off her piece from the evening. Photo courtesy of Annerose Nagyougalik

ᐊᕐᓚᓐ ᒪᐱᖅ ᓴᓇᔭᒥᓂᒃ ᑕᑯᑎᑦᓯᔪᖅ

ᐅᓐᓄᒃᑯᑦ ᓴᓇᓚᐅᖅᑕᒥᓂᒃ. ᐊᔾᔨᓕᐅᖅᑕᐅᔪᖅ

ᐋᓐᕉᔅ ᓇᒡᔪᒐᓕᒃ

ᒧᒥᖅᑎᑦᓯᑉᓗᑎᒡᓗ ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᓂᒃ.

ᑲᓪᓗᒃ ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕆᖃᑦᑕᕐᓗᒋᑦ

ᑕᒪᒃᑯᐊ ᐃᓱᒪᒃᑯᑦ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᓕᕈᑕᐅᕙᒃᑐᑦ ᑕᐃᒪᓐᓇ ᐊᒃᓱᕈᖏᓐᓂᖅᓴᐅᓂᐊᕐᒪᑕ.

ᖃᓄᐃᖃᑦᑕᖏᑉᐳᖅ ᒧᒥᖃᑦᑕᖅᖢᓂ, ᐃᖕᒥᓂᑦ ᑲᒪᑦᓯᐊᖃᑦᑕᖅᖢᓂᓗ ᐱᓐᖑᐊᖃᑦᑕᖅᖢᓂᓗ ᐃᖃᐃᓕᓴᐅᑎᓂᒃ ᕙᓕᐹᖃᑕᐅᕙᒃᖢᓂ. ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᖢᓂᓗ ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᖅ ᐃᓂᒃᓴᖃᖅᑎᑕᐅᒃᑲᓐᓂᕆᐊᖃᕐᒪᑕ, ᑕᒍᕐᓈᖅ−ᑕᐸᑕᐃ ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. “ᐱᓗᐊᖅᑐᒥᒃ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᒻᓂᒃ, ᑕᑯᖃᑦᑕᕋᒪ ᐊᒥᓱᓂᒃ ᐊᒃᓱᕈᖅᑐᓂᒃ ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᓂᒃ ᓇᒧᖓᕐᕕᑦᓴᖃᖏᑦᑐᓂᒃ, ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᕈᑎᒃᓴᖃᖏᖅᖢᑎᒡᓗ, ᓱᓇᑕᖃᖏᒻᒪᑦ, ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᕆᐊᒃᓴᖅ ᓇᓗᓕᖅᓯᒪᑉᓗᑎᒡᓗ,” ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑕᒍᕐᓈᖅ−ᑕᐸᖅᑎ ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᕈᑎᒃᓴᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᐱᓇᓱᐊᕈᓯᐅᔪᒥ. ᖃᐅᔨᒪᓪᓗᐊᕕᖏᑦᑐᖅ ᓱᖕᒪᑦ ᐅᔾᔨᕈᓱᓚᐅᕐᒪᖔᕐᒥ ᒪᒃᑯᖕᓂᖅᓴᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᐊᓯᔾᔨᕈᑕᐅᕙᓪᓕᐊᔪᓂᒃ

ᐅᔾᔨᕈᓱᒃᐳᖅ.

“ᑖᒃᑯᐊ ᒫᓐᓇ ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᑦ, ᐊᔾᔨᐅᖏᓕᕐᒪᑕ ᐃᓱᒪᖏᓪᓗ ᐊᔾᔨᐅᖏᓕᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᐃᖢᐃᓪᓕᐅᕈᑎᖏᓪᓗ ᐊᔾᔨᐅᖏᓕᖅᖢᑎᒃ,” ᑕᐃᒪᓐᓇ ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. “ᐊᒃᓱᕈᖅᑐᒻᒪᕆᐅᓕᖅᐳᑦ ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᑦ ᓱᖕᒪᒃᑭᐊᖅ, ᑕᐃᒪᓐᓇ ᖃᐅᔨᓇᓱᐊᖅᐳᖓ ᖃᓄᖅ ᐃᑲᔪᕈᓐᓇᕋᔭᕐᒪᖔᕐᒪ.”

ᐊᒥᓱᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐃᓚᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᐅᓐᓄᒃᑯᑦ, ᐱᖓᔪᐊᖑᓕᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ, ᐅᓐᓄᒃᑯᑦ ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᕈᑕᐅᔪᑦ ᐊᕙᑎᓂᒃ ᐃᓚᐅᔪᖃᖃᑕᓕᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. ᐊᑕᐅᓯᕐᒥ ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᕈᑎᖃᖅᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ, ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᑦ ᐃᓕᑎᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᓂᖓᓄᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓄᑦ ᓄᖅᑲᕈᑕᐅᕙᒃᑐᑦ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᒃᑯᑕᖅ, ᐊᓯᖏᑦ, ᑎᑎᕋᐅᔭᕐᓂᒃᑯᑦ ᐅᖃᓪᓚᐅᑎᖃᖅᖢᑎ.

Ashlyn Mariq holds up some of her work from a session on using art to express emotions. Photo courtesy of Annerose Nagyougalik ᓚᐃᓚ ᓇᐃᕐᕈ ᑎᑎᕋᐅᔭᖅᑕᒥᓂᒃ ᑕᑯᑎᑦᓯᔪᖅ ᖃᓄᖅ ᐃᒃᐱᖕᓇᖅᑎᒋᓂᖓᓄᑦ ᐃᓱᒪᒃᑯᑦ ᐱᔾᔪᑎᖃᖅᖢᓂ. ᐊᔾᔨᓕᐅᖅᑕᐅᔪᖅ ᐋᓐᕉᔅ ᓇᒡᔪᒐᓕᒃ

Kaylie Niuqtuq holds up a semicolon - something she learned about in one of the activity sessions. Photo courtesy of Annerose Nagyougalik ᑲᐃᓕ ᓂᐊᖅᑐᖅ ᑎᒍᒥᐊᖅᑐᖅ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓄᑦ ᓄᖅᑲᕈᑎᒥᒃ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᒃᑯᑕᒥᒃ − ᑲᑎᒪᖃᑕᐅᑉᓗᓂ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕈᑎᒋᓚᐅᖅᑕᒥᓂᒃ. ᐊᔾᔨᓕᐅᖅᑕᐅᔪᖅ ᐋᓐᕉᔅ ᓇᒡᔪᒐᓕᒃ

Photo courtesy of Annerose Nagyougalik ᑕᐃᕇᔅ ᑐᓗᕆᐊᓕᒃ

Cameron Parker, right, is among those participating in the events hosted by the Baker Lake Youth Council. Photo courtesy of Annerose Nagyougalik

Premier assigns portfolios to new ministers

By Tom Taylor Northern News Services

The Government of Nunavut’s cabinet has been reorganized following the swearing in of new members Joelie Kaernerk and Daniel Qavvik.

