Iqaluit resident Virginia Mearns named Canada’s Arctic ambassador

Iqaluit resident Virginia Mearns named Canada’s Arctic ambassador

Prime Minister Mark Carney has named Virginia Mearns, who is Inuk and who has held prominent positions with Inuit organizations, as Canada's Arctic ambassador.  Carney made the announcement Thursday morning during an Inuit-Crown partnership committee meeting in Inuvik, N.W.T.Mearns, who lives

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