The Inuit land claims organization in the Canadian province of Quebec, says the recent death of an Inuk woman in a Montreal construction site, highlights the need to bolster services for the city’s urban Inuit population. “Her death highlights once again the severe lack of services that homeless Inuit face in Montreal’s urban centre. “Makivik’s Urban Inuit department has been working tirelessly to provide aid to Montreal’s vulnerable Inuit population like the homeless,” the organization said. Makivik’s Urban Inuit department has received funding from the program to put together a plan to set up an Inuit-specific urban service centre in Montreal like the Tungasuvvingat Inuit centre in Ottawa, and the project is one of Makivik’s priorities, the organization says. Tungasuvvingat Inuit (TI) is a longtime counselling and resource centre for Inuit in Ontario and serves the approximately 6,000 Inuit in the province.

Source: CBC News November 19, 2021 20:20 UTC