Rip-off Artists

Does anyone else see a problem with this picture? Yes, it's been photoshopped, but take a look at the price of the ipod Nano from the Northern, and then compare it the price from the Apple online store. But wait! It's on sale! I'm gonna run down there and buy me one of those fancy MP3 players right now... What a freaking rip-off! I don't really understand how they get away with this. The fact that they would prey upon uneducated, underprivileged people by marking up a product over twice what any other person would pay for it just boggles my mind. How can the managers of the Northern sleep at night knowing that they are ripping off the people of Nunavut like this?

Can Positive Attitudes Change Nunavut?

Reader M. has submitted a bit of prose for our readers.

It’s so telling…(but, I may or may not be reflecting about you. You know who you are.)

You ‘know it all’ when you’ve been in up north for two years. It’s cute, refreshingly adorable when you pat yourself on the back with the proud assumption that you are a full fledged expert on controversial northern issues because your certificate/diploma of ‘authenticity’ is the stub of a First Air or Canadian boarding pass… Wow, let me roll out the red carpet for you to spew out your all encompassing knowledge of Canada’s newest territory and all her problems.
You are like what they call a ‘home wrecker’, well move over because I have stood by too many times while I’ve watched you favor your look alike twins at a lot of services, institutions and the most hurtful is at the hospital, favoring your kin and treating my family and especially my babies lesser to how you would nurture your family pet.
New territory. It isn’t one to be patronized and belittled. A new territory; is a mutli-generational construction site one which requires wisdom, patience and enough where-with-all to shut your mouth when you don’t have an answer (but that would be too for some). Nunavut is a work site where people are willing to pick up the pieces and work with what we’ve got. Sometimes it’s so obvious that it isn’t much, but literally, shut up, deal with it, get over yourself and be constructive.

You are not someone I would call an expert because you read a newspaper clipping, hear local coffee shop gossip or you internalize your spouse’s stories from ‘work’. Really expert; take your narrow minded comments excerpted from a history of haughtiness and put it back on the sealift on which you meticulously planned for a terrible time up in our beautiful, exotic locale and park your butt back in a suburb and strut like you’re ‘all that’ down south, because quite frankly I’m being burdened; quite often to the point of folding and saying, ‘Yeah, you’re right, I’m a f_cking failure. Thanks for pointing that out.’ (Arrogant prick)

Like, the climate of being under a global microscope to wait to see if we will fly or flop isn’t stressful enough, you add the nuts who strut around in their Patagonia’s, MEC’s, and ‘North Face’ getup who annoy and interfere with the monumental task of a group of people who until very recently lived in the now cutsie igloo’s being guided by the once necessary and now inspiring inuksuk, are mustering up any courage to ‘give it their all’ in their pride and joy, their fledgling Nunavut – a dream which you so smartly deflate.
Perhaps you are satisfied with replacing the difficult environmental elements that the Inuit survived and thrived in with your hostile mind frame that try’s to put her down and defame her God given wonderment and beauty. (F_cken Bully)

Some have been publicly humiliated, demoralized, shamefully disgraced and striped (literally and figuratively) at every turn; try as they might you will always set them up to fail, so get yourself another certificate/diploma and disgrace another land with your high-fa-lut'en negativity.

If you let your mouth give you away in public and you see a ‘beneficiary’ or anyone else with some wisdom quietly smiling at you, make a mental note that you do not fool others with your terrible words which you cleverly masquerade as learned, superior with philanthropist rhetoric. (You are as malicious as you are self-destructive.)
Do everyone around you a favor and get a new postal code or, wonder of wonders - you might consider joining the band wagon because although Nunavut is still licking her wounds someday she will fly and some day I hope you may proudly point to your pieces of her success, may Our land (yours and mine) be filled with unity and not dissention. Make up your mind, put your malicious tongue away and do what you can to make our Nunavut fly.

M.