Kaernerk, the MLA representing Amittuq, and Qaavik, who represents Hudson Bay, officially joined cabinet at a leadership forum on Saturday, Sept. 23, and in a Sept. 25 news release, Premier P.J. Akeeagok assigned their portfolios.

See cabinet’s latest portfolio assignments, starting with Kaernerk and Qavvik, below.

-Minister Joelie Kaernerk oversees Culture and Heritage; Languages; and is responsible for the Qulliq Energy Corporation.

-Minister Daniel Qavvik takes over at Environment; Energy; and is responsible for Nunavut Arctic College.

-Premier P.J. Akeeagok remains minister of Executive and Intergovernmental Affairs; Indigenous Affairs; and is responsible for Immigration. He also assumes responsibility for the Utility Rates Review Council.

-Minister Pamela Hakongak Gross remains deputy pre-

mier and minister of Education. She’s also responsible for Seniors. She’s scheduled to resume her ministerial responsibilities on Oct. 16, following maternity leave.

-Minister David Joanasie remains government house leader, minister of Community and Government Services, and will remain acting deputy premier and acting minister of Education until Oct. 16.

-Minister Lorne Kusugak remains minister of Finance; minister responsible for the Liquor Licensing Board; minister responsible for the Nunavut Housing Corporation; and remains acting minister responsible for Seniors until Oct. 16.

-Minister David Akeeagok remains minister of Justice; Economic Development and Transportation. He’s also responsible for Labour; Mines; Trade; the Human Rights Tribunal; and the Nunavut Business Credit Corporation and Nunavut Development Corporation.

-Minister John Main remains minister of Health and Minister and is responsible for Suicide Prevention.

-Minister Margaret Nakashuk remains minister of Human Resources and Family Services. She’s also responsible for Homelessness; the Status of Women; the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission; and Poverty Reduction.

Qikiqtarjuaq’s acclaimed mayor driven by love for her community

By Tom Taylor Northern News Services Local Journalism Initiative reporter

Daisy Arnaquq didn’t plan on becoming Qikiqtarjuaq’s mayor, but was happy to step up when community found itself in need of one.

Arnaquq has lived in the community of roughly 600 people her whole life, and currently works full-time at the local school. She took on the role of mayor in January 2023, when former mayor Harry Alookie resigned from the position. She did not intend to serve as mayor longterm, but when no other candidates put themselves in the running for the position in the coming municipal elections, she decided to serve the community again.

“I’ve lived here all my life,” she said. “I was born here, and I love it here.”

“There was nobody running for mayor, and it’s

important for the community to have a mayor,” she added. “I wasn’t going to be running for mayor if somebody else was running, but since nobody else was running, I went ahead and filled out nomination papers.”

Arnaquq’s first 10 months as mayor have been busy, she said, particularly as she continues to juggle the demands of the job with her duties at the school. However, she plans to reduce the time she spends at the school in the near future, in order to devote more time to her work in public office.

Arnaquq was reluctant to name the biggest issues facing Qikitarjuaq, but said one of her main focuses as municipal leader will be finalizing unfinished projects and working on local bylaws.

“I have to talk to our chief administration officer about the biggest issues in our community,” she said when asked about the most pressing

items on her to-do list. “I don’t like to make any promises that might or might not happen.

“There’s some business that we have to complete that’s uncompleted the last couple of years because of absent councillors, but I’m really going to be pushing on that, to finish all our unfinished business.”

“There’s going to be quite a bit of projects going on in our community over the next couple of years.”

As Arnaquq gears up for her first full term as Qikiqtarjuaq’s mayor, she encourages her neighbours in the community to continue working together in pursuit of their goals.

“The only way that I can say it is we need to work together as a community,” she said. “That’s the only way I can put it. We can’t work alone. The mayors, the councillors, we can’t work alone. We need to work together as a community.”

Savikataaq returns as Arviat mayor Running unopposed, incumbent set for another term

By Stewart Burnett Northern News Services

Local Journalism Initiative Arviat

Joe Savikataaq Jr. was thrust into the mayor’s seat in Arviat when former mayor Bob Leonard passed, right as Covid hit the country in 2020. Now, he’s set to return for a full term as mayor, with no one running against him in the fall election.

“I am running again because I want to help the people again,” said Savikataaq Jr. from

Arviat, before he knew if there would be any other mayoral candidates.

Arviat needs a lot of things, but he can’t make too many promises, he said.

“All I can say is I’ll do my best to help Arviatmuit and at the end of the day it’s Arviatmuit who decide on everything, because that’s the way it is.”

He said he will continue to tackle any issues that arise, which is all part of the job as mayor. His first term went very well, and he said it was a lot of fun working with the people of Arviat. Now he wants to continue that and keep moving forward.

“You need the people’s support,” he said about what he learned in that first term. “Do what the people want. Do what is best for the people.”

He wished everyone running for council or mayor luck in the election.

As of press time, there was a full slate of nine candidates for Arviat’s council positions, and Savikataaq Jr. was the only candidate for mayor. Council candidates included Mike Gibbons, Jason Gibbons, Gordy Kidlapik, Alex Ishalook, Jimmy Main, Nathan Caskey, David Kuksuk, Darren Price and Gleason Uppahuak.

MLAs Daniel Qavvik and Joelie Kaernerk joined cabinet on Saturday, Sept. 23, and were assigned their portfolios on the morning of Monday, Sept. 25. NNSL file photo

Daisy Arnaquq didn’t plan on a long career as municipal leader, but decided to keep the position when no other candidates emerged

Daisy Arnaquq, pictured here at a favourite fishing spot near Qikiqtarjuaq, is running for mayor unopposed in her community, where she has lived her whole life. Photo courtesy of Daisy Arnaquq

Joe Savikataaq Jr. will be returning as Arviat’s mayor in the 2023 election, as no one in the community is running against him. NNSL file photo

Candidates announced for 2023 municipal elections

On Oct. 23, polls across the territory will be open for Nunavummiut to vote in municipal elections and for education boards. Image courtesy of MetroCreativeConnection

Scores of hopefuls from across Nunavut have put themselves in the running for mayor, councillor and DEA members

By Tom Taylor Northern

The candidates for Nunavut’s 2023 municipal elections were announced on Friday, Sept. 22. Scores of hopefuls from across the territory have put themselves in the running for the Oct. 23 election.

