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Active cases: 17 Total vaccine doses given: 13,911 News Confirmed cases: 373 First doses: 8,767 Second doses: 5,144 Briefs Recovered cases: 355 Confirmed cases by community Total persons followed: 6,848 Arviat: 329 (310 recovered) ᐃᓄᒃ Youtuber ᖁᕝᕙᖅᓴᐃᔪᖅ Current persons followed: 351 Whale Cove: 23 (all recovered) ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕐᒥ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᒥ ᐃᒡᓗ ᓕ ᒃ Completed tests in Nunavut: 3,770 Rankin Inlet: 19 (all recovered) ᕌᐱ ᖃᒪᓂᖅ ᒫᓐᓇ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᒡᓗᓕᖕᒥ, Total deaths in Nunavut: 1 Sanikiluaq: 2 (all recovered) ᑕᕐᕆᔭᐅᓯᓕᐅᖃᑦᑕᖅᖢᓂ ᓇᐃᑦᑐᓂᒃ YouTube– ᒥᒃ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᖃᑦᑕᖅᖢᓂ ᐆᒪᔪᓂᒃ Source: Government of Nunavut Department of Health ᐱᔾᔪᑎᖃᖅᖢᓂ, ᓴᖅᑭᔮᖅᑎᑦᑎᕙᓪᓕᐊᔪᒪᕗᖅ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᑕᕐᕆᔭᐅᑎᓕᐅᕈᑎᒃᑯᑦ. ᑕᕐᕆᔭᐅᓯᓕᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᓄᑖᒥᒃ, ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᐃᓄᑉ ᑎᒥᖓ ᑕᐃᒎᓯᖏᓪᓗ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑕᐃᒎᓯᑐᖃᖏᑦ ᐊᑐᖅᖢᒋᑦ. ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᖃᒪᓂᐅᑉ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖓ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᐅᓚᐅᖅᖢᓂ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᓯᒪᓪᓗᓂᓗ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑎᒥᖓᑕ ᑕᐃᒎᓯᖏᓐᓂᒃ. "ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᑐᖃᕆᒐᒃᑯ ᑕᐃᒪᙵᓂᑦ ᐃᓅᓯᓕᒫᓐᓂ ᐊᑐᖅᓯᒪᓪᓗᒍᓗ. ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕌᓂᓚᐅᖅᓯᒪᓪᓗᖓᓗ, ᓯᓚᑦᑐᖅᓴᕐᕕᓕᐊᖅᓯᒪᓪᓗᖓᓗ ᓯᓚᑦᑐᖅᓴᕐᕕᒡᔪᐊᒧᓪᓗ ᒥᖅᓱᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᙳᖅᖢᓂ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᑦᑎᓯᒪᓪᓗᖓᓗ ᐅᑭᐅᓄᑦ 8-ᓄᑦ," ᖃᒪᓂᖅ ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᐱᕙᓪᓕᐊᔪᓕᕆᔨᓄᑦ. ᑕᐃᒪᓐᓇ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᑎᒥᐅᑉ ᑖᒥ ᐅᒥᐅᓪᒍᐃᑦᑐᖅ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᖓᓐᓂ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᓂᖓᓂ ᐅᕙᙶᖅᐳᖅ ᑕᐃᒎᓯᖏᓐᓂᒃ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖃᖅᖢᓂ, ᓂᕆᐅᒃᐳᖅ ᐊᔪᕐᓇᖏᓐᓂᖅᓴᐃᓕᖁᔨᓪᓗᓂ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥᐅᓂᒃ ᐱᔪᒪᓪᓚᕆᒃᖢᓂ ᐊᒃᓱᕈᓪᓚᕆᖕᓂᖓᓂ – ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᓈᓇᑦᑎᐊᖓᓂ ᐊᓯᖏᓐᓂᒡᓗ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑕᐃᒎᓯᓂᒃ. "ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑎᑎᕋᐅᓯᖃᓚᐅᖏᒻᒪᑕ, ᑕᐃᒪᓐᓇ ᑎᑎᕋᖅᐸᓪᓕᐊᔭᐅᓂᖅᓴᐅᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᐊᓕᕐᒪᑕ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑖᒥ ᐅᒥᐅᓪᒍᐃᑦᑐᖅ ᐅᖓᕙᕆᐊᖅᓯᒪᕗᖅ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᑐᖃᖏᑦ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᖃᒪᓂᐅᑉ ᐱᒋᐊᓕᓵᕐᓂᑰᔪᒥ ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᐅᓂᕐᒧᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᑖᒥ ᐅᒥᐅᓪᒍᐃᑦᑐᖅ ᐃᖃᓗᒃᑑᑦᑎᐊᕐᒥᐊᑕᖅ ᐅᐸᒃᓯᒪᑦᑎᐊᖅᐸᒃᐳᖅ ᓇᒡᓕᒋᕐᔪᐊᖅᑕᖓᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᕆᔭᖏᑦ ᑕᕐᕆᔭᐅᑎᓕᐅᖅᓯᒪᔪᒃᑯᑦ ᓇᐃᑦᑐᓂᒃ ᐊᔭᐅᕆᕗᖅ ᑭᓇᑐᐃᓐᓇᒥᒃ ᐃᓕᑦᑎᔪᒪᔪᒥᒃ ᐊᓈᓇᑦᑎᐊᓂ, ᐸᓯ ᐅᒥᐅᓪᒍᐃᑦᑐᕐᒥ. ᐸᓯ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᐳᖅ ᐅᑎᖅᑎᕆᓂᕐᒥ ᐅᖃᑦᑎᐊᕈᓐᓇᕐᓂᖓᓂ YouTube-ᑯᑦ. ᐱᖅᑯᓯᑐᖃᖅᑎᒍᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᔪᙱᓐᓂᖏᓐᓂ ᐃᓄᐃᓐᓇᖅᑐᒥ. ᖁᕕᐊᒋᖁᓪᓗᓂᒋᓪᓗ ᑕᒪᒃᑯᐊ ᑕᕐᕆᔭᐅᑎᓕᐊᕆᔭᖏᑦ ᐅᑕᖅᑭᙱᓐᓂᕐᒧᑦ. ᓇᐃᑦᑐᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕈᑎᑦᓯᐊᕙᐅᓕᖁᓪᓗᒋᓪᓗ. "ᑲᔪᖏᖅᓴᐃᔪᒪᕗᖓ ᑭᒃᑯᑐᐃᓐᓇᓂ please see Inuk, page 12 ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᓂᕐᒥ ᑕᒪᒃᑭᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᔪᓂ ᓴᖅᑭᑕᐅᕙᓪᓕᐊᔪᓄᑦ. ᑲᑉᐱᐊᓱᙱᓪᓗᑎᑦ ᑭᒃᑯᑦ ᐱᓯᓕᐅᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᕿᓚᐅᑦ ᐃᓕᕋᓱᒡᓗᑎᓪᓘᓐᓃᑦ ᐊᐱᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᓵᓚᒃᓴᓚᐅᕐᓂᖏᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑕᐅᔪᒪᓂᕐᓄᑦ ᑭᓱᑐᐃᓐᓇᑦᑎᐊᒥ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᐱᔭᕆᐊᓕᖕᓂᑦ. ᐃᓄᒃᑕᖃᐃᓐᓇᐅᔭᖅᑐᖅ ᕕᕗᐊᕆᐅᑎᓪᓗᒍ, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᐃᓕᖕᓂ ᐊᔪᕆᖅᓱᐃᔪᓐᓇᖅᑐᒥ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᑐᖃᓕᕆᔨᒃᑯᖏᑦ ᐃᑦᑕᕐᓂᑕᓕᕆᔨᒃᑯᖏᓪᓗ ᑭᓱᑐᐃᓐᓇᑦᑎᐊᒧᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᔪᒪᔭᕐᓂᑦ," ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ, ᐱᓕᕆᖃᑎᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᖃᕆᐊᕗᒃᑯᓐᓂᒃ, 2021-ᒥ ᐃᓚᒋᐊᖅᓯᓪᓗᓂ ᖃᔅᓯᒐᓛᓗᖕᓂ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᓂ ᕿᓚᐅᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᐱᓯᓕᐅᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᑭᑦᑐᕋᐅᑎᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᒥᖅᓱᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᙳᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ. ᖃᕆᑕᐅᔭᒃᑯᑦ. ᐱᓕᕆᔪᒪᓂᖓ ᒥᖅᓱᕐᓂᕐᒥ ᐱᒋᐊᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ 13–ᓂᑦ ᑐᓴᕐᕕᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᓂᕕᐊᖅᓯᐊᖑᑎᓪᓗᒍ. ᐱᓯᓕᐊᖏᓪᓗ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᖅᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᖢᑎᒃ "ᐊᓈᓇᑦᑎᐊᕋ ᖁᙱᐊᖏᓐᓇᖅᐸᓚᐅᖅᐸᕋ ᓇᑭᙶᖅᓯᒪᖕᒪᖔᑕ, ᐋᖅᑭᒃᓱᖅᑕᐅᓯᒪᓂᖏᓪᓗ ᓄᑕᕋᓛᖑᓂᓐᓂ. ᐃᒃᓯᕚᖅᐸᓚᐅᖅᐳᖓ ᑐᓴᕐᓂᕐᓂᖏᓐᓂᒡᓗ ᑐᑭᑖᖅᓯᒪᓂᖏᓐᓂᒡᓗ. ᓴᓂᐊᓂ ᐅᓪᓗᓕᒫᖅ ᒥᖅᓱᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᐅᑯᐊ ᓵᓚᒃᓴᐅᑎᖃᓚᐅᖅᖢᑎᒃ: ᒥᖅᓲᑎᖓᓄᑦ ᐊᒡᒐᒧᓪᓘᓐᓃᑦ ᒥᖅᓱᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ," 1st: ᐊᓐᓂᕆᓚᕗᑦ – the Alphas ᐃᖅᑲᐅᒪᕗᖅ. ᔪᐃ ᓇᐅᔪᒃ 6th: ᖁᖓᓪᓗᑎᑦ – ᐃᓕᑦᑎᓚᐅᕆᕗᖅ ᖃᔅᓯᐊᕐᔪᖕᓂ 2nd: ᓇᒡᓕᒋᕙᒋᑦ – ᑖᓂᐅᓪ ᑯᓗᓛ ᐱᓕᕆᔾᔪᓯᐅᔪᓂ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᖕᒥ ᐃᓄᐃᓐᓇᖅᑐᑦ ᑎᐱ ᐆᔪᑯᓗᒃ 7th: ᖃᑕᙳᑎᒌᑦᑐᑕ – ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᐊᕈᓯᐅᔪᓂ. 3rd: ᑲᓐᓂᐊᖅ – ᐄᒪᓕ ᑯᓗᓛ ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᐃᓅᓱᒃᑐᙳᖅᐸᓪᓕᐊᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᑖᓂᐅᓪ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑲᓛᔪᒃ ᑕᐅᑭ 8th: ᐊᓈᓇᒐ – ᐄᕙ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓐᓇᕈᖅᐸᓪᓕᐊᓕᖅᖢᓂ, ᐱᔪᒪᓂᖓᓂ 4th: ᑕᑯᔭᕆᐅᕋᒃᑭᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᒪᓗᕆ ᐅᖃᑦᓯᐊᒃ ᒥᖅᓱᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑲᑕᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. ᐃᓄᐃᓐᓇᖅᑐᓐ – the Alphas 9th: ᑎᑭᑦᑐᒍ – ᐅᖃᕈᓐᓇᐃᓪᓕᓚᐅᕆᕗᖅ, ᐃᓕᑦᑎᓚᐅᖅᓯᒪᓪᓗᓂ (ᑕᖅᑐ ᑲᐅᓇᒃ, ᑯᑭᒐᖅ ᒥᐅᕆ ᒪᐃᒃ ᐊᒻᒪ ᔪᐃ ᓱᕈᓯᐅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᐊᓈᓇᑦᑎᐊᖓᓂ ᐸᓯᒥ – ᐊᓚᑲᓐᓄᐊᖅ, ᖃᕕᒃ ᓇᐅᔪᒃ ᐃᓄᐃᓐᓇᖅᑐᓐ ᐅᖃᕈᓐᓇᑐᐃᓐᓇᖅᑐᒥ. ᓇᓄᕐᓗᒃ ᓇᓄᐊᒃ 10th: ᓄᑕᕋᐅᑎᓪᓗᑕ – ᓇᖕᒥᓂᖅ ᕿᑐᕐᙵᖃᓕᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ, 5th: ᖁᕕᐊᓇᖅ – ᕈᓴᓕ ᐱᓱᒃ ᐅᒥᐅᓪᒍᐃᑦᑐᖅ ᓂᐅᕕᕈᓐᓇᐃᓪᓕᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᓵᓚᒃᓴᕈᑎᖃᖅᑐᑦ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᑦ ᐱᖓᓱᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᐊᒡᒐᒧᑦ–ᓴᓇᓯᒪᔪᓂ ᐊᓐᓄᕌᓕᐊᓂ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᖅᑖᖅᑎᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ $5,000, $2,500 ᐃᓚᖏᓐᓂᓪᓗ ᐊᑭᑐᓗᐊᕆᓕᖅᖢᓂᒋᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ $1,500 , ᑖᒃᑯᐊ 7 ᐊᔪᙱᖃᑕᐅᖕᒥᔪᑦ ᑕᐃᒫᒃ ᐃᒻᒥᓂᒃ ᐃᓕᓐᓇᓱᐊᓕᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᖅᑖᖅᑎᑕᐅᓪᓗᑎᒃ $500 ᐊᑐᓕᔭ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᖅᐸᒃᖢᓂ ᐆᒃᑑᑎᐅᔪᓂ. ᐊᓱᐃᓛᒃ ᓵᓚᒃᓴᐅᑎᖃᖅᑐᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᔭᐅᔪᓐᓇᖅᐳᑦ ᐊᑎᓕᐅᖃᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓂ ᑐᓴᖅᑕᐅᔪᓐᓇᖅᐳᓪᓗ ᖃᕐᒋᐊᕗᒃᑯᑦ ᐃᑭᐊᖅᑭᕕᖓᓐᓂ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᐱᕈᖅᓴᐃᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᔪᙱᓐᓂᖏᓐᓂ. ᖃᕆᑕᐅᔭᖓᓐᓂ. photo courtesy of Tammy Omilgoetok please see Winners, page 12 ᐊᕐᕌᒍᑦ 12 ᐊᓂᒍᕐᒪᑕ, ᐊᓯᖏᓐᓂ Tammy Omilgoetok of Cambridge Bay spends some quality time with ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᑦᑎᓕᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑎᓯᔪᒥ–ᐊᓗᓕᖕᓂ ᑲᒥᖕᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐳᕼᐃᑕᕐᓂᑦ. ᐃᓕᑕᖅᓯᓂᕐᒥ her beloved grandmother, Bessie Omilgoetok. Bessie is helping her ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᒐᕙᒪᒃᑯᖏᑦ ᑎᒃᑯᐊᖅᓯᓂᖏᑦ ᒥᖅᓱᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᙳᓚᐅᕆᕗᖅ. reclaim fluency in Inuinnaqtun. ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᑐᖃᖏᓐᓂᒃ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐹᖓᓂ ᒥᖅᓱᓚᐅᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᒃᓴᓂᒃ ᐳᕼᐃᑕᕐᒥ ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᐅᓪᓗᓂ, ᑕᑯᑎᓚᐅᖅᐸᖓ "ᑐᑭᓯᔪᓐᓇᖅᑐᖓ (ᐃᓄᐃᓐᓇᖅᑐᓐ), ᓂᕈᐊᓚᐅᖅᐳᖓ ᐊᓈᓇᑦᑎᐊᕋ ᐊᑖᑕᑦᑎᐊᕋᓗ," ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᐸᓯᒧᑦ ᐃᓱᒪᒋᔭᖓᓂ ᐱᔪᒪᓪᓗᓂ. ᐊᒃᓱᕈᕐᓇᕆᔭᕋ ᐅᖃᓪᓚᖕᓂᕐᒧᑦ. ᑕᒪᓐᓇ ᐅᒥᐅᓪᒍᐃᑦᑐᖅ ᐃᖅᑲᐅᒪᕗᖅ. ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᑐᖃᓕᕆᔨᒃᑯᑦ ᐃᑦᓴᕐᓂᑕᓕᕆᔨᒃᑯᓪᓗ "ᐊᓈᓇᑦᑎᐊᒪ ᐊᐱᕆᓚᐅᖅᐹᖓ ᐱᓕᕆᕙᓪᓕᐊᔭᕗᑦ ᒫᓐᓇᐅᔪᒥ," ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ. ᕿᑐᕐᙵᖏᑦ ᐃᓕᑦᑎᖁᒋᕙᖏᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᒫᓐᓇᓵ ᑎᒃᑯᐊᖅᓯᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᐃᓐᓇᑐᖃᓂᒃ 9-ᓂᒃ ᐱᔭᕇᖅᓯᓂᖓᓂ ᐳᕼᐃᑕᓕᐅᓚᐅᖅᑕᖓᓂ ᐊᓈᓇᑦᑎᐊᖓ ᐊᑐᐃᓐᓇᖃᖅᑎᑦᑎᓯᒪᒋᕗᖅ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᖓᓐᓂ, ᑕᐃᒫᒃ ᐅᐸᒃᑎᑉᐸᒃᐸᖏᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᑐᖃᖏᓐᓂᒃ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᓄᑦ, ᑲᑎᒪᔨᐊᓛᑦ ᐴᖅᓯᒪᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᐱᔭᕇᖅᓯᒪᙱᑦᑐᒥ. ᐃᓅᓯᓕᒫᖑᔪᒥ ᐊᔪᕆᖅᓱᐃᓂᕐᒥ ᐱᓇᓱᐊᕈᓯᑕᒫᒥ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᕿᓚᐅᔾᔭᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᑎᒍᔭᐅᓂᐊᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᒐᕙᒪᒃᑯᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᑕᒪᓐᓇ ᐅᐱᓐᓇᕐᔪᐊᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐅᖃᕐᓂᕆᓚᐅᕐᒪᒍ ᐊᒥᓱᓄᑦ ᐊᓯᖏᓐᓂ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᐅᔪᓂ, ᓲᕐᓗ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᕐᓄᑦ. 8–ᓂ ᐅᑭᐅᓕᒃ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᑐᖃᖏᓐᓂᒃ ᐱᖅᑯᓯᑐᖃᖏᓐᓂᒡᓗ. ᐅᐱᓐᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᖕᓂᖓᓂ ᖃᓄᐃᙱᑦᑎᐊᖅᑐᒥ ᓯᖓᐃᓂᐅᔪᒥ, ᓱᕈᓯᕐᓂ ᒥᖅᓱᕆᐅᖅᓴᒋᕗᖅ. ᑕᒪᒃᑯᐊ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ ᒥᐅᕆ ᕗᐃᓯ ᑎᑭᕋᕐᔪᐊᖅ, ᐱᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᕆᔭᓐᓂ ᐅᒃᐱᕈᓱᖕᓂᕐᒥ ᐱᕈᖅᓴᐃᓂᕐᒥ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐱᓐᓇᕆᔭᖏᓐᓂ "ᖃᓕᐹᕋᓛᓕᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐆᒃᑑᑎᒋᓪᓗᓂᐅᒃ ᐅᒃᑐᕙ ᐊᐅᓪᓚᑭᐊᒃ ᑲᖏᖅᓱᒑᐱᒃ, ᓘ ᐱᓕᑉ ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ, ᐱᔭᕇᕈᔾᔨᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᒻᒥᓄᑦ," ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ. ᐊᒻᒪ ᐅᒃᐱᕆᔭᖏᓐᓂ. ᐊᒻᒪ ᓄᑲᕐᒥᓄᐊᓚᐅᖅᐸᐅᒃ ᕿᑐᕐᙵᐅᔭᖓᓄᑦ ᐄᑉᐳᕋᕼᐊᒻ ᐆᓚᓚᒃ ᓴᓂᕋᔭᒃ, ᕕᓕ ᓇᑯᓛᒃ ᓴᓪᓕᖅ, ᐅᑎᖅᑎᕆᓂᕐᒥ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕐᒥᓂᒃ "ᐊᓈᓇᑦᑎᐊᕋ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᑖᑕᑦᑎᐊᕋ ᐊᑐᖅᑕᐅᓂᐊᕐᒪᑦ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. ᒥᐅᕆᐊᒻ ᐊᒡᓘᒃᑲᖅ ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ ᐊᒻᒪ ᓯᓖᓐ ᓂᖓᒃ ᐅᖃᕈᓐᓇᑦᑎᐊᕐᓂᖓᓂ, ᐊᔾᔪᒥᒋᕙᖏᑦ. ᖁᑦᑎᒃᑐᒥ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᖕᒥ "ᐊᓕᐊᓇᐃᒋᑦᑎᐊᖅᑕᖓᑦᑕᐅᖅ." ᑰᒑᕐᔪᒃ. ᒧᕇ ᐊᖑᑎ ᑰᒑᕐᔪᒃ ᐊᒻᒪ ᔩᓐ ᓯᓚᐃᓚᒃ ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᓇᓱᐊᖅᓯᒪᕗᖅ ᐃᓄᐃᓐᓇᖅᑐᑦ ᐊᐱᕆᔭᐅᓚᐅᖅᓯᒪᕗᖓ, ᑭᓇ ᐊᔪᕆᖅᓱᖅᑕᐅᕙᓪᓕᐊᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᔪᒥ. ᐊᔾᔪᒥᒋᕕᐅᒃ? ᐊᓯᖏᑦ ᓂᕈᐊᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ bflA ᖃᒪᓂ'ᑐᐊᖅ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᕋᓛᖑᖃᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᖢᑎᒃ. From please see GN, page 12 ᐊᔪᕆᖅᓱᐃᓂᐊᖅᑐᖅ ᐅᓇᐅᕗᖅ ᐊᓈᓇᑦᑎᐊᖓ, ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᕐᔪᐊᖅᑐᓂ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᒥ ᐅᕝᕙᓘᓐᓃᑦ ᐸᓯ. ᐱᙳᐊᖅᑎᐅᕕᒡᔪᐊᖅᑐᒥ ᐊᓯᖏᓐᓂᓪᓗ, m4WZz 7 4 nunavutnews.com, Monday, March 8, 2021 kNKu W?9oxJ5, N[Z/su, ᒫµ5y 8, 2021 news ĪØflî ᓴᐳᔾᔨᓯᒪᓂᖅ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᒪᕐᕉᖕᓄᑦ ᐱᐅᓯᖃᑎᒌᖑᔪᓂ ᐊᓈᓇᐅᔪᖅ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐸᓂᖓ ᐄᕙ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑳᓖᓐ ᐋᕆᐊᖅ ᑕᑯᕗᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᒥ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᒥᑦ ᐊᓐᓂᕆᔭᐅᔭᕆᐊᖃᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᓴᐳᔾᔭᐅᓯᒪᓂᖓᓂ

