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Inuujaq Leslie Fredlund’s Maybe Somewhere grows despite launching just before pandemic

When Rankin Inlet’s Inuujaq Leslie Fredlund decided she was going to open her store selling Indigenous-made products at the beginning of 2020, she knew there would be challenges ahead. But not even she could have expected a global pandemic that would bring the local economy to a grinding halt. “It was the summer of 2019 […]

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Nunavut Mining: Businessman Patrick Tagoona’s strategy is to diversify

Imagine a Kivalliq region with no gold mining. When businessman Patrick Tagoona pictures it in his mind, he envisions an entirely different line of work for himself. “The likelihood of me being an entrepreneur and getting into this would have been essentially non-existent,” says Tagoona, president of Nunavut Investments Ltd., based in Rankin Inlet. “It’s

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Perserving Inuit culture by producing bowhead oil cosmetics

  Iqaluit born Bernice Kootoo Clarke has a vision to continue showcasing Inuit culture and bring healing to her people through her business. In 2012, Clarke founded a cosmetic business, right in the comfort of her own kitchen. She started with selling “natural” body butters. Then in 2014 a fellow Inuk encouraged her to use

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