See below for the complete list of declared candidates for mayor, councillor and district education authority for each community.

General election for mayor

Arctic Bay

Frank May

Olayuk Naqitarvik

Arviat

Joe Savikataaq Jr.

Baker Lake

James Taipana

Kevin Iksiktaaryuk

Cambridge Bay

Derek Elias

Charles Zikalala

Wayne Gregory

Chesterfield Inlet

Mary Ann Issaluk

Tony Amauyak

Clyde River

Liemikie Palluq

Coral Harbour

Kupapik Ningeocheak

Gjoa Haven

Megan Porter Raymond Quqshuun Sr.

Grise Fiord

Jaypetee Peter

Meeka Kiguktak

Iglulik

George Auksaq

Erasmus Ivvalu

George Qattalik

Iqaluit

Vincent Yvon

Solomon Awa

Lili Weemen

Kimmirut

Lyta Maliktoo

Kinngait

Jimmy Manning

Kugaaruk

Teddy Apsaktaun

Kugluktuk

Ryan Nivingalok

Phillip Evaglok

David Ho

Simon Kuliktana

Helen Qimnik Klengenberg

Naujaat

Alan Robinson

Kevin Tegumiar

Joseph Sivanertok

Pangnirtung

Stevie Komoartok

Lynn Meeka Mike

Pond Inlet

David Qamaniq

Joshua Arreak

Qikiqtarjuaq

Daisy Arnaquq

Rankin Inlet

Megan Pizzo-Lyall

Harry Towtongie

Resolute Bay

Mark Amarualik

Aziz Kheraj

Mike Stephens

Sanikiluaq No candidates

Sanirajak

Jason Kaernerk

Ammie H. Kipsigak

David Curley

Philip Anguratsiaq

Taloyoak

John Charles Pizzo-Lyall

Lenny Panigayak

Whale Cove

Oliver Shipton

Gerard Maktar

General election for councillor

Arctic Bay

Kigutikajuk Shappa

Arviat

Mike Gibbons

Gordy Kidlapik

Alex Ishalook

Jimmy Main

Jason Gibbons

David Kusuk

Darren Price

Nathan Caskey

Gleason Uppahuak

Baker Lake

Eva Elytook

David Owingayak

Adham Adose

Trevor Attungala

Aquilla Amaruq

Michael Akilak

Becky Tootoo

Siobhan Doherty-Iksikta-

aryuk

Eric John Tapatai

Salamonie Pootoogook

Michael Mautarinaaq

Grace Tagoona

Cambridge Bay

Darren Etibloena

Stephanie Taptuna

Bessie Haomik Joy

Vivienne Aknavigak

Dana Langille

Sandi Gillis

Zachary Cziranka-Crooks

Jessie Lyall

Bo Wallenius

Wiliam Palvialok

Wilfred Wilcox

Chesterfield Inlet

Gaetano Scala

Yvonne Bedford

Eddy Kalluk

Doriana Sammurtok

Venissa Mimialik

Charles Issaluk

Elizabeth Ippiak

Clyde River

Gordon Kautuk

Musa Palituq

Coral Harbour

Kristal Sharpe

Molly Angootealuk

Willie Nakoolak

Lucy Nester

Gjoa Haven

Samuel Takkiruq

Susan Hillier

Kelly Putuguq

Stephanie Aaluk

Salomie Qitsualik

Christine Porter

Helen Tungilik

David Siksik

Allen Kaloon

David Ulliktak

Willy Aglukkaq

Stephanie Autut

Wilfred Bagley

Miriam Aglukkaq

Grise Fiord

Susie Kiguktak

Arqnarulunnguaq Audlaluk

Eva Muckpa

Laisa Audlaluk-Watsko

Jimmy Qaapik

Iglulik

Celestino Uyarak

Edward Attagutaluk

Shanshan Tian

Amanda Curley

Ludger Makkik

Jacob Malliki

Celina Uttuigak

Iqaluit

Matthew Clark

Kim Smith

Kyle Sheppard

Samuel Tilly

Simon Nattaq

Gabriel Ross

Swany Amarapala

Methusalah Kunuk

Romeyn Stevenson

Camilius Egeni

Daniel Legacy

Lewis Falknier MacKay

Jack Anawak

Harry Flaherty

Kimmirut

Terry Itulu

Mary Lyta

Terry Pitsiulak

Alashuk Allen

Kinngait

Caleva Kelly

Andre Wilkinson

Marianne Emond

Pii Kumaarjuk

Etungat Wakta

Salomonie Ashoona

Juanisie Etidloi

Kugaaruk

Guido Tigvareark

Fabiola Ihaakaq

Canute Krejunark

Nick Amautinuar

Kugluktuk

Nadene McMenemy

Lori Rudyk

Lucy Taipana

Angele Kuliktana

Lashawna Taipana

Matilda Panioyak

Jodi Alderson

Peter Taktogon

Maddison Montes-Fletcher

Keisha Westwood

Naujaat

Peter Mannik

John Goss

Steve Mapsalak

Levi Katokra

Rosie Kopak

Pangnirtung

Davidee Kooneeliusie

Sheila Kilabuk

Jaco Ishulutak

Davidee Nauyuq

Corbin Winsor

Markus Wilcke

Janice Alivaktuk

Delia Young

Julai Alikatuktuk

Jonathan Langridge

Pond Inlet

Joshua Idlout

Elisirie Peterloosie

Guy Nutarariaq

Moses E. Koonark

Kadloo Cornelius Nutarak

Sharon Ootook

Qikiqtarjuaq

Mika Nookiguak

Geela Qiyuqtak

Johah M. Audlakiak

Jonah Keeyookta

Rankin Inlet

Chris Eccles

Levi Curley

Michael Shouldice

David Kakuktinniq Jr.

