How Iqaluit's learning institute gave a generation of Inuit adults a path back to Inuktut
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Hey there Canada, it's me, Gavin Crawford, host of the Because News Podcast, a weekly show where I quiz my good-humored friends on the latest headlines. Joining me this week, comedian Miguel Rivas, YouTuber Carly Thorne, and the improv goat Colin Mockery. I'll be asking, what time will the AI uprising be exactly? And if Trump wants Canada so bad, why don't the American hockey players? Also, what took so long to get Yacht Rock in the Merriam-Webster dictionary?
If you want unlicensed therapy for the news, subscribe to the Because News Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you download find podcasts for free. This is a CBC podcast. One night in 1993, Lena Ive had a startlingly vivid dream. I saw a facility that was so inviting that it also told me somewhere like, Lena, your house is ready for you.
But then I saw all these hands up in the air as well. Those were needs. Those hands belonged to generations of Inuit who were hungry for language, and the facility she dreamed of was a center in a Caluate dedicated to assuaging that hunger. I sketched what I signed my dream the very next morning upon waking up. I guess it was a sign that I got it imprinted in me even stronger because it haunted me.
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