We are taking the podcast on the road again to the fourth session of the United Nations International Plastics Negotiations in Ottawa, Canada. The formal name is “Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution”. This meeting is known as “INC-4”. The first three sessions were held in Uruguay, France, and Kenya. The talks started in 2022 following a resolution passed to create a treaty. The goal is to develop an internationally legally binding instrument on plastic pollu...

In 2023 ICC Canada featured Inuit artists each month on our podcast. Thanks to funding by the Department of Canadian Heritage – Indigenous Language Component, artists were provided with a bursary to further their work. Our winners were, in chronological order: Simik Komaksiutiksak, Gloria Putumiraqtuq, Priscilla Boulay, Cora DeVos, Jessica Winters, Lutie Kaviok, Ashley Kilabuk-Savard, Mikka Komaksiutiksak, Olivia Ikey, Koomuatuk Curley, and Charlie Tookaluk. In today’s podcast we’ll...

We are proud to host a special series of podcasts highlighting the ICC Inuit Artist of the Month. On the first Thursday of every month in 2023 we’ll hear from one of the 12 artists. Thanks to funding by the Department of Canadian Heritage – Indigenous Language Component, each artist is provided a bursary to further their art.In this Inuktitut language episode, host Madeleine Allakariallak speaks with Koomuatuk Curley, who is from Kinngait, in Nunavut, Canada. He is a fourth generation ca...

We are proud to host a special series of podcasts highlighting the ICC Inuit Artist of the Month. On the first Thursday of every month in 2023 we’ll hear from one of the 12 artists. Thanks to funding by the Department of Canadian Heritage – Indigenous Language Component, each artist is provided a bursary to further their art.In this episode, host Madeleine Allakariallak speaks with Olivia Ikey, who is from Kuujjuaq, in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec, Canada. She now lives in Montreal.A...

We are proud to host a special series of podcasts highlighting the ICC Inuit Artist of the Month. On the first Thursday of every month in 2023 we’ll hear from one of the 12 artists. Thanks to funding by the Department of Canadian Heritage – Indigenous Language Component, each artist is provided a bursary to further their art.In this episode, host Madeleine Allakariallak speaks with Mikka Komaksiutiksak, who is from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada. She now lives in Ottawa.Mikka is known as “Iqal...

We are proud to host a special series of podcasts highlighting the ICC Inuit Artist of the Month. On the first Thursday of every month in 2023 we’ll hear from one of the 12 artists. Thanks to funding by the Department of Canadian Heritage – Indigenous Language Component, each artist is provided a bursary to further their art.In this episode, host Madeleine Allakariallak speaks with Ashley Kilabuk-Savard, who is from Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada.As an artist, Ashley has many talents, including as ...

For the first time we take the podcast on the road to the ICC Delegates Meeting in Ilulissat, Greenland in mid-July, 2023. This meeting brings together delegations of Inuit leaders from Greenland, Alaska, and Canada to discuss key issues related to the activities of the ICC. Our guest is ICC Chair Sara Olsvig, from Greenland. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Greenland. She is an Anthropologist, a former parliamentarian in the Danish government from 2011 to 2014, and she l...

We are proud to host a special series of podcasts highlighting the ICC Inuit Artist of the Month. On the first Thursday of every month in 2023 we’ll hear from one of the 12 artists. Thanks to funding by the Department of Canadian Heritage – Indigenous Language Component, each artist is provided a bursary to further their art.In this episode, host Madeleine Allakariallak speaks with Brian Kowikchuk, who is from Inuvik in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories, Canada.He is a p...

We are proud to host a special series of podcasts highlighting the ICC Inuit Artist of the Month. On the first Thursday of every month in 2023 we’ll hear from one of the 12 artists. Thanks to funding by the Department of Canadian Heritage – Indigenous Language Component, each artist is provided a bursary to further their art.In this episode, host Madeleine Allakariallak speaks with Lutie Kaviok, who is from Arviat in the Nunavut Territory, Canada.He is a rapper, with several songs out on YouT...

We are proud to host a special series of podcasts highlighting the ICC Inuit Artist of the Month. On the first Thursday of every month in 2023 we’ll hear from one of the 12 artists. Thanks to funding by the Department of Canadian Heritage – Indigenous Language Component, each artist is provided a bursary to further their art.In this episode, host Madeleine Allakariallak speaks with Jessica Winters, who is originally from Makkovik in the Nunatsiavut region of northern Labrador, Canada.She is a...

