Nunavik artist calls on leaders to declare state of emergency – Nunatsiaq News
“We’ve never seen so much death by suicide”
May 17, 2016
A growing number of Nunavimmiut are asking the region’s leadership to declare a state of emergency in response to the high number of suicides that Nunavik has suffered this past winter and spring.
A campaign launched last week by Nunavik singer-songwriter Beatrice Deer last week has made the rounds on social media since it was posted May 13.
“Nunavik leaders; we don’t know what to do,” read Deer’s message, shared 185 times on Facebook over the weekend. “We feel helpless. We’ve never seen so much death by suicide.