ᒫᓐᓇᐅᔪᒥ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑲᒥᓴᓇ ᑳᓖᓐ ᐊᒃᓱᕈᖅᖢᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ 1999–ᒥ. ᐃᓱᐊᓂ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕐᓂ. ᓲᕐᓗ, ᐃᖃᓗᒃ ᐃᖃᓘᕗᖅ, 'ᒃ–ᒥ' ᐋᕆᐊᖅ, ᓴᐅᒥᖕᒥ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᓈᓇᖓ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑲᒥᓴᓇᐅᔪᖅ ᒪᓕᒐᓕᐊᖑᔪᓄᑦ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᐅᕗᖓ ᓴᐳᔾᔨᓯᒪᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᓱᐊᓂ, ᑐᓴᕐᓂᖅᓴᐅᓲᖑᓕᖅᐳᑦ ᐅᓄᕐᓂᖅᓴᐅᔪᓂ ᐅᖃᖅᑐᒥ, 'ᐃᖃᓗ' ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᐄᕙ ᐋᕆᐊᖅ, ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑲᒥᓴᓇᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᖓᓐᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᑕᐅᓯᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᐆᒥᖓ 'ᓗ–ᒥ' ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐊᑐᕐᓇᒍ 'ᒃ'." ᓴᙱᓂᐅᖃᑕᐅᕗᖅ ᐃᓄᖕᓄᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥ ᐊᕕᒃᑐᖅᓯᒪᓂᖃᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ. ᐄᕙ ᐃᓚᒋᐊᖅᓯᕗᖅ ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᙱᑕᒥᓂ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖓᓐᓂ ᓄᓇᕗᖃᓕᓵᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ. "ᓄᓇᕗᑖᖅᑎᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᓴᙱᓂᖃᕐᓂᐊᕐᒪᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ "ᑲᑉᐱᐊᓱᓪᓗᐊᙱᓐᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᐱᖅᑯᑎᓂ ᐊᐱᖅᓱᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᓄᖕᓄᑦ ᒪᓕᒐᓕᐊᖏᓐᓂ, ᓴᙱᓂᖅᓴᒥ ᓂᐱᖃᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᑐᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐅᒃᐱᕆᔪᓐᓇᖅᑕᖏᓐᓂ" ᐊᖓᔪᖅᑳᕆᒍᓂᒋᑦ, ᐊᑖᑕᑦᑎᐊᖏᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᑦᑎᓐᓂ," ᐃᓚᒋᐊᖅᓯᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑳᓖᓐ. "ᐅᐱᒍᓱᒃᐳᖓ ᐊᓈᓇᑦᑎᐊᖏᑦ, ᐱᖃᓐᓇᕆᔭᖏᑦ ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓂ ᐅᕝᕙᓘᓐᓃᑦ ᑭᓇᑐᐃᓐᓇᒧᑦ ᐆᒥᖓ ᐊᑐᕐᓂᖃᕐᓂᐊᕐᓂᓐᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖃᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᓈᓇᒪ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᓱᐃᓂᕐᒥ ᕿᓂᕐᕕᒋᔪᓐᓇᖅᑕᖏᓐᓂ. ᑎᑭᐅᑎᓯᒪᔪᓐᓇᖅᓯᒪᔭᖏᓐᓂ." ᐱᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᕆᔭᖓᓂ ᒫᓐᓇᐅᔪᒥ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑲᒥᓴᓇᐅᓂᖓᓂ, ᐱᓕᕆᓂᖅᑕᖃᕐᔪᐊᖅᓯᒪᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᒪᓕᒐᓕᐊᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓴᐳᔾᔨᓯᒪᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑳᓖᓐ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᓯᔪᒪᓚᐅᕆᕗᖅ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᕆᔭᐅᔪᓂ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥᐅᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᒻᒥ, ᐱᓕᕆᐊᒃᓴᖃᕐᔪᐊᖅᐳᑦ ᓱᓕ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᐅᑉ ᐃᓗᐊᓂ. ᐱᖃᕐᓂᖏᓐᓂ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ-ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐱᔨᑦᑎᕋᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ. ᐄᕙ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓚᖏᑦ ᓅᓚᐅᖅᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᐃᒃᐱᐊᕐᔪᖕᒥ ᐃᖃᓗᖕᓄᑦ "ᑲᔪᖏᖅᓴᐃᔪᒪᕗᖓ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥᐅᓂ ᑲᑉᐱᐊᓱᖁᓇᒋᑦ ᐊᔭᐅᕆᓂᖏᓐᓂ ᐃᓕᓴᖅᓯᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑐᑦ ᐃᒫᓪᓚᕆᒃ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕐᒧᑦ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᕆᔭᖏᓐᓂ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. ᐊᑐᖅᑕᐅᒐᔪᒃᑐᒥ ᐊᖓᔪᖅᑳᖃᕐᕕᖕᒥ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᐅᔪᓂ, ᑕᐃᒫᒃ "ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥᐅᑦ ᐃᒃᐱᒍᓱᒃᑯᑎᒃ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᕆᔭᐅᔪᑦ ᐆᒃᑐᕋᖅᐸᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᓚᖏᓐᓂ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᖓᓂ, ᓴᓂᕐᕙᐃᕙᒃᖢᓂ ᑭᐅᔭᐅᓯᒪᙱᒃᑯᑎᒃ, ᖃᐅᔨᒋᐊᕈᓐᓇᖅᐳᑦ ᑎᑎᕋᕐᕕᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ." ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᐅᖃᓪᓚᖕᓂᕐᒥ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒥ ᐃᓚᖏᓐᓂ ᐊᓯᐊᓂ ᐊᑐᕐᓂᖃᐅᑎᒥᒃ ᑳᓖᓐ ᑎᑎᕋᕐᕕᖓᓂ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᓯᓂᕐᒥ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᕐᒥ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕆᔭᖓᓐᓂ. ᓇᖕᒥᓂᖃᖅᑎᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᔪᓂ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᓂᖏᓐᓂ Karine Baron photo courtesy of Karliin Aariak "ᓴᓇᓚᐅᖅᐳᒍᑦ ᐆᒃᑐᕋᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒥ, ᐱᓇᓱᐊᕈᓯᐅᑉ ᐊᑐᕐᓂᖃᐅᑎᖏᓐᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᕆᐊᖃᕐᓂᖏᓐᓂ Nunavut Languages Commissioner Karliin Aariak, ᓄᙳᐊᓂᑕᒫᒥ ᐅᖃᓪᓚᒋᐊᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᒍᑦ ᓇᖕᒥᓂᖅ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᑦᑎᓐᓂ ᓇᖕᒥᓂᖃᖅᑎᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐱᖃᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ, ᐃᓚᖃᖅᑐᒥ left, and her mother and Commissioner of Nuna- ᐃᒡᓗᑦᑎᓐᓂ, ᑕᒪᓐᓇ ᓴᙱᒃᑎᕐᔪᐊᖅᓯᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᑦᑎᓐᓂ ᑐᓂᓯᓂᕐᒥ "ᐱᔨᑦᑎᕋᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖓᓐᓂ (ᐊᒻᒪᓗ) ᐱᓂᕐᒥ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᑐᕐᓂᕐᒥ. ᑕᐃᒪᐃᖁᔨᓇᔭᖅᐳᖓ ᐆᒃᑐᕋᐅᑕᐅᓂᖓᓂ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᒃᑯᑕᐅᔪᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖓᓐᓂ ᑎᑎᕋᖅᓯᒪᓗᑎᒃ." vut Eva Aariak, who was Languages Commissioner ᐃᑲᔪᕐᓂᖃᕈᓐᓇᕋᔭᖅᑐᒥ ᐃᓚᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᐊᓯᖏᓐᓂ ᐃᓚᒌᖑᔪᓄᑦ." ᐃᓚᒋᐊᖅᓯᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᓱᐃᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᖏᓐᓂ ᓇᖕᒥᓂᖃᖅᑎᐅᔪᓂ when Nunavut was first formed. ᐱᕈᖅᓴᔭᐅᑎᓪᓗᒍ, ᑳᓖᓐ "ᐱᕈᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᓂᖓᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᓴᖅᑭᑎᑦᑎᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐸᕐᓇᐅᑎᒥᒃ ᖃᓄᖅ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᓂᖓᓂ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖓᓂ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓴᙱᓂᖃᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᖃᓄᖅ ᒪᓕᑦᑎᐊᕐᓂᖅᓴᐅᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᖏᓐᓂ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ 1999–ᒥ 2004–ᒧᑦ ᑲᒥᓴᓇᐅᔪᖅ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᐄᕙ ᐋᕆᐊᖅ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᖓᓂ. ᒪᓕᒐᓕᕆᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ. ᐱᔨᑦᑎᕋᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑲᒥᓴᓇᐅᓂᕐᒥ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐅᓪᓗᒥ ᐸᓂᖓ "ᕿᑐᕐᙵᖃᓕᖅᑎᓪᓗᖓ ᐅᔾᔨᕆᓚᐅᖅᐳᖓ ᖃᓄᖅ "ᐱᓕᕆᔪᒪᕗᒍᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᕆᔭᕆᐊᖃᖅᑕᑦᑎᓐᓂ," ᑳᓖᓐ ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. ᑳᓖᓐ ᐋᕆᐊᖅ ᑎᒍᒥᐊᖅᐳᖅ ᑕᐃᔅᓱᒥᖓ ᐃᓂᐅᔪᒥ. ᑕᒪᒃᑭᑦ ᑕᑯᕗᑦ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᓯᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᓯᖏᓄᑦ ᓴᓂᓕᖏᓐᓂ, ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓴᐳᔾᔨᓯᒪᓂᐅᔪᑦ ᐱᑕᖃᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ, ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᒻᒥ ᐊᓐᓂᕆᔭᐅᔭᕆᐊᖃᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᓴᐳᔾᔭᐅᓯᒪᓂᖓᓂ. ᓲᕐᓗ ᐸᐃᕆᕝᕕᑦ (ᐊᒻᒪᓗ) ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᒪᓕᒃᐸᒃᑐᓂ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᒋᕗᖅ ᑖᒃᑯᓄᖓ ᐊᖓᔪᖅᑳᖑᔪᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓚᒌᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᑖᕐᓂᕐᒥ ᐃᒻᒥᓄᑦ 1999–ᒥ ᑕᑯᕙᖓᑦ ᐊᖏᔪᒥ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᒪᓕᒐᓕᐊᖑᔪᓄᑦ, ᐃᒪᓐᓇ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᒥ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᑦᑎᓂᖏᓐᓂ ᕿᑐᕐᙵᒥᓂᒃ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒥᑦᑕᐅᖅ. ᖃᓄᐃᓐᓂᐅᓂᖓᓂ ᐃᑲᔪᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐸᐸᑦᑏᓐᓇᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕐᒥᑦ. ᓯᕗᓪᓕᐅᔾᔭᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᖓᓂ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑳᓖᓐ. "ᐱᒻᒪᕆᕐᔪᐊᖑᕗᖅ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᒃᓴᐅᔪᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᕐᒥ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᑐᐃᓐᓇᕐᓗᑕ "ᐱᒻᒪᕆᕐᔪᐊᖑᕗᖅ, ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᕗᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ, ᒪᕐᕉᔫᒃ ᐊᒃᓱᕈᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᐱᓕᕆᓯᒪᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᓴᙱᒃᑎᒋᐊᖅᓯᓂᕐᒥ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕐᒥᑦ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐄᕙ. ᐊᒻᒪ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᕕᑦ ᖃᓄᐃᒻᒪᑦ? ᓄᓇᕗᑖᕐᓂᕐᒥ, ᓄᓇᕗᑖᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖓᓐᓂ, ᒥᒃᖠᕙᓪᓕᐊᖏᓐᓇᕐᓂᖃᖅᐳᖅ ᐅᖃᖅᑎᓂᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔪᓂ "ᑭᒃᑯᓕᒫᑦ ᐊᑐᐃᓐᓇᖃᓪᓗᐊᖅᐳᑦ ᐃᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐱᔾᔪᑎᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᑦᑎᓐᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ, ᑕᐃᒪᓐᓇ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕐᒥᓂᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᒋᔪᓐᓇᖅᑕᖏᓐᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᕈᖅᑎᑦᑎᓗᑎᒃ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐹᖓᓂ ᐆᒥᖓ ᐱᐅᕐᔪᐊᖅᑐᒥ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥ ᐊᕕᒃᑐᖅᓯᒪᓂᖃᖅᐳᒍᑦ ᑕᐃᔭᐅᔪᒥ "ᓇᓂᓯᕗᖓ ᖃᔅᓯᒐᓚᖕᓂ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᓄᑦ, ᑕᑯᓯᒪᕗᒍᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑐᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖓᓐᓂ." ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ, ᐃᓕᓴᖅᓯᓂᐅᕗᖅ ᑭᓇᐅᓂᑦᑎᓐᓂ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐄᕙ. ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖓ ᓄᖑᑉᐸᓪᓕᐊᓂᖓᓂ, ᐊᐃᑦᑖᖑᒐᓗᐊᖅ ᑕᐃᒪᐃᓐᓂᖓᓂ ᐄᕙ ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐋᖅᑭᒃᓱᐃᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᒥ ᖄᒃᑲᓐᓂᖃᕐᒪᑦ ᓄᖑᑉᐸᓪᓕᐊᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐅᔾᔨᕆᓯᒪᔭᓐᓂ, ᐅᕙᓐᓄᑦ bflA ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓴᐳᔾᔨᓯᒪᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᒪᓕᒐᕐᒥ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕐᓄᑦ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᕗᖅ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐄᕙ. Protecting ᐃᓕᓴᕆᔭᐅᓯᒪᔪᓄᑦ ᒪᓕᒐᕐᓂ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐸᓂᖓ ᐃᖅᑲᐅᒪᕗᖅ "ᐃᓄᒃ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᐅᖃᓲᖑᔪᒥ ᐱᔭᕇᒐᔪᒃᐳᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕐᒥᓂ, ᓲᕐᓗ m4WZz 15 kNKu W?9oxJ5, N[Z/su, ᒫµ5y 8, 2021 nunavutnews.com, Monday, March 8, 2021 5 news ĪØflî 'There's a lot of need for counselling' Pauktuutit president wants to help Inuit heal from trauma by Derek Neary ᕇᐱᑲ ᑲᓪᓗ, ᐊᖓᔪᖅᑳᖅ ᐸᐅᒃᑑᑎᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᕐᓇᓄᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ, ᕿᑎᐊᓂ, ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᕗᖅ ᐊᑎᓕᐅᕆᓂᕐᒥ ᐱᓇᓱᐊᖃᑎᒌᖕᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑐᑭᓯᐅᒪᖃᑦᑕᐅᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ Northern News Services ᐊᖏᕈᒻᒥ ᐅᑯᓇᓂ ᐸᐅᒃᑑᑎᒃᑯᓐᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᒐᕙᒪᒃᑯᓐᓂ. ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᔪᑦ ᒥᐊᕆᐊᒻ ᒫᓐᓯᕝ, ᓴᐅᒥᖕᒥ, ᒥᓂᔅᑕ ᐊᕐᓇᓄᑦ ᐊᕐᓇᐅᒍᓂ ᐊᖑᑕᐅᒍᓂ Qamanittuaq/Baker Lake ᐊᔾᔨᒌᒃᑎᑕᐅᔭᕆᐊᖃᕈᓐᓇᐅᒻᒥ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᑳᓚᐃᓐ ᐸᓂᑦ, ᒥᓂᔅᑕ ᑯᐃᓐᒧᑦ–ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᓯᒪᔪᓄᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᐅᔪᒥ. Rebecca Kudloo, president of Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, spoke to Nuna- vut News from her home in Baker Lake in advance of International Women's Day. This interview has been edited for length.

