Outgoing Nunavut Senator Patterson wants to stay close to mining sector in retirement

Dennis Patterson, a southerner, has been the sole Senator for the territory he helped create since 2009, and retires on Dec. 30.

Outgoing Nunavut Senator Dennis Patterson, wearing a sealskin parka, rides in the back of a pick-up truck in Arctic Bay, Nunavut, in February 2018.Photograph courtesy of Claudine Santosthe in the office of Dennis Patterson

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BY CHELSEA NASH

December 27, 2023

The man who has represented Nunavut in the Senate for the past 14 years plans to return home when he retires at the end of this month: to Vancouver, B.C., where most of his family currently lives.

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