Forced labour is not dead; rather it has just been normalized into our capitalist system in the name of free enterprise.

If you need a snowmobile, you go buy one! But these two brave young men made a plan, a very amazing plan to bring home their new snowmobiles! Amory Wood and Brent Nakashook of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut flew to Yellowknife, NT on regular scheduled flight. Upon arriving they bought their snowmobiles but now needed to get them home, so they planned a journey to bring them home SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½“ not by air cargo, but by driving them home by land and sea.

EditorSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s note: This article originally appeared in the March 25, 2022 edition of The Hill Times. It is reprinted with permission.

The fact that caribou numbers are declining sharply despite efforts to either slow the losses or, with luck, increase the numbers of the vulnerable species is one of the biggest challenges we face in light of a changing climate and economic advancement.

I read a caption that noted SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½˜A journey of a thousand miles begins with one stepSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™; and that is where we as survivors are today.

Every year we change the clock forward an hour in mid-March so we can have more daylight at the end of the day in the summertime. And itSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s great to suddenly have sundown an hour later. Woohoo!

The Big Melt.

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 familySA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s lap today.

EditorSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s note: The following has been edited for length