Nunavut News (NN): Within the past few months, you succeeded in getting the RCMP to commit to substantial policy reform aimed at reducing violence against Inuit women and children, and you convinced the federal gov- ernment to allocate money for five women's shelters in Inuit Nunangat. How did you do that? Rebecca Kudloo (RK): Pauktuutit has been asking for shelters for years. At our last AGM, before Covid, when we met with the (federal) ministers we told them that shelters were our top priority. One of the ministers said if that's your priority, I'll help you get those ... In January, I believe, we had a meet- ing with several ministers and they said we're going to provide you with the shelters. That was very good news. photo courtesy of Pauktuutit After MMIWG (Missing and Murdered Rebecca Kudloo, president of Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, centre, takes part in the signing of a memorandum Inuit Women and Girls), policing came up a of understanding between Pauktuutit and the Government of Canada. Also present are Maryam Monsef, left, minister lot at the inquiry, and the lack of shelters for for Women and Gender Equality, and Carolyn Bennett, minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations. women to get away from violence. So we did a policing report and the issues that came up, we brought up with the (RCMP) Commis- So I've been pushing for community-based from the courts; offenders can get counselling. dedication. It takes a lot of work sometimes. sioner (Brenda) Lucki. counselling services like we started here in I (wish) every community had (counselling) I always believe that we have to take owner- So we've been working with them too, to Baker Lake 35 years ago to deal with, in the like that. It works for us and we're the ones ship of that. work on the memorandum of understanding beginning, child sexual abuse because there running it. I have a board – I've been the chair We shouldn't expect the federal govern- and to work together to improve policing in were multiple victims of sexual abuse by a for all those years – and we need community ment to do it because a lot of times they don't the North, in Inuit Nunangat. priest. members to run it. know the situation up here. We soon found out there's a lot of need It's all volunteer because we feel that NN: Those are two major milestones. in the community. We went on the radio and money we get for our counselling service is Were you certain from the outset that you talked about how victims are affected and used to do the healing for the people. It takes Please see Kudloo, page 10 could persuade both of those major institu- people started coming (forward) ... so we went tions – the RCMP and the federal government into all areas (of counselling). – to make such meaningful pledges, or were As Inuit we think of healing in a holistic you constantly fighting doubt that they would way, that we can't just heal one part of the be agreeable? family. We have to provide healing for men RK: I think, especially with the shelters, also, so we also have an Engaging Men and we've been bringing up the fact that the fed- Boys project with Pauktuutit. eral government gives millions of dollars to shelters on reserves. NN: Due to a variety of historical fac- We bring up the fact that we don't have tors and present-day circumstances, many reserves up North, so we don't get that fund- Inuit lack trust in the RCMP and the federal ing. Seventy per cent of our communities in government. Do you think that's changing at Inuit Nunangat don't have shelters and we all? Or what will it take to establish a strong have the highest rates of violence in the coun- relationship? try. So we keep bringing that up. We were RK: That is why we want to continue lucky that they heard us. working with the RCMP, because of that lack With policing, it was meeting with them of trust we've had for years. and explaining – it's constant ... Every time Historically, they were the ones who – even there's a new minister, we start educating though they were probably directed by the them all over again how it is up North. federal government – came and took us away We don't have resources for counselling in from out parents to go to residential school. a lot of places, in most small communities. They're the ones who came and shot the dog No shelters. No alcohol treatment. These teams. So I think there's a lack of trust. things that Inuit face and need help with are Like any other service in the community not there. – the school, RCMP, social services – those are areas that need to involve the commun- NN: A National Action Plan on the Final ity so people feel comfortable going to those Report of the National Inquiry into Missing departments. and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls One thing we keep bringing up with the was expected to be released in June 2020. RCMP is their dispatch system. The way it How do you feel about the delay of that action works right now is when I call from Baker plan, which the government has attributed to Lake, it goes to Iqaluit and I wait. Covid-19 and the need for further consultation In cases of family violence incidents, vio- with Indigenous groups? lence can escalate very fast. So that (dispatch) RK: We were not happy with the delay but system has to be improved, where women get we've been working hard with the working the support they need as soon as possible, and groups. children too. We have an Inuit working group that is meeting weekly to do the action plan. We also NN: You mentioned a desire to estab- work directly with ITK (Inuit Tapiriit Kana- lish more community counselling, what other tami). I hope that it will be soon that we get objectives do you have in mind for Pauktuutit something done with the government because for the remainder of 2021? this (process) was three years of everybody's RK: That's one thing we always push life, especially for families who had to testify for, I know there's a lot of need for counsel- at the inquiry. ling. In Baker Lake, it's community-based It was very hard bringing back incidents counselling where you can be counselled in when they lost their family members. These your language. Our staff go to the school to incidents happened years ago, some of them, do education on good touch/bad touch, so if and there's no resources in their communities that's happening to you, you know it's wrong when they go back after testifying. and you can tell somebody. We get referrals 6 nunavutnews.com, Monday, March 8, 2021 kNKu W?9oxJ5, N[Z/su, ᒫµ5y 8, 2021 news ĪØflî Sending PPE where it's 'needed the most' More than 113,900 masks went to Inuit communities: BMO by Trevor Wright Northern News Services ᑮᓇᐅᔭᒃᑯᕕᖕᒥ ᒪᓐᑐᕆᐊᒧᑦ Nunavut ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᖅᑏᑦ ᒪᓯᒧ Working with Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami ᐳᕆᓐᓯᑉ, ᓴᐅᒥᖕᒥ, (ITK), the Bank of Montreal (BMO) has ᐊᒻᒪ ᑭᑦ ᒪᑲᕇᒡ delivered masks and sanitizing goods to ᐊᔾᔨᓕᐅᖃᑎᖃᖅᐳᑦ Inuit communities, building on their exist- ᓱᓇᒃᑯᑖᓂ ing relationships to get supplies where they are needed most. ᓇᒃᓯᐅᔾᔭᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᓄᑦ Nearly 150,000 facemasks alongside ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᓯᒪᔪᓄᑦ 500 gallons of sanitizer and 750,000 wipes ᓄᓇᓕᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ.

