On TV, you can only get what's given to you, but on the Internet, you can get everything. None of this would be possible if Ussak Elementary didn't have a computer room that most southern Canadian principals would trade their holidays for. And from Rankin, he says in wonder, came the modern equivalent of a barn-raising. Perhaps the biggest and most enthusiastic donor is Ron Dewar, CEO of Sakku Investments, the business development arm of the regional Inuit association. His reasons are selfish.
Roads are the lifeline of business, trade and the administration of Nunavut.
As for the equipment, and the thousands of dollars' worth of Internet service that Sakku donates. Such progress has not always been kind. The computer, like any invasive species from below the treeline, must be viewed with caution. The well-rounded citizen of Nunavut knows that without the ability to harvest nature's gifts of snow, seal, caribou and char, a place like Rankin loses its past and its purpose. Still, territorial leaders sense its enormous potential to teach and communicate.