by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Jan 22, 2013 | 2013, Press Releases
22 January, 2013 – Geneva, Switzerland/Ottawa, Canada After a week with long negotiations that lasted throughout several nights, ICC participants were pleased to see the adoption of a global mercury treaty (the ‘Minamata Convention on Mercury’) at the 5th...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Nov 7, 2012 | 2012, Press Releases
OTTAWA – 7 November 2012 –Duane Smith, President of Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada today called on all Inuit and all Canadians to celebrate Inuit Day. In 2006 ICC General Assembly in Barrow, Alaska instructed ICC to “annually proclaim the November 7th birth date of...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Oct 16, 2012 | 2012, Press Releases
16 October 2012 – Nuuk, Greenland – Aqqaluk Lynge, Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) today congratulated ICC Canada President and ICC Vice-Chair for Canada, Duane Smith, for having received the prestigious 2013 Indspire Award for Politics. Indspire awards...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Sep 14, 2012 | 2012, Press Releases
Ottawa, 14 September 2012 – Following yesterday’s celebration at the Canadian Museum of Civilization marking the 5th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the president of the Canadian chapter of the Inuit Circumpolar Council...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Aug 23, 2012 | 2012, Press Releases
Ottawa, 23 August 2012 – The president of the Canadian chapter of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC Canada) is happy about the prime ministerial appointment of Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq as the next Chair of the Arctic Council. Duane Smith said in Ottawa today,...