Danny Kowmuk

Art Sateana

Martha Hickes

Resolute Bay

Jazlin Salluviniq

Sanikiluaq

Christina L’Heureux

Lucy Appaqaq

Sarah Kittosuk

Lucy Uppik

Dinah Kittosuk

Johnny Appaqaq

Johnny Inuktaluk

Sanirajak

Valerie Curley

Danny Arvaluk

Isaac Issigaitok

Eunice Tungilik

Manasee Ulayuk

Margaret Qayaqjuaq

Iga Maliki

Irene Morgan

Elijah Kaernerk

Luther Triggs

Trisha Grosset

Jopie Kaernerk

Taloyoak

Dora Kelly Quayaut

James Saittuq

Fiona Neeveacheak

Solomon Iqalliyuq

David Totalik

Tommy Aiyout

Cecile Lyall

Whale Cove

Elizabeth Kabloona

Sam Arualak

Eva Voisey

Joefrey Okalik

Manu Nattar

Michael Angutetuar

Mariah Okalik

Terri Rose Teenar

Megan Angootealuk

Molly Okalik

Guy Enuapik

General election for district education authority

Apex

Anne Crawford

Jonathan Wright

Vincent Karetak

Arctic Bay No candidates

Arviat

Jacqueline Otuk

Jackie Williams

Baker Lake

Siobhan Doherty-Iksikta-

aryuk

Naomie Hope Itqiliq

Darlene Nukik

Cambridge Bay

Alan Sim

Chris Crooks

Cory Baker

Adrian Nocon

Mark Slatter

Chesterfield Inlet

Roy Mullins

Yvonne Bedford

Gaetano Scala

David Kattegatsiak

Russell Mullins

Doriana Sammurtok

Geraldine Kreelak

Louie Kukkiak

Simon Aggark

Jodi Tanuyak

Mary Ann Issaluk

Clyde River

Gina Paniloo

Coral Harbour

Darryl Nakoolak

Kidlapik Nakoolak

Jerry Paniuq

Amouyah Bernidette Eetuk

Akavak Ottokie

Willie Nakoolak

Lucy Nester

Gjoa Haven

Samuel Takkiruq

Hannah Kingmiaqtuq

Rebecca Ikuallaq

Jack Ameralik

Wildfrid Bagley

Mohammadali Shaikh

Carol Takkiruq

Grise Fiord

Anne Akeeagok

Larry Audlaluk

Iglulik

Francis Piugattuk

Daniel Angilirq

Iqaluit

Stephen Johnson

Camilius Egeni

Nicole Giles

Robynn Pavia

Jack Anawak

Kimmirut

Joanasie Atsiaq

Mary Sagiaktuk

Akulujuk Judea

Kinngait

Martha Pallu Samayualie

Simigak Suvega

Andre Wilkinson

Chris Pudlat

Jeani MacKenzie

Mary Mikkigak

Rosie Pootoogook

Ejesiak Z. Ejesiak

Salomonie Ashoona

Kugaaruk

Celina Ningark

Stephen Inaksajak

Columban Pujuardjok

Beatrix Apsaktaun

Jennifer Anguti

Mark Karlik Sr.

Kuguluktuk

Nadene McMenemy

Angele Kuliktana

Barbara Olson

Mona Aviak

Kimnek Rose Klengenberg

Darlene Metuituk

Naujaat

No candidates

Pangnirtung

Mathew Nauyuq

Karen Douglas

Lynn Mike

Jeannie Kalai Alivaktuk

Oloosie Pitsiulak

Joanna Kilabuk-Evic

Pond Inlet

No candidates

Qikiqtarjuaq

Billy Mikoalik

Rosie Alikatuktuk

Kitty Natsiapik

Mary Alikatuktuk

Jonah Keeyookta

Rankin Inlet

Sheila Schweder

Ford Widrig

Mike Osmond

Margaret Uruluk Okatsiak

Resolute Bay

Jazlin Salluviniq

Sanikiluaq

Johnny Inuktaluk

Lucy Appaqaq

Lucy Uppik

Christina L’Heureux

Sanirajak

Eunice Tungilik

Anne Curley

Elizabeth Ikeperiar

Nunia S. Ammakla

Priscilla Curley

Mary Kuppaq

Solomon Nasook

Marie Christine Kipsigak

Taloyoak

Elizabeth Kakooteenik

Dora Kelly Quayaut

Emelia Jayko

Martha Quqqiaq

James Saittuq

Whale Cove

Lavenia Angutituar

Manu Nattar

Patricia Enuapik

Lu-Anne Saumik

Commission scolaire francophone du Nunavut (CSFN) election

Nunavut-wide

Collins Tagnigou

Margaret Friesen

Lili Weemen

Zoya Martin

Rene Tanga

Judy Sessua

News Services

Local Journalism Initiative reporter

Race on for mayor’s office in Whale Cove

Long list of council candidates for small community

By Stewart Burnett Northern News Services

Local Journalism Initiative

Whale Cove

Whale Cove may have few more than 400 residents, but there is clearly a lot of political enthusiasm, as the slate is full for mayor and council candidates in the fall municipal election.

Oliver Shipton and Gerard Maktar are competing for the mayorship, while 11 candidates have signed up for council. They include Elizabeth Kabloona, Sam Arualak, Eva Voisey, Joefrey Okalik, Manu Nattar, Michael Angutetuar, Mariah Okalik, Terri Rose Teenar, Megan Angootealuk, Molly Okalik and Guy Enapik.

Despite being relatively new to the community, Shipton wasn’t surprised with the large interest in joining council.

“Everyone in Whale Cove really wants to make a difference and add to the community, each in their own individual way,” said Shipton, who’s from Ontario and moved to Whale Cove as a conservation officer in 2020.

“There are a lot of active members in this community that contribute a lot to the community and it’s no surprise to me that we have a lot of members that are trying for these positions.”

Also a search and rescue officer and chair of Whale Cove’s housing board, Shipton admits he doesn’t have formal political experience but thinks he has what it takes to be mayor.

“Whale Cove has been really great to me,” he said. “I really love this community and the Whale

Cove-miuts. I feel I would excel in this mayor position. It would be a great way for me to give back to the community.”

Shipton said he wants to see more housing built, more mental health supports, more facilities development and more jobs in the community. He’d also like to see more resources for educational support.

He’s running against Maktar, a resident of Whale Cove for 30-plus years but originally from Chesterfield Inlet. Maktar has been serving as deputy mayor for almost three years.

“The reason I’m running for mayor is I think I can do the job,” he told Kivalliq News. “There are a lot of things that Whale Cove needs.”

He didn’t want to specify his priorities, but he did say he wants to involve the younger generation more as they are very important to the community.

Across the Kivalliq are a mix of returning faces and new competitors.

Joe Savikataaq Jr. is slated to return as mayor of Arviat with no one running against him, while Coun. Megan Pizzo-Lyall will be challenging incumbent mayor Harry Towtongie for the mayor’s chair in Rankin Inlet.

In Baker Lake, James Taipana and Kevin Iksiktaaryuk will vie for mayor, while three compete in Chesterfield Inlet: Tony Amauyak, Mary Ann Issaluk and Simionie Sammurtok.

