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  UQAUSIVUT ATURLAVUT : English

  by: IsumaTV

  channel: Inuit Language News

  Address
  Louis Tapardjuk, Minister of Languages
  Government of Nunavut
  Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium
  Tromsø, Norway, October 21, 2008
  
  UQAUSIVUT ATURLAVUT
  Moving forward to implement our dream:
  Protecting and Promoting the Inuit Language
  

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  UQAUSIVUT ATURLAVUT : Inuktitut

  by: IsumaTV

  channel: Inuit Language News

  Uqautaa
  Louis Tapardjuk, Minista Uqauhini
  Nunavut Kavamat
  Ukiuqtaqtumi Nunangani Uqauhini Katimaniq
  Tromsø, Norway, Aktuupa 21, 2008
  
  UQAUSIVUT ATURLAVUT
  Hivumuuniq atuqtilirningani piyumayaptikni:
  Tammaqtailinia Atuqunialu Inuit Uqauhia
  

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  Ottawa won't be bound by Nunavut's Inuit language law: Harper

  by: IsumaTV

  channel: Inuit Language News

  A new law that requires Nunavut's public and private sectors to provide day-to-day services in the Inuit languages will not apply to federal government services, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said.
  
  While campaigning in Iqaluit on Saturday, Harper said Ottawa will not be bound by Nunavut's Inuit Language Protection Act, which was signed into law on Thursday.
  
  "The federal government is never bound by language policies of other levels of government," Harper said Saturday.
  

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  Inuit balk at Nunavut gold mine's English-only rule

  by: IsumaTV

  channel: Inuit Language News

  Inuit workers at a gold mining project in central Nunavut say they can't speak their mother tongue on the job — a rule that company officials say is necessary for safety reasons.
  
  The Kivalliq Inuit Association is outraged with Agnico-Eagle Ltd.'s policy of making all mine workers speak only English while at work at Meadowbank, located about 70 kilometres north of Baker Lake on the western shore of Hudson Bay.
  
  That means Inuit mine workers from the area cannot speak Inuktitut on the work site — not even "Qanuippit," which means, "Are you OK?"
  

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  Nunavut Legislative Assembly Approves the Inuit Language Protection Act

  by: IsumaTV

  channel: Inuit Language News

  Nunavut Legislative Assembly Approves the Inuit Language Protection Act
  
  Iqaluit, Nunavut (September 19, 2008) – The Nunavut Legislative Assembly has passed the Inuit Language Protection Act, the second of two pieces of legislation designed to respond to official language concerns in Nunavut. This second statute will provide the tools needed to respond particularly to the rights and unique needs of the Inuit Language.
  

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  IsumaTV creates Inuit Language and Culture Institute

  by: IsumaTV

  channel: Inuit Language News

  Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, speaking at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway, October 20, 2008, announced the creation of the Inuit Language and Culture Institute on IsumaTV, a five year $25 million commitment to install high-speed broadband and public access production studios in every participating Inuit community.