CITP Students Meeting Charlie Gordon in his LOEB office

Tom Sherwood, the University’s chaplain and a close friend of Charlie Gordon’s described how Charlie was always helping people make connections with each other. On any given day he would talk to 10 different students from 10 different departments.

Just Before Returning to Iqaluit, NU

This photo of Dennis Forcese and Patricia Reynolds [1] was taken in the hallway outside Centre for Initiatives in Education offices, Dunton Tower, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON was taken in April 1, 2002 just before I returned to Iqaluit, NU to complete the “winter term [2]” at Nunavut Arctic College.
Professor Forcese [3] was the [...]

Glass Ceiling Fire Water II

Perhaps Sarah was the only one who knew how serious it was. She was an Inuk and a grandmother. She knew the ripple effect of youth suicides.

Vicarious trauma among researchers working with at-risk populations

A substantial body of literature on epidemiological studies estimate that between 36 and 81 percent of the general population experience a traumatic event at some time in their lives which is far more often than previously believed (Cusack et al. 2004).

Flynn-Burhoe. 2003. A Fliction: Dawn among the Hummocks, Iqaluit, NU
A US study a team of researchers led [...]

Cardboard boxes: shaking off the dust

Aflicktion [1] is not really real. It exists in a liminal space between real events and people and entirely fictional accounts and imaginary characters.
[1] Flicktion is a term developed by Web 2.0 innovater, artist and author Andrew L for his Flickr-based nonlinear story entitled Doorbells of Florence.

Tourists and old timers

There are two kinds of people who come north from the south. There are the tourists who stay for one or two years. Then there are those like … who have been here for decades. Those like … recognise that the longer they are here, the less they know about the north. They realise there [...]

Working for the Government in the North

[They] began to compare employee benefits between the Nunavut government and the federal government.
Y works for Customs and Immigration as a Custom’s officer. Y inquired about working for a summer term here. (Y’s father worked here last year.) Y was offered a two year contract. The federal government was not interested in hiring anyone for [...]

Aflicktion: The Wreck of Hope

Aflicktion: The Wreck of Hope
Originally uploaded by ocean.flynn.

Aflicktion: The Wreck of Hope
Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2007. “Nanuq of the North II: Animal Rights vs Human Rights.” Speechless. Uploaded January 3, 2007.
The Bush administration took advantage of the way in which all eyes turn towards Santa’s North Pole, where big-eyed talking polar bears, reindeer and seals live in [...]

Christmas Char on First Air

Youth and suicide
We both arrived early at the airport. I had only met P briefly before. She and her husband were well-known and liked. When I ate my meals at the Frobisher Inn they would often be there. He would come over to greet people including myself.
So there we were in the hustle and bustle [...]

Anti-poverty meeting at the NAC

Thoughts after an anti poverty meeting at NAC
“I have not been here for a long time. It seems like what I have seen is more like a blink than an observation. In this room we have people who have more knowledge than I have about poverty in Nunavut. But there are images I cannot shake. [...]