More than 113,900 masks, 563,000 wipes and 438 gallons of sanitizer have been delivered to help protect Inuit during the pandemic in communities throughout Nunavut, Nunavik, the Inuvialuit Settlement Region and Nunatsiavut.
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Covid-19
No single nation, people or person can fight COVID-19 alone. It will take collective action to protect us.
ITK commends the Government of Canada for recognizing and responding to Inuit needs during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit Inuit communities particularly hard.
Announcements
Read the latest updates on Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and Inuit in Canada.
Find the full remarks of Pope Francis’ address in Maskwacis and Iqaluit here.
Today marks the sixth anniversary of the release of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami’s National Inuit Suicide Prevention Strategy (NISPS).
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, together with Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, Makivik Corporation and the Nunatsiavut Government, are coordinating efforts for Inuit participation in the Papal Visit to Canada.
Media
Strengthened partnerships between all levels of government, inclusive of Inuit representational organizations, would be a significant legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring that we emerge stronger, and better able to face the next one.
Natan Obed, the president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, told The Globe and Mail on Wednesday that the Edmonton CFL team’s name is a vestige of another time and the debate around it has been damaging to Inuit and damaging to reconciliation in the country.
Natan Obed: B.C.’s provincial UNDRIP law creates a self-reporting obligation, which has proven faulty in the Wet’suwet’en situation
Commentary
Una tusaratsauliangusimajuq Natan Obed−mut, Angijuqqaangat Inuit Tapiriit Kanatamikkut, pijjutiqaqsuni Puvallunnaqtuq Nuvajjuarnaq−19
ᐅᓇ ᑐᓴᕋᑦᓴᐅᓕᐊᖑᓯᒪᔪᖅ ᓇᑖᓐ ᐆᕙᑦ−ᒧᑦ, ᐊᖏᔪᖅᑳᖓᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑕᐱᕇᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥᒃᑯᑦ, ᐱᔾᔪᑎᖃᖅᓱᓂ ᐳᕙᓪᓗᓐᓇᖅᑐᖅ ᓄᕙᔾᔪᐊᕐᓇᖅ−19
The following is a message from Natan Obed, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, related to COVID-19
I have played many roles on this journey, but my role as ambassador for Inuit has been most important. We...
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We are patriotic, as seen in the way we cheer for Team Canada on the international sporting stage, and we...
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Publications
Getting Started with Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning is a means to achieve self-determination in Inuit program design and evaluation. The more Inuit take charge of monitoring and evaluation activities, the more monitoring and evaluation will serve our interests across Inuit Nunangat.
L’Initiative garantit que les enfants inuits ont accès aux produits, services et soutiens essen¬tiels en matière de santé, de services sociaux et d’éducation dont ils ont besoin, au moment où ils en ont besoin.
Cette initiative reconnaît les traumatismes intergénérationnels causés par l’héritage de la colonisation et toutes les demandes sont examinées sous l’angle de l’égalité réelle.
The Inuit Child First Initiative ensures Inuit children have access to the essential health, social and educational products, services and supports they need, when they need them.
Inuit CFI recognizes intergenerational trauma from the legacy of colonization and all requests are reviewed with a substantive equality lens.
Inuktitut Magazine
Inuktitut Uqalimaagaliangusimajut taakkua 130-nik itijumik atuqtausimajuvinirnik iqqaumajjutiqaqput kisianilu sivunittinnut turaangatittisimagillutik, Inuit sanaugalirininginnut, piusituqanginnut ammalu tusaumaqattautilirijjutinginnut sivuniksarijaujunut. Uqalimaagait qaangani, ammalu…
Inuktitut Magazine Issue 128-129 Editor: Tom Mcleod Commissioning Editor: Melo Sammurtok-Lavallee Table of Contents Inuusiq Qanimangnaaluutillugu ᐃᓅᓯᖅ...
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Uqalimaagaliangusimajut 127 Inuktitut atuinnauliqtut! Taakkunani uqalimaagani, ajjiliurijinit nalunairviusimavugut timimiktigut nunaligijaminni qanutigi ungasiksisimajariaqarnirminnut asigijaminnit, Nanilavut Piliriaqaqtingit titirausiqaqsimavut tusagaksaqutiqarnirminnut asiujisimalilauqtaminnik nagligijaminnik taima...
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Work for ITK
The Director of policy advancement is responsible for delivering compelling rationale that leads to transformative policy change at the national level that benefits Inuit.
Reporting to a Manager within the Department of Policy Advancement, the Senior Policy Advisor will work towards promoting and improving the place of Canada’s Inuit in a number of policy areas.
Reporting to a Manager within the Department of Policy Advancement, the Senior Policy Advisor will work towards promoting and improving the place of Canada’s Inuit in a number of policy areas.
