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2020-06-12
26 May 2020 – 1:30 pm EDT “… Plans to lay fibre optic cable along Nunavik’s Hudson coast will go ahead this summer, putting parts of the region on track to receive high-speed internet by next year….”
2017-11-19
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2017-09-28
Nunatsiaq News is the newspaper of record for the Eastern Arctic. Serving 45 communities and 70,000 readers a week with its website and print edition, Nunatsiaq News continues to grow its overall readership, web visits and advertising revenue. Its editorial team offers credible, in-depth and award-winning journalism which, together with a lively website comment section, draws readers from the North, southern Canada and around the world.
Reporting to the Publisher, you would manage an experienced editorial team including a senior content editor, four reporters and a number of freelancers.
You would plan, co-ordinate and administer posting multiple stories, including photos and videos, to the website each day as well as publishing a weekly print edition. You would continue to grow the newspaper by adding editorial resources to expand coverage, eventually moving from week-day postings to seven days a week.
You are an excellent communicator, a skilled editor and writer, with meticulous attention to detail and deadlines.
You are well versed and take initiative in a multi-channel environment of print, web and social media, engaging readers on many platforms while drawing increasing traffic to the website. And you are capable of managing a team at a distance, including all aspects of hiring, compensation, housing and transportation.
This position is based in Ottawa or Iqaluit. Closing October 13, 2017. Nunatsiaq News offers competitive compensation, profit sharing, health benefits, and, if based in Nunavut, relocation, housing and travel assistance. Please send resumes to editor@nunatsiaq.com.
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/ads/banner_pdfs/170915.100.79.pdf
2017-08-07
“… Digital return technologies offer Indigenous communities a means of repatriating objects and knowledge gathered from their ancestors as part of earlier colonial endeavors. Many third party institutions such as museums, universities, and government heritage agencies, retain possession of these collections because of the perceived impracticality of returning them to source communities.
The concept of digital repatriation or “digital return” has emerged as a means of rebuilding relationships between source communities and third party institutions through the transfer of knowledge and objects in digital form. In this way, digital return systems, such as online archives, electronic atlases and digital databases, are excellent examples of disruptive technologies.
The idea of disruptive technologies was first popularized by Clayton Christensen in his 1997 book “The Innovator’s Dilemma”. Disruptive technologies are technological innovations that upset networks supporting the existing state of affairs. Digital return acts as a disruptive technology because it disrupts established institutional models for archiving, accessing, and interpreting objects and cultural knowledge.
Paradoxically, digital return also disrupts traditional Indigenous networks that support how objects and cultural knowledge are accessed and circulated by making them freely available on the public Internet . Resolving this paradox requires that we identify and address existing knowledge gaps in both the sociocultural and technological sides of digital return.
A three-part scoping review of Indigenous digital return projects in regions of the North American and European Arctic was undertaken to: a) identify the extent and objectives of academic, government, and community-led digital return projects; b) characterize the digital return methodologies currently used in arctic communities; c) identify the issues and challenges facing digital return projects within the study area; and d) draw attention to heritage initiatives that are grass roots and community led.
The methods used in this study include: a) bibliometric analysis of electronic databases; b) online surveys of digital return projects; and c) a case study of community-led heritage organizations and their projects. …”
PDF http://www.idees-ideas.ca/sites/default/files/sites/default/uploads/general/2016/2016-sshrc-ksg-dawson_0.pdf
2015-05-11
Inuktitut JOB OPPORTUNITIES- IN KUUJUAQ, Nunavik, Quebec: Taqramiut Nipinqat Inc. the Inuit Radio and Television Company of Nunavik, “… invites interested and motivated persons to apply for the positions of Radio Producers (2 positions) for our radio production center in Kuujjuaq.
We are looking for candidates who are outgoing and motivated to work as Radio Producers.
The candidates who don’t have experience will have the opportunity to work alongside a radio production trainer who will teach them how to use the radio equipment and create their own radio shows which will be broadcast on the Taqramiut Nipingat’s regional radio network.
Radio Producers (2 positions)
Under the supervision of the Office Operations Manager, the Radio Producers prepare radio programs and segments for broadcast related to traditional and cultural issues. The main tasks related to these positions are to identify story and program ideas, operate production equipment, read, host, announce and interview on and off air.
The candidates that we are looking for have an interest in the field of communication and are willing to learn the profession. You must be fluent in Inuktitut. Experience in the field of communication and knowledge of another language (English or French) would be definite assets. Training will be provided during employment.
Please submit your resume before 5:00pm on May 25th 2015 to:
Julie Grenier
Office Manager
Taqramiut Nipingat Inc
PO Box 360
Kuujjuaq, Quebec
JOM ICO
Tel: (819) 964-1999 (207)
Fax:(819)964-1555
E-mail: jgrenier@taqramiut.qc.ca ….”
