Iqaluit Coun. Sam Tilley says he is healed and more motivated than ever to serve the community following his return from treatment for alcohol use.

Tilley made his return to city council Tuesday night after taking part in a two-month program in British Columbia.

“I speak to you today not just as a councillor, but as a person who has faced struggle, stood at a crossroads and made the choice to fight for my future,” Tilley said in a statement to councillors.

He described the past few months as “deeply personal” and “transformative,” as he has worked to address his addictions, trauma and mental health issues.

“By acknowledging and treating these struggles, I gained an understanding of resilience, compassion, and strength — qualities I believe are essential in serving our community,” he said.

Tilley used his statement to speak to others in Iqaluit who might be struggling with mental health and addiction. His message is: you are not alone.

“I stand as proof that change is possible, healing is possible, strength is possible, and if my journey can inspire even one person to take that first step to reach out, to believe that there is hope, then every struggle has been worth it,” he said.

“Let us come together as a community, remove stigmas, support one another, and build a healthier, more compassionate city for everyone.”

Tilley’s statement was met with applause.

Councillors Simon Nattaq and Amber Aglukark followed with statements of their own praising Tilley for his recovery.

“As an Inuk man, your journey is not just personal, it’s powerful and inspiring for everyone who is watching,” Aglukark said, mentioning that she has known Tilley since they grew up together in Arviat.

“You’ve demonstrated that true healing is possible, and in doing so, you are leading by example.”

Mayor Solomon Awa also praised Tilley for his progress.

“The things that we go through cannot change unless we rise up and change them,” he said.

Tilley, who is in his second term on council, spoke with reporters after the meeting. He described the program he attended as three years’ worth of treatment done over nine weeks.

He spoke of being surrounded by the tall trees of Vancouver Island, and the “healing” opportunity when he was given a blanket in a ceremony led by members of the Saanich First Nations.

He said he has a “clear mindset” and a positive outlook on the future as he remains committed to serving on city council.

“The people that voted for me — and not just who voted for me, but the people of Iqaluit — need to know these kinds of things,” Tilley said when asked about going public about his treatment.

“I felt obligated to do it for them. Not just for them, but for myself.”

Police are asking for help locating Zachary Nuyalia, a 17-year-old reported missing Tuesday in Iqaluit.

Nuyalia was last seen in the Tundra Valley area between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. Monday, and his family reported him missing on Tuesday, RCMP said Tuesday evening in a news release.

They describe Nuyalia as 5-foot-8 and 115 pounds with long, below shoulder-length black hair, brown eyes, and a slim build. He may have a moustache.

He was last seen wearing a black hoodie, blue puffer jacket with a hood, dark-coloured pants, a black and yellow backpack with the number “66” on the front of it, blue hearing aids, and glasses.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Iqaluit RCMP at 867-979-1111.

The Yukon government is amending its fishing regulations for Little Atlin Lake to protect its lake trout population. 

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Yukon Party Leader Currie Dixon largely sidestepped an opportunity to defend his health critic on Thursday after the premier launched an attack on Brad Cathers’s record leading the file.

Quiz time! Let’s see who has been paying attention to the news this week.

1. Health Minister John Main says he’s frustrated by the federal government’s “delay tactics and for the refusal to come to the negotiating table” to reach a new funding agreement for the Non-Insured Health Benefits program that pays some expenses, including medical travel for Nunavummiut. What does he suggest he might have to do?

A. Get Nunavut to fund the program itself.
B. Start sending patients to U.S. hospitals and send the bills to Ottawa.
C. Hand the program back to the federal government to run.

2. When Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Iqaluit on Tuesday, Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok greeted him by saying “welcome home.” Where was Carney born?

A. Yukon
B. Northwest Territories
C. Alberta

3. Parents and students might notice a change when they return to school in Nunavut in the fall. What’s happening in the schools?

A. Inuit language education will become available for students in kindergarten through Grade 12.
B. A new curriculum will be rolled out for kindergarten and Grade 1.
C. School days will start and end one hour later, to accommodate bus schedules.

