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Iqaluit’s state of emergency extended

62 active COVID-19 cases in the city; 63 territory-wide

The City of Iqaluit has extended its state of emergency for another week as the number of active COVID-19 cases in Nunavut’s capital continues to fluctuate.

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‘Summer is coming’

Malaya Qaunirq Chapman took this photo of the Koksoak River, seen from Nuvuk Bay near Kuujjuaq, on Thursday, May 13. “We saw the end of ice melt from Nuvuk,” she writes. “Summer is coming! (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

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Ice breakup along the Koksoak River

Ice floats down the Koksoak River near Kuujjuaq on Wednesday during spring breakup. “In the past 20 years that I lived here, I think it’s the earliest and fasted ice breakup I have seen, as the river never really had the chance to freeze completely due to the mild weather we had this past winter,” writes Isabelle Dubois. “Usually, the earliest it would break was around the Victoria Day long weekend, and the latest I’ve seen it was towards the end of June. This year’s breakup was really smooth, without the thundering sound of ice pile ups, which there wasn’t much of.” (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)