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Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. president Aluki Kotierk, right, speaks on a panel entitled “Inuktut as a human right” on Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Inuit Studies Conference in Montreal. With her is Louis Tapardjuk, board member of Inuit Uqausinginnik Taiguusiliuqtiit, Nunavut’s language authority. Despite the absence of translation, the two spoke entirely in Inuktut. (Photo by Lisa Gregoire)

Features  10 October, 2019

Inuit exert language rights at Montreal conference with Inuktut-only panel

“The name of it is Inuit Studies Conference so it makes sense … that we wanted to use an Inuit language”

A Montreal hotel conference room was abuzz on Thursday, Oct. 3, as people attending the 21st annual Inuit Studies Conference streamed in to hear two Inuit leaders talk about why speaking Inuktut in Nunavut is a human right and how that right is casually denied. Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. president Aluki Kotierk and Louis Tapardjuk, a…

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Features  20 September, 2019

Huge sharks, tiny plankton: exploring the changing Arctic from an icebreaker

Big fish, old fish, small fish, young fish

Features  17 September, 2019

Silla + Rise get their groove on in the nation’s capital

“They’re not human. They’re goddesses.”

Features  5 September, 2019

Conspiracy-theorizing megachurch preacher visits Nunavut

“The whole of the Arctic depends on what is happening here tonight”

Features  4 September, 2019

The story behind Nunavut Skulls

New Iqaluit business turns bone into keepsake

Features  21 August, 2019

NASA airborne study takes aim at Nunavut’s changing tundra

“So using remote sensing and any of these airborne instruments is really key to understanding the North”

Features  6 August, 2019

Cambridge Bay couple brings crucial knowledge to Nunavut cruise

“I live this every day and I wasn’t sure how much you knew”

Features  30 July, 2019

The day aliens invaded Pangnirtung

Sci-fi film production underway in Nunavut community

Features  25 July, 2019

Iqaluit residents learn to make fresh palaugaaq

Free drop-in activities held weekly at Sylvia Grinnell Park

Features  23 July, 2019

Circumpolar video project aims to curb suicides, encourage resilience

“We’re all in the same war, we just have different battles. You’re not alone.”

Features  18 July, 2019

Want a career in the arts? Just do it, Iqaluit rapper tells youth

“Some people’s hearts are in the arts. That’s where my heart is.”

Features  16 July, 2019

Nunavik’s Sparrows take flight

Air Inuit’s training program gets new pilots off the ground, from home base

Features  12 July, 2019

Another shot: homeless Ottawa Inuit find comfort in managed alcohol program

“There’s more help, medical or whatever help you need, you can get it here”

Features  9 July, 2019

Artistic space for youth opens in Cape Dorset

Youth produce custom-printed parkas through Embassy of Imagination’s summer program

Features  27 June, 2019

John Terence “Terry” Pearce: Dec. 30, 1939—June 9, 2019

Photographer, filmmaker and northern traveller trained many Nunavut media workers

Features  14 June, 2019

I wear my snow goggles at night

Nunavut artist takes a new look at traditional Inuit eyewear

Features  11 June, 2019

Canada’s UN submission will—eventually—draw the last lines on the map

“There was surprisingly little fanfare over this extraordinary accomplishment”

Features  10 June, 2019

Inuit artists showcase their creations at ITK’s Ottawa marketplace

“It was great seeing other artists and then great seeing that there was such a support for sealskin products”

Features  4 June, 2019

Nunavik students chat with astronaut aboard International Space Station

Umiujaq’s school connected with with David Saint-Jacques, a Quebec astronaut and former Nunavik doctor

Features  17 May, 2019

Iqaluit Muslims celebrate the holy month

“We get a lot of respect from this community”

Features  15 May, 2019

Nunavut-made jewellery steals the spotlight

“People have been asking about them”

Features  15 May, 2019

Iqaluit rapper moves towards the main stage

“I’m rapping to talk about real issues, about the things I grew up with”

Features  13 May, 2019

The Grizzlies captures—and captivates—Nunavut

“I think seeing Indigenous kids as heros is a big thing”

Features  8 May, 2019

From Igloolik to Venice: Inuit represent Canada at this year’s Biennale arts exhibit

“I am trying to do this with my videos—tell the story behind how we lived”

Features  26 April, 2019

New book puts spotlight on celebrated Cape Dorset carver

Art Canada Institute releases online book on the life and art of Oviloo Tunnillie

Features  17 April, 2019

Nunavik shutterbugs step out of their comfort zones

“I had never done photography before”