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Farrah Arnauyumayuk cleans up cigarette butts along Iqaluit’s waterfront near the small-craft harbour as part of the city’s annual community clean up day today. The community cleanup committee supplied volunteers with gloves and garbage bags, donated by the Qikiqtani General Hospital and C&K Services Ltd., and held a celebratory barbecue in the afternoon. (Photo by Emma Tranter)

Kuujjuaq residents brave the heat to celebrate Childcare Week. Daycares held a parade around town in a rare 28.5 C on Tuesday, June 11. The parade was meant to happen the week before but rainy weather postponed it. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Scores of Cambridge Bay women come to the western Nunavut community’s high school June 4 while the parka-making company Canada Goose handed out hundreds of metres of fabric. “Community members took home four metres of fabric each and were appreciative of this gesture,” said Pamela Gross, the mayor of Cambridge Bay and the executive director of the Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq / Kitikmeot Heritage Society. The Canada Goose program, which has been in place for 10 years, delivers fabric to Inuit who use the material to make modern parkas. It’s a way of “passing on tradition and pastime to keep our people warm,” Gross said. (Photo courtesy of Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq)

Willisaa Snowball, Juu Sinupaa, Makivik Corp.’s Joseph Snowball, Lissa Deveaux and Sarah Angnatuk celebrate after the students are awarded Air Inuit’s Wings of Knowledge Bursary at the Jaanimmarik School’s high school graduation on Monday, May 27. Bursaries are given to students with outstanding academic achievements, and the recipients are recommended by the Kativik School Board. This year, the awarded bursaries ranged from $200 to $500. The graduation ceremony took place at the Katittavik Town Hall Theatre in Kuujjuaq. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Jaanimmarik School’s 2019 graduates dress their best for prom, which included a dinner celebration at the Auberge Kuujjuaq Inn with family and friends. The Kuujjuaq youth graduated on Monday, May 27. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

There were smiles all round at the awards ceremony at Jaanimmarik School in Kuujjuaq on Thursday, May 23, for students of all ages at the school from Grade 4 to the Secondary 5 high school graduating class. A student from each class was given an award, some for academic performance, others for improved performance and others for good characteristics, such as having a positive attitude. The specialist teachers also handed out awards for achievement in their subjects, including Inuktitut, music, art and gym. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Residents of Kuujjuaq enjoy lunchtime hot dogs on Thursday, May 30, at a barbecue held in the CIBC’s parking lot to raise funds for the Tour CIBC Charles-Bruneau cycle tour, which in turn raises money to support research and projects related to childhood cancers. The barbecue was organized by the bank, in collaboration with the Kativik Regional Police Force, whose officers did the cooking, while their mascot Nanuk stood by the side of the road luring people in. The local general store Newviq’vi provided the hot dogs and condiments, while Air Inuit provided plane tickets for a draw. The event raised $1,903. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Kugluktuk’s outgoing high school principal, Haydn George (left front), receives a standing ovation on Wednesday, June 5, from about 200 people gathered in the school gym as he accepts an award from the hamlet for his efforts as principal over the past three years. Many in the western Nunavut community of about 1,500 lodged formal complaints and put their names to a petition after the local district education authority did not renew George’s contract to continue leading the school. Read more later on Nunatsiaq.com. (Submitted photo)

Kuujjuaq residents gathered for a feast to celebrate the award winners at Jaanimmarik School on Thursday, May 23. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

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Jennifer Ellsworth, a Grade 10 student at Inuksuk High School in Iqaluit, walked out of school with about 100 students on the morning of Wednesday, June 5, to march to the legislature to call on Nunavut’s leaders to take action on climate change as part of a protest on World Environment Day. More to come later on Nunatsiaq.com. (Photo by Emma Tranter)

Commissioners of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls finish the last steps of the tikinaagan, or cradleboard, ceremony at the final report’s closing ceremony on Monday, June 3, at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau. In the ceremony, the commissioners sat on a star blanket and, once the report was swaddled and placed in a cradleboard, touched the pages with sacred materials from different Indigenous peoples. That included water from the east, west, south and north, held in copper cups—with the northern water having come from an iceberg. The report was then tied with a Métis sash. Grandmothers and family members, seen sitting behind the commissioners, then acknowledged the bundle before it was handed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. See our story on the closing ceremony later today at Nunatsiaq.com (Photo by Kahlan Miron)

Two young Inuit girls watch the Tikinaagan (or cradleboard) ceremony, which prepared the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls so it could be passed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday, June 3. The girls sat with Inuit elder Meeka Arnakak at the back of stage for the entirety of the closing ceremony, as the elder tended to a qulliq throughout the event. The children playing in the background brought a little lightness to the event, and for her final words a First Nations elder noted that the girls having such carefree fun was “the way it’s supposed to be” for young Indigenous children. (Photo by Kahlan Miron)

Sarah Rose Novalinga, a Grade 4 student at Kiluutaq school in Umiujaq, stands with Dr. Véronique Morin as they listen to astronaut David Saint-Jacques explain how water is recycled aboard the International Space Station. Kiluutaq school hosted a livestream session on Friday, May 31 with the Canadian astronaut, who worked as a doctor in Umiujaq. Read more next week at Nunatsiaq.com. (Photo by Kativik Ilisarniliriniq/Jade Duchesneau Bernier)

