That was a warm one, more to come according to the forecast, of course +20 days and +8 nights is not what is called warm in some parts but for us it is about ideal for summer.

There was a meeting yesterday in the NG board room between some NG departments, local government and service groups and volunteers.
Purpose of the meeting was to discus the recent tragic events and to strategize on future interventions and possible solutions. {Maybe they need to reconvene this morning as there has been another suicide overnight}.

It is no one person or organizations fault, but for reasons that are beyond my comprehension we can’t seem to come to a cohesive agreement and strategy to deal with the social issues. Nunatsiavut is not alone in that area.

This blog article by James Bell is about Nunavut, to my mind the issues facing Nunavut are parallel to issues that will face Nunatsiavut in the near future and some are relevant today.

I have no knowledge of what transpired at the meeting but I believe there will be a press release issued on the results. Agreements to hold more meeting, agreements to approach other governments for help perhaps.

I have some questions to ask, but first I offer up this scenario: The scene is a small general store selling various items, also it is a retail outlet for selling beer, much like hundreds of such stores all over the province.

Inside the store are two tills, one that services the general items of the store and the other that services just the beer.

There is a line up of about 8 people at the beer till waiting patiently, as is the norm, for their turn to purchase their goods.

In walks a person who walks up to the head of the line and with a sickly grin on his face asks the person at the head of the line if it is”OK for me to go ahead of you”.

The person at the head of the line says it is “OK”. The person second in line then says to the person third in line “he says it is OK but he really means it is not OK”. Much joking and frivolity takes place amoungst the people left in the line after the butteriner leaves the building.

My questions are; 1. Was the person butting in at the head of the line doing the right thing?
2.Was the person at the head of the line correct in letting the butteriner go ahead.
3.Was the silence from the rest of the line a correct response, after all the butteriner was not only going ahead of the person at the front but the whole line.

Just wondering as back in the day that butteriner would have received short shift from more than one person in the line up, unless that person had a valid reason for butting in.