Protesters marched from city’s main intersection to the RCMP detachment
A crowd of over 200 people rallied in Iqaluit today to show solidarity for Black people in the territory. Many of the protesters wore face masks because of the COVID-19 pandemic and held placards. The crowd chanted, “Black lives matter!” and “No justice! No peace! No racist police!” They also chanted, “Justice for Kinngait!” in…
This untitled drawing by Kinngait artist Qavavau Manumie is one of eight works by him included in an exhibition that opens today at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The exhibit, “The Penumbral Age: Art in the Time of Planetary Change,” runs until Sept. 13. You can view the exhibition online. (Photo courtesy of the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative)
Plans in works to allow residents of both jurisdictions to travel back and forth without self-isolating
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Hamlet-run St. Michael’s Crisis Centre now closed
Nunavik Sivunitsavut students pose for a photo with visiting anthropologist Bernard Saladin D’Anglure last fall. Twelve students from the Montreal-based program are graduating from this year’s program. You can watch the online ceremony on Friday, June 5 at 7 p.m. on the Isuma TV Facebook page. (Photo courtesy of NS)
Justice minister says Kinngait video was “one isolated incident”
Rally starts at the Four Corners intersection at 11:45
Daniel Anowak still hopes to join family in Sanikiluaq
“We’re looking at north-north travel being re-opened very shortly”
Government of Nunavut also announces one-time payment for Nunavut elders
Only pilots are exempt from new Transport Canada requirement
Kinngait man transported to hospital in Iqaluit
Historic charges against Charlie Keelan stem from 1995, 1997
“We came up with this solution which makes sense for both companies”
“This is an unprecedented national opportunity for transformative change”
Qajuqturvik Food Centre first in Inuit Nunangat to partner with Community Food Centres Canada
“Country food is important for mental health”
“The whole system is completely broken and we need to find a way to fix that”
Laurencio Arnatsiaq of Igloolik drum dances for the opening ceremonies of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’ hearings in Montreal in March 2018, a week that was dedicated to Inuit testimony. Today, June 3, marks the one-year anniversary of the release of the inquiry’s final report, which issued 231 calls for justice. A national action plan being drafted to respond to those calls, which was to be released today, has been postponed. (Photo by Sarah Rogers)
Video appears to show Kinngait officer knocking down man with vehicle door
“It is about the safety of everyone involved”
“It’s an unintended benefit of community-led research”
Study estimates killer whales consume as many as 1,500 narwhals per year
This close-up of purple saxifrage flowers taken in Sanikiluaq on May 25 shows the buds just starting to open up after a long winter. (Photo by Sarah Meeko)
Less medical travel, routine procedures deferred, virtual checkups, all consequences of COVID-19
