Johnny Mamgark carries an impressive lake trout, which he caught at Meliadine Lake near Rankin Inlet on Monday, Aug. 19. Mamgark fished with staff from the Rankin Inlet men’s healing facility during IQ day. (Photo by Noel Kaludjak)
Nunavik Inuit youth reach the northern bank of the Koksoak River, about 10 kilometres from Kuujjuaq, on Aug. 5, during the last day of a week-long kayaking and camping expedition. The trip was part of Jeunes Karibus’s summer program, which offers Nunavik youth between the ages of 14 and 19 exposure to a range of outdoor activities centred on camping and the outdoors. (Photo courtesy of Jeunes Karibus)
Girl Guides from Nunavut arrive at Doe Lake Girl Guide Camp in Sprucedale, Ont. From Aug. 4-10, over 1,000 girls and women participated in dozens of activities at Doe Lake, including axe-throwing, meeting Olympic athlete Sarah Wells, boating, swimming and singing songs. The Nunavut Girl Guides fundraised to attend camp through sales of Girl Guide cookies, caribou stew, and more. (Photo courtesy of Girl Guides of Canada – Ontario & Nunavut Council)
Photographer Jamie Griffiths harvested these clams on an island called Palaugaaq, or Bannock in English, near Iqaluit towards the southern shore. She had gone there on Saturday, Aug. 3, with Bernice and Justin Clarke of Uasau Soap to collect clams and seaweed. (Photo by Chickweed Arts/Jamie Griffiths)
Elder Annie Atighioyak lights a qulliq at the Wednesday, Aug. 21, opening ceremony for the Canadian High Arctic Research Station in Cambridge Bay. Read more about the event and CHARS on Nunatsiaq.com. (Photo courtesy of Polar Knowledge Canada)
With the cutting of a sealskin ribbon on Wednesday, Aug. 21, the Canadian High Arctic Research Station opens in Cambridge Bay. From left: Richard Boudreault, chair of the board of directors of Polar Knowledge Canada; Pamela Gross, the mayor of Cambridge Bay; Cambridge Bay MLA Jeannie Ehaloak; Yvonne Jones, the parliamentary secretary to the minister of Intergovernmental and northern affairs and internal trade; elder Annie Atighioybk; elder Mabel Etegik; and David J. Scott, president and CEO of Polar Knowledge Canada. (Photo courtesy of Polar Knowledge Canada)
Yvonne Jones, parliamentary secretary to the minister of intergovernmental and northern affairs and internal trade, stands with a group of Inuinnait drummers and dancers in the Canadian High Arctic Research Station in Cambridge Bay, which she helped officially open yesterday, Aug. 21. “The Canadian High Arctic Research Station provides scientists from across Canada and around the world with a world-class Arctic research facility to conduct cutting edge Arctic research year-round in Canada’s Arctic, in collaboration with local Indigenous people. The Government of Canada is committed to supporting the work of our outstanding scientists and researchers in all fields,” was her message to the gathering. Celebrations continue today at the facility. Read more later on Nunatsiaq.com. (Photo courtesy of Mayor Pamela Gross)
Parts of inugaq, a game played with seal flipper bones, are seen on display at the Angmarlik Visitors Centre in Pangnirtung. Ooleepeeka Arnaqaq, coordinator of visitor experience at the centre, says you start by putting the bones in the bag and use the string to pull out as many as you can. Then you use the bones to form a family, qammaq and dog team. Arnaqaq recalled how the elders who spend time at the centre were amused because she’d put the smallest of the bones representing dogs nearest to the sled, whereas you should always put the youngest dogs at the front, because they have the most energy. (Photo by Phillip Lightfoot)
The charismatic singer-songwriter Saali Keelan, a Nunavik favourite, wows the crowd at Kuujjuaq’s Aqpik Jam Music Festival on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
Nunavut Premier Joe Savikataaq, Indigenous Services Minister Seamus O’Regan and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. President Aluki Kotierk sign a joint declaration of intent in Iqaluit in August 2019 to build an addictions treatment centre. (File photo by Emma Tranter)
Alan Doyle, the Newfoundland folk-rock singer, performs at Kuujjuaq’s Aqpik Jam on Wednesday, Aug. 14. In what was unquestionably one of the music festival’s main acts, Doyle energized the crowd with his rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
The federal government announced today that it will spend $151 million to string an undersea fibre-optic cable across the Davis Strait from Nuuk, Greenland to Iqaluit, Nunavut, to help bring faster, more affordable internet connections to territory’s capital. The Government of Nunavut is contributing $30 million towards the project, which will also include a branch to Kimmirut. Today’s announcement at Iqaluit’s Nunavut Arctic College campus also reiterated plans to build a hybrid solar and diesel power plant in Kugluktuk. From left: Bernadette Jordan, the federal minister of rural economic development; Qulliq Energy Corp.’s president and CEO, Bruno Pereira; and Lorne Kusugak, Nunavut’s minister of community and government services. See story later at Nunatsiaq.com. (Photo by Kahlan Miron)
