“We strongly believe in lowering that gap”
Nunavik’s leadership made official its new cost-of-living agreement with a signing ceremony in Kuujjuaq. In its budget released last month, the Quebec government pledged $115.
Igloolik’s Angela Amarualik to open April 27 concert in Iqaluit
Assessments on ice-breaking and cumulative impacts among documents missing
Cecile Lyall ran the silent auction table during the intermission of Nunavut Sivuniksavut’s play and fundraiser, “The Inuit Story: A Dramatization,” at Ottawa’s Arts Court Theatre on March 6. Funds go towards the students’ end-of-year cultural exchange trip. Bidders crowded the table until the last second. The auction featured goodies from InukChic, Manitobah Mukluks, Inhabit Media Inc. and more. (Photo by Kahlan Miron)
“It was an accident; they’re only children”
Outgoing representative for children and youth appears at legislative hearing
Territorial infrastructure spending dropped by $111 million over two years, says Parliamentary Budget Officer
Natasha Nagyougalik receives a standing ovation at the Nunavut Mining Symposium gala in Iqaluit on Wednesday, April 3, for becoming the first Inuk woman in Nunavut to drive a massive Caterpillar 6030 mining shovel. Nagyougalik, who hails from Baker Lake, began working at Agnico Eagle Mining’s Meadowbank mine eight years ago as a dishwasher. Agnico Eagle’s president, Ammar Al-Joundi, said it’s important for mines to be part of nearby communities, so locals can find work and grow with the company. (Photo courtesy of the Nunavut Mining Symposium)
Iqaluit’s annual spring festival starts April 11
New service available Wednesday evenings from 5 to 8
The children of the Northern Village of Kuujjuaq enjoy sledding as part of the community’s second “Love Life” event on March 13. “Love Life” celebrates life and helps residents heal from recent trauma and tragedy. The community also celebrated the day with music, snow sculptures and country food. The slide, which was built for the event, stayed up afterwards and children can still enjoy sledding on it after school or on the weekends. (Photo courtesy of Isabelle Dubois)
“Indigenous people are not vulnerable, they’re targeted”
This carving from the late 1960s shows a traditional adoption, validated in 1969 by Justice J.H. Sissons of the Northwest Territories. It’s among the carvings from the Sissons-Morrow collection of Inuit carvings from the N.W.T., currently on display at the Nunavut Court of Justice in Iqaluit. That collection began in 1956 when Kaotak, a man found not guilty of killing his father, presented Sissons with a carving depicting the trial. After that, Sissons would commission local carvers to depict cases in stone, ivory, caribou antler, soapstone and metal. Later, Justice William J. Morrow continued the collection. (Photo by Jane George)
“It should feel like you’re 400 km above the surface of the Earth”
“I don’t think the building will be recovered”
“Why is this even a question?”
The Nunavut Impact Review Board is holding a technical meeting in Iqaluit from Monday to Wednesday on Baffinland Iron Mines Corp.’s planned expansion of its Mary River mine in North Baffin. Daniel Quassa from the Mittimatalik Hunters and Trappers Organization, second from right, said on Monday he worries about the larger project’s impact on the marine food chain. Consultants working for Baffinland said the mine conducts extensive monitoring for invasive species and contaminants. After the meeting wraps up, Baffinland will have a chance to respond to a long list of concerns before the NIRB’s final public hearing on the project takes place this September. From left: Merlyn Recinos of Igloolik, Enookie Enuarak of Pond Inlet, Quassa and Frank Tester for the Hamlet of Pond Inlet. (Photo by Jane George)
Trek left Naujaat last month with help from local guides, students
“We have just applied for funding from the federal government to make the project ‘shovel ready'”
Judge opts for more lenient sentence in double jeopardy quandary
Man, 21, found dead early April 7
Two days of public, televised hearings likely to point out territorial government’s shortfalls
Victim’s son charged with second-degree murder
Applications are due April 12
Drum dancers from around Nunavut’s Kitikmeot and Kivalliq regions, including Julia Ogina, seen here, will perform in Cambridge Bay tonight from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Kullik Elementary School. Other nightly performances are also planned later in the week. During the day the drum dancers plan to meet and record their songs, for a follow-up to 2018’s Huqqullaarutit Unipkaangit or “Stories Told Through Drum-Dance Songs,” a book prepared for the Kitikmeot Inuit Association, which Ogina co-ordinated. (Photo by Jane George)
