Nunavut, Canada
Inuit pay outrage: Canadians were shocked to learn this week that an airline owned by a nonprofit Inuit collective gave its top executives $1.5 million in bonuses this year. The airline, First Air, is controlled by Makivik, a nonprofit firm with a mandate to promote political, social, and economic development of the Inuit, the indigenous people of the Arctic. Canadian lawmakers are calling for directors of the company to resign. But Makivik’s board of directors is unrepentant. “A number of us feel that these amounts were long overdue,” the board said in a statement, “and could have been higher.”
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