{"id":903804,"date":"2026-09-21T07:02:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903804\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T07:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:02:41","slug":"listen-up-say-kivalliq-trade-show-organizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903804\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Listen up,\u2019 say Kivalliq Trade Show organizers"},"content":{"rendered":"

News<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Sep 18, 2026 \u2013 11:38 am EDT<\/p>\n

Biggest event to date calls on Inuit to be heard in boardrooms across the nation<\/p>\n


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Virginia Mearns, Canada\u2019s Arctic ambassador, is the keynote speaker for the 2026 Kivalliq Trade Show. Mearns is seen here speaking at the Ingiulik Nunavut Shipping Summit in Iqaluit in January. (File photo)<\/p>\n

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\n\t Daron Letts<\/a><\/p>\n

The Kivalliq Trade Show hasn\u2019t started yet and it\u2019s already breaking records.<\/p>\n

With 60 exhibitors and more than 240 delegates, next week\u2019s event is the biggest to date, says Kivalliq Trade Show Society president Robert Connelly.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd our delegate numbers will keep going up as the event nears,\u201d he said in a phone interview on Thursday.<\/p>\n

With ongoing discussions about Arctic sovereignty, resource extraction and developing northern infrastructure, organizers are emphasizing the need to bring Inuit to the table, Connelly said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has to be a lot of listening to make sure that the people of Nunavut and particularly Inuit are strongly engaged,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

That idea is reflected in this year\u2019s theme: Naalagit, the Inuktitut word for \u201clisten.\u201d<\/p>\n

The panel discussions were built with that theme in mind. The first is called \u201cListening to Communities,\u201d the second \u201cListening to Business\u201d and the third \u201cListening to Youth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Panelists across the three discussions include Christine Tootoo, vice-president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami\u2019s National Inuit Youth Council; CBC journalist Juanita Taylor; historian Ryan Shackleton; and Albert Netser, with Arctic Fresh Projects.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s Arctic Ambassador Virginia Mearns is scheduled to give the keynote address on Tuesday morning, with other speakers such as\u00a0Nunavut Senator Nancy Karetak-Lindell and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. President Gloria Uluqsi expected as well.<\/p>\n

An artists market and fashion show that highlights the region\u2019s designers at the Singiittuq Complex will be part of the exhibition.<\/p>\n

The 17th annual Kivalliq Trade Show is set to run Monday through Wednesday at Rankin Inlet\u2019s Agnico Eagle Arena.<\/p>\n

In-person delegate registration opens at 1 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News\u00a0\u00a0Sep 18, 2026 \u2013 11:38 am EDT Biggest event to date calls on Inuit to be heard in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-903804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903804","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=903804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}