were distributed to Indigenous commun- photo courtesy of BMO Financial Group ities across Canada. The majority of these BMO employees Massimo Principe, left, have been sent to Inuit communities from and Kit Macareag take a the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Nuna- picture with PPE supplies to be sent out to Indigenous communities vut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut, with more in Canada. than 113,900 masks going to Inuit. "We wanted to make sure we had "We all have a role in addressing these people among the fast-growing facets of people from all parts of the Indigenous gaps, and I am grateful to the team at BMO's business in Canada, there are a lot community, Inuit, Metis and First Nations BMO for this contribution of personal of conversations going on in the company people. The first person I called was Natan protective equipment for Inuit regions at with its customers and with individual Obed (president of ITK), he helped us out this critical time." employees seeking to help out. too, that's the kind of relationship we like The Indigenous Banking Unit at BMO "We've even had employees who were to have just so it's not always about busi- goes back to 1992 and over the decades storing these things in personal garages," ness," said Steven Fay, Head of BMO's there's been growing relationships with Bonner added. Indigenous Banking Unit. a number of Indigenous and Inuit com- This project is directly related to the Given the challenging logistics munities. Covid-19 pandemic, but the two wanted involved, and a number of other factors "These communities, particularly the to stress that this has been a relationship much of the personal protective equipment ones we had conversations with and made that has been around for quite a while now. (PPE) sent out went to Inuit communities. sure got PPE are especially vulnerable," "The work we have done in the "Inuit are especially vulnerable to Bonner said. Indigenous Banking Unit," said Fay, "it's severe impacts from Covid-19 as a result of "It's not just being sent equally across not short-lived, it's not flash-in-the-pan, long-standing inequalities affecting, among Canada, we've gone specifically based on it's something the bank has done that's part other things, the ability of many Inuit to advice and the guidance of our friends like of our culture now. access clean water for hand washing, and Natan, where it's needed the most, quite "It's gotten to a place where we're doing adequate housing for isolating if Covid-19 frankly." good business, but we're also doing good is suspected or confirmed," said Obed. With banking among Indigenous things." kNKu W?9oxJ5, N[Z/su, ᒫµ5y 8, 2021 nunavutnews.com, Monday, March 8, 2021 7 news ĪØflî From student to sewing teacher ᐅᓇ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐸᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᐳᕼᐃᑕᖅ ᑖᒥ ᐅᒥᐅᓪᒍᐃᑦᑐᖅ ᓴᓇᓯᒪᔭᖓ ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᐅᓪᓗᓂ. Tammy Omilgoetok owes much of her ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᕗᖅ "ᐳᕼᐃᑕᕐᒥ" ᓴᓇᓯᒪᔪᒥ ᐊᒪᕉᑉ ᐊᒥᖓᓂ. ᐱᒋᐊᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᕿᓯᐅᔭᕐᒥ, ᒥᖅᑯᐃᔭᖅᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᖢᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐅᐊᓴᖅᑕᐅᓪᓗᓂ. ᐊᖕᒪᔪᐃᑦ ᒥᖅᓱᖅᑕᐅᓪᓗᑎᒃ. ᐊᓱᐃᓛᒃ cultural knowledge to sheer ᐸᓂᖅᓯᐊᖑᓪᓗᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᕿᑐᒻᒪᒃᓴᖅᑕᐅᓪᓗᓂ. ᐊᓱᐃᓛᒃ, ᐊᖕᒪᔪᓕᐅᖅᑕᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᐊᒥᖓᓂ determination – and her grandmother ᓴᓇᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐳᕼᐃᑕᕐᒥ.

by Derek Neary also known as a sunburst, which is a striking Northern News Services fur garment that encircles the wearer's face. Ikaluktutiak/Cambridge Bay She's also become a Ilitaqsiniq/Nunavut Lit- Tammy Omilgoetok has advanced from eracy Council sewing instructor. novice to instructor and she urges anyone else After crafting her first puhitaq as an who wants to learn traditional Inuit skills not instructor, she showed it to Bessie to get her to hesitate. opinion. "I want to encourage everyone to take "My granny asked me to finish her advantage of all the programs that are being puhitaqs that were stored but incomplete. put on. Don't be afraid or intimidated to ask This was such an honour because that's her for help with anything you need. Somebody way of saying she's proud and happy with my is always there to guide you for anything abilities enough to trust me to finish them for you want to do," she says, adding that it took her," she says. her about a dozen years to become a sewing To reclaim her language fluency, she has teacher. enrolled in an Inuinnaqtun mentorship pro- Her interest in sewing was piqued as a gram. Her mentor is none other than her little girl. grandmother, Bessie. "I've always watched my granny since I "I can understand (Inuinnaqtun), I just was a toddler. I would sit beside her all day have a hard time making sentences. That's while she was sewing on her sewing machine what we're working on now," she says. or hand-stiching," he recalls. Her grandmother has also offered a life- She also learned a few techniques in school time of guidance on many other topics, such through her Inuinnaqtun classes. as healthy pregnancies, raising children and But as she grew into a teenager and Inuit values and beliefs. entered young adulthood, her interest in sew- "Her and my grandpa have always been my ing waned. She also lost her ability to speak role models. I was asked in high school, who Inuinnaqtun, which she also learned early in is your role model? Everybody picked a celeb- life from her grandmother Bessie – a unilin- rity or a sports star or whatever, and I picked gual speaker. my grandparents," Omilgoetok recalls. After having kids of her own, Omilgoetok She also wants her children to learn about couldn't afford to buy handmade clothes and the Inuit culture, so she takes them to weekly accessories so she took it upon herself to learn Inuit drum dancing classes. Her eight-year-old photo courtesy of Tammy Omilgoetok by studying patterns. Then she signed up for is also picking up sewing. This is the first puhitaq that Tammy Omilgoetok made as an instructor. It some local courses to build on her skills. "She made a little cover for practice and features a "sunburst" made from wolf ruff. She started with raw hide, which After 12 years, she began teaching others she gave it to her little sister for her dolls to was then fleshed and washed. The holes were sewn. Then it was dried and to make hard-bottom kamiks and puhitaqs, use," she says. "She enjoys it too." softened. 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(Sig) Sigvaldason ᐱᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᕆᔭᐅᔪᓂ ᓂᕈᐊᕈᓐᓇᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ, ᕿᓂᕐᓂᕐᒥ ᐃᒃᐱᒍᓱᑦᑎᐊᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᕆᔭᐅᔪᓂ." ᑐᑭᓕᐊᖑᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᓄᑦ ᓱᓕ ᐊᖏᔪᒻᒪᕆᐊᓗᖕᒥ PUBLISHER, CEO: Bruce Valpy – [email protected] ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᓂ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᐅᑉ ᓯᓚᑖᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓇᓕᒧᑦᑐᒥ ᑕᒪᒃᑭᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᖃᑕᐅᓪᓗᐊᖅᐳᑦ ᐊᕐᓇᓄᑦ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᓄᑦ 151–ᖑᕗᑦ ᑕᑯᓚᐅᖅᑳᕐᓂᑦᑎᓐᓂ Chief Financial Officer: Judy Triffo ᐊᑭᓕᖅᓱᖅᑕᐅᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ. ᐱᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᕆᔭᐅᔪᓂ ᓇᓕᒧᓕᖅᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐱᒋᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᑕᑯᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᕐᓇᓂ ᐊᔾᔨᒌᒃᑎᑕᐅᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑮᓇᐅᔾᔭᒃᓴᓂᕐᒧᑦ COORDINATING EDITOR: Craig Gilbert – [email protected] ᐃᒪᐃᑦᑑᔮᖅᐳᖅ, ᐃᓛᓐᓂᒃᑯᑦ, ᐱᒋᐊᕐᕕᖓᓐᓂ. ᑐᙵᓂᖃᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᖑᑎᓄᑦ. ACCOUNTING: [email protected] ᐊᓯᔾᔨᖅᓯᒪᔪᖃᓗᐊᕌᓗᙱᓐᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᑯᓂᐅᓂᖅᓴᐅᔪᒥ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᒥ ᐊᕐᓇᐅᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᖑᑕᐅᓂᖓᓂ ᑕᒪᓐᓇ ᐱᓪᓚᕆᐅᕗᖅ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥ Florie Mariano • Salleah Wagas ᐊᕐᕌᒍᑦ 100–ᓂ. ᐃᓚᑰᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᓕᐊᖅ, ᑎᑎᕋᖅᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ ᐊᕕᒃᑐᖅᓯᒪᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᖃᕐᔪᐊᖅᑐᒥ Editorial board: ᐃᖏᕐᕋᓂᐅᔪᖅ, ᓇᒥᑐᐃᓐᓇᖅ ᐃᓂᐅᔪᒥ., 2020–ᒥ, ᐅᖃᖅᓯᒪᕗᖅ, "ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᕐᒥ ᐱᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐋᓐᓂᖅᓯᕆᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐊᕐᓇᓄᑦ, ᐃᓂᒃᓴᖃᒐᔪᙱᑦᑐᓄᑦ Bruce Valpy • Craig Gilbert• Emily McInnis ᐆᒃᑐᕋᖅᑕᐅᓲᖑᕗᖅ ᓱᒃᑲᐃᑦᑐᒻᒪᕆᐊᓗᖕᒥ ᐊᒻᒪᓗᑦᑕᐅᖅ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᖃᕐᓇᙱᑦᑐᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓴᖑᕝᕕᒃᓴᖓᓄᑦ. ᐃᖏᕐᕋᓂᐅᔪᓂ. ᑭᓯᐊᓂ, ᐅᓇᑕᕐᓂᕐᒥ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐆᒪᓇᓱᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐊᓕᐊᓇᐃᒋᔭᖃᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᔪᖅᓴᕐᓂᖅ, ᐊᔾᔨᒌᙱᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᒥ, ᐊᒻᒪ NEWS EDITOR Emily McInnis ᑕᐃᒪᓐᓇᒐᓚᑦᑕᐃᓐᓇᖅ ᐅᓇᑕᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐊᒪᐅᑦᑎᓐᓂ ᖃᓂᓐᓂᖅᓴᐅᔪᒥ ᐊᔾᔨᒌᒃᑎᑕᐅᔭᕆᐊᖃᕈᓐᓇᐅᒻᒥ ... ᐋᓐᓂᖅᓯᕆᓂᐅᔪᖅ ᑲᑎᙵᓂᖃᖅᐳᑦ. ᐊᒻᒪ ᐅᖓᑖᓄᑦ ᐃᓕᓯᑐᐃᓐᓇᖅᐳᖅ ᐱᓂᕐᓗᒃᓯᓂᕐᒥ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᓄᑦ 95–ᓄᑦ ᒪᑐᓯᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᐊᖅᐳᑦ ᐊᕐᓇᐅᓂᖓᓂ ᐅᑯᐊ ᐊᑲᐅᙱᓕᐅᕈᑎᑐᐃᓐᓇᐅᙱᓚᑦ ᐊᕐᓇᐃᑦ Editorial Production: [email protected] ᐋᓐᓂᕐᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ. ᐊᖑᑕᐅᓂᖓᓂ ᐃᓚᑰᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᕐᔪᐊᖑᔪᓂ ᐅᖃᓪᓚᒋᐊᖃᕐᓂᖏᓐᓂ, ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᐊᖑᑎᑦᑕᐅᖅ. ᓯᓚᕐᔪᐊᕐᒥᐅᓕᒫᑦ ᐅᖃᖅᐳᑦ ᑕᒪᑐᒪᓂ ᑭᒡᒐᖅᑐᐃᓂᐅᔪᒥ." ᐊᖑᑏᑦ ᐱᓪᓚᕆᐅᓛᖑᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑎᒋᕙᕗᑦ Sports: James McCarthy – [email protected] Arts: [email protected] ᐊᕐᕌᒎᔪᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᓂᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᖅ "ᐊᕐᓇᐃᑦ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᑦ 100 ᐊᓂᒍᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ, ᐱᐅᕗᖅ ᐅᑯᓇᓂ ᐅᓇᑕᕐᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᐊᔾᔨᒌᙱᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ Business: [email protected] ᓯᕗᓕᐅᖅᑎᐅᓂᕐᒦᑦᑐᓂ: ᑎᑭᐅᑎᓂᖅ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᕐᓇᐃᑦ ᐊᒃᓱᓪᓘᓐᓃᑦ ᓇᓕᒧᑲᓴᒃᑐᒥ ᓵᓚᖃᕋᓱᐊᑐᐃᓐᓇᕆᐊᖃᖅᐳᒍᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᔾᔪᓯᐅᔪᓂ Advertising production ᐊᔾᔨᒌᒃᑎᑕᐅᔭᕆᐊᖃᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᓯᕗᓂᒃᓴᒥ ᓄᕙᒡᔪᐊᕐᓇᖅ- ᐱᕕᒃᓴᖃᖅᐳᑦ ᐆᒪᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᓐᓇᕈᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᕐᓇᓂ ᓯᕗᒻᒧᐊᖅᑎᑦᑎᕙᙱᑦᑐᓂ, ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᐊᖑᑎᓂᑦ Production co-ordinator: Jennifer Reyes 19–ᒥ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᒥ," ᓴᓂᓕᖓᓂ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᓕᒫᒥ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᖃᕐᓗᑎᒃ ᓇᒧᑐᐃᓐᓇᖅ ᐊᑕᐅᓯᑦᑕᐃᓐᓇᒥ ᐊᔪᖅᓯᓯᒪᑎᑦᑎᕙᒃᑐᓂ. Randy Hiebert • Joshua Uson ᐊᕐᓇᓄᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᖓᓂ ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᕈᑕᐅᔪᒥ "ᓂᕈᐊᕐᓗᑎᑦ ᑭᒡᓕᐅᔪᒧᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᓂᕈᐊᖅᑕᒥᓂᑦ – ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᖃᑎᒌᒡᓗᑕ ᓵᓚᖃᕋᓱᐊᕐᓂᕐᒥ ADVERTISING ᓵᓚᒋᓇᓱᐊᕐᓂᕐᒥ." ᐊᒃᓱᓪᓘᓐᓃᑦ ᐃᓚᖏᓐᓂ ᓄᓇᐅᔪᓂ. ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᒫᓐᓇᐅᔪᒥ ᖃᓄᐃᓐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᑎᑭᐅᑎᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᐊᖅᐳᒍᑦ Laura Whittle ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᐅᐱᒍᓱᒍᓐᓇᖅᐳᑦ ᐊᒥᓱᓂ ᑲᒪᓇᖅᑐᓂ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᓕᐊᖅ ᐅᖃᖅᓯᒪᕗᖅ, ᐃᓱᒪᒋᓇᒍ ᐅᑯᐊ ᖃᓄᐃᑦᑐᑐᐃᓐᓇᕐᒥ ᐊᔾᔨᒌᒃᑎᑦᑎᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᓯᕗᓂᐊᓂ [email protected] ᐊᕐᓇᓂ ᓯᕗᓕᐅᖅᑎᐅᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᐃᓂᐅᔪᓂ, ᐃᓚᖃᖅᑐᒥ ᐅᖓᕙᕆᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᓂ, ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᕈᓐᓇᕐᓂᕐᒥ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᒃᑲᓐᓂᕐᓂ 200-ᓂ ᐊᓂᒍᖅᓯᒪᓂᖅᐸᑦ. All departments: [email protected] National: James Boylan Classified Advertising: [email protected]

