A new children’s film is about an unlikely friendship between two girls – one a Syrian refugee, the other an Inuk living thousands of kilometres to the north. Their meeting is possible thanks to an enchanted portal, with one end […]
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Delilah Saunders in recovery from acute liver failure
Delilah Saunders is a fighter. An artist, an author and a composer, the Inuk for Labrador is also an activist on behalf of Indigenous women. It was no surprise that Saunders was awarded the 2017 Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience […]
Muskrat Falls: Courts shut down dam protest over Labrador’s Lower Churchill Project
Labrador Inuk Ossie Michelin was packing his bags and preparing leave Muskrat Falls on the Churchill River west of Happy Valley-Goose Bay last October 17, a day after the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador issued an injunction forcing protestors […]
Montreal Police practicing racial profiling?
“Have you had any issues with Aboriginal people?” This was the question that police officers in Montreal may have been going door-to-door asking residents of certain neighbourhoods. It happened at least once – and in a triumph of bad luck […]
Jordin Tootoo recounts how he went all the way
Jordin Tootoo, the first and still only Inuk to play in the National Hockey League, is enjoying something of a rebirth this year with the New Jersey Devils. It’s another in a long series of second and third chances for […]