Kupapik Ningeocheak was the only candidate for mayor in Coral Harbour and will assume the title, while Alan Robinson, Kevin Tegumiar and joseph Sivanertok will compete for mayor of Naujaat.

The municipal election will be held Oct. 23.

‘Ajuinnata Ukraine’: Gov. Gen. Mary Simon inspires Zelenskyy with Inuktitut word

Zelenskyy ended his historic war-time address to Canada’s House of Commons with an Inuktitut message

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ended his historic wartime address to Canada’s House of Commons with an Inuktitut message of inspiration and reliance that he learned from the Governor General.

Gov. Gen. Mary Simon welcomed Zelenskyy to Rideau Hall on Sept. 22 before his address to Parliament, where she taught him an Inuktitut word she has shared with other world leaders, Indigenous communities and Canadian children alike.

“She taught me a word from her mother tongue,” Zelenskyy told members of Parliament and others who gathered to hear him speak in the House of Commons in September. “Ajuinnata. She said the meaning of this word is: don’t give up. Don’t give up, stay strong against all odds.”

Zelenskyy gave the address as part of his first official visit to Canada since Russian troops began a full-scale assault on Ukraine in February 2022. He arrived after recent meetings in Washington, as part of an effort to ensure allies remain steadfast in their commitment to provide military and other forms of aid to his embattled

Governor General Mary Simon taught Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the Inuktitut word ajuinnata, which means “don’t

country.

Simon, who grew up in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec, was prevented from speaking her mother tongue of Inuktitut when attending a federal government day school as a child, where she spoke English and was denied the chance to learn French.

Canada’s first Indigenous person to hold her viceregal position, Simon has referred to the Inuit concept of ajuinnata countless times since she took on the job in 2021.

She shared the word with Queen Elizabeth II last year at a visit to Windsor Castle. She also used the word in praise of Indigenous delegates in the face of the apology from Pope Francis for the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Canadian residential school system.

The term also applies to Zelenskyy and his country, Simon’s office said in a statement Friday.

Simon’s office says the word, one the Governor General heard from her elders while growing up and finds especially meaningful, means to “persevere” or “never give up.”

“The people of Ukraine have demonstrated ajuinnata through their steadfast and ongoing fight for their freedom, in the face of Russia’s unjustified, full-scale invasion of Ukraine,” the statement read.

Zelenskyy and Simon sat side by side in matching arm chairs as she explained the meaning of the word. He wore his familiar olive-green fatigues while she wore a maroon scarf adorned with colourful flowers draped over her shoulders.

The floral scarf — called a kokum

scarf — is a traditional accessory for some Indigenous Peoples and part of powwow regalia.

Similar scarves have come to represent solidarity between Indigenous Peoples and people from Ukraine, in a tradition that dates back to Ukrainians’ early migration to Canada.

In the late 19th century, Ukrainian immigrants in the Prairies established trading relationships with Indigenous Peoples and offered hustkas, also known as babushkas, or grandmother, scarves.

Kokum is the word for grandmother in Cree.

Social media campaigns last year saw Indigenous Peoples wearing their kokum scarves along with messages of support for the country at war.

Zelenskyy ended his address in the House of Commons by wishing Canada and Ukraine ajuinnata, before the chamber erupted in a standing ovation. “Ajuinnata Canada. Ajuinnata Ukraine.”

—By Laura Osman and Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers a speech in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Friday, Sept. 22. Zelenskyy ended his historic war-time address to Canada’s House of Commons with an Inuktitut message of inspiration and reliance that came from the governor general herself. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

give up.” The Canadian Press/ Spencer Colby

Oliver Shipton is relatively new to Whale Cove but determined that he has what it takes to be mayor. Photo courtesy of Oliver Shipton

Gerard Maktar, former deputy mayor, will be competing for the mayor’s seat in Whale Cove this fall. Photo courtesy of Gerard Maktar

Kugluktuk’s Nadene McMenemy wins RPAN Volunteer of the Year award

By Tom Taylor Northern

Nadene McMenemy is the recipient of the Recreation and Parks Association of Nunavut’s Volunteer of the Year award, and while she never set out for recognition, it’s an honour she is happy to receive.

“When the phone rang and I got the call a couple of weeks ago that I had won this award, I was overwhelmed,” the long-time Kugluktuk resident said one day before she was presented with the award on Sept. 27. “When you go into volunteerism and philanthropy at the scale that I go at it, you’re not doing it for recognition, you’re doing it for what you’re achieving in the community, and the love of your community. But, you know, for all you do and the reasons you do it, it’s nice to be recognized for your hard work too once in a while.

“I’m happy that it’s bringing attention to my community too, and the work we do here.”

McMenemy, who also operates

the Enokhok Inn with her husband Johnny Tootoo, has been volunteering in Kugluktuk since she arrived in the community roughly 11 years ago. That includes work with the Nattiq Frolics Committee, the Coppermine Racing Committee, the Radio Committee and the Hamlet of Kugluktuk. However, her most notable volunteer efforts revolve around her role as the head of the community’s Christmas Committee.

Each year — with the exception of those interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic — committee members spend hundreds of hours fundraising for a range of free community events and generous donations during the holiday season. One of the committee’s primary fundraising initiatives is an annual telethon that has raised north of $10,000 in previous years.

McMenemy admits her volunteering and fundraising eats up a lot of her time, but she sees it as as sacrifice worth making.

“It’s easy to get lost in it,” she acknowledged. “I mean, the last

few months, my regular work keeps me very busy and all my free time I devote to this.

“Sometimes I’m in over my head, but, at the end of the day, we pull it off and it happens.”

McMenemy recognizes that it will become more difficult for her to juggle her many volunteer responsibilities as she gets older, and that retirement could be a just few years away.

However, the veteran volunteer hopes her efforts will inspire other people to donate their time to helping their communities.

She has seen first-hand the difference a concerted and coordinated volunteer effort can make.

“It’ll benefit every single organization in your community if you have a strong base [of volunteers],” she said.

In addition to McMenemy’s Volunteer of the Year award, the Recreation and Parks Association of Nunavut named Baker Lake’s Nathan Annanaut the 2023 Recreation Leader of the Year, while Kugluktuk’s Tanisha Metuituk and Maggie Bolt both received Youth Leader of the Year awards.

‘I’m happy that it’s bringing attention to my community too, and the work we do here,’ she said of the distinction

Kugluktuk’s Nadene McMenemy is the Recreation and Parks Association of Nunavut’s Volunteer of the Year for 2023. McMenemy received her award at a ceremony in the community on Sept. 27. Photo courtesy of Nadene McMenemy

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Arviat goes batty

By Stewart Burnett Northern News Services

Social media was abuzz late last week as multiple people in Arviat posted photos of bats in the community.