4. A landmark court ruling means Nunavut will get a share of a $32.5-billion settlement. What was the lawsuit all about?

A. Getting large tobacco companies to pay up for harms caused by smoking.
B. Suing pharmaceutical companies over harms from opioid-related deaths.
C. Seeking damages from beer and alcohol producers over the effects of alcoholism.

5. It was a whirlwind first week in office for Carney — he was sworn in as prime minister and named his new cabinet on March 14, then jetted off to England and France and made it back to Iqaluit by March 18. Who is the Crown-Indigenous relations and northern affairs minister in Carney’s new cabinet?

A. Patty Hajdu
B. Jenna Sudds
C. Gary Anandasangaree

Kugluktuk’s elementary school is seen in this file photo. A change is coming starting this fall for some students at Nunavut schools. (File photo by Dustin Patar)

Answers

1. C — Main, who is Nunavut’s health minister, says the Government of Nunavut might hand the program back to the feds if the current funding agreement isn’t renewed after March 31.
2. B — Carney was born in Fort Smith, N.W.T., and was raised in Alberta. Akeeagok said he welcomed the new prime minister as a “fellow northerner” during Monday’s visit.
3. B — It’s a new curriculum. Education Minister Pamela Gross called it “an important milestone” for the elementary education system, and it’s expected to be expanded all the way to Grade 12 by 2036.
4. A — It’s the tobacco producers that were targeted by the provinces and territories in the lawsuit. Nunavut will receive $97 million from the $32.5-billion settlement.
5. C — Gary Anandasangaree returns as minister for northern affairs and Crown-Indigenous relations.

Canadians are gradually waking up to the importance of Arctic security and sovereignty, but the country’s political leaders still seem a bit groggy.

Three federal party leaders have come to Iqaluit since Feb. 10 to spell out their plans to protect Arctic security and sovereignty. But their plans still need some work before they’re fully formed.

The uncertain world we live in has pushed Canada’s Arctic to the top of the political agenda. An aggressive Russia, an influence-seeking China, and an unpredictable United States are forcing Canadian politicians to tackle Arctic issues head on.

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute think tank in Ottawa cautioned this week that Canada is “sleepwalking into Arctic irrelevance.”

In a commentary, researcher Alexander Dalziel called it “urgent” for Canadian leaders to “think Arctic” when developing defence and foreign policies.

“It is urgent because, to keep it stable and peaceful, status quo actions no longer are enough,” Dalziel wrote.

Ignoring the Arctic increases the likelihood of Canada’s adversaries attempting “destabilizing actions” there, he added.

You don’t need a crystal ball to see that the Arctic will play a big role in the 2025 federal election — whether that’s in the spring or in October.

Prime Minister Mark Carney ­— on the fifth day in his new job — popped into Iqaluit on Tuesday to spell out the Liberal government’s plan for the Arctic.

Amid the unravelling of the traditional Canada-U.S. relationship and the need to shore up ties with historical allies the United Kingdom and France, Carney made it a priority to signal where he stands on the Arctic. It includes an operational support hub in Nunavut and hundreds of millions of dollars to beef up a military presence in the North.

Six weeks ago, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was in Nunavut, promising to build a full-fledged military base in Iqaluit — Canadian Forces Base Iqaluit — if his party forms the government.

That base would be operational within two years of the Conservatives coming to power, he said. That seems like an ambitious target, considering sealift and construction season limitations in the North, as well as the demand for construction workers everywhere.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was in Iqaluit last weekend with his vision for defending Canada’s interests in the Arctic.

Singh cited the “dangerous times” we live in as the need to establish a military base in Iqaluit. Even the NDP — historically rooted in pacifism — promises to meet Canada’s NATO commitment of spending two per cent of its GDP defence … by 2032.

This sudden attention on defence risks overshadowing the ongoing challenges northerners deal with, including housing and the affordability of food. Not only do leaders need to “think Arctic” in terms of defence and foreign policies, they must not forget to “think Arctic” when it comes to domestic social and economic policies.

