QIA is pleased to launch the Qikiqtani Truth Commission document From Apology to Action. This document summarizes the work QIA has done on the Qikiqtani Truth Commission up to the [...]
On August 14 , 2019 the Government of Canada formally acknowledged and apologized for modern-day colonial practices imposed on Inuit in the Qikiqtani region between 1950 and 1975, such as forced [...]
By Emma Tranter: It was standing room only at Iqaluit’s Frobisher Inn when Carolyn Bennett, Canada’s minister of Crown-Indigenous relations and northern affairs, apologized to Qikiqtani Inuit on [...]
By Jim Bell On the eve of the Government of Canada’s formal apology today, Aug. 14, for its traumatizing mistreatment of Qikiqtani Inuit between 1950 and 1975, the president of the region’s [...]
In order to move forward as a country and as individuals, to understand where Canada is and where we are headed, it is important to acknowledge our history and where we came from. Often, this [...]
August 14, 2019 — Iqaluit, Nunavut — Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada Canada is facing the difficult parts of our shared history and acknowledging the hard truths of our [...]
Twelve years after the Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA) launched a truth commission to record the federal government’s systemic efforts to colonize Inuit of the Qikiqtaaluk region, the [...]
August 14, 2019 – Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami welcomes the apology today in Iqaluit by Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett on behalf of the Government [...]
Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Carolyn Bennett gave a wide-ranging apology to Inuit of Baffin Island in Iqaluit on Wednesday. “We failed to provide you with proper housing, [...]
It has been a long time coming – this apology. I stand here with a heavy heart – I feel the weight of this apology on behalf of Inuit in the Qikiqtani Region. Inuit who suffered the consequences [...]