Johnny Amarudjuak had just gotten off a shift from work and was closing down the garages when this critter was spotted.

“At first I thought it was just a bird but it wasn’t

making any noises,” said Amarudjuak. “When I got closer to see what it was…I was shocked. It was very unusual to see a bat.”

Amarudjuak said bats have been known to be in Arviat in the past and wondered if it came from a shipping crate.

Kivalliq News reached out to the Department of Environment for comment but had not heard back by press time.

Photos courtesy of Johnny Amarudjuak

Prioritize disadvantaged people for primary care and screening access, report recommends

Canada’s health-care system is ‘broken,’ says doctor, as one in five Canadians unable to access a family doctor due to shortages

A panel of doctors, nurses and patients from across Canada has issued recommendations on how to make health care more equitable for disadvantaged people.

In a paper published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday, the panel came up with 15 disease prevention and screening recommendations that health-care providers could use to help address barriers to care.

“There are known inequities that could be addressed by interventions like cancer screening (and) screening for cardiovascular disease,” said lead author Dr. Nav Persaud, who is the Canada Research Chair in Health Justice and a family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital.

“Our approach was not to just bemoan these inequities, but to ask ‘what can we do to address them?’”

Indigenous and racialized people, members of LGBTQ+ communities, people with low incomes and those living in rural or remote parts of Canada may be among the populations without equal access to life-saving preventive screening and testing, the paper said.

“Preventive care access is not equitable for a variety of reasons, including poor connections with primary care, limited availability to attend appointments, mistrust of health care and discriminatory practices within health care. Stigmatization related to mental health conditions, substance use, HIV and other infectious diseases is (also) a barrier to care,” it said.

The paper calls for government investment in giving every person in Canada access to a primary health-care provider — including community health clinics — but said the “first step” should be prioritizing people experiencing disadvantages.

Costs not ‘precisely estimated’

The costs of automatically enrolling disadvantaged patients with a primary-care provider “have not been precisely estimated,” the paper said, but “might involve increasing primary care spending by $100 per capita for the entire population, or by around $3.8 billion annually.”

The exact cost would depend on the mix of providers, which would include family doctors, nurse practitioners and nurses, it said.

The paper did not specify what level of government should supply that funding, but Persaud noted that a much bigger amount of money would be saved by preventing expensive health-care interventions down the road.

Regardless of the cost, access to primary care should be a right, he said.

“It would be unacceptable if a family contacted a school or school board and was told, ‘no, there’s not enough room in the school, so you’ll have to homeschool your child,” Persaud said.

“But you can call a family doctor’s office and be told ‘no, there’s not enough room for you so you’re not going to get primary care.’”

People in Canada should be “automatically enrolled in primary care the same way that you can be automatically enrolled in a school or a school board,” Persaud said.

Doris Grinspun, CEO of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, said she welcomed the recommendation, but “the devil is in the details.”

Getting enough primary care providers for everyone would require governments to “massively increase the number of nurse practitioners in Canada,” Grinspun said — a measure she said is long overdue.

The time spent in school is much shorter for nurse practitioners than family doctors, and studies show that clinical results and patient satisfaction are just as good, she said.

The College of Family Physicians of Canada also supported the recommendation, saying “equitable access to primary care is the foundation of an efficient and responsive health-care system.”

The college’s executive director, Dr. Lawrence Loh, said in a statement that Canada’s health-care system is “broken,” with one in five Canadians unable to access a family doctor due to shortages. The need for “comprehensive, continuous primary care has never been more crucial. There is a deepening crisis in family medicine that needs action now,” Loh said.

Meanwhile, primary care providers can promote equity by prioritizing their disadvantaged patients and encouraging key screenings and tests, Persaud said.

Making some screenings more accessible is another way to reach disadvantaged people, even when they don’t have a primary care provider, he said.

Here are a few of the paper’s recommendations:

Earlier colorectal cancer screening

Fecal tests sent to people’s homes after they turn 50 are an example of how screening can be more accessible, Persaud said, but some

Canadian doctors, nurses and other

care more equitable for disadvantaged

disadvantaged populations need further outreach. That outreach could happen through community health workers, the paper said.

Recent immigrants to Canada and people living in lower-income neighbourhoods have lower colorectal cancer survival rates — and screening can save lives, it said.

Because it may take longer to reach disadvantaged populations and get them to complete the screening, the process should start earlier — at age 45 instead of 50, the recommendation said.

Cervical self-testing

Like the at-home colorectal cancer screening tests, self-swabs to detect human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer, could also be sent to people’s homes, Persaud said.

That could help overcome barriers to getting tested for HPV, the recommendation said, as research shows women with disabilities, Black women, people who identify as LGBTQ+ and people born outside of Canada are less likely to be screened. In addition, people who have suffered sexual trauma may be less likely to go to a doctor’s office for a Pap smear.

Cardiovascular screening and care

The panel recommends prioritizing cardiovascular risk assessment for women, racialized people and people with mental health conditions by taking their blood pressure, among other measures, and following up with treatment if needed.

Research has shown women are less likely to be screened for cardiovascular disease risk. Studies in other countries have shown Black people are less likely to have their blood pressure controlled. People with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder don’t receive enough care for high blood pressure, the recommendation said.

The paper also recommends proactive screening for lung cancer, diabetes, depression, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, tuberculosis, substance use and dental cavities among disadvantaged people.

The panel also recommends that primary care providers screen patients for social factors in health, including poverty and intimate partner violence.

—By Nicole Ireland, The Canadian Press

A group of

health-care providers have issued recommendations on how to make health

people. The Canadian Press/AP-Jeff Roberson

What ever happened to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s most important relationship?

‘Stop hurting the kids today and the ones to come tomorrow,’ critic says of government’s relationship with Canada’s Indigenous peoples

The first mandate letters Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave his cabinet ministers in 2015 said no relationship was more important to him, and to the country, than the one with Indigenous Peoples. He called for a new nation-to-nation relationship — one based on the recognition of rights, respect, co-operation and partnership.

He promised to end boil-water advisories in First Nations communities within five years. He said constitutionally guaranteed rights of First Nations are a sacred obligation.

“I know that renewing our relationship is an ambitious goal. But I am equally certain that it is one we can, and will, achieve if we work

together,” Trudeau told the Assembly of First Nations in December 2015. “This is a responsibility I take seriously, and I have instructed my government to do the same.”