CIRCULATION – [email protected] Circulation Director: Amy Yang Choosing to challenge Subscriptions: One year mail $75 Online (entire content) $50/year Northern News Services and even the opportunities to do so March 8 is recognized as Inter- The issue: are in sharp decline with many jobs national Women's Day (IWD). "Women's" issues being automated and a lack of partici- It is a day that marks a call to We say: pation in growing industries. action to advance gender parity and This "deteriorating situation (is) for- Are human rights issues recognizes the many achievements of cing gender parity to a lowly 57.8 per NORTHERN NEWS SERVICES LIMITED women, whether social, political, cul- 100% Northern owned and operated cent, which in time represents a mas- Publishers of: tural or economic. Mumilaaq Qaqqaq, five members of sive 257 years before gender parity Inuvik Drum • Kivalliq News Yellowknifer • Hay River Hub This year marks 110 years of IWD; the legislative assembly and countless can be achieved." NWT News/North • Nunavut News/North the first held in 1911 with marches Elders who enrich our lives with their These figures are on a global scale – Member of: Canadian Community Newspapers Association and demonstrations attended by more knowledge. North America is second on the list Ontario Community Newspapers Association Manitoba Community Newspapers Association than one million people in Austria, Gloria Steinem, activist, feminist of regions to have made the most Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. and journalist once said, "The story of Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association progress in gender parity at 72.9 per Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta Press Councils The topics at the time included women's struggle for equality belongs cent, but translated to years it's still a Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce women's rights to vote, to seek work to no single feminist, nor to any one staggering 151 years before we might Contents copyright – printed in the North by Canarctic Graphics Limited outside the home and to be paid fairly organization, but to the collective see women on equal economic footing to do that work. efforts of all who care about human to men. We acknowledge the Nous reconnaissons financial support of l'appui financier du It seems, sometimes, that not much rights." This matters in a territory so the Government of gouvernement du Canada. Canada. has changed over the course of more All people should be invested in scourged by violence against women, than a century. women's rights and evening out the who often have no place to turn. Member of the Ontario Press Council. The Ontario Press Council was created to defend freedom of the press Progress, in any area, is measured starting lines. Poverty, inequality, and violence are on behalf of the public and press alike and to consider specific, unsatisfied complaints from readers about the in glacial speeds. 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ᖁᐊᕋᖅ ᐱᑦᓯᐅᓛᖅ ᐄᑮᓘᒃ ᔨᐊᓐᑐᕋᓐ ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ/Iqaluit ᒪᑐᐊᖅᓯᒪᐃᓐᓇᓕᒑᕕᑦ "ᐄ, ᓄᕙᒡᔪᐊᕐᓇᖅᑕᖃᕈᓂ ᓱᓕ "ᑐᓴᒐᒃᓴᐅᔪᓂ ᐱᖁᔨᓇᔭᕈᓂ ᒪᓕᖕᓂᐊᖅᐳᖓ, street talk ᑲᐱᔭᐅᓚᐅᖅᑎᓪᓗᑎᑦ ᐊᐃᑦᑐᐃᔪᒪᙱᑦᑐᖓ." (ᒪᑐᐊᖅ) ᕿᖓᐃᔭᕐᓇᙱᒻᒪᑦ." Quaraq Pitseolak Eekeelouk with Trevor Wright ᐋᓐᓂᐊᓕᕇᒃᑯᑎᒧᑦ? "Yes, if there's any Gendron Covid happening "Whatever the I don't want to news suggests I'll Do you plan to still wear a mask spread it." follow, (the mask) keeps my nose after you get vaccinated? warm too." ᐱᐊᕆ ᑑᓯ "ᑲᐱᔭᐅᓚᐅᖅᑎᓪᓗᑎᑦ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᓕᕇᒃᑯᑎᒧᑦ ᓱᓕ ᐹᒻ ᑲᓪᓗᒃ ᑲᐃᔪᓪ ᐊᓲᓇ ᔪᐋᓐ ᒫᓂᖕ ᐊᐃᑦᑐᐃᔪᓐᓇᖅᑰᕋᕕᑦ. ᖃᐅᔨᒪᓗᐊᙱᑦᑐᖓ "ᐄᖑᔪᒃᓴᐅᔪᖅ (ᐊᒥᓱᓄᑦ ᖃᓂᒻᒪᓐᓇᐅᔪᒥ) "ᓇᖕᒥᓂᖅ ᐸᕐᓇᙱᓚᖓ ᑲᐱᔭᐅᓂᕐᒧᑦ "ᐄ, ᓄᕙᒡᔪᐊᕐᓇᖅ ᓱᓕ ᑐᖂᑦᑎᔪᓐᓇᖅᖢᓂ ᐊᑑᑎᖃᓪᓚᕆᖕᓂᖓᓂ ᒪᑐᐊᕐᒥ ᓯᕗᓂᐊᓂ ᐃᖏᕐᕋᐃᓐᓇᖅᐸᑦ. ᐅᑕᖅᑭᓂᐊᖅᑐᒃᓴᐅᕗᖓ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᓕᕇᒃᑯᑎᒧᑦ ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᐱᔭᕆᐊᖃᓪᓚᕆᒃᑯᒪ. ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕐᓇᐅᖕᒪᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐊᐃᑦᑐᕈᒪᙱᓐᓇᒃᑯ. ᑭᖑᓂᐊᒍᓪᓘᓐᓃᑦ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᓕᕇᒃᑯᑎᒥᑦ ... ᖃᐅᔨᒍᑦᑕ ᐊᑦᑕᓇᕈᓐᓃᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᐊᖏᕋᔭᖅᐳᖓ ᒪᑐᐊᖅᓯᒪᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑕᐃᒪᑐᖅ ᑲᐴᑎ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᓕᕇᒃᑯᑎ ᒪᓕᑐᐃᓐᓇᕐᓂᐊᖅᐳᖓ ᒪᓕᒐᓕᐊᖑᔪᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑕᐃᒪ." ᐱᔭᕆᐊᖃᕈᓐᓃᖅᐸᑦ, ᐱᔭᕆᐊᖃᕋᔭᒍᓐᓃᖅᐳᖓ." ᑲᐱᔭᐅᒐᓗᐊᕈᒪ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᓕᕇᒃᑯᑎᒧᑦ." ᐱᔪᓐᓇᑦᑎᐊᕐᓂᐊᖅᐳᖅ." Pierre Ducy Pam Kalluk Kyle Ashoona Joanne Manning "After a vaccination I "I guess if (the "I personally "Yes, because think you still can be pandemic) keeps myself don't plan Covid is still a contagious. I'm not going on. I guess on getting vac- deadly disease sure about the effi- I'll wait until we cinated unless I and I don't want ciency of the mask find out it's safe absolutely have to. to spread it after or before the and then if there's But I'd say yes I'd around. I hope vaccine ... I'm just no need to, then I still use a mask this vaccination going to follow the won't need to." even if I got vac- works." rules and that's it." cinated." amazing on-the-land stories ᑲᔾᔮᕐᓇᖅᑐᓂᒃ ᓄᓇᒥ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᑦ ᒪᕆᐊ ᖃᔭᓴᖅ ᓴᐸ ᑯᑭ ᑰᒑᕐᔪᒃ ᓴ ᓂ ᑭᓗᐊ ᖅ ᕋᐃᒪᓐ ᐊᒻᒪ ᒥᐊᕆ ᖃᔭᓴᖅ, ᐅᒥᖕᒪᐅᑉ ᐊᒥᖏᓐᓂ ᓴᓇᔪᑦ ᑐᓂᔭᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᓂ. ᐃᕐᙳᑕᒥᓂᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑕᐅᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᐃᐊᑦᒪᓐ, ᐊᖅᓴᕐᓃᑦ ᓂᒋᕐᒥ ᑕᖕᒫᕐᕕᖕᒥ "ᐃᑎᓕᐊᕈᒃ," ᕕᕈᐊᕆ 19, 2021. ᑭᓪᓚᖅ, ᓰᓇ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑕᔅᑎᓂᒧᑦ ᑕᖕᒫᖅᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᑰᒑᕐᔫᑉ ᖃᓂᒋᔭᖓᓂ.

Maria Kayasark Kugaaruk Sappa Cookie Raymond and Mary Kayasark, working on muskox skins that were given to them, with the help of Sanikiluaq their ingutaqs Edmond, Killaq, Sheena and Destiny while camping near Kugaaruk. Northern lights at South camp "Itiliaruk," Feb. 19, 2021.

ᔪᐊᔾᔩᓇ ᓕᓕᐊᓐ ᐳᐊᑕ ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ ᐅᓇ ᐊᔾᔨᓕᐅᖅᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᒥ ᓇᑦᑎᕋᓱᒃᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ, ᐱᖃᓐᓈᕋ ᐆᒥᖓ ᐊᔾᔨᓕᐅᖅᓯᑦᑎᐊᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ.

Georgina LIllian Porter Gjoa Haven My boyfriend took this awesome shot while we were sealing. 10 nunavutnews.com, Monday, March 8, 2021 kNKu W?9oxJ5, N[Z/su, ᒫµ5y 8, 2021 news ĪØflî Kudloo says her parents are her strength

There's, from page 5 So I decided that I can speak for them [pauses, overcome RK: I came from very strong women. My mother, she with emotion]. I'm sorry. I'm passionate about it, I guess. just turned 89. She's always cheerful – even though she's in NN: In the past, you also served as the first president of the a wheelchair she's always trying to help people. And I had a Qulliit Nunavut Status of Women Council. You were once a NN: You've been president of Pauktuutit since 2014. How father also who was very determined. He survived 28 days on member of the NWT Status of Women Council, the National much longer do you think you'll have the drive to do this? the land at age 81. He had survival skills to do that. I think my Crime Prevention Council and the Sexual Abuse Coalition of RK: I have two more years on my last term, but I always parents are my strength to this day. the NWT. Where does your passion for activism come from? say I don't know when to quit. Because when you're dealing RK: I'm a survivor of residential school and also the TB with people's lives, when do you stop doing that, trying to help NN: What are the things that you enjoy in life outside pandemic that happened when I was a child. I had to leave them? of advocating for others? What are your pastimes and other a very loving family when I went to residential school at age But we have very dedicated young people on the board ... so sources of joy? nine, which I thought didn't hurt me at all because I love the future is looking good for Pauktuutit for the work to go on RK: Helping out with my grandchildren and I have two school. ... Pauktuutit will keep working very hard to ensure the voices great-grandchildren now. When I became an adult, married with children, I started and interests of Inuit are heard at all levels of government. I also enjoy doing outdoor stuff like fishing. I help my to realize that some kids didn't grow up in a safe place like I grandson do some ptarmigan hunting. I also help with the har- did. Especially thinking of children, if there's family violence NN: Who are the women who have been most influential in vesting of our caribou in the fall. Those are the things I enjoy, in the home how helpless they must feel. your life and what sorts of things have they taught you? the outdoors and the land. It gives me peace. On the land Do you have an amazing story from your adventures on the land? Tell us your story and show us your photos for a chance to win $100. Submit your story and photo to our Nunavut News Facebook page, [email protected], or by mail to Nuna- vut News, PO Box 28, Iqaluit, NU, X0A 0H0. Entries will be placed on our Facebook page. They may also appear in this newspaper and other Northern News Services publications. The story and photo with the most combined likes and shares at the end of the week wins. This week's winner is Oscar Camano. Congratulations! ᐊᑭᓯᔪᖅ: ᐋᔅᑯᕐ ᑲᒫᓄ ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᖅ ᕕᕈᐊᕆ 21, 2021. 10:20 ᐅᓐᓄᒃᑯᑦ. ᐊᖅᓴᕐᓃᑦ ᑲᔾᔮᕐᓇᖅᑎᑦᑎᕗᑦ ᕿᓚᖕᒥ.

