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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...