Iqaluit city councillor encourages Inuit women to apply for council – Nunatsiaq News
Feb 3, 2022
Coun. Sheila Flaherty says she never thought she could be an Iqaluit city councillor. But when the outgoing mayor, Madeleine Redfern, gave a statement encouraging Inuit women to run for council, it “brought me to tears.”
“I thought it was always for somebody else, like, I’m not qualified, but then I ran, and here I am,” Flaherty said in an interview. “I’m a city councillor.”
There are two vacancies on Iqaluit’s city council. The city is taking applications until Feb. 28 at 4:30 p.m.
The spots opened up when former deputy mayor Janet Pitsiulaaq Brewster won the Iqaluit-Sinaa seat in the Nunavut legislature in October, and when former Coun. John Fawcett resigned due to personal reasons at the end of 2021.
