A polar bear rummages through Paul Etungat’s garbage bin in Kinngait on Nov. 4. Etungat said his mother was smoking outside just before the bear appeared at 6 a.m. They heard noises coming from the bin, then Etungat used an air horn to scare the animal away. (Photo by Paul Etungat)
Puvirnituq’s Inuulitsivik Health Centre has six Inuit midwife students on staff, pictured here on Jan. 15. From left, they are Alscule Novalinga, Caroline Ivilla, Patsy Amittu, Elisapi Tukalak, Mina Surusila and Lizzie Qumaluk. Midwives have been serving patients and training new midwives in Puvirnituq since 1986. In 2008, Quebec’s Ministry of Health and the Order of Quebec Midwives recognized the Inuulitisivik Midwifery Education Program, allowing it to fully licence graduates. (Photo by Vicky Tukalak)
A Grade 9 student from Baker Lake whom the Government of Nunavut identifies as Haley H. drew this picture, which won the grand prize for the Nunavut Liquor and Cannabis Commission’s 2020 Let’s Be Aware calendar challenge. The best submissions to the contest, which asked youth to make drawings of responsible approaches to alcohol, are featured in a calendar. The grand prize winner received a $250 gift card and her drawing is featured on the calendar’s cover, while runners-up received $100 gift cards with their drawings featured inside the calendar. A digital version of the calendar is available online. (Screen capture)
Guillaume Saladin, co-artistic director of the Igloolik-based circus collective Artcirq, gives Nunavut Sivuniksavut students a crash course in acrobatics on Friday, Jan. 10. Here, Saladin acts as the “base” for a student, who practises being a “flyer”—with practice, acrobats can spin, jump and walk in this formation. (Photo by Kahlan Miron)
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