How Eva Aariak is reinventing the politics of the North

 BY , The Walrus

She’s only the fifth woman ever to lead a provincial or territorial government in Canada, and was, on her election to the nineteen-seat Nunavut Legislative Assembly in October 2008, its sole femaleMLA (a by-election has since brought in a second)


Nunavut premier Eva Aariak drives to her family camp in Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park.