Exploring Theme: "Nunavut Education Update"

NationTalk: In its Motion, the GN argues that Inuit have absolutely no rights to Inuktut education, and that the only constitutional rights to language in Canada relate to minority rights in English or French, even though Inuit comprise 85% of the total population and 94% of the student population in Nunavut. In any other jurisdiction...

ALUKI KOTIERK CONTRIBUTOR OVER LANGUAGE DISCRIMINATION IN SCHOOLS. Toronto Star: In Nunavut, education policies pose an existential threat to the vibrancy of the Inuit language right now. In today’s schools, Nunavut Inuit youth have little opportunity to learn Inuktuk – and are overwhelmingly taught only in English or French. Unlike many Indigenous languages silenced by...

NTI filed a landmark lawsuit with the Nunavut Court of Justice in Iqaluit, asserting that the Government of Nunavut (GN), by failing to provide a public school system offering Nunavut Inuit equal opportunities to complete schooling in their own language and culture, is violating constitutionally-protected equality rights of Nunavut Inuit guaranteed under the Canadian Charter...

Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) regrets to announce that Bill 25 – An Act to Amend the Education Act and the Inuit Language Protection Act, which received first reading on June 4, is not a significant improvement over the failed Bill 37 in 2017. NTI’s Tusaqsimajavut Report highlighted what was heard during community consultations: Nunavut Inuit...