Friends and colleagues are remembering Annie Ford, a long-time CBC North reporter and host who died this month, as a champion of Inuktitut broadcasting, a dedicated journalist, and a fun-loving character with a wild sense of humour.
“She was like a mentor, she was like a big sister, she was like a mom. She was a great friend of mine,” said Madeleine Allakariallak, former host of CBC North’s Igalaaq.
“I have many, many memories of that wild, God-praising, foul-mouthed, Elvis-singing, fun, dancing woman that we all got to know and learn from.”
Allakariallak recalls taking her first job with CBC North in Iqaluit, where Ford
