The Snowy Path of Canada's Nunavut

On April 1st, twelve years after Nunavut parted from the Northwest Territories to form its own political unit within Canada, the Globe and Mail published an investigation of life in the Inuit territory today.
The article describes serious undereducation, poverty, alcoholism, housing deficits, aggression, and other hardships, and leads to the conclusion that the new government of Nunavut has not been effective after all.

Whether it's fair or not I can't tell. The fact remains that Nunavut has only some 33,000 inhabitants despite its geographical grandeur; though the flag with the inukshuk and the position of the magnetic North Pole near one of its islands and comparable idiosyncracies are memorable, it is an enigma.

"The trials of Nunavut: Lament for an Arctic nation" by Patrick White
Globe and Mail, Friday, April 1, 2011

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