The Northern Shopper, an online grocery story that supplies the Baffin region with groceries subsidized by Nutrition North Canada, has donated 3,000 washable and re-usable eco-friendly menstrual cups to women and girls in Nunavut. A single silicone cup can be re-used for up to 10 years, saving many hundreds of dollars in tampon purchases, and creating less waste for landfill sites. Kit MacKinnon, the founder of The Northern Shopper, said staff at the Government of Nunavut’s Department of Health are now ready to implement an outreach program so women and girls throughout the territory understand how to safely use and maintain the product. Canadian North covered the cost of flying the cups to Nunavut. (Photo courtesy of The Northern Shopper)
Wayne Pollard (right,) a professor in McGill University’s Department of Geography, received the Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research Dec. 5 at the ArcticNet Scientific Meeting in Halifax. Pollard has spent 40 years studying permafrost in the High Arctic, especially its interactions with ground ice and groundwater, and the survival of micro-organisms in harsh conditions. The $100,000 achievement award has been granted by the W. Garfield Weston Foundation since 2011. See Nunatsiaq News next week for more on Pollard’s work. (Photo by Elaine Anselmi)
The Inuksuk High School gymnasium was filled with music and dance Dec. 4 for the Iqaluit Music Society’s Christmas concert. Here, a group of dancers perform for a packed audience to an upbeat soundtrack that had people moving and shaking. Other performers included the Nakasuk School Choir, the Inuksuk Drum Dancers, the Iqaluit Fiddle Club and more. (Photo by Emma Tranter)
The Quebec commission responsible for managing place names in the province, the Commission de toponymie, officially recognized the name of Nunavik’s proposed Iluiliq park this fall. The 1,200-square-kilometre area off Hudson Strait will be Nunavik’s fifth park. (Photo by Alain Thibault, courtesy Nunavik Parks)
Nunavik youth take part in a jam session on Thursday, Nov. 28, at Kuujjuaq’s Uvikkait Dome Youth Centre. The event was part of the Nunavik Rocks Music Camp held last week by the Kativik Regional Government’s recreation department. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
