{"id":416060,"date":"2026-01-17T21:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416060\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T21:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:09:06","slug":"dozens-rally-in-iqaluit-for-greenland-as-trump-renews-threats-to-control-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416060\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens rally in Iqaluit for Greenland as Trump renews threats to control island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens rally for Greenland<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press &#8211; Jan 17, 2026 \/ 11:40 am | Story: 594790<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/33229414e497fb02e2cbc4c9ccaeb9b991c7be062a047373c24fa3d435106080.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Iqaluit residents Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory and Siku Rojas hold a Greenlandic banner during a solidarity march through Nunavut\u2019s capital on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Dustin Patar<\/p>\n<p>Click here to view gallery<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of people rallied in Nunavut&#8217;s capital today in solidarity with Inuit people in Greenland who are concerned about U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s renewed threats to take control of the island<\/p>\n<p>Aaju Peter, the lawyer and activist who organized the morning rally in Iqaluit, says rally goers chanted &#8220;Greenland is owned by the Greenlandic people&#8221; in Inuktut as they marched for an hour in cold and windy weather.<\/p>\n<p>Peter, who is 66 years old, says she was born in Greenland and has relatives there who are extremely concerned about Trump&#8217;s threats to take over the island.<\/p>\n<p>She says similar to Nunavut, Greenland is primarily inhabited by Inuit and other Nordic Indigenous peoples but the island is under Danish sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Laakkuluk Williamson, a filmmaker, says she attended the morning rally because Inuit people in Nunavut and Greenland are divided by colonial borders but they share the same culture and stick together in solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>Trump renewed his calls to control Greenland today and has announced he will charge a 10 per cent import tax starting next month on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to an American takeover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens rally for Greenland The Canadian Press &#8211; Jan 17, 2026 \/ 11:40 am | Story: 594790 Iqaluit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-416060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}