By William Koblensky Varela, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunavut News The federal government has promised to create a $50-million fund to build Inuit Nunangat University and the minister of Indigenous Services Canada has faith the Inuit Child First Initiative will continue, MP Lori Idlout told Nunavut News. Idlout said the Prime Minister’s Office told her that the federal government would match the contribution made by national Inuit organization Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) to build an Inuit-led university in the North. The new university would have a main campus and four satellite campuses, Idlout said she was told, with the possibility of Cambridge Bay serving as one of the locations. “They have included an announcement to fund the Inuit Nunangat University. While they didn’t include it in the budget, I did…
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