It is Canada's largest and most desolate region. It is also the most dangerous. Nunavut is struggling to cope with a violent crime rate that is more than 9 times the national average. And the problem is getting worse.
OVERVIEW
How a crime epidemic is challenging the future of Canada's newest territory.
NUNAVUT: IN EXTREMIS
The territory remains plagued by chronic problems: poor education, a lack of housing, and widespread alcoholism.
IQALUIT: CAPITAL CRIME
By day, Nunavut's capital looks like a bustling boomtown. By night, it struggles with booze-fuelled brutality.
CAPE DORSET: CULTURE AND CLASH
It is the cultural hub of Nunavut, so why has Cape Dorset become the flashpoint for the North's crime problem?
REPULSE BAY: ROAD TO REDEMPTION
Repulse Bay's problems may not be unique, but its solutions are. How one town uses catharsis to overcome crime.
The Trials of Nunavut
Globe Focus
The trials of Nunavut: Lament for an Arctic nation
Crime has doubled in Nunavut since the territory was founded 12 years ago this week, raising a critical question: Is Nunavut a failure of Canadian nation building?
In Pictures
Portraits of Nunavut
From the sky, Nunavut’s 25 hamlets are but specks of contrast on a desolate canvas of ice, snow and Precambrian shield. On the ground, it is a place of custom and conflict, artistry and youth.
Profile
A brush with his past proved too much for Leo Nangmalik
In the weeks before he took his own life, things were looking up for a Nunavut man who told his painful life story to The Globe. Then the police came knocking
Your Say
The 10 best comments on The Trials of Nunavut series
Ten of the top-rated posts by Globe readers in response to our series on Nunavut and how a crime epidemic is challenging its future, as voted by you
Earlier
Is Nunavut a failure of Canadian nation building?
Globe reporter Patrick White took your questions on our Trials of Nunavut series
The Trials of Nunavut
Editor's note
Leo Nangmalik graciously welcomed a reporter and photographer from The Globe and Mail into his home to share his story