Winner: Oscar Camano Rankin Inlet February 21, 2021. 10:20 p.m. Northern Lights are gracing the sky.

ᑳᒥᓐ ᓱᓗᒃ ᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ ᑳᓴᓐ ᑰᒃ ᓱᓗᒃ ᑕᖅᑭᖃᖅᐳᖅ 6–ᓂ, ᓂᕿᓂ ᒪᒪᕆᓂᖅᐹᖓ ᑐᒃᑑᕗᖅ, ᕿᐊᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐱᒃᑲᓐᓂᕈᒪᓪᓗᓂ.

Carmen Suluk Arviat Carson Kirk Suluk is six months old, his favour- ite food is tuktu, he cried wanting more. kNKu W?9oxJ5, N[Z/su, ᒫµ5y 8, 2021 nunavutnews.com, Monday, March 8, 2021 11

Legislative Assembly briefs with Derek Neary

'Where can I go sleep?': dilemma facing "I encourage anybody out there that are staff; senior staff ᒪᓕᒐᓕᐅᖅᑎ ᑳᑎ ᑕᐅᑐᙱ ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ Covid-19 patients in public housing or junior staff that feel that they are being misrepresented or "ᓈᒻᒪᒃᓴᕐᓂᖃᙱᑦᑎᐊᓪᓗᐊᖅᐳᖅ ᖃᓄᐃᑦᑑᓂᖏᓐᓂ bullied, or any of those to please fill out the form and make ᐱᔾᔪᑎᒋᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᐊᑭᕋᖅᑐᐃᓂᕐᒥ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᖃᕐᓇᙱᑦᑐᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ John Main has been receiving calls from constituents complaint," said Kusugak. ᐸᖅᑭᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᔾᔪᓯᐅᔪᒥ." infected with Covid-19 asking how they can isolate in their "For anybody who feels that they have an opportunity in crowded homes, and he doesn't have answers for them. Health or any other department; that they have an opportunity Main, who represents the to apply for a job that is higher than or lower than the position "ᐅᓐᓄᑦ ᐅᖃᓗᖃᑦᑕᖅᐳᑦ hard-hit riding of Arviat, they're in, please apply for it. You don't need anybody's permis- MLA Cathy Tow- ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᐱᕆᓪᓗᑎᒃ, ‘ᓇᒧᑦ said the community needs to sion to apply for a job. You go and do it without seeking require- tongie says "there develop options for people who ments from your supervisor." should be no toler- ᓯᓂᒋᐊᖅᑐᕈᓐᓇᖅᐳᖓ? test positive for the coronavirus ᐊᖏᕐᕋᓐᓃᑦᑐᓐᓇᙱᓚᖓ. He added that he has instructed officials within his depart- ance for racism in and have many other people ment to look into issues at the Rankin Inlet Birthing Centre to our health care sys- ᐊᐃᑦᑐᐃᔪᒪᙱᓐᓇᒪ residing with them. He asked correct the situation and "move forward so that this does not ᓄᕙᒡᔪᐊᕐᓇᖅ-19–ᒥ his colleagues in the legislative tem." ᐃᓚᓐᓄᑦ, ᑕᐃᒪᓕ assembly to envision that they Continued, page 19 ᓇᒧᙵᐅᓂᐊᓕᖅᐳᖓ?' get a phone call from a nurse ᒪᓕᒐᓕᐅᖅᑎ ᔮᓐ ᒪᐃᓐ informing them that they have ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᓚᖏᓐᓂ contracted Covid. "From this point you have to ᓂᕈᐊᖅᑎᖏᓐᓂ be isolated in your house and ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᓄᑦ you cannot leave your house ᓄᕙᒡᔪᐊᕐᓇᖅ-19–ᒧᑦ. and the people who live in your house, you have to make sure you're not passing it along to fellow household members," he said. "On top of that, imagine there are 10 people living in the same house with you and you don't even have your own room. What would you do? This has created a lot more problems. The lack of housing has caused a lot more problems. "They have been calling me and asking me, 'Where can I photos courtesy of the legislative assembly go sleep? I can't stay at my "They have been call- house. I don't want to pass on ing me and asking the Covid-19 to my family, so me, 'Where can I go where do I go now? Where can sleep? I can't stay at I go sleep?' As an MLA, I have my house. I don't want not had an answer to that, which to pass on the Covid- is unfortunate." Main said Arviat, which is 19 to my family, so in the midst of its second out- where do I go now?' break of Covid, needs more MLA John Main says secondary accommodations. of some constituents He asked Housing Minister who have been diag- Margaret Nakashuk whether nosed with Covid-19. public housing tenants have been disproportionately affect- ed by the virus. She said it does appear that way, but more analysis is needed. He then inquired about how Covid has affected housing maintenance. Nakashuk said the impact has been "minimal." Main said that's not his understanding, so Nakashuk said she'd look for another update. Racism and nepotism informing staffing decisions, Towtongie says Some "high-level" government officials are making staffing decisions and inappropriate comments towards Inuit "driven by racism and nepotism," says MLA Cathy Towtongie. "There are many Inuit who are experienced and qualified to do jobs, but are not being hired into positions. Instead of rec- ognizing the skills and abilities of Inuit who can do the work, senior managers are hiring people from outside of the territory who often leave after a couple of years," Towtongie, who repre- sents Rankin Inlet North-Chesterfield Inlet, said in the legisla- tive assembly on March 2. "A number of my constituents have come to me, to my home a number of times to complain about racist treatment they have experienced, some of it in the health field ... There should be no tolerance for racism in our health care system. We need more Inuit working within our health care system. If our government continues to tolerate racist attitudes, we will not achieve this goal," she said. She referenced a recent media article that outlined the downfall of the midwifery program in Rankin Inlet, which was "shoddily run for many years due to senior management pater- nalism and racial denigration of the Inuit workers, so it makes one wonder if we can even run one here in Nunavut where Inuit form the majority," said Towtongie. The two Inuit midwives resigned last year. She asked Health Minister Lorne Kusugak about complaints received from staff within his department relating to racism. He replied that such complaints may exist, but he hasn't been notified of them. He also explained that there is a complaint form that can be submitted anonymously to raise concerns about racism or any kind of harassment. 12 nunavutnews.com, Monday, March 8, 2021 kNKu W?9oxJ5, N[Z/su, ᒫµ5y 8, 2021 Around Nunavut ∂´êÄ∏∂Ò ¥∂fl±´ Phone: (867) 979-5990 Email: [email protected] Fax: (867) 979-6010

