Buckle up! 2025’s political roller-coaster is about to start – Nunatsiaq News

Jan 4, 2025

Federal, territorial elections and wild uncertainty in the U.S. promise interesting times ahead

If 2025 continues the way 2024 ended, we’re in for a lot of change this year.

In the dying days of 2024, Nunavut saw (at long last) its new senator appointed. Nancy Karetak-Lindell, who once represented the territory in the House of Commons, got the call to sit in Parliament’s upper house, filling the seat vacated nearly a year earlier when former senator Dennis Patterson reached the Red Chamber’s retirement age.

Earlier in December, Jeremy Tunraluk was elected the new president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., after former president Aluki Kotierk — who held that job for eight years — decided not to seek a third term as head of the organization that ensures obligations made to Inuit under the Nunavut Agreement are upheld.

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