Nunavik health care workers Mary Iqiquq Tukalak and Susan Nulukie celebrate their graduation from McGill University’s Management of Health and Social Services program at a May 28 ceremony in Montreal. Both women are employees of the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services and took the certificate program on a work-study basis. (Photo courtesy of NRBHSS)

A group of students burn their schoolwork in a bonfire at the Barrel Beach in Kuujjuaq. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Elisapee Sheutiapik, Nunavut’s MLA for Iqaluit-Sinaa, turns to greet students who were visiting Iqaluit as part of a tour with the national Parliamentary Internship Program. (Photo by John Thompson)

Aqsarniit Middle School Grade 7 students Sarah Nakashuk (left) and Suma Klengenberg (right) show off their project, which tested how playing music for one hour per day can affect how a plant grows over a period of three weeks, at the school’s science fair on Wednesday, May 29. (Photo by Emma Tranter)

Igloolik’s renowned rock band, Northern Haze, has released a music video to accompany their song “Qainna.” The song is featured on the band’s late 2018 album, Silatugami, their first recording since the 1980s. The psychedelic video was filmed in Igloolik and features the veteran rocksters dressed in full caribou parkas and pants. You can <a href=

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The ice on the Kuujjuaq River broke up over the Victoria Day long weekend, allowing people to go boating to collect mussels downriver at the mouth of Ungava Bay. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Nicole Camphaug of ENB Artisan, who designs jewellery and sealskin shoes, works her popular table at Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami’s Inuit Marketplace, held at at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre on Wednesday, May 15. Eager customers buzzed around in search of sealskin products and other Inuit goods. ITK held the Inuit Marketplace just prior to its A Taste of the Arctic event that evening. Other artists at the marketplace included Nuvuja9, InukChic and Kaajuk. “How great to put so many Inuit artists in one place for people to purchase items they may not otherwise get a chance to see,” Camphaug said on Facebook. (Photo by Kahlan Miron)

Apex residents awoke to a sad scene early this morning: the qammaq at Nanook School burned last night, leaving only a charred frame of the structure remaining. “This structure was the centrepiece of our land-based outdoor education program,” wrote Nanook principal Matthew Knickelbein in a Facebook post this morning. “Much of the materials and labour were donated by local businesses and organizations, as well as lots of individual time and effort. We will rebuild. We will not let this setback curb our enthusiasm for providing such important educational opportunities to our students in our community. We will be organizing a fundraising campaign in the next few days… after we have a moment to grieve our loss.” In a tweet, Iqaluit Mayor Madeleine Redfern said she plans to work with the school and local businesses to rebuild. “I will ask the school principal Matt Knickelbein what is needed and happy to contact local businesses especially contractors about donations whether cash or materials,” she wrote. (Photo by Emma Tranter)

land-based outdoor education program,” wrote Nanook principal Matthew Knickelbein in a Facebook post this morning. “Much of the materials and labour were donated by local businesses and organizations, as well as lots of individual time and effort. We will rebuild. We will not let this setback curb our enthusiasm for providing such important educational opportunities to our students in our community. We will be organizing a fundraising campaign in the next few days… after we have a moment to grieve our loss.” In a tweet, Iqaluit Mayor Madeleine Redfern said she plans to work with the school and local businesses to rebuild. “I will ask the school principal Matt Knickelbein what is needed and happy to contact local businesses especially contractors about donations whether cash or materials,” she wrote. (Photo by Emma Tranter)">

It took “7,315,000 blinks” to bring Nunavut Sivuniksavut’s class of 2019 from the beginning of the school year to their graduation ceremony on Wednesday, May 15, according to first year student Julie Alivaktuk in her graduation speech. Not quite the “blink of an eye” her teacher promised, but that only left more time to “learn, absorb and keep in our hearts.” The ceremony, which was held and live-streamed from Ottawa’s Museum of Nature, was filled with laughs, tears and fond farewells. The students were treated to congratulations from many Inuit leaders, like Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. President Aluki Kotierk and Nunavut’s minister of education, David Joanisie. The Johnny Karetak Award, which is given to the student “who most exemplifies those values of caring, of steadfastness, of humbleness and of doing better for everyone else,” according to NS coordinator Morley Hanson, was given to Ashley Kalluk of Arctic Bay. (Photo courtesy of NS/Facebook)

The newest batch of graduates from Nunavut Arctic College in Iqaluit gather to celebrate on May 2. (Photo by Aaron Watson)

The celebrated carver Manasie Akpaliapik waits for a captivated audience to gather around him and a carving by Osuitok Ipeelee, titled Walrus-Spirit, at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa on May 9. Akpaliapik and John Houston, an award-winning filmmaker and gallery director, co-hosted the National Gallery’s Meet the Experts night. Akpaliapik and Houston led a crowd around the gallery’s Inuit prints and carvings before ending with a lively Q&A session. (Photo by Kahlan Miron; artwork credit Osuitok Ipeelee, Walrus-Spirit, c. 1977)