Opinion

Things have been rough before for NWT tourism, but never this rough.

Editor’s note: The NWT Medical Association shared the following statement with media outlets on March 22; it is included unedited and in its entirety.

In what we can only hope was a slip of the tongue, the MLA from Great Slave Lake recently said she was concerned about land being sacrificed for parks that could be better used for resource development.

Dear editor,

Forty-five thousand tonnes of steel and concrete is suspended over the Mackenzie River.

Internet connectivity is something our neighbours to the south take for granted.

This story is part fact and part fiction because it happened a long time ago and some of the details are a little fuzzy but the brunt of it is true. In the early 1970s I was working for a Yellowknife company Precambrian Mining Services Limited. The summer exploration season was wrapping up early and they asked me if I would go to Norman Wells for a few months to help with an expediting service they were running there, primarily for the oil and gas industry.

There isn’t a single person among us who Is not affected by the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. We are all being called, all of us, to show solidarity with our Ukrainian brothers and sisters and each other. If this invasion is telling us anything, it’s how fragile and precious this life is.

UPLUKKUT. INUIN NAAMAINNAQTUT. QAUMALIQTUQ NUNAKPUT. HILA ALIANAQHIJUQ. APUTIRAALUK KIHIMI. QUVIAHUGTUT INUIN NIQIHANIK NIUVILIQTUT NIUVIKVIMIT. QUANA KIAKUT TUNIHAIJUT. ANGUNIAQTIITLU IPAKHANI UMINGMAKHANIK TUNIHAIJUT NIQIMIK. NUTAQQAT UTIQMIJUT ILIHAGIALIKMATA. QUANA IILA.MIKIJUNUATLU ILIHAKTUT UTIKTUTLU. NANUQHIUNAHUATLU INUIN. IQALUKHIUKTUKHATLU QINIQTUT AUDLARIAMI INUNGNUN TUNIQHAIJUKHATLU. IILA INUIN NAAMAINAQTUT NUTAQQATLU. IVJAGUTIT PUIGUKTAILUGU ANILIGUVIT. UAQATTAQLUGIT ALGATIT.

How do you break a bias when it is so deeply ingrained into our culture as a whole?