Emergency meetings begin as Quebec’s Inuit region grapples with string of suicides – RCI
As winter approaches in Quebec’s Arctic region, the sun doesn’t rise very high in the crisp, blue sky.
It hangs rather low, circling above, and casting long shadows of the Inuit residents walking the streets.
But as the winter approaches, there is something else casting a long shadow over Nunavik, the Inuit region in northern Quebec — suicides of Inuit youth, as many as 15 over the last few months.
The two most recent were in the community of Kuujjuaq in the last week.
“We’re losing so many [to suicide] on a weekly, daily basis, that we’ve normalized it,” said Robert Watt, head of the school board in the region, known as Kativik Ilisarniliriniq.