Participants in Jeunes Karibus’s summer program head off on a weekend camping trip to Dry Bay, about 80 km north of Kuujjuaq. The program offers Nunavik youth between the ages of 14 and 19 exposure to a range of outdoor activities centred on camping and the outdoors. From left: team leader Henri-Bastien Gendreau, cultural guide Elijah Thurber, participant Sarah Saunders, team leader Valérie Raymond and cultural guide George Peter. (Photo courtesy of Jeunes Karibus)
Schools in Kuujjuaq opened their doors to students for registration on Thursday, August 15, in preparation for the start of classes today. To welcome their Grade 4 to Secondary 5 students, Jaanimmarik School had a special guest: Hannah Tooktoo Koneak, who recently completed a 4,000 km journey across Canada to raise awareness about the suicide epidemic in Nunavik. She raised over $32,000 to help her complete her journey and raise awareness of suicide prevention. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
Nunavut’s Hyper-T, also known as Adam Tanuyak, performs at Kuujjuaq’s Aqpik Jam Music Festival on Monday, Aug. 12. Hyper T has lost friends and family to suicide and raises awareness for this cause through his music. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
Colleen Nakashuk, who performs as Aasiva, sings in Inuktitut while playing her ukulele at Kuujjuaq’s Aqpik Jam Music Festival on Monday, Aug. 12. Nakashuk, whose songs often play on the radio in Kuujjuaq, is originally from Pangnirtung and now lives in Iqaluit. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
Kuujjuaq’s Aqpik Jam Music Festival opened on Monday, Aug. 12, with a performance by the Kuujjuaq Youth Group. Here Alison Mesher, far left, passes on the tradition of drum dancing to a group of young boys. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
From left: Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. President Aluki Kotierk, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and Nunavut Premier Joe Savikataaq celebrate the signing of an agreement in principle for a Nunavut devolution agreement on Thursday, Aug. 15. The agreement in principle will act as a negotiation guide for a final devolution agreement, which will see responsibilities over Nunavut’s Crown lands and natural resources transferred from the federal government to the territory. The final agreement is expected within five years. See our story later at Nunatsiaq.com. (Photo by Kahlan Miron)
Carolyn Bennett, Canada’s minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, today apologized on behalf of the Government of Canada to Qikiqtani Inuit for the trauma caused by federal government actions between 1950 to 1975, such as forced relocations, family separations and the killing of Inuit sled dogs. See our story at Nunatsiaq.com. (Photo by Kahlan Miron)
From left: Nunavut Transportation Minister David Akeeagok, federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau and Qikiqtani Inuit Association President P.J. Akeeagok stand before a National Aerial Surveillance Program Dash-7 plane after an announcement in Iqaluit on Wednesday, August 14. Garneau made several announcements connected to Canada’s Oceans Protections Plan, including funding for coastal environmental research, for community harbours in Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay, and for capacity building for QIA and the Nunavut Impact Review Board to help with “longer-term participation in engagement activities linked to Oceans Protection Plan initiatives or Canada’s marine safety system,” according to a federal news release. See our story later at Nunatsiaq.com. (Photo by Kahlan Miron)
Marc Garneau, Canada’s minister of transport, and his Nunavut counterpart, David Akeeagok, announce $71.7 million in federal infrastructure spending in Iqaluit on Tuesday, Aug. 13. Funded projects include the renovation of Rankin Inlet’s airport terminal building, the completion of preparatory work needed for the construction of the Grays Bay Road and Port Project, the study and design of an all-season road that will improve connectivity in the Kivalliq region and the installation of passenger boarding ramps at airport terminals in seven communities. For details, see our upcoming story at Nunatsiaq.com (Photo by Kahlan Miron)
Kuujjuaq’s Mary Nikki and Etua Gordon play a giant game of tic-tac-toe at Barrel Beach during the kick-off of Jeunes Karibus’s summer program on July 18. The program offers Nunavik youth between the ages of 14 and 19 exposure to a range of outdoor activities centred on camping and the outdoors. (Photo courtesy of Jeunes Karibus)
Once Ocean expedition participants saw over 200 walruses sunbathing on Walrus Island in the western Hudson Strait on the morning of Aug. 4. Some leaped in and out of the water while others huddled together. (Photo by Emma Tranter)
Ben Naukatsik enjoys family day festivities in Rankin Inlet on Sunday, July 28. (Photo by Noel Kaludjak)
