Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Canada"

A book written in Inuktitut. A lack of concrete constitutional guarantees, community credibility and long-term funding has rendered the government’s efforts to revitalize Indigenous languages largely ineffective. (Shutterstock) First Peoples’s Law Report: The Conversation – Funding for the Canadian government’s legislation supporting Indigenous languages is set to expire in 2024, and so far, there has been...

In 2023, Victoria Native Friendship Centre received $266,500 in federal funding to offer classes in seven Indigenous languages NationTalk: Staff at the Victoria Native Friendship Centre has been left scrambling after losing the main source of funding for a program that teaches multiple Indigenous languages, says the centre’s executive director. The centre’s Urban Indigenous Language...

Montreal art gallery now charged with illegally selling sperm whale teeth CBC Indigenous: On July 25, 2021, Pedro Huertas, an American doctor trying to cross from Canada into the U.S. at the Highgate Springs border crossing in Vermont, told a border guard he was bringing one $2,000 stone statue with him.   He was lying.  A...

‘I want the heart of our being, our language, to stay beating in our homes and communities’ CBC Indigenous: Indigenous language advocates are asking if universities are doing enough to support language revitalization. During a talk at Carleton University in Ottawa last month, Owennatekha Maracle, co-founder of Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa, a Kanien’kéha (Mohawk language) immersion program...

CBC Indigenous: Land advocates and Native Americans are calling for better protection for sacred sites, as their locations are being distributed online. Deidra Cinclaire, a land advocate and enrolled member of the Navajo nation in Arizona and Apache nation, said she’s noticed more damage caused by visitors to the sacred sites her grandmother taught her...

At their Annual General Meeting, NTI calls on governments of Canada and Nunavut to increase their efforts to strengthen Inuktut in Nunavut Territory NationTalk: Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.,Rankin Inlet, Nunavut – The Membership of the Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) Annual General Meeting (AGM) passed a resolution calling on the governments of Canada and Nunavut to take...

Toronto Star: OTTAWA – Senior civil servants explored offering Indigenous-language training to federal employees and possible exemptions to those who already speak one from requiring fluency in both English and French, newly released documents show. Deputy ministers from several departments discussed the issue last fall.  A memo, released to The Canadian Press under federal access-to-information...

The aspiration of Nunavut is a step closer as Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) seeks guidance for self-government from Inuit Elders and commits to becoming an Inuktut language workplace announced President Aluki Kotierk from Kugluktuk today. Inuktut language assessments have been completed with NTI staff. All staff will receive on the job training and support based...

Nunatsiak News – Inuit Tapariit Kanatami and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc raised the following objections: Bill does not recognize Inuktut as an official language within the 4 regions of Inuit Nunangat and requires Inuit to use English or French to access federal services Federal departments and agencies do not have to offer services in Inuit language...

Inuit Tapariit Kanatami (ITK) regrets that Bill C-91, “An Act respecting Indigenous languages“, passed into law without inclusion of any Inuit-specific priorities. In its current format, this law does not affirm Inuit language rights or close the legal and policy gaps that contribute to the erosion of Inuktut as the first, only or preferred language...

Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. President Aluki Kotierk. With this budget, the Government of Canada has strengthened funding for minority language service for English and French, yet, failed to invest equitably in Indigenous languages. NTI seeks recognition that Inuktut is the majority language in Nunavut and must be the language of public services, including education, justice and...

Inuit Tapariit Kanatami – Failure to incorporate Inuit specific recommendations into the Indigenous Language Act. “Inuktut speakers make up the majority of the population in Inuit Nunangat yet the federal government allocates a larger share of public sector resources for the English and French speaking minority populations,” the position paper prepared by ITK states. ITK...

CBC – Inuktut language services in Nunavut Tunngavik receive similar funding to French services despite nearly 50 times more speakers The federal government funds $14.25M over 4 years to support 435 french-speaking people (2011 census) vs. $15.8M to support 21,515 people who speak Inuktitut or Inuinnaqtun as their mother tongues. On a per capita basis...