Photo: Sport and disabilities minister visits Iqaluit’s Inclusion Café

Carla Qualtrough, former paralympian and now federal minister of sport and persons with disabilities, rolls banana macaroon cookies March 11 with Iqaluit’s Amanda Arnarjuaq who works for the Inclusion Café, an Iqaluit cafe and catering services that employs people who have physical and intellectual disabilities. Qualtrough was in town to catch some Arctic Winter Games hockey action and to get to know the services offered through the Nunavut Disabilities Makinnasuaqtiit Society such as the café. Qualtrough, who said she is legally blind, also took the opportunity to sign a bilateral agreement with the Government of Nunavut to expand sporting programs. Ottawa promised to contribute up to $1 million over four years, with matching GN grants. The minister also gave Nunavut an extra $100,000 to help defray the cost of athletes’ travel to Nuuk for the 2016 AWG. (PHOTO BY LISA GREGOIRE)