“That is changing dramatically with the help of Teams and moving to the cloud with Office 365 and SharePoint online. Technologically, “we were once significantly behind, however as a result of recent events, we have come a long way,” says Dean Wells, corporate chief information officer for the Government of Nunavut. Nunavut was also planning to use Teams as a tool to help government departments and agencies improve and deliver programs and services to remote communities throughout the territory. But as countries around the world started to lock down last spring, the Government of Nunavut was gearing up to put Microsoft Teams into place for many of its 5,200-plus employees and additional support workers – scattered around the territory – providing a new way for them to meet virtually. The COVID-19 pandemic could have resulted in an even more isolated way of life.
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You have to know how to do maintenance on all of your things, whether it be the computer, the toaster, the fridge, vehicles – you name it.” “You really have to be independent, whether you make your own clothes, service and fix your own house stuff. “There are not a lot of resources for fixing things,” says Sandy-Aliyak, whose job includes helping Inuit employees get training and education to advance their career. The smallest community is Grise Fiord, with 130 the largest, Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, has 8,500 people. Today, more than 80% of the population is of Inuit descent.Īnd while the territory is huge, the population is not: 39,000 people. Nunavut – which means “Our land” in Inuktitut, one of the Inuit languages, has been home to an indigenous population for more than 4,000 years. Nunavut is only accessible by air, and during summer, by boat.” In addition to the weather, there are no roads or railroads between the 25 communities of this vast territory, one-fifth of Canada’s total land mass. “But it is also a challenging place to live.
“It is one of the most exotic places in Canada, and the most natural,” Mary-Lee Sandy-Aliyak, a recruitment specialist with the Government of Nunavut, says of her territory. But the beauty is exquisite views of the northern lights are spectacular there. Temperatures can plunge to minus 45 degrees Celsius (minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of Canada’s northernmost territory, some of which is located above the Arctic Circle. Winters aren’t just hard in Nunavut they are severe.
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