'The Trials of Nunavut: Lament for an Arctic nation'

Canada's The Globe and Mail has published an extremely long, multi-part project exploring a tough question: Has the creation of Nunavut been a failure? Since the territory was established from the most remote parts of Canada's central Arctic 12 years ago, its violent crime rate has doubled and continues to worsen. The problems in the territory are leading some to wonder if it should have been created in the first place. Many of the economic arguments for and against creating the territory will be familiar to people aware of the debate preceding Alaska's 1959 statehood. And sadly, many of the social problems Nunavut's residents are trying to cope with have been the same as those plaguing Alaskans. The project isn't all doom and gloom, though; there are several reasons for hope, and some local solutions hold region-wide promise. The Globe and Mail's project is impossible to adequately encapsulate, so start experiencing it at the splash page, here.