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Kuujjuaq residents receive free manicures on Friday, as part of the Ungava Wellness Program’s Puttautiit month-long mental health activities and workshops. The event, held at Nuna Golf, also offered massages, beading, haircuts and a funny photo booth, along with coffee, tea, smoothies and healthy snacks. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

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)

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)

Qullik Sequaluk of Kuujjuaq receives her second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in late April while her 17-month baby boy, Lucassie, looks on. A third phase of vaccinations are scheduled to begin in Nunavik next week, when Pfizer doses will be made available for youth aged 12 to 17. (Photo by Niivi Snowball)

Kuujjuaq teachers and support workers participate in a region-wide school strike on April 28. (File photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Malaya Qaunirq Chapman took this photo while mussel picking during a snowmobile trip from Kuujjuaq to Kuujjuarusiq, or Dry Bay, on April 13. “I’ve never gone springtime mussel picking, where the ice and snow are completely visible from the shore. The fresh crisp salty air was so refreshing!” she writes. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

About 200 Inukjuak residents gathered to release sky lanterns on the evening of April 8 to remember loved ones that they had lost. (Photo by Sylvain Paradis)

Inukjuak residents prepare to release sky lanterns on the evening of April 8. The event, attended by about 200 people, was held to remember loved ones that they had lost. (Photo by Sylvain Paradis)

George Kauki is the winner of the men’s division of Kuujjuaq’s annual Easter Cross-Country Snowmobile Race held on Monday. He’s seen here approaching the finish line at Tasialuk (Stewart Lake), after racing to Tasiujaq and back, covering just over 250 km. He’s followed by a Nunavik Rotors helicopter, which patrolled the trail for safety during the race, with a nurse onboard in case of emergencies. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Eight-year-old Béatrice Allerton of Iqaluit delivers a gift bag of cookies and tea to Natsiq Kango, an elder originally from Arctic Bay. Allerton delivered more than 60 gift bags to Iqaluit elders on March 28 and 29 for a community service project that’s part of the Iqaluit Skating Club’s off-ice training, funded by Sport Nunavut. Twelve skaters and some of the club’s board members prepared the gift bags with the help of baker Craig Borden. Allerton received a $500 micro-grant from Northern Youth Abroad for the project. (Photo by Laura Thompson)

Iqaluit firefighters respond to a fire south of the airport Monday afternoon. At least three fire trucks and an ambulance were at the scene at approximately 4 p.m., as flames engulfed a building near the sewage lagoon. (Photo by Dustin Patar)

Malaya Qaunirq Chapman spotted these ptarmigans while out hunting with her partner, family and friends on Saturday outside Kuujjuaq. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

Isabelle Dubois captured this image of an inuksuk near the Range neighbourhood of Kuujjuaq on Saturday, March 20, the first day of spring. “Now that we have moved the time forward, it’s definitely nice to enjoy longer days, with beautiful sunsets like this one,” she wrote. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

For Us, By Us, a fashion show held by the Nunavut Black History Society on Sunday, featured designs by Victoria’s Arctic Fashion, K’RZMA, Rannva Design and others. The black-tie event at the Aqsarniit hotel sold out in record time. From left: Jo-Anne Henderson-White, Faith Russell, Matilda Madekufamba, Kaitlyn Richardson-Nobiss and Jah’Nia Greaves. (Photo by Artico Creative)

Pangnirtung Fisheries Ltd. recently shared this image on social media of one of the bigger turbot to have come through their processing plant, weighing 28.24 pounds. (Image courtesy of Pangnirtung Fisheries)

Puvirnituq’s Aisa Surusilak, right, and Paulusi Amarualik are hoisted into the air after winning this year’s Ivakkak dog sled race on Wednesday. The team completed this year’s route, from Salluit to Ivujivik, Akulivik and Puvirnituq, in 39 hours and 30 minutes, after enduring blizzards, soft snow conditions and cold winds. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Peter Tapatai, centre, is seen after receiving the Order of Nunavut on Monday evening. The award recognizes those who have made outstanding contributions to the territory. Premier Joe Savikataaq hailed the Baker Lake businessman on social media as “an entrepreneur and strong advocate for his community and culture.” And, Savikataaq said, “he’s also a real-life superhero” — while working for the Inuit Broadcasting Corp. in the late 1980s, Tapatai created and played the part of the iconic Inuk superhero, Super Shamou. (Photo by Allan Rumbolt)

Nunavik performers Sylvia Cloutier, left, and Beatrice Deer throat sing alongside Quebec singer-songwriter Ariane Moffatt on Sunday, on an episode of Quebec talent show Star Académie. You can watch the full performance here. (Image courtesy of TVA/Star Académie)

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A dogsled team heads out onto Adams Sound near Arctic Bay on Feb. 20, as the sun peeks over the mountain known as Tununirusiq. (Photo by Clare Kines)

Kativik Regional Government regional councillors met last week at the Katittavik Town Hall in Kuujjuaq Feb. 22-25 — the first time the organization has held an in-person meeting of its regional councillors since last February. A group of photojournalism students from Jaanimmarik school took photos of the meetings for Nunatsiaq News on Thursday, led by instructor Isabelle Dubois. (Photo by Annie Lock)

The Government of Nunavut is in good financial shape despite the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, says Finance Minister George Hickes, who presented the territorial government’s budget for 2021-22 Tuesday afternoon in the legislature. Hickes forecast almost $2.4 billion in revenue for the coming fiscal year. (Photo by Dustin Patar)