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November 11, 2005

Conference on JBNQA

A three-day symposium next week in Montreal will explore the history of Nunavik and plans still under negotiation for a new Nunavik government.

Makivik Corp. and the Dialog Network, a group linked to Quebec’s science institute that looks at native affairs, are co-presenting the symposium, which starts Tuesday afternoon.

Included are talks by Senator Charlie Watt as well as by Nunavik government negotiators Harry Tulugak and Minnie Grey.

Round-table discussions include the leaders of Nunavik’s organizations — Makivik, the Kativik School Board, health board, youth association, Avataq, the Fédération des cooperatives du Nouveau-Québec and Taqramiut Nipingat Inc. — as well as Québec academics and bureaucrats, who will discuss such subjects as “visions of an innovative government” and “identity, culture and community dynamics.”

The symposium, which wraps up on Thursday, takes place at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Montreal. For more information, contact reseaudialog@ucs.inrs.ca or 514-499-4087.

November 11, 2005

Gas tax returns to communities

The Quebec government announced last week that it will return a total of $7.3 million of federal excise taxes collected on gasoline sold in northern Quebec to communities from Chibougamau to Ivujivik.

“Over the next five years, municipalities and municipal agencies can rely on a set annual payment, which will facilitate the planning of infrastructure maintenance,” said Pierre Corbeil, the provincial minister of natural wildlife and minister responsible for northern Quebec.

For Nunavik, the money will go directly to municipalities, according to population. The amounts range from a total of $269,299 for tiny Aupaluk to $456,235 for Kuujjuaq.

Nunavik leaders have lobbied for the return of these taxes, arguing that money collected for maintenance of road networks should be returned to the region, which is not connected to Quebec’s road grid.

For Quebec as a whole, $1.3 billion is federal funds is being transferred under the agreement, to which Quebec has added $437.7 million.

November 11, 2005

Nunavimmiut profiled in Quebec parka catalogue

“Kanuk,” a made-in-Quebec parka manufacturing company, is highlighting a connection to Nunavik in its new catalogue. Among its selection of parkas, there’s the “Inuit,” a cozy coat good down to -30, and the “Kuujjuaq,” its warmest model of all, good down to -40.

Models for the new 2005-6 designs include a father-son team from Kangiqsualujjuaq, Félix and Jean-Guy Saint Aubin.

Félix, who sports the “Manicougan” ultralight parka in the catalogue, is responsible for the Ulluriaq School building in Kangiqsualujjuaq.

According to the text of Kanuk’s catalogue, “poet and mechanic Jean-Guy Saint Aubin traveled to a job in Kangiqsualujjuaq in the 1970s and before long had made this town his own.”

To see Félix and Jean-Guy in their Kanuks, consult www.kanuk.com.

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