* Application Forms are also available upon request.
Web: http://www.tni-rtn.com/
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2014-05-25
W.C. Fields – The Diner Sketch – YouTube.
http://youtu.be/yOHGr8r5Cs4?t=4m10s
“…Northern friends – anyone notice a very peculiar word about halfway through this sketch?…”
Distinctively…. “qallunaaq”
and not a bad pronunciation to my ear…
for Hollywood
especially at that date…
http://youtu.be/yOHGr8r5Cs4?t=4m10s
Distinctively…. at 4:19
and not a bad pronunciation to my ear…
for Hollywood
especially at that date…
Then W.C. Fields repeats it and says
“… I haven’t been called that for two days…”
“…To her colleagues at the college where Kublu works, she is, we hope, an equal, with a professional competence extending beyond her particular role as instructor of interpretation and translation. To her students, she is a role model, one who has attained a balance between two worlds. To herself . . . well, she knows she can never be the kind of Inuk her elders were, but, with all due respect, she doesn’t want to be. And she never could be a “qallunaaq” (white person). …”
http://www.nunavut.com/nunavut99/english/our.html
2014-05-24
Iqqaumavara – Je m’en souviens, I Remember, ᐃᕐᖃᐅᒪᕙᕋIqqaumavara | Je m’en souviens.
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2014-05-20
“Native American, Alaska Native, Inuit & First Nations Traditional Values, Beliefs, and Knowledge Survey Launched”
Original montage for the 2007 Deh Cho Drum “Year in Review” issue For my employer, http://nnsl.com
Original montage for the 2007 Deh Cho Drum “Year in Review” issue
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From: Andrew Hund <axh69@cwru.edu>
Date: 20 May 2014 10:05
Subject: Press Release — Traditional Values, Beliefs, and Knowledge Survey
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: 5/20/2014
News Release from Andrew Hund, M.A., Ph.D.
“Native American, Alaska Native, Inuit & First Nations Traditional Values, Beliefs, and Knowledge Survey Launched”
(Al Ain, UAE) — A new research study is being conducted by Andrew Hund. This questionnaire is designed to gather general information about indigenous and non-indigenous people views of values, beliefs, and knowledge. The study is designed to establish a baseline of Native American, Alaska Native, and Canadian first Nations traditional values and beliefs. The questionnaire focuses on participant’s interactions with others, as well as their perception of subsistence, emotions, and health and illness.
Participants’ responses are anonymous. The information collected will be added with the opinions of others that complete this questionnaire and following the data collection, an analysis will be performed.The results of this study will be used for educational purposes. There is no risk to you from participating in this survey; this survey is voluntary and you may quit at anytime. The questionnaire takes between 5-10 minutes to complete. The study will be conducted until at least August 2014.
The anonymous survey can be accessed at:
http://www.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?F2D6BAA3FBB5AFA1F1
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2014-05-20
The corner of Sainte Catherine’s and Atwater and the Pepsi Forum. | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
The corner of Sainte Catherine’s and Atwater and the Forum.
“… The famous Montreal Forum, where the Montreal Canadiens used to play [hockey] until the Molson Centre (now the Bell Centre) opened in 1996, got gutted and transformed into a shopping and entertainment complex in the late 1990s. …”
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“Media and reconciliation” is a Truth and Reconciliation Commission call to journalist’s action
2019-03-10
The TRC report urges Canadian journalism programs and media schools to “require education for all students on the history of Aboriginal peoples.”
ITK’s Natan Obed scolds reporters
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks on as Natan Obed, President of the ITK, speaks during a press conference in Iqaluit, Nunavut “…Questions moved to the SNC-Lavalin affair, which has been dominating the news cycle in Ottawa for the last month. The shift in focus, away from human rights abuses experienced by Inuit, prompted Obed to scold reporters and remind media of its role in reconciliation.
Full transcript of his comments below:
“I think something that the media should reflect on is that throughout all of this, there has always been more important stories. And the stories of human rights abuses to Inuit. Every time there is something that happens, such as an apology today, there are other stories in the world.
But the fact that media passed right by the people whose human rights abuses were not told by the media for decades to other stories of the day is still a reflection on the work that needs to happen in reconciliation. The Inuit who were apologized today matter. This story matters. It is a Canadian story.
And I recognize that there are other media stories that matter as well. But I do hope in the future there can be more respect given to the place and time and the people who deserve to have their story told. And the media have a strong role to play to tell it.”
Obed is president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, a national non-profit organization that represents 53 communities in the north.
“Media and reconciliation” is a subsection in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action. The TRC report urges Canadian journalism programs and media schools to “require education for all students on the history of Aboriginal peoples.”….”
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/03/08/natan-obed-media-snc-lavalin_a_23688192/
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