Inuk Youtuber hopes to promote Inuit ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑏᑦ ᓂᐊᖁᙴᒥ ᓇᓄᖅ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᖓᓂ ᓄᓇ ᓄᓇᒥ–ᑐᙵᕕᓕᖕᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᔪᒥ ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᕗᑦ ᓯᓚᒥ language and culture through videos ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ, ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑏᑦ ᐃᓕᑦᑎᕙᒃᐳᑦ ᓄᓇᒥ ᖃᐅᑕᒫᒥ ᖃᓄᐃᑦᑐᑐᐃᓐᓇᕐᒥ ᓯᓚᐅᔪᒥ. Iglulik Robby Qammaniq currently living in Iglulik, who runs the YouTube channel Inuktitut Biology, hopes to promote Inuktitut through his videos. One of his most recent videos, Intro to Inuktitut Human Anatomy, gives an overview of the human body identified from traditional Inuktitut names. Inuktitut is Qammaniq's first language and he has studied biology in a post-secondary setting. "Inuktitut is my mother tongue and I spoke it all my life. I graduated from high school, university and college respectively, and taught for eight years," wrote Qammaniq to Nunavut News. By bringing an Inuit perspective to biology, he hopes to make it easier for Nunavummiut and others to learn these topics. "Inuit traditionally did not have a writing system, there- fore (the) bulk of Traditional Inuit Knowledge is yet to be documented," reads an introduction from Qammaniq on his YouTube channel. His goal is to fill the gap in written Inuktitut regarding "anatomy and physiology, child psychology, entomology, orni- thology, etc." He hopes everyone enjoys the videos he produces and finds photo courtesy of the Department of Education them easy to learn from. Students of Apex's Nanook School Nuna land-based program participate in an outdoor activity, students – Trevor Wright are outside learning on the land every day in all types of weather. Winners of Qilaut Inuktut songwriting contest announced $500 each. support of the Niaqunnguu District Education Authority, the The winning songs can be found on the Qaggiavuut website. Apex community, parents and the educators of Nanook School. Nunavut – Trevor Wright – Trevor Wright During the month of February, Nunavut's Department of Culture and Heritage, in collaboration with Qaggiavuut, held the 2021 Qilaut Inuktut songwriting contest online. Education Minister commends GN appoints Elders to Inuit They received 13 submissions from across Nunavut and Nanook School's land-based program Qaujimajatuqangit Katimajiit the songs were judged by the public on originality, creativity, Apex Nunavut melody and lyrics. Education Minister David Joanasie congratulated Nanook The Department of Culture and Heritage recently appointed The winning songs are as follows: School for their Nuna School land-based program winning the nine members to the Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Katimajiit, a com- 1st: Annirilavut – Joey Nowyuk EECOM (Canadian Network for Environmental Education and mittee comprising Elders who advise the territorial government 2nd: Nagligivagit – Debbie Oyukuluk Communications) Award for Outstanding K-12 Schools during on Inuit traditional knowledge and societal values. 3rd: Kanngiaq – Daniel and Kallaarjuk Taukie the Feb. 26 sitting of the legislative assembly. The new members are Mary Voisey of Whale Cove, Ootoo- 4th: Takujariurakkit – the Alphas (Taqtu Kaunak, Kukigaq "In our schools, the land is an important place for experiential vak Audlakiak of Clyde River, Lew Philip of Iqaluit, Abraham Allakannuaq, Qavvik Nanordluk and Nanorak Nanoak.) learning. Land-based educational programs provide students Oolalak of Sanirajak, Willie Nakoolak of Coral Harbour, 5th: Quvianaq – the Alphas with culturally relevant learning experiences that go beyond the Miriam Aglukkaq of Gjoa Haven, and Celine Ningark of 6th: Qungallutit – Daniel Kolola four walls of the classroom," Joanasie said on Feb. 26. Kugaaruk. Marie Anguti of Kugaaruk and Jean Simailak of 7th: Qatanngutigiittuta – Eemali Koloa "The Nuna School program is the first land-based Kinder- Baker Lake will return as members of the committee. 8th: Anaanaga – Eva and Mallory Okatsiak garten to Grade 12 school program in Canada. Students are Culture and Heritage Minister Maragret Nakashuk thanked 9th: Tikittugu – Mary Mike and Joey Nowyuk outside learning on the land everyday in all types of weather, the outgoing members of the group for sharing their time and 10th: Nutarautilluta – Rosalie Pissuk combining a land-based approach, Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, knowledge: Kigutikakjuk Shappa of Arctic Bay, Zeke Ejetsiak First to third place winners received $5,000, $2,500 and while meeting the learning outcomes from our curriculum." $1,500 respectively, while the seven runners-up were awarded He adds that it wouldn't have been possible if not for the Please see Airfield, page 13 kNKu W?9oxJ5, N[Z/su, ᒫµ5y 8, 2021 nunavutnews.com, Monday, March 8, 2021 13 around Nunavut kᓴNKusi GN, from page 12 ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᖕᒥ ᐃᖃᓗᓕᕆᔨᒃᑯᑦ ᐅᒥᐊᕐᔪᐊᖓ (MV) ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅ ᐅᕙᓂ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᕗᖅ ᕕᕈᐊᕆ 26–ᒥ ᑐᕌᖅᐸᓪᓕᐊᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᑕᕆᐅᕐᒥ of Kinngait, Annie Tookalook of Sanikiluaq, Mary Voisey of ᐆᒃᑐᕋᐅᑕᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᓴᐃᓐᑦ ᔮᓐᔅ, ᓅᕙᓐᓛᒻᒧᑦ. ᐅᒥᐊᕐᔪᐊᖅ ᐋᖅᑭᐅᒪᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᕗᖅ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᒫᓐᓇᐅᔪᒥ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᖅᓯᕗᖅ Whale Cove, Annie Napayok of Whale Cove, Makabe Nartuk ᐃᓕᔭᐅᓂᖓᓂ ᓄᑖᖑᔪᒥ ᐅᖅᓱᐊᓗᖕᒧᑦ ᐳᓪᓚᒃᓴᐅᑎᖓᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᔾᔪᓯᐅᔪᒥ. ᓴᓇᔭᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᓄᐊᕙᐃᒥ 2001–ᒥ, MV ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅ of Kugaaruk, and Simon Qingnaqtuq of Taloyoak. ᐱᔭᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᖕᒥ ᐃᖃᓗᓕᕆᔨᒃᑯᓐᓄᑦ 2015–ᒥ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᑐᔪᕐᒥᕕᐅᔪᓐᓇᖅᐳᖅ ᑎᑭᐅᒪᔪᒧᑦ 28–ᓂ 30–ᓄᑦ Nakashuk noted that the appointees represent Nunavut ᐅᒥᐊᕐᔪᐊᕐᒥ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᔪᓄᑦ. ᐅᒥᐊᕐᔪᐊᖅ ᐅᓯᔪᓐᓇᖅᐳᖅ ᑎᑭᐅᒪᔪᒧᑦ 660 ᒪᑐᕆᒃ ᑕᓐᓂ ᓇᑖᕐᓇᓂ ᐅᕝᕙᓘᓐᓃᑦ 440 ᒪᑐᕆᒃ geographically and linguistically. Their advice is considered on matters relating to government policies, programs, services ᑕᓐᓂ ᑭᖑᒃᐸᓂᑦ. and legislation and they can be called upon by any government department. – Derek Neary Airfield assessments to take place in various communities Nunavut Between March 3 and 12, members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, alongside two members of the United States Air Force Air National Guard will be visiting various commun- ities. They will be assessing airfield infrastructure in Kugluktuk, Cambridge Bay, Resolute Bay Arctic Bay and Alert. "These assessments are being done in support of a wide range of potential domestic missions including disaster relief and humanitarian aid," Public Affairs Officer Ken Jacobson wrote in a public service announcement from the Canadian Armed Forces. Risk mitigation procedures will be followed, such as mask wearing and frequent cleaning of surfaces. Participating US personnel have been isolating for 14 days alongside the remaining team members in Yellowknife, NT, prior to beginning their mission. photo courtesy of Baffin Fisheries – Trevor Wright Seaworthy once more Baffin Fisheries announces The Baffin Fisheries motor vessel (MV) Sivulliq is seen here on Feb. 26 heading out for sea trials in St. Johns, new board members Newfoundland. The ship is undergoing maintenance and is currently testing out the installation of a new Qikiqtani fuel pump system. Built in Norway in 2001, the MV Sivulliq was acquired by Baffin Fisheries in 2015 and On March 2, Baffin Fisheries announced the election of has accommodations for up to 28 to 30 crewmembers. The ship can hold up to 660 metric tons of turbot four new Board representatives by Hunter and Trapper Asso- or 440 metric tons of shrimp. ciation (HTA) shareholders in Iqaluit, Pond Inlet, Pangnirtung and Clyde River. application/ where more information about program guidelines The defendants named in the case are Namen Inuavak, At the 2020-21 round of HTA annual general meetings, the can be found. Tom Naqitarvik, Jonathan Pitula, Christopher Akeeagok, following were elected to represent their communities to the – Trevor Wright Andy Kalluk, John Doe and Jane Doe, and "all other persons Baffin Fisheries Board of Directors: unknown to the plaintiff (Baffinland) at a blockade at or near • Enookie Inuarak - Mittimatalik HTA Judge grants order to prevent protesters Mary River." • Adamee Itorcheak - Amaruq HTA – Derek Neary • Sandy Kautuq - Nangmautaq HTA from blockading Mary River mine again • Patrick Kilabuk - Pangnirtung HTA Nulujaat/Mary River Mine Climate Change Youth Advisory All four are to be sworn in alongside returning board mem- Protesters who sets up blockades for several days at the bers March 30 in Pangnirtung. Mary River iron ore mine's airstrip and tote road in February Committee members needed – Trevor Wright will be breaking the law and could encounter RCMP enforce- Nunavut ment if they return. The Government of Nunavut's (GN) Climate Change Sec- Justice Susan Cooper on Tuesday ruled in favour of Baffin- retariat is looking for youth between the ages of 18 and 29 to Call for applications for land Iron Mines' request for an injunction against the protest- serve on its Climate Change Youth Advisory committee. Cultural Activities Program ers from Pond Inlet and Arctic Bay, who call themselves the The committee will provide input into climate-change Qikiqtani Nuluujaat Land Guardians. They are opposed to the proposed related initiatives across Nunavut. The Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA) is inviting proposals expansion of the Mary River mine, including a railway and Members will: for the Qikiqtani Cultural Activities Program (QCAP) for all increased shipping, due to potential effects on the landscape • Raise awareness among Nunavummiut on climate change Qikiqtani communities for the 2021-22 fiscal year. and wildlife. issues affecting their communities; This was previously suspended in mid-March 2020 due to Cooper found that a blockade of Baffinland's mining oper- • Provide a youth perspective and input on GN climate Covid-19. ation "results in economic losses of a magnitude that cannot change programs, policies and activities; In light of the pandemic applicants are required to submit a realistically be remedied by an order for damages at some • Advise the GN on emerging climate change issues of con- health and safety plan, indicating how program participants will future time." cern to youth; be protected with the use of facemasks and physical distancing, as However, she noted that the protesters can still demonstrate • Represent Nunavut youth at climate change gatherings; well as how facilities will be sanitized during program delivery. in other locations, which still makes it possible to express their • Have the opportunity to become engaged climate change QCAP supports community-based cultural programs, with views and to be seen and heard. leaders in Nunavut. priority given to land and sewing programs, although QIA will Her decision makes it possible for the RCMP to enforce the People can apply by visiting their local Government Liaison also consider other Inuit cultural programs. order "including removing and detaining to the extent neces- Officer or online at www.climatechangenunavut.ca. Applications can be completed online at www.qia.ca/qcap- sary" people who defy her order. – Trevor Wright 14 nunavutnews.com, Monday, March 8, 2021 kNKu W?9oxJ5, N[Z/su, ᒫµ5y 8, 2021 news ĪØflî Worry over meth in Pangnirtung 'If the people selling these drugs are not stopped ... the situation is going to get really bad' by Derek Neary "This is concerning because it's one suspect individuals may be under the ᐸᖕᓂᖅᑑᑉ ᒪᐃᔭᖓ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐸᓖᓯᒃᑯᑦ ᐊᔭᐅᕆᕗᑦ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑎᐅᔪᓂ Northern News Services of the harder drugs that has actually influence of synthetic drugs because ᑐᓴᒐᒃᓴᖃᖅᑐᖃᑐᐃᖅᐸᑕ ᓂᐅᕕᐊᒃᓴᖃᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᓴᙱᔪᐊᓗᖕᒥ ᓱᓐᓂᕈᑕᐅᓲᒥᒃ Panniqtuuq/Pangnirtung shown up. The drug situation seems they are exhibiting symptoms that meth–ᒥ ᓄᓇᓕᖏᓐᓂ. A former police officer is warn- to be kind of getting worse, a little are different than being under the ing residents of Pangnirtung that bit. We're starting to see a little bit influence of alcohol ... (such as) meth is being dealt in their com- more harder and harder things up increased heart rate and blood pres- munity, and he says the drug almost here." sure, elevated body temperature and killed a young relative. Although the Pangnirtung RCMP paranoia. "I am writing this to plead with has not heard directly from individ- "Some users may experience you that if the people selling these uals reporting that the illegal drug overdose symptoms such as diffi- drugs are not stopped right away that is circulating, officers have been culty breathing, chest pains and con- the situation is going to get really "working closely with partners in vulsion, sending them into medical bad. If you thought drinking was the community on how to address distress requiring immediate med- bad, if you thought coke and speed concerns this week," the police force ical attention." were bad – just wait until you see the stated. Methamphetamine can be traf- effects of meth will do to the com- Lawlor encourages Pan- ficked in the form of crystals, pow- munity. It is destroying whole com- niqtuumiut to cooperate with the der and tablets. The drug can have munities in the south," David Law- Mounties in addressing this problem. "dangerous and unpredictable, short- son wrote on the Pangnirtung News "The RCMP can't do it just on term mental and physical effects" and Announcements Facebook page their own. They need information lasting eight to 24 hours, according on March 1. before they can really act… they to Health Canada. "It's one of the cheapest drugs out need community members speaking Some meth users experience a there but it's also the hardest drug to up a little bit more," he said. "temporary rush of well-being" or hit the body and mind and one of the Police couldn't provide statistics a state of euphoria, but there are hardest drugs to treat once you are on criminal charges laid related to other possible side effects that are hooked… I plead with you to stop meth in Nunavut before press dead- much less pleasant, particularly for this as this, where (a) young person line, but a spokesperson confirmed binge and long-term users, such as almost died will only be the begin- officers have seized the drug in the anxiety, restlessness, hallucinations, ning," Lawson stated. past. aggression and "erratic or bizarre Psychonaught/Wikimedia Commons image Pangnirtung Mayor Eric Lawlor "Unfortunately Nunavut is not thought patterns," Health Canada Pangnirtung's mayor and the police are encouraging residents also expressed his concern about the immune to synthetic drugs such as states, adding that heart attacks and to provide any information they have to the RCMP relating to the situation. methamphetamines," the RCMP strokes have been known to occur sale of meth in their community. "It was shocking to hear," he said. stated. "There are times when we among some meth users. kNKu W?9oxJ5, N[Z/su, ᒫµ5y 8, 2021 nunavutnews.com, Monday, March 8, 2021 15 news ĪØflî A breath of fresh air for medical travellers Gleason Uppahuak bringing strong Inuit presence to boarding home by Darrell Greer position managing a social hous- "ᐊᒥᓱᒻᒪᕆᐊᓗᖕᓂ ᐊᓯᔾᔨᕐᓂᖃᖅᓯᒪᕗᑦ ᖄᖏᖅᓯᒪᓕᖅᑐᓂ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᓄᑦ ᐊᕐᕕᐊᕐᒥᐅᑕᓄᑦ ᐅᐃᖓᓄᑦ ᓄᓕᐊᖓᓄᓪᓗ Northern News Services ing program in Whale Cove after ᑲᑎᙵᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᒋᓖᓴᓐ ᐊᒻᒪ ᕗᕌᓐᓯᔅ ᐅᑉᐸᕼᐅᐊᒃᒧᑦ, ᐅᐃᓂᐱᐊᒡᒥ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᖃᓕᖅᑐᓂ ᒍᓖᓴᓐ ᐊᑦᑎᖅᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ Arviat/Winnipeg graduating from the accounting and It's a long way from playing ball payroll program at Winnipeg's Herz- ᐊᖓᔪᖅᑳᖑᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑭᕙᓪᓕᕐᒥ ᐱᕙᓪᓕᐊᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑎᒥᖁᑕᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᖄᖏᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ ᓯᑎᐱᕆᒥ." hockey on the streets of Arviat to ing College in 2019. being president of a regional develop- Uppahuak said he was still living ment corporation, but that's been the and working in Whale Cove about a incredible journey for Gleason Uppa- year later, when a friend forwarded "It's been a whirlwind of huak, 36, who accepted the position him a job ad posted in Kivalliq change during the past few of president of the Kivalliq Develop- News for the president's position with years for Arviat's husband-and- ment Corp. this past September. the Kivalliq Development Corp. – a wife team of Gleason and Fran- Uppahuak's outstanding work boarding home that cares for Nuna- ces Uppahuak, who now call ethic and belief in education as a vummiut patients on medical travel Winnipeg home after Gleason key to success began to manifest for health services in Winnipeg by itself early in the young man's life, providing accommodations, trans- was named president of Kival- and he found himself working in a portation, translation services (Inuk- liq Development Corp. this past local accounting department almost titut/English), meals and recreational September." immediately after earning his high activities. photo courtesy of Gleason Uppahuak school diploma. He said his desire to always be of Never someone to be content service to his fellow Inuit led him to with the status quo, Uppahuak apply for the position. always looked for ways to improve "The facility has always had these whatever he was involved in, and managers, supervisors, directors, but that included his love for the local the president's position is brand new," hockey scene. said Uppahuak. His efforts in helping to develop "I was overjoyed to be offered both the local and regional hockey this position. I'm all about creating scenes during a 15-year period did Inuit presence, Inuit working here, available positions. There are lots He said both he and his wife, some covering the next 10 or 20 not go unnoticed, culminating in speaking in our own language – of people who've already told me Frances, love Winnipeg and that years, but what I have on my plan for then Nunavut Commissioner Nel- that's what they're seeing now and they're happy to see me here because works out well with him accepting a the first three years are my priorities. lie Kusugak presenting him with a they love it! it's becoming a more welcoming permanent position and moving back "They're a kickstart to what I Commissioner's Award for Volun- "I'm here to make this a better place to be." to the city this past September. want to accomplish here. teering in his home community on place to work and that will help Uppahuak said Inuit currently "All the necessities, essentials our "Yes, it has been quite the jour- May 22, 2018. create a better experience for our make up about 20 per cent of the family needs are only a couple of ney getting here, but I have always Uppahuak's belief in both hard clients, as well. staff, but he intends to raise that steps away for us here. believed education is a key to suc- work and continued education "There are plans in the works that number to 50 per cent during his first "I'm working closely with our cess. proved true when he accepted a will have us training Inuit for our two or three years on the job. shareholders on a number of plans, "And hard work does pay off." Preserving Inuktitut across two generations Mother and daughter Eva and Karliin Aariak see language and culture as something to be cherished and protected by Trevor Wright experience and to share in "I find that over a number who don't know their language "If Nunavummiut feel like abide by language legislation Northern News Services what my mother has accom- of years, we've been seeing should "never be afraid to be their language rights have not in Nunavut. Nunavut plished." that the Inuktut language is asking questions to people been met, they can contact our "We want to do our part," From 1999 to 2004 Com- While there has been much eroding, it is unfortunately the who they trust" be they par- office." Karliin said. missioner of Nunavut Eva work on the legislative side case today there is another ents, grandparents, friends in Another role Karliin's While language protec- Aariak served as languages done to protect Inuktitut, layer of erosion that I've been the community or anyone else office has is to ensure pri- tions exist in Nunavut, it is commissioner and today her there's also a lot of work to be noticing, it's very important they can seek support from. vate businesses know their also important to them that daughter Karliin Aariak holds done inside the home. for me to address," said Eva. In her capacity in as lan- role and the obligations the parents and families teach that position. Both see Inuk- When Eva and her family "An individual who speaks guages commissioner, Karliin private sector has in Nunavut, their children in the home as titut as something to be cher- moved from Arctic Bay to Inuktitut will often not fin- also wanted to highlight the including providing "services well. ished and protected. Iqaluit she recognized that ish their words, like the end- rights Nunavummiut have for in the Inuit language (and) to "It's very important to take The creation of Nunavut English was the de facto lan- ings of Inuktitut words. For Inuktitut-language services in have their signs in the Inuit the onus upon us and to keep itself in 1999 is something guage often used in the cap- instance, iqaluk is fish, with a the territory. language." using the language," said Eva. they see as a milestone in ital's schools, so she practiced 'K' at the end, you hear more "I want to encourage Nuna- She adds that they can "Everybody should be able helping the preservation of with her family at home, set- so people saying, 'iqalu' with vummiut to not be afraid to assist the private sector in to have access to a place where Inuit language. ting aside time to just speak the 'U' and without the 'K'." assert your language rights," coming up with a language they can learn and enhance "It's (of) utmost import- Inuktitut and to teach her Eva adds that young people she said. plan and how they can better their mother tongue." ance, our culture and lan- family their mother tongue. guage, and you know why? "We built a practice at Nunavut-creation, Nunavut home, every weekend we had was created because of our to speak our own language in culture and language, that's the house, that really helped why we have this wonder- to strengthen their language ful territory called Nunavut, acquisition and use. I would it's to recognize who we are," suggest that as a practice said Eva. where it can be helpful to Eva was instrumental in some other families." the formation of the Inuit During her upbringing, Language Protection Act and Karliin "grew up knowing the Official Languages Act how important my language in Nunavut and her daughter is, and to have strength in it remembers the hard work that at home. was put into the process in "After I had kids I real- 1999. ized how important that was Bringing legislative power and to ensure other facets, towards protecting Inuit cul- such as daycares (and) schools ture and language is one of the also comply with the language strengths of having an Inuit legislations, in that they make territory. Inuit language a priority," said "Nunavut was created so Karliin. that there would be strength While the two have worked in having Inuit legislation, to hard towards strengthening have a stronger voice to use the Inuit language, there is a our language," added Karliin. decline in speakers who know "I'm proud I get to have this their language. 16 nunavutnews.com, Monday, March 8, 2021 kNKu W?9oxJ5, N[Z/su, ᒫµ5y 8, 2021 Sports & Recreation Sports hotline • James McCarthy Phone: (867) 873-4031 • Email: [email protected] • Fax: (867) 873-8507 Hockey equipment haul in Naujaat Local players receive 25 sets of new gear from NHLPA by Darrell Greer Association and applied to the ᐳᑭᖅᑕᓕᒃ ᑎᓂᔅ ᒪᓐᕈ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐃᓱᒪᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐅᐃᕆᓯᒪᔪᓂᒡᓗ ᐃᑲᔪᕆᐊᖅᑎ ᐳᕆᑦᓂ Hᐅᒻ ᓯᕗᓕᖅᑎᐅᖃᑕᐅᓚᐅᑑᒃ Hᐊᑭᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ Northern News Services NHLPA's Goals and Dreams ᐊᓐᓄᕌᖅᑖᖅᑎᑦᑎᔪᓂᒃ Hᐊᑭᖅᑎᑯᓗᖕᓄᑦ ᓇᐅᔮᓂ ᑎᑭᑎᑦᑎᓚᐅᖅᑎᓪᓗᒋ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ Hᐊᑭᕕᒡᔪᐊᖅᑏᑦ ᑲᑐᔾᔨᖃᑎᒌᒃᑯᖏᑦᑎᒍᑦ Naujaat fund. The goal was to outfit ᑐᕌᒐᕆᔭᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᑕᐅᑐᕐᕉᖅᑕᐅᔪᓄᓪᓗ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᖅᑖᕈᑕᐅᕙᒃᑐᒃᑯᑦ. Twenty-five young hockey 25 youth from Naujaat who players were grinning ear to otherwise wouldn't have the ear at the start of their most opportunity to play hockey recent season. and learn invaluable team They received brand-new skills. gear from head to toe cour- Munroe said a retired tesy of the National Hockey RCMP corporal out of Ottawa, League Players Association's Sylvain Lemoyne, actually (NHLPA) Goals and Dreams told him about the program, fund and the efforts of a local so he teamed up with Holm RCMP officer, a mental health to put together an applica- worker and their local minor tion and garner support from hockey association. both Naujaat schools, mental The Goals and Dreams health, the local recreation fund was started by the department and the hamlet NHLPA in 1999 as a way for itself. NHL players to give some- He said they got every- thing back to the game they thing together and submitted love. the application, and the pro- To date, more than 80,000 gram approved them for the economically challenged 25 sets of gear. children in 34 countries have "We got part of it in late benefited from the program last year but we never got all through the donation of full the pieces until just around sets of hockey equipment, Christmas time," said Munroe. along with help upgrading "We used the schools and and building hundreds of new the recreation department to arenas around the world. identify 24 or 25 kids who photo courtesy of RCMP More than $24 million would be great candidates to RCMP Cpl. Dennis Munroe and mental health and addictions worker Brittany Holm helped lead the way has been donated to grass- receive the gear, measured to receive 25 sets of brand-new hockey gear for local minor hockey players in Naujaat from the National roots hockey programs world them up and sent the meas- wide so far, making Goals and urements to the NHLPA co- Hockey League Players Association's Goals and Dreams fund. Back row, from left, Brittany Holms, Cpl. Dreams the largest program ordinators for the program Dennis Munroe, Curtis Ooolateeta, Randy Siusangnark, Tom Siusangnark, Aria Malliki and Sheryl Hunter. of its kind. and they sent us 25 sets of Front row, from left, Abraham Tuktudjuk, Brandon Sanertanut, Joe Kaunak and Charlie Benout. The RCMP, led by Cpl. gear, head to toe. Dennis Munroe, and Com- "This is a big program for the right gear. as soon as Munroe asked her the community, so I thought it their faces – they were excit- munity Mental Health, them and they were just great "I don't think we had one to. would be a good suit for me," ed. Very excited. through the efforts of mental to deal with. They bent over single kid with any issues She said they kind of co- said Holm. "We have a list of names health and addictions worker backwards to make sure we size-wise. They all seem to fit co-ordinated the process from "The kids were just thrilled of kids looking for gear next Brittany Holm, partnered with got everything we needed and really well." there. when they were receiving year, so we're going to try it the Naujaat Minor Hockey that the kids were fitted with Holm said she got involved "I knew most of the kids in their gear. Just the looks on again." Baseball is back! … and tragically, so is Angel Hernandez Northern News Services make a spring training game one for the books. And the beat still goes on … ᐊᐃᓐᔪᓪ ᕼᐅᕐᓈᓐᑎᔅ ᐃᓱᒪᒋᔭᐅᕗᖅ ᐊᒥᓱᓄᑦ What's the saying? Rules for thee but not for The St. Louis Cardinals and Washington From the annals of college football, we ᐃᓄᖕᓄᑦ ᐊᓇᐅᓕᒑᖅᑎᕐᔪᐊᖑᔪᓄᑦ me? Or some reasonable facsimile thereof? Nationals were in action on Feb. 28 and our have this absolute beauty from a game between ᐱᐅᙱᓐᓂᖅᐹᖑᓪᓗᓂ ᐊᓇᐅᓕᒑᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ Folks, meet Matt Meyer. Matt Meyer is the pal was behind the dish for the game, which Eastern Washington and Idaho on Feb. 27. president of the Berkeley Federation of Teach- caused everyone to immediately groan. Jack Here's the scene: Game tied, 21-21, fourth ᓇᐅᑦᑎᖅᓱᖅᑎᐅᓂᖓᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᐅᔪᒥ. ers in California. You probably have a good Flaherty of the Cardinals came gunning with quarter. Eastern Washington kicker Seth Har- ᑕᑯᑎᑦᑎᒃᑲᓐᓂᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑕᖅᑭᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ idea of what he's like just from the location. what look liked a strike – borderline at best but rison is lining up a 22-yard field goal. Ball ᐅᐱᕐᙶᒥ ᐱᓕᒻᒪᒃᓴᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ, Matt Meyer has been fighting to keep schools close enough that it should have been called a snapped, laces out (right, Ray Finkle?) and ᖃᖓᓕᒫᑦᑎᐊᖅ. closed in his area until teachers strike according to the current it sails through the uprights to give Eastern are vaccinated and other safety dimensions of the Major League Washington a 24-21 lead. Angel Hernan- measures are put in place. Baseball-approved strike zone. Or so they thought. dez is con- Never mind the fact that he Sports The best response came You see, an official waved it off, even sidered by many was caught taking his daughter Talk from Dan McLaughlin, the though it went through. Now, how could an people in Major to an in-person preschool. No, play-by-play man doing the official miss an obvious play like that, you're League Base- Matt Meyer is in it for the safe- with James McCarthy game, who said Hernandez was wondering? Easy – he was screwing around ball to be the ty of everyone in his district. "in mid-season form." Almost with his Covid mask. That's right, our man in The best part was watching everyone who heard it agreed the stripes was bust adjusting it and wasn't pay- worst umpire in him get confronted and how he tried to pull up with him because no matter the game, Her- ing attention. The ball had hit the bottom of the the business. his hoodie so no one recognized him. Hooray nandez is always good for several plays every scoreboard which hung low behind the uprights He proved it for hypocrisy! And science! season which make you wonder. and the ball bounced off of it, causing the offi- again late last Anyway: Now, the catcher may have done a quick cial to wave it off, he having thought it hit one month during "frame" job in this instance – he certainly tried of the posts. spring training, And the beat goes on … it – and umpires are pretty quick to pick up After discussing it, the head referee stuck of all times. I am loathe to criticize any official in any on whether a pitch has been framed. If I see a with the waved-off field goal which went Wikimedia Commons photo sport because they have the toughest job out pitch being framed, I'll tell the catcher not to through the uprights. there. Yes, the players are the ones you pay to do it again because it will never get called. Here's the sad part: there's no way East- the missed field goal change the course of the see but without someone blowing the whistle or Again, officials have the toughest job out ern Washington could have protested the call game? Maybe because Idaho would have been making the calls, you don't have a game. there but people like Angel Hernandez don't because something like that is a judgment down three late and while they got the major But there are those special cases which defy make things easier. Technology may lend a call. The official didn't knowingly blow a rule, to eventually go out in front, it's a whole lot logic and Angel Hernandez is one of them. I hand but even that's fallible. Take a look at how which in most sports is grounds for a protest. different playing three points down as opposed don't know how this guy still has a job umpir- that's gone in the Atlantic League and you'll This guy simply got caught playing with his to tied. ing in Major League Baseball (if you look see what I mean. There is a shelf life on offi- thing, missed it and then guessed it hit the post. Utter stupidity all around and a terrible way hard enough, you'll find the real reason cough- cials, though, and Angel Hernandez's sell-by And to add insult to injury, Idaho won the to lose three points. Put the facial diaper on the cough-lawsuit-cough) but he even manages to date is well past its limit. game, 28-21, thanks to a late touchdown. Did right way next time. kNKu W?9oxJ5,W?9oxJ5, N[Z/su,N[Z/su, µ5yᒫµ5y 8 , 2021 nunavutnews.com, Monday, March 8, 2021 17 18 nunavutnews.com, Monday, March 8, 2021 kNKukNKu W?9oxJ5,W?9oxJ5, N[Z/su,N[Z/su, ᒫµ5yµ5y 8, 2021 kNKu W?9oxJ5,W?9oxJ5, N[Z/su,N[Z/su, µ5yᒫµ5y 8 , 2021 nunavutnews.com, Monday, March 8, 2021 19 news ĪØflî