Eight years later, the shiny election-style promises about advancing reconciliation and forging a new path forward seem to have dulled for First Nations, Metis and Inuit who are on the front lines advocating for their communities.

And with the Liberals expected to focus more heavily on housing and other cost-of-living issues this fall in a bid to reverse the trend of sagging support in the polls, it is unclear whether that relationship still tops the list of priorities.

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“Transforming a system from one that’s primarily about controlling communities to one that’s empowering communities? That’s really hard,” admits Patty Hajdu, minister of Indigenous Services. The Canadian Press/Spencer Colby

Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu, whose department oversees programs involving access to services such as drinking water, child welfare, housing and health care, said she has seen the relationship become stronger, but righting historic wrongs takes time.

“What I have seen is an increased trust in the commitment to the ongoing work of the relationship,” Hajdu said on Sept. 26 in an interview with The Canadian Press. “As much as I think some Canadians would like to turn the page and not talk about this, Indigenous people are still living the reality of a colonial country every single day. So that trust is actually super fragile and super important to protect.”

Tracking progress

Trust might be hard to quantify, but there are ways to track the Liberal government’s progress on the promises it has made to Indigenous Peoples.

Many of those promises are outlined in the 94 calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which investigated both the historic and ongoing harms of the residential school system in Canada and recommended specific ways to restore relations.

The Yellowhead Institute, an Indigenous-led think tank at Toronto Metropolitan University, publishes a yearly report on the government’s progress. The 2022 report concluded just two of the recommendations were fulfilled last year, bringing the total to 13. The institute said at this rate work on the calls to action will not be done until 2065.

Not all the calls to action are the sole responsibility of the federal government, including the July 2022 papal apology. Trudeau had personally asked Pope Francis to issue the apology in Canada, and the federal government spent at least $55 million to support the visit.But the content of the apology was considered lacking, including by making no mention of sexual abuse, and so the Yellowhead Institute considers that call to action to be incomplete. Hajdu’s office also pointed to progress on other calls to action since the report came out, such as announcing in June that a site had been chosen for the Residential Schools National Monument on Parliament Hill.

Hayden King, executive director of Yellowhead Institute, said Ottawa seemed spurred into action when Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Nation announced in May 2021 that ground-penetrating radar had detected potential unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.

Three of the commission’s calls to action were completed that month: appointing an Indigenous languages commissioner, establishing a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, to be celebrated Sept. 30, and changing Canada’s citizenship oath to include an obligation to upholding treaties with Indigenous Peoples.

Since those “easy calls” were answered, progress has been “modest,” King said, compared to the “tremendous” amount of activity after the Liberals were elected in 2015.

“It was the most active period of legislation — period — on Indigenous issues in Canadian history since Confederation,” King said.

Paying in court

Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, said federal governments have set up a pattern where they create policies that harm Indigenous Peoples and then Canadians pay the cost when courts side with communities.

In July, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal approved a $23.4-billion settlement agreement for First Nations children and their families who were harmed by the federal government’s underfunding of child welfare services.

Blackstock has been negotiating the settlement alongside the Assembly of First Nations.

The settlement comes more than 15 years after the two organizations jointly launched a human rights complaint that sparked a years-long legal battle with Ottawa around allegations that its underfunding of on-reserve child welfare services amounted to discrimination, and that First Nations children were denied equal access to support including school supplies and medical equipment.

But settling what she calls the “biggest policy failure in Canadian history” is not something to celebrate, Blackstock said.

“Stop hurting the kids today and the ones to come tomorrow. That’s the No. 1 thing that people want, and that money will never get back the childhood they deserve.”

Hajdu pointed to the settlement coming with another $20 billion that will go to revamping the First Nations child welfare system. She said this recognizes the need to shift from having to compensate for past harms to getting it right in the first place through “better tools of self-determination and equity in place so that these kinds of things never happen again.”

The broken promise to end all boil-water advisories by 2021 is often cited as another example of how the Liberal government has failed to live up to expectations on this file.

“It was a really ambitious goal and for those of us that didn’t much understand what water and water delivery looks like at First Nations, it seemed like a really attainable goal,” Hajdu said. “But, in fact, water and water delivery in First Nations is super complicated.”

The federal government says it has lifted 143 long-term drinking water advisories since November 2015. Hajdu said most of the 28 long-term advisories, affecting 26 communities, are in remote areas where access to infrastructure is a greater challenge.

Still, she said more than 96 per cent of First Nations now live in a community where they can access clean drinking water from the tap. As for the rest: “We will finish this job.”

Dawn Martin-Hill, a professor at McMaster University who leads an Indigenous water research program, said the scope of the Liberal government’s water initiative has been narrow. It focused on boil-water advisories, rather than access to safe drinking water on reserves in general, where infrastructure is chronically underfunded.

Hajdu is expected to introduce legislation this fall, co-developed

with First Nations, Metis and Inuit, to address some of the bigger barriers to sustainable access to safe drinking water.

Labelled a failure

Carol McBride, president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, said that despite the hope she felt in 2015, she feels Indigenous Peoples are on the back burner.

In 2019, the federal government released the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, which included 231 calls to justice directed at governments, institutions, industries and Canadians.

Two years later, the government released a national action plan that sought to address those calls.

McBride’s association has been keeping track of the government’s annual performance on implementing the plan, and called Ottawa’s progress a “failure” in its most recent report.

Few of the promised actions have been completed, while others have seen “marginal progress” or remain untouched, the June 2023 report says.

Hajdu said she understands the “impatience.”

But she said all levels of government need to be on the same page in order to get things done. Her job, she said, is to push the department and the government to take action as quickly as possible, and to push other jurisdictions to “take reconciliation as seriously as we do.”

She expects to bring that push to housing, too, as the Liberals prioritize that issue this fall.

The Assembly of First Nations said last year there was a need for $44 billion to address current on-reserve housing needs alone, plus another $16 billion to account for projected population growth to 2040 — a figure Hajdu had publicly highlighted ahead

of the 2022 budget.

That budget ended up committing $4 billion over seven years for building and repairing housing in Indigenous communities, which many viewed as a disappointment.

This year’s federal budget earmarked $4 billion over seven years, starting in 2024-25, to implement an urban, rural and northern Indigenous housing strategy through the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. that is co-developed with First Nations, Inuit and Metis.

Hajdu said taking a self-determination approach to the housing issue will help fill the gap in a way that goes beyond money, including the need for more land to build on.

But she said that when speaking with her colleagues, she has also been framing the First Nations housing issue as a housing issue, full stop.

