Opinion

The need for community care centres for elderly Nunavummiut has long been a point of division in our territorial government.

Amid all the pomp and pageantry around the Indigenous delegation in Rome to meet the Pope, inter-generational impacts from residential schools continue to reverberate throughout the north with deadly effect. Some of it fell on my family’s lap today.

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Let’s say you decide to renovate your home or put an addition on it.

I was sitting minding my own business, enjoying my morning coffee and catching up on the news when the phone rings. So, I pick it up and say, “Hello.”

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In a blatant over reach of power, Caroline Cochrane cut off the microphone of Lisa Semmler, MLA from Twin Lakes, last week when she was midway through a motion dealing with the crisis dealing with so many indigenous children in the child welfare system in the territories. Almost 98 per cent in a system of which intergenerational systematic racism has no doubt played a part.

Spring is in the air. The length of sunlight and temperatures rising boosts our hopes to new adventures.

Cabinet minister Adam Lightstone found himself in a bit of a pickle this past month when colleagues instigated an investigation by Nunavut’s integrity commissioner over a potential conflict of interest sparked by a temporary appointment within his department.

Imagine needing a replacement kidney for over seven years and going through regular dialysis treatments over that period.