We are proud to host a special series of podcasts highlighting the ICC Inuit Artist of the Month. On the first Thursday of every month in 2023 we’ll hear from one of the 12 artists. Thanks to funding by the Department of Canadian Heritage – Indigenous Language Component, each artist is provided a bursary to further their art.In this episode, host Madeleine Allakariallak speaks with Cora DeVos, who is originally from Iqaluktuttiaq in Nunavut, Canada. She is a photographer, and owner of he...

We are proud to host a special series of podcasts highlighting the ICC Inuit Artist of the Month. On the first Thursday of every month in 2023 we’ll hear from one of the 12 artists. Thanks to funding by the Department of Canadian Heritage – Indigenous Language Component, each artist is provided a bursary to further their art.In this episode, host Madeleine Allakariallak speaks with Priscilla Boulay, who is originally from Tuktoyaktuk in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.She is a third generati...

We are proud to host a special series of podcasts highlighting the ICC Inuit Artist of the Month. On the first Thursday of every month in 2023 we’ll hear from one of the 12 artists. Thanks to funding by the Department of Canadian Heritage – Indigenous Language Component, each artist is provided a bursary to further their art.In this Inuktitut language episode, host Madeline Allakariallak speaks with Gloria Putumiraqtuq, who is originally from Baker Lake, Nunavut. Gloria creates wall-hangings ...

We are proud to launch a special series of podcasts highlighting the ICC Inuit Artist of the Month. On the first Thursday of every month in 2023 we’ll hear from one of the 12 winners. Thanks to funding by the Department of Canadian Heritage – Indigenous Language Component, each artist is provided a bursary to further their art.In this episode, host Madeline Allakariallak speaks with Simik Komaksiutiksak, who is from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. Simik is a dancer, choreographer, and circus artist an...

This episode of Unikkaat / Circumpolar Waves is about Inuit Food sovereignty and Self-Governance. For thousands of years, Inuit have thrived in the Arctic relying on our knowledge and values. Core to our culture is hunting, fishing, gathering, and preparing foods. Today, many of our people face food insecurity. Our food security requires accessibility, availability, culture, health and wellness, stability, and decision-making power and management. It also is distinctly tied to food...

Two years ago on August 9, 2020 we marked the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples by launching our podcast which we call “ᐅᓂᒃᑳᑦ / UNIKKAAT / UNIPKAAT / UNGIPAGHAT / NALLUNAIRUTET / Circumpolar Waves”. In 2022 we are proud to mark this day with a special podcast to discuss the “Circumpolar Inuit Protocols for Equitable and Ethical Engagement” – or EEE Protocols, released in June 2022. The 2018 ICC Utqiaġvik Declaration mandated ICC to facilitate the development of Equitabl...

In our ongoing series of Inuktitut language podcasts, host Madeleine Allakariallak speaks with Ms. Aluki Kotierk about the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032.The United Nations named 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages. As that year came to a close the UN announced the International Decade of Indigenous Languages lasting from 2022 to 2032. A Canadian launch event is being held by the Royal Canadian Geographic Society in Ottawa on April 22nd, 2022.Aluki K...

In our ongoing series of Inuktitut language podcasts, host Inga Hansen interviews former ICC Chair (1997-2002), Aqqaluk Lynge, from Greenland. He was appointed to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2005. He has fought tirelessly, since the 1970s, for Kalaallit and Inuit across the circumpolar countries with the power of his words, and political engagement. In September 2021 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Greenland. He is an aut...

In our ongoing series of Inuktitut language podcasts, host Madeline Allakariallak speaks with two Inuit women who are involved in the battle to eliminate “forever chemicals” from the Arctic.Lucy Grey works at Makivik Corporation as the Federal Affairs Liaison Officer. She is connected with research of this nature via the Inuit Crown Partnership Committee, and her previous job as Inuit Research Advisor at the Kativik Regional Government.Kitty Gordon is the Assistant Director of Public Health f...

For our final podcast of 2021 host Madeline Allakariallak speaks with a panel of Inuit members of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) delegation to the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland. Madeline speaks with ICC Chair Dalee Sambo Dorough who was the head of our Delegation at COP26, Lisa Qiluqqi Koperqualuk Vice-President International for ICC Canada, former NIYC President Crystal Martin-Lapenskie who was also an organizer of our COP26 delegation, and Conservation Biolo...