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The funding is meant to help fulfill the federal government’s promise to eradicate tuberculosis by 2030. But Inuit groups across Canada have been lobbying for $131 million in funding as well as co-ordinated action to address the underlying issues that increase tuberculosis spread

Forty-one per cent of Inuit families lived below the poverty line, compared to 11 per cent of Canadians overall

“If the government of Canada is going to spend a dollar on poverty reduction, on food security, on the well-being of children, that we’d love to do it within these policy parameters and the priorities that we have decided ourselves that we feel will make the best possible difference.”

“Self-determination also means that you get to decide whether or not to play any role within this country, and I think Mary was able to balance her indigeneity with her official function as head of state on behalf of the King for Canada,” President Obed said.

“There is no other scenario in the country where a majority population of a jurisdiction has no right to receive government services in the dominant language of the society,” Obed said.

Attacks on Simon’s fluency in French are absurd because they are a result of Quebec policy and a decades-long standoff between the governments of Quebec and Canada over who would be responsible for Indigenous Peoples

ITK is hosting Tapiriit at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa Monday evening

“We wanted all of the students to feel as though they were connected to something very familiar but also to an essential part of Inuit society and culture,” – ITK President Natan Obed

“There needs to be a reckoning from this,” said ITK President Natan Obed. “This is another chapter in a very dark legacy of this country’s history.”