Legislative Assembly briefs with Derek Neary

Continued from page 11 In her minister's statement earlier in the day, Sheutiapik recited the ways that food security has been enhanced in Nuna- happen to them or anybody else again in the Department of vut recently, including $5.2 million in donations from several Health." organizations as well as food hamper delivers in various com- munities, such as 300 given away in Igulik and 160 handed out Nunavummiut with homes aid the homeless, in Qikiqtarjuaq. so the GN should help feed them, Akoak says Nunavummiut fortunate enough to have homes are providing GN reclaims bulk of 300 unsold polar shelter to those with no place to live and thereby helping the GN bear hides from auction house storage with the territory's homeless problem, says Tony Akoak, MLA With low demand and weak for Gjoa Haven. prices reducing sales of polar ᓄᓇᕘᑉ ᐊᖑᓇᓱᒃᑎᖏᑦ The Department of Family Services ought to assist those bear fur, the Government of ᐃᓱᒪᒃᓴᖅᓯᐅᕆᓪᓗᐊᖅᐳᑦ helpful families and individuals by supplying food for the Nunavut has arranged to have people they take into their homes, he recommends. the balance of 300 unsold hides ᓂᐅᕕᐊᒃᓴᖃᕐᓂᖏᓐᓂ "Sometimes in the house there are 11 to 16 people due to sent back to the territory. ᓇᓄᕋᖏᓐᓂ ᐃᒻᒥᒃᑰᕐᓗᑎᒃ, homelessness and they have to feed them," Akoak said in the Hides that harvesters don't ᐅᕝᕙᓘᓐᓃᑦ ᐸᐸᓪᓗᓂᐅᒃ legislative assembly on Feb. 26. want back will be donated to ᐱᖅᑯᓯᑐᖃᖅᑎᒍᑦ Family Services Minister non-profit organizations for ᐊᑐᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ, ᐃᓱᒪᒋᓪᓗᒍ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ Elisapee Sheutiapik replied, projects or sold locally by the ᑐᔪᕐᒥᐊᖃᖃᑦᑕᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᐊᑦᑎᒃᑐᒥ ᓯᓚᕐᔪᐊᒥ "Sometimes it's up to every one Department of Environment for ᐱᔪᒪᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᖃᙱᑦᑐᓂ of us when it comes to food use in clothing or other prod- ᐃᑲᔪᖅᓯᖅᑕᐅᓪᓗᐊᖅᐳᑦ insecurity as well. I myself have ucts, according to Environment ᑲᑕᒃᐸᓪᓕᐊᔪᒥ ᐊᑭᐅᔪᓂ, ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᒐᕙᒪᒃᑯᓐᓂ family members that struggle Minister Joe Savikataaq, who ᐊᕙᑎᓕᕆᔨᒃᑯᓐᓂ ᐃᑲᔪᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓂᕆᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒥ as well. I have food in my made the statement in the legis- ᒥᓂᔅᑕᖓ ᔫ ᓴᕕᑲᑖᖅ ᑐᔪᕐᒥᐊᖏᓐᓂ cupboard that is not perishable lative assembly on March 1. ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ. that I will go and deliver to my The GN has been providing ᐊᖏᕐᕋᖓᓐᓂ, ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ family, so I very much under- advance payments to harvesters ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᒥ ᒪᓕᒐᓕᐅᖅᑎ stand food insecurity. Partner- for polar bear hides for decades. ᑑᓂ ᐊᑯᐊᒃ. ship is really important and we Those furs are sent to an auction should not be creating partner- house in North Bay. Harvesters ships only during hard times. later receive the balance of their "Qujannamiik for that ques- payment depending on the sale tion and I look forward to hav- price. Hunters who want their ing maybe a dialogue with you polar bear hides returned must (Akoak) on some ideas on how refund their advance to the GN. to move forward as well." "By reclaiming the backlog Sheutiapik also told Akoak of hides from Fur Harvesters that staff from her department Auction, we ensure that Nuna- plan to go to Gjoa Haven to dis- vut polar bear hides do not cuss the findings in the Nunavut degrade in quality simply to sit Hidden Homelessness Report, in storage," Savikataaq said. Nunavut's harvest- released last year but based on "Due to the low demand ers should consider survey results from 2018. and low prices at auction, the photos courtesy of the legislative assembly selling their polar People who take in She attributed delays to Department of Environment Covid, weather, the lack of encourages harvesters to sell bear hides privately, the homeless should hotels, the finalizing of other their hides privately, or to keep or keeping them for get aid from the GN to surveys and changes in housing them for traditional use. Let's traditional use, in light help feed the guests ministers. keep our traditions and culture of low global demand in their home, says "I certainly continue to have sustainable, and use this global and falling prices, Gjoa Haven MLA Tony dialogue with each housing downturn to benefit our com- Environment Minister Akoak. minister," she said. munities instead." Joe Savikataaq says. 20 nunavutnews.com, Monday, March 8, 2021 kNKu W?9oxJ5, N[Z/su, ᒫµ5y 8, 2021