Overview

The shocking crimes of a trusted teacher wrought lasting damage on Inuit communities in Canada's Arctic. In the 1970s, a young schoolteacher from British Columbia was becoming the darling of the Northwest Territories education department with his dynamic teaching style. He was learning to speak the local language, Inuktitut, something few outsiders did. He also claimed to be Indigenous - a claim that would later prove to be false. In truth, Edward Horne was a pedophile who sexually abused his male students. From 1971 to 1985 his predations on Inuit boys would disrupt life in the communities where he worked - towns of close-knit families that would suffer the intergenerational trauma created by his abuse. Journalist Kathleen Lippa, after years of research, examines the devastating impact the crimes had on individuals, families, and entire communities. Her compelling work lifts the veil of silence surrounding the Horne story once and for all.

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“Arctic Predator” is the utterly gripping story of the dark side of colonialism and is not ever an easy read. At once riveting and horrifying, the true story of notorious northern serial predator Ed Horne‘s crimes against children reveals for the first time the full story of how for years he successfully posed as a dedicated teacher and supporter of the Inuit language and culture while ruthlessly robbing vulnerable youth of their innocence. Through exhaustive research and first person interviews, Kathleen Lippa’s gripping book painfully exposes the failings of those of us who were there in the education establishment and knew Ed Horne - especially those who the author exposes as having cast blind eyes. And she gives voice to the children who never had the courage to speak of the horrors inflicted on them by this cunning, duplicitous and twisted demon or who were dismissed and ignored if they did. This important book, appropriately dedicated to the children of the North, is a chilling must-read. * Dennis Patterson, Ed Horne’s former NWT Minister of Education *

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Kathleen Lippa grew up in St. John's, Newfoundland, and worked as a reporter at newspapers across Canada, eventually serving as bureau chief for Nunavut News/North in Iqaluit. Kathleen divides her time between Ottawa and St. John's.

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