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From left: daycare cooks Akinisie Sivuarapik, Rebecca Thomassiah, Marthe Paris and Mary Inuktaluk participate in a summer cook training at the Nasivvik adult education student residence in Kangiqsujuaq. The training is offered to daycare cooks, through a partnership between the Kativik Regional Government’s employment and training department, the KRG’s childcare department and Kativik Ilisarniliriniq’s adult education and vocational training department. (Photo by Emilie Vaissiere)

This is one of many stops on Rankin Inlet’s new bus route. The bus service launched earlier this month and is free all September long until fees kick in Oct. 1. The bus runs from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week, and is wheelchair accessible. See our story soon at Nunatsiaq.com. (Photo by Noel Kaludjak)

A visitor admires the view from the rim of the Pingualuit crater at Pingualuit park in Nunavik on Saturday, Aug. 17. The crater was formed by the impact of a meteorite. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

A machine called a bolter, operated by Agnico employee Jonathan Lachance, installs protective roofing to the walls of the Meliadine mine outside Rankin Inlet on Sept. 10. The bolter, seen here at over 200 metres underground, is one of seven used per shift. More to come on the mine and the people who work there on Nunatsiaq.com (Photo by Emma Tranter)

Chinese lanterns were lit in Kujjuaq on Sept. 11, in memory of loved ones lost to suicide, following World Suicide Prevention Day. (Photo by Elaine Anselmi)

Rankin Inlet residents are confused over the status of the local post office, which has been closed since the weekend. Two sources who do not wish to be named alleged this happened because all employees quit at once. Canada Post said in a Facebook statement that the post office closed because of “staffing challenges beyond our control,” but would re-open Sept. 11. A later statement said the office would re-open today, Sept. 12, at noon. (Photo by Emma Tranter)

Rankin Inlet’s inuksuk stands over the town and a ship in the harbour on a calm evening on Sept. 9. (Photo by Emma Tranter)

Elders from Gjoa Haven speak with Parks Canada’s manager of underwater archeology, Marc-André Bernier, aboard the Parks Canada vessel the David Thompson in early August. The elders, their family members and Inuit Guardians from Gjoa Haven came aboard the vessel as the Parks Canada crew prepared for dives to the wreck of HMS Terror, about 100 kilometres west of the community. From left: Joanasie Ukuqtunnuaq, Saul Qirniq, Tommy Tavalok (front), Ben Putuguq (corner), Jimmy Qirqqut, Marc-André Bernier, and underwater archeology team assistant Jonathan Puqiqnak (far right). (Photo courtesy of Parks Canada/Tamara Tarasoff)

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Grade 10, 11 and 12 students from Jonah Amitnaaq Secondary School in Baker Lake are joined by Grade 6 students for a presentation by conservation officers as part of a social studies course called “Wildlife.” Bence Csaba, who teaches the course, invited conservation officers Russell Toolooktook and Robert Arsenault as guest speakers. Currently, the class is completing the online Nunavut Hunter Safety Course. (Photo courtesy of Bence Csaba)

Leo Uttaq of Gjoa Haven works on a carving outside Inuksuk High School on Aug. 23 during the Nunavut Arts Festival. The carving demonstration hosted artists from across the territory and was open to the public, with a view overlooking Iqaluit. (Photo by Elaine Anselmi)

Construction of Iqaluit’s new Qikiqtani Correctional Healing Centre is well underway behind the Baffin Correctional Centre. The $74-million contract was awarded to Pilitak Enterprises Ltd. Construction this past December. Construction on the new 112-bed correctional facility is scheduled to be complete in 2022. (Photo by Emma Tranter)

Martha Lenio cleans up by a creek during the City of Iqaluit’s annual waterways cleanup event on Wednesday, Sept. 4. Lenio had already filled a bag with garbage from the creek, including what appeared to be a broken hockey stick and a water gun. (Photo by Emma Tranter)

Northern lights dance over the Pingualuit park base camp in Nunavik on Saturday, Aug. 17. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Makusi Alaku of Kangiqsujuaq drum dances outside the Pingualuit park base camp at Manarsulik Lake in Nunavik at sunset on Saturday, Aug. 17. The offices of Nunatsiaq News will close for Labour Day on Monday, Sept. 2. We wish all our readers a happy and peaceful long weekend. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Pingualuit park warden Adamie Tuniq, from Kangiqsujuaq, demonstrates Inuit games, and particularly the one-foot high kick, on the deck of the Pingualuit park base camp on Sunday, Aug. 18. The offices of Nunatsiaq News will be closed for the Labour Day holiday on Monday, Sept. 2. We wish all our readers a happy and peaceful long weekend. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

A Coast Guard helicopter slings cargo out to Canadian Coast Guard ships Henry Larsen and Captain Molly Kool, anchored in Frobisher Bay on Thursday, Aug. 29. (Photo by Elaine Anselmi)

Cambridge Bay air cadets leave a Griffon helicopter on Wednesday, Aug. 28, after taking a trip with members of the military, who have been based in Cambridge Bay since Aug. 11 for the Nanook-Nunakput sovereignty operation. (Photo courtesy of the Department of Defence)

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Arctic Bay daycare advocates stand next to a huge image representing the $50,000 that Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. gave to the community on Aug. 17 to help realize its plan to re-open the Tununirusiq daycare centre. “This donation … will give us the opportunity to reopen our doors and make plans for the daycare,” said Arctic Bay’s mayor Frank May. The donation will also help Arctic Bay start an early childhood resource centre to house the daycare and the Aboriginal Head Start Program. Left to right: Lena Qaunaq, Natsiq Kango, Julian Oyukuluk, Baffinland CEO Brian Penney, Frank May.(Photo courtesy of Baffinland)

Flanked by Cambridge Bay MLA Jeannie Ehaloak and Nunavut’s education minister, David Joanasie, and wearing gowns trimmed with seal skin are 11 of the 12 most recent graduates of Cambridge Bay’s Killinik High School: Aaron Gillis, Dasha Erickson, Edith Hoakgak Oyakyoak, Kakak Anavilo, Katelyn Wilson, Keenan Allukpik, Kieran Evalik, Kobe Aknavigak, Pamela Emingak, Scott Ekpakohak, Spencer Klengenberg and Teghan Angulalik. Their graduation ceremony took place on Friday, Aug. 23, in the Luke Novoligak Community Hall. “We are all proud of you and the wonderful milestone you achieved as a class and as individuals. We all look forward to where life will take you all and encourage that you follow your dreams, pursue post-secondary and reach for the stars,” said Cambridge Bay Mayor Pamela Gross in a statement. (Photo by Rosabelle Klengenberg/ Facebook)