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'I lost my legal right to vote': Booths closed early — or didn't open at all — in some Nunavik villages

Aside from Puvirnituq, CBC has heard from residents in four other Nunavik villages who say voting booths closed early in their communities.

In a statement, Elections Canada said weather issues were affecting flights for workers.

"The returning officer attempted to implement several different strategies to provide voting services to communities," it said in a statement.

So they didn’t hire anyone from the community to work for the election, though I’m certain there are people capable of doing so.

They didn’t make alternate arrangements for people to vote on election day, nor did they make arrangements for what they would do if there were issues with weather, which is a pretty basic thing to make a backup plan for in remote communities at this time of year.

For what reason are alternate methods of voting not utilized to ensure folks in remote communities have the ability to exercise their right to vote? That’s a pretty basic thing to expect the government to accommodate.

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Nunavik leaders join other Indigenous communities eyeing banishment for bootleggers and drug traffickers | CBC News

Nunavik leaders are exploring the idea of banishment as a way to block drugs and alcohol entering their communities. 'We want to make it cle

Leaders in Nunavik are exploring the idea of banishment as a way to stop the flow of drugs and alcohol into their communities. Banishment is a historical practice that a growing number of Indigenous communities have been bringing back. Pita Aatami, president of Makivvik which represents Inuit in Nunavik, says the policy, if implemented, would largely target non-Nunavik residents bringing in contrabands. He says substance use is "killing our people.”

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absolutely disgusting!! don't let the election results cover up that multiple polls in Nunavik weren't open, or were only open for a short amount of time, and not the full 12 hours that the elections act MANDATES by LAW.

Election ‘confusion’ in Nunavik as some voters get left out

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'I lost my legal right to vote': Booths closed early — or didn't open at all — in some Nunavik villages | CBC News

CBC has heard from residents in at least five Nunavik villages who say booths closed hours early, or didn't open at all.

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Arctic tundra lichen

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Natasha Irniq:   Wow  kallialukainatuq

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Green mossy tundra covers the granite hillsides around Eric Cove, Nunavik, at the very top of Quebec, Canada.

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I went to the edge of the world to see the very near future of climate change

The Inuit community of Inukjuak in northern Québec has long fought to preserve the traditional culinary practices that define them, but clim

The Inuit community of Inukjuak in northern Québec has long fought to preserve the traditional culinary practices that define them, but climate change is a threat unlike anything they've faced before.

by Craig LaBan, March 6, 2025

INUKJUAK, Nunavik— The choppy gray waters of the Hudson Bay are numbingly cold in the days before the season’s first snow in the Canadian Arctic. As our speeding canoe slams against the rolling waves, sending frigid sprays of salt mist across my face, I grip the wooden seat bottom with all my might.

“I used to be afraid of canoe surfing, too,” says Willia Ningeok, 40, the captain and leader of this mid-October hunting expedition. He stands in the stern of the 24-foot motorized canoe, opposite two young hunters with rusty rifles and harpoons. As he weaves between the maze of shifting swells toward nearby Harrison Island, where the waters teem with beluga, walrus, seal, and arctic char, he breaks into song. “It’s the most wonderful time … of the year!”

There is palpable excitement this week in Inukjuak. This Inuit community of about 1,800 in Nunavik, the northernmost region of Québec, is preparing to celebrate the premiere of A Century After Nanook with a village feast. The film is a collaboration between residents and Kirk French, an assistant professor of anthropology, film production, and media studies at Pennsylvania State University. It looks at how life has changed in Inukjuak since the world’s first feature-length documentary, Nanook of the North, was filmed here in 1922 on the frozen banks of the Ungava Peninsula...