With an election call likely within days, Nunatsiaq News pledges to “think Arctic” in its coverage and give sovereignty and security the attention it deserves — and is demanding — during the campaign.

The federal Green Party says its deputy leader – Angela Davidson, known as Rainbow Eyes – will be the party's NWT candidate in the coming federal election.

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Robert Peary was America’s most famous Arctic explorer.

He had a wife and two children in the U.S., but he also had two children in northern Greenland with a woman of the Inughuit named Aleqasina. She was in fact the wife of one of the ablest guides and hunters in the district, Piugaattuq.

Peary’s affair with Aleqasina probably began in 1896 when she was about 15 years old. She may have been married to Piugaattuq by that time, as it was customary for women to marry quite young, perhaps because there was a scarcity of women in the region.

By 1913, according to the diary of another explorer in the district, Aleqasina had four children – two girls fathered by Piugaattuq, and two boys, Saamik and Kaali, fathered by Robert Peary.

Piugaatuq apparently did not discourage his wife’s relationship with Peary, for whom he worked for much of the time. The explorer provided Piugaattuq with generous payment for his services: guns, ammunition, food and clothing, far in excess of what he paid the other hunters.

But that apparently was not enough for Peary. If Aleqasina was not available, someone else would suffice. Peary moved the Inughuit around northwestern Greenland and even Ellesmere Island like so many chattels. Sometimes whole families were moved, other times parts of families. 

Jerome Allen kept a private diary while on the Crocker Land Expedition, an expedition led by Peary’s young acolyte Donald Macmillan, after Peary had left the district for good.

Allen wrote in 1914, “Ahnadooah [probably Arnaluaq], Kudlukto’s wife, who is about 19 … has a baby which is a spoiled child. She was Peary’s wife pro-tem on his last trip [1908-1909], when she was but 14.”

Fourteen years old! Robert Peary was 52 at the time! 

This liaison was not a secret. Dr. Harrison Hunt, on the same expedition, wrote, “When Peary was last north, he took a younger woman on his trip, but when he returned he went off in the hills with his former wife [Aleqasina], and the result was the second son [Kaali].”

Hunt is correct on all except the date of the second son’s birth, for Kaali Peary’s birthdate is recorded as June 6, 1906. 

And there is other evidence.

Peary’s great rival as a polar explorer, Dr. Frederick Cook, was at Etah, a staging point for exploration in northern Greenland, in 1909 on his own alleged return from the North Pole. He questioned the Inughuit about what Peary had done there the previous year on his way farther north. 

In his notes, Cook wrote: “The Roosevelt [Peary’s ship] went northward with two young girls for P. cabin. Annodou and Evllie, both 13 years old, crying bitterly, were taken from their mothers and families, forced on the ship and taken north for the lust of him who seeks the pole … Illegitimate children are scattered among the tribe … and at least two should bear the name of Peary … Seeking to avoid a more liberal distribution of Peary offspring has thus taken two young girls of 13.”

The first girl mentioned, Annodou, is certainly the girl mentioned in Jerome Allen’s diary as Ahnadooah. But Cook claims she was even a year younger – only 13. 

And he suggests that Peary, concerned about creating even more offspring in the district, was purposely taking girls so young that they were unlikely to become pregnant!

Back in the U.S., later in 1909 and aware that the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, one of Peary’s many patrons, was about to honour Peary, Cook wrote to Dr. Franklin Hooper, director of that institution, to call Peary out for his wrong-doings and argue for “cleanliness in public life.”

“You are about to honour Peary,” he wrote.

“You invite our wives and daughters to come and do honor to a man under a cloud of indecency. We have a right to expect that the Brooklyn Institute, in its efforts to uplift man by the high aim of arts and science, gives us clean words from clean lips.

“Peary has used the most sacred of our institutions, the public schools, to gather subscriptions for this pretended effort of getting to the pole,” he went on.

“Part of this money thus taken from the hands of our innocent school children was used to promote an immorality that would put the White Slave Trade to shame. Can you put the veil of innocence on this?

“Later the ship Roosevelt was used as a harem. This ship was flying the American flag, was engaged in a mission for which the government was responsible, was equipped at public expense. Its leader drawing an unearned pay as a naval officer. I charge that this ship was used as a den to satisfy a craving which leads to moral rottenness.

“Here Americans are put to the shame of seeing the stars and stripes floating over an Arctic Hell. And, under the cover of wild people, beyond the reach of medical help, the flames of unmentionable diseases – diseases now sapping the life blood of the world’s last clean aborigines. Will you have our wives and daughters shake this man’s unclean hands?”

Cook’s protests were to no avail, and the planned honouring of Peary proceeded.

“Pedophile” was a word not used much in the early 1900s, but it seems an apt modern word to describe Peary’s actions at the time.

You be the judge: Was Robert Peary a pedophile?

Taissumani is an occasional column that recalls events of historical interest. Kenn Harper is a historian and writer who lived in the Arctic for over 50 years. He is the author of Give Me Winter, Give Me Dogs: Knud Rasmussen and the Fifth Thule Expedition, and Thou Shalt Do No Murder, among other books. Feedback? Send your comments and questions to [email protected].

There are 59 teams in this weekend's tournament in Whitehorse. And for the first time, some of the games will be streamed live online.

The Nunavut government has finished a new education curriculum for students from kindergarten to Grade 6 that’s rooted in Inuit language and culture – and it’s set to start rolling out next school year.

The new bill enshrines rent control, requires landlords to provide a specific reason for ending a lease, and sets out distinct rules for mobile homes, among other changes.

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A project that aims to create Inuit-led child services in Nunavik has taken a step forward with the signing of an agreement with other institutions in the region. 

A woman who formerly helmed the Kataujaq Society women's shelter in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, has been charged with fraud over $5,000 and breach of trust.

A former executive director of the Kataujaq Society in Rankin Inlet has been arrested in connection with an allegation over missing funds, Nunavut RCMP announced Friday afternoon.

Joyce Kent, 54, was arrested at her home in Winnipeg on Tuesday and charged with breach of trust and fraud over $5,000.

“Ms. Kent used her position of trust to misappropriate funds that were otherwise destined for the work of the women’s shelter and the daycare in Rankin Inlet,” Cpl. Rodney MacIntyre of the Iqaluit RCMP’s general investigations section said in a news release.

Last August, Kataujaq Society filed a complaint to the RCMP alleging missing money. Police opened an investigation which ultimately led to Kent’s arrest.

She was released and is scheduled to appear in court in Rankin Inlet on June 3.

Members of a 30-person crew shooting scenes for a feature film around Apex and Iqaluit this week are keeping details of their $8-million production close to the proverbial sealskin vest.

The crew is on its third day of an eight-day local shooting schedule for In Alaska, a production by Dutch director Jaap van Heusden, co-written and co-directed by Iqaluit-based filmmaker Vinnie Karetak.

“It’s a co-production between the Netherlands and Canada so we’ve got some Canadians and we’ve got some Dutch folks on the crew,” said line producer Nach Dudsdeemaytha, of Vancouver-based Experimental Forest Films, in an on-set interview with Nunatsiaq News.

The film’s plot centres around a 17-year-old youth from a small Alaskan village who becomes a wanted terrorist after shooting a hole into the trans-Alaska pipeline before escaping to Nunavut, where he reconnects with his Inuk mother’s roots.

Dudsdeemaytha would not discuss many other details of the production, including how and when people will have a chance to see the completed film.

The names of the two actors featured in Friday afternoon’s shoot along the mouth of the Niaqunguk River on Frobisher Bay, next to Simonie Michael Lane in Apex, are also a secret.

He did, however, identify one of the actors as coming from Nunavut and said the settings being shot this week will represent Nunavut in the film.

Karetak, the co-director, was more forthcoming, revealing the identity of a third, uncredited character in the film.

“In my mind, the land is a character in itself,” he said. “Part of the things that we wrote as directors is using the landscape.”

The land was ready for its close-up as shooting began midday Friday amid sunny, -19 C conditions.

“The weather has been co-operating,” Karetak said. “Everything’s going well. It’s been beautiful and sunny for the last three days.”

The production schedule is on time, he said.

“We’re pleased and happy with how open and willing the people here in Iqaluit have been,” he said, apologizing to residents for the crowd of trucks and equipment that descended on Apex at around 11 a.m. on Friday. The road was closed to non-local traffic until 6 p.m.

After the Nunavut scenes are finished next week, shooting will resume in B.C. later this year, Dudsdeemaytha said.

The film is funded by the Netherlands Film Fund and Telefilm Canada, among others.

The sentencing of a Pangnirtung man found guilty of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl has been paused so that he can mount a constitutional challenge to the mandatory minimum sentences for his convictions.

Mark Mosesee was found guilty March 14 on charges of sexual assault, sexual interference and sexual solicitation of a person under the age of 18, in relation to an incident that happened Oct. 21, 2023.

He was charged Nov. 1, 2023, said RCMP spokesperson Cpl. George Henrie in an email to Nunatsiaq News.

The victim’s identity is protected by a court-ordered publication ban.

At a hearing for Mosesee in Iqaluit on Tuesday, Chief Justice Susan Cooper said that if the sentence had not been challenged, Mosesee would have been handed the mandatory minimum of one year in custody for the first two charges and six months for the third, to be served concurrently.

Defence plans to argue the mandatory minimum sentences in this case contravene Section 12 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which deals with cruel and unusual punishment.

Mosesee’s lawyer Sharon Sabourin will ask Cooper to consider Mosesee’s sentence would hypothetically be considered a breach of the Charter.

“The challenge corresponds with similar challenges in other provinces and territories that asks the court to strike down the mandatory minimum punishments set out in the criminal code,” Sabourin said in an email.

“If she accedes to the request [it] would be binding on other courts below in the territory of Nunavut,” she said.

Mosesee has 395 days’ credit for time served in pre-trial custody and would have been released with a probation order after his sentencing. This means the Charter challenge will have no effect on the sentence Mosesee serves.

“He was released pending the sentencing as he is likely in a time-served position,” Crown lawyer Jessika Withers said in an email to Nunatsiaq News. “This will ultimately be the judge’s decision but he is currently out on release.”

Mosesee is under an order to reside at his mother’s home in Pangnirtung.

He is prohibited from contacting the victim and coming into contact with anyone under the age of 16 without another sober adult present.

Cooper’s written decision, released Monday by the Nunavut Court of Justice, says that during Mosesee’s March 7 trial, the victim testified that she was playing with two other children at their home on the day of the assault.

They were in a bedroom watching TV at around 11:30 p.m. when they fell asleep. The door to the bedroom was locked by one of the children prior to them falling asleep.

“The complainant told police that during the night, the accused dragged her by her legs out of the bedroom and across the hall, into his room. He said to her that he wanted to ‘touch her’ for $40 and showed her a $20 bill,” Cooper said in her decision.

The girl managed to escape and sneaked out of the home with one of the other children.

In a videotaped statement to police a few days after the incident, the girl said Mosesee wanted to touch her “private parts,” said Cooper in her decision.

“He wanted to touch me for $40 but I didn’t, I said no,” the girl testified.

The defence argued that while there was an assault, the evidence didn’t clearly show that it was sexual in nature, the decision read.

Cooper rejected the defence’s suggestion that the request to “touch” the girl could have been for an innocent purpose.

“The words uttered, accompanied by the physical dragging of the complainant into a separate bedroom where the two of them were alone, leads me to the conclusion that the only reasonable inference is that the accused intended to have sexual contact with the complainant,” Cooper wrote.

Mosesee’s next court date is to be determined.

Rebecca Alty, the current mayor of Yellowknife, will be the Liberal Party’s candidate in the N.W.T. in the upcoming election, the party said Friday. 

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Nunavut can now borrow up to $1.05 billion if it needs to do so.

The federal government has increased the territory’s borrowing limit, up from $750 million, Nunavut Finance Minister Lorne Kusugak announced last week in the legislative assembly.

“We have carefully managed our borrowing under the previous limit, ensuring funds were used wisely,” Kusugak said in a statement to MLAs.

“With this new limit, we and future governments can better plan for investments and address Nunavut’s infrastructure needs.”

The federal Department of Finance sets out how much the three territories can borrow. Nunavut has the lowest borrowing limit of the territories. The Northwest Territories’ limit is $3.1 billion and Yukon’s is $1.2 billion.

The last time Nunavut’s borrowing limit was increased was in 2020, when it rose to $750 million from $650 million.

In documents provided by Nunavut’s Finance Department when the budget was introduced Feb. 24, the total amount borrowed was listed at $339.6 million as of 2024-25. The total borrowed amount is projected to be lower for the 2025-26 fiscal year at $308 million, or just under one-third of the territory’s updated federal limit.

The territory’s budget lists borrowing separately from the $2.8 billion in federal money the Government of Nunavut is expected to receive for this coming fiscal year.

In the legislature last week, Kusugak told MLAs the increased limit isn’t an opportunity to take on “unnecessary debt.”

“The Government of Nunavut will continue to borrow responsibly, focusing on key projects that benefit Nunavummiut,” he said.

“This expanded capacity allows us to invest in housing, transportation, and other essential infrastructure, while keeping our finances sustainable.”

With a territorial election set for Oct. 27, Kusugak said he doesn’t expect the current government to tap into that larger pool of money.

The next government will have that debt cap available to draw on “should the need arise,” he said.

An Edmonton law firm that's accused of helping Ron Barlas defraud a First Nation in the N.W.T. of millions of dollars has mostly failed in its bid to have the claim against it thrown out of court.

China is no longer describing itself as a “near-Arctic state” and might be redefining its northern policy against the backdrop of a warming U.S.-Russia relationship.

“The Chinese have stopped using that term [near-Arctic state] and I think we’ve seen a withdrawal or a significantly lower Chinese interest in the Arctic,” the South China Morning Post reported March 16.

The story was later picked up by various Russian state-controlled media outlets.

U.S. President Donald Trump has redefined his nation’s foreign policy since taking office Jan. 20, making it more aligned with Russia, the country’s traditional adversary.

With that, China’s push in the region has declined, reported South China Morning Post.

Beijing announced its Polar Silk Road strategy in 2018. It envisioned China’s deeper involvement in Arctic governance along with mineral and scientific exploration of the region.

Since then, China has proclaimed itself a “near-Arctic state” despite not having any territory in the polar areas.

“One could almost argue this is something similar to what the British did in their colonial period when they set up trading blocks and supported them by the British Navy,” said Rob Huebert, an Arctic sovereignty and security expert from the University of Calgary, in an interview with Nunatsiaq News.

China is one of the 13 countries with observer status at the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental organization that includes all eight Arctic nations: Canada, Unites States, Russia, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden.

Arctic affairs should be a concern of a “global village,” China’s ambassador to Canada, Wang Di, said during his visit to Iqaluit in August.

At the time, he said China would like to continue to invest in Canadian Arctic, including the mining sector.

In 2020, Chinese state-owned Shandong Gold Mining Co. expressed interest in buying the Hope Bay gold mine complex, near Cambridge Bay. The deal was rejected by the federal government later that year after a national security review of the transaction.

Huebert said there is not enough information to determine whether China has indeed started backtracking on its Arctic ambitions from a “rhetorical perspective” and whether that will spell out into real actions.

“They tend to be quiet,” he said, adding, however, that he does not see the country completely withdrawing from Arctic affairs.

Until there is more information, China downplaying its Arctic ambitions could be an attempt to aid U.S-Russia negotiations on the war in Ukraine, Huebert said.

“One possibility is that this is an attempt to create a positive form of news stories for the particular American president to be able to point and say, ‘Oh, see, my strategies are working,'” Huebert said.

“But these are games within games at the highest level, so it’s a little bit difficult to know with any certainty exactly what’s driving them.”

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Fort Nelson First Nation is for the first time sending a women’s team to compete in a prestigious Indigenous hockey tournament in Whitehorse.