James Takkiruq was the youngest member of the 25-person cohort to go through the Nunavut Law Program. He graduated, along with 21 of his fellow students, last October in Iqaluit and just got called to the bar.
A legal case between Inuit protesters and a Nunavut-based mine is something of a rarity: a protest group is harnessing environmental legislation unique to Nunavut and the N.W.T. in its legal battle against Baffinland Iron Mines.
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