“You can’t separate First Nations housing from everyone else,” she said. “It’s all part of a continuum of the need for better and more affordable housing in this country, regardless of which community you live in.”

It has been nearly six years since Trudeau split the Indigenous affairs portfolio into two separate departments: Indigenous Services, which Hajdu oversees, and Crown-Indigenous Relations, for which Gary Anandasangaree became the minister in July.

Hajdu said she has seen a lot change for the better in her corner of the government bureaucracy, including by having so many Indigenous public servants, including deputy minister Gina Wilson, working in the department.

“But transforming a system from one that’s primarily about controlling communities to one that’s empowering communities? That’s really hard.”

—By Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes a few moments to talk to some Tsilhqot’in Nation children near Williams Lake, B.C., in November 2018. Black Press file photo

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Feds unlock another $20 billion for low-cost rental construction financing: Freeland

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The federal government is unlocking another $20 billion in low-cost financing for the construction of rental housing across Canada, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Sept. 26.

The Canada Mortgage Bonds program, which raises funds for residential mortgage financing, had an annual limit of $40 billion.

The limit is being increased to $60 billion, with the additional funds aimed at increasing rental construction specifically. This includes apartment buildings, student housing and senior residences.

The federal government says the new funding will boost rental construction by 30,000 units annually.

“There is no fiscal impact for the government of Canada as a result of this measure. This is fiscally responsible policy using policy tools at our disposal,” Freeland told reporters Tuesday in Ottawa.

“This is a further measure in our broader and continuing campaign to build more homes for Canadians faster.”

Freeland says the program allows developers to access loans at an interest rate that is one to two percentage points lower than a conventional mortgage.

Finance minister

The federal government is facing pressure to help alleviate the national housing shortage, including by providing incentives to developers to build more homes.

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. estimates the country needs to build an additional 3.5 million homes — on top of the current pace of building — by 2030 to restore affordability. Meanwhile, the annual rate of housing starts in August came in at about 250,000 units.

The Liberals also introduced legislation last week to eliminate GST charges on rental developments as Ottawa ramps up efforts to increase the housing supply.

Experts say the shortage of purpose-built rentals is the most acute and is eroding housing affordability across the country.

“Our message to builders today is that it’s time to get shovels in the ground,” said federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser, who was also at the announcement.

“We are going to leverage all the tools at our disposal to make it easier for you to say yes to build more homes for Canadians,” Fraser said.

“We’re going to address the specific challenges at the root of the housing crisis we’re living through.”

—By The Canadian Press

“There is no fiscal impact for the government of Canada as a result of this measure. This is fiscally responsible policy using policy tools at our disposal,” Deputy Prime Minister

Freeland said Sept. 26. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick file

Indigenous groups stand firm with child welfare law before Supreme Court

Some Indigenous nations say they are prepared to continue enforcing their jurisdiction over child welfare if Canada’s top court sides with Quebec in a landmark constitutional case.

Bill C-92, or An Act Respecting First Nations, Metis and Inuit Children Youth and Families, became law in June 2019. It affirms that Indigenous nations have sole authority of their children and establishes minimum standards in caring for them.

Quebec put the act to the constitutional test at its Court of Appeal, which ruled in 2022 that parts of the act are out of the federal government’s scope to legislate. Ottawa appealed that decision, and the matter is now before the Supreme Court of Canada.

Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, with 11,000 members, is one of six nations to have formed its own child and family law, and it did it through ceremony — not “under” the law, C-92, said the in-house counsel for the community’s Child and Family Services.

“The federal government didn’t give us anything, they didn’t allow us anything,” said Earl Stevenson.

“What we’ve done through our own self-determination and our inherent rights, we’ve created this law.”

Stevenson said, in one instance, two infants were being transferred from a provincial CFS office in Winnipeg to Peguis. The CFS office in Winnipeg was initially seeking a permanent order keeping them from their parents.

He said that Peguis declined, as it avoids permanent orders.

The matter went to a King’s Bench judge who granted a threemonth temporary order under Peguis’s new law, Stevenson said. He said this marked the first time that court approved such an order aligning with Indigenous law.

Stevenson said apprehension should be the last resort for the First Nation, and the agency wants to avoid children going through that traumatic experience.

He also said there have been no child protection matters in the last five months for Peguis, the first time that’s ever happened.

Peguis also plans to develop its own court system but isn’t

quite there yet, he said.

“For now, we’ve granted the King’s Bench in Manitoba, and the provincial court in Peguis, concurrent jurisdiction to hear our matters.”

Carrier Sekani Family Services, which serves 11 nations in north-central British Columbia, had its own family law model when C-92 emerged, said executive director Mary Teegee.

But she stressed that C-92 is not solely about drafting laws.

“You actually have to start building the capacity in your own agency to provide the services to the community, and in the community,” she said.

Teegee, who also represents B.C. on the board of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, said she always knew

communities had inherent jurisdiction but lacked the resources to “breathe life” into their own laws.

She said she also represents B.C. on the board of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, noted the absence of funding provisions in C-92.

Both Teegee and Stevenson said funding mechanisms will rely on co-ordination agreements involving federal and provincial governments and Indigenous government entities.

Andrea Sandmaier, the president-elect of Otipemisiwak Metis Government in Alberta, said it was exciting when C-92 became law.

“To reclaim our children is something very important to our citizens.”

Sandmaier said her office developed a family reunification program in Edmonton with plans for another in Bonnyville, Alta.

She says there have been no challenges in this process yet.

“We actually just sent a letter to give notice to the minister of Indigenous Services Canada and the minister of child and family services in Alberta of our intent to exercise our jurisdiction under C-92 law, and we are looking forward.”

The United States Supreme Court upheld legislation this summer affirming that Native American families have priority in the adoption of Native American children. Stevenson said the “positive treatment” in the U.S. bodes well north of the border for the C-92 reference case.

If the act is not upheld by Canada’s Supreme Court, Stevenson said “we’re not going to disappear,” referencing Aboriginal rights protected under Section 35 of the Constitution.

Theresa Stenlund, Region 1 councillor at Metis Nation of Ontario, said her organization would also continue to push forward.

“We’ve been given direction by the citizens and by our communities to move forward and continue to push to look after our children.”

—By Jamin Mike, The Canadian Press

‘There is no fiscal impact

the government of Canada as a result of this measure,’ says

Chrystia

‘To reclaim our children is something very important to our citizens,’ says Alberta Metis leader

Quebec is challenging Bill C-92, or An Act Respecting First Nations, Metis and Inuit Children Youth and Families, in the Supreme Court of Canada. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld