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A home in Iqaluit’s Tundra Ridge neighbourhood is engulfed in flames on Friday afternoon, Feb. 22. A crew of firefighters are working to put out the flames with help from the RCMP. Emergency vehicles with sirens were seen driving towards the area at around 2 p.m. Volunteers are flocking to the area and smoke continues to flow out onto the hillside below. More information to follow later. (Photo by Beth Brown)

From left: July Papatsie, David Erkloo and Sytukie Joamie celebrate Inuit Day on Feb. 9 in the country foods area of the Ottawa festivities. (Photo by Kahlan Miron)

As part of Black History Month, Iqaluit residents gathered at St Jude’s Cathedral on Feb. 16 for a celebration of Ubuntu, featuring Inuit and African drumming and Inuit throat singing. “Ubuntu means ‘humanity,’“ said Kb Morena Mokoena from the Nunavut Black History Society. “It is often translated as ‘I am because we are,’ or ‘humanity towards others,’ but is often used in a more philosophical sense to mean ‘the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity.’“ Other events slated for Black History Month include a tribute to the late, great Jamaican singer Bob Marley Feb. 23 at the Ecole des Trois Soleils in Iqaluit and a “kid-friendly event” with storytelling of African and Inuit legends Fev. 24 at the city’s Astro Theatre. (Photo courtesy of the Nunavut Black History Society)

The International Maritime Organization, the United Nations agency responsible for the safety and security of shipping and the prevention of marine pollution, renewed its call this week to phase-out the use of heavy fuel oil, or HFO, in the Arctic. Indigenous representatives, including Lisa Koperqualuk of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (right) and Vernet Wilson of Friends of the Earth U.S. (left), joined the International Maritime Organization’s secretary-general, Kitack Lim, at the High Level Conference on Climate Change and Oceans Preservation, in Brussels on Feb. 19. Lim told IMO delegates that it is “imperative that the organization takes robust action to reduce the risks to the Arctic marine environment associated with the use and carriage of heavy fuel oil as fuel by ships.” Read more later about the discussions set to wrap up on Friday. (Photo courtesy of the Clean Arctic Alliance)

The 2019 recipients of the Willy Laserich Memorial Corporate Citizen Award stand together at last week’s 2019 Kitikmeot Trade Show in Cambridge Bay. From left: Marg Epp, Brenda Mercer, Charlie Lyall, show co-ordinator Jim MacEachern, Charlie Evalik and Dan Kane. Award recipients missing from the photo are Wilf Wilcox and Keith Peterson. Many of this year’s award-winners helped start the trade show 20 years ago. (Photo courtesy of Nuna Logistics/Facebook)

Team Nunavut boasted a 4-3 victory over Team Quebec on Saturday, Feb. 16, during the national championships for female curlers at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. The victory marks the first time Team Nunavut has won a main game in the tournament and not as part of the pre-qualifiers, which were discarded in 2018 for a main-game-only format. (Photo courtesy of Curling Canada)

The October 2018 cancellation of the last barge into the western Nunavut town of Cambridge Bay still angers contractor Peter Laube of Kalvik Enterprises Inc., who put this sign on a truck during the Kitikmeot Trade Show to slam the Government of the Northwest Territories’ Marine Transportation Services. (PHOTO COURTESY OF KALVIK ENT.)

Leo Maktar won first place in the igloo-building contest on Saturday, Feb. 2 in Pond Inlet during the Return of the Sun festivities. He was awarded a round-trip helicopter ride to Sirmilik National Park this July. (Photo © Carey Elverum)

Sirmilik National Park manager Carey Elverum’s family is seen during the igloo-building event during the Return of the Sun festivities in Pond Inlet on Saturday, Feb. 2. From left: Naya, Shelly and Zoe Elverum. (Photo © Carey Elverum)

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At right, Northern Knowledge, also known as William Komaksiutiksak, raps with J Breton at the Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre on Feb. 9 as part of the centre’s Inuit Day celebrations. The duo are part of Strong Minded Inuit, a youth organization dedicated to suicide prevention. (Photo by Kahlan Miron)

Volunteers with Let’s Talk Science served ice cream made with liquid hydrogen at the Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre’s Inuit Day celebrations on Feb. 9. Let’s Talk Science is a charity organization that promotes science, technology, engineering and mathematics to youth across Canada. The group offers an after-school program at the Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre. (Photo by Kahlan Miron)

Sanikiluaq students learn to skin a polar bear on Tuesday, Feb. 12. From left: Annie Amitook, Ayla Mickiyuk, Louisa Emikotailuk, Sarah Uppik, Sarah Mina Cookie and Betsy Meeko. (Photo courtesy of Paatsaali School)

The first of three new Kativik Municipal Housing Bureau warehouses is almost complete. The new facility in Inukjuak will store housing materials and lodging units for staff, and is set to be open by May. This warehouse and two others under construction in Salluit and Puvirnituq were built with a $21-million grant from the Quebec government last year by Makivik Corp.’s Kautaq Construction. (Photo by KMHB)

Aloupa Watt, 16, tries out in the triple jump event for a place on Team Nunavik–Quebec in the next Arctic Winter Games, which will take place in Whitehorse, Yukon, in 2020. Kuujjuaq held a first round of local tryouts on Monday, Jan. 28, and Tuesday, Jan. 29. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Meeka Kakudluk, left, teaches doll-making at Nunavut Sivuniksavut’s weekly culture projects to third-year student Cecile Lyall on Wednesday, Jan. 30. (Photo by Leanna Wilson)

Sarah Takolik, the vice-principal of Netsilik School in Taloyoak, lights the qulliq at the return of the sun celebration held at the school on Thursday, Jan. 31. Sitting beside her is Arnaoyok Alookee. (Photo by Jonathan Nuss)

Jillian Kyak works on her parka during Nunavut Sivuniksavut’s weekly cultural workshop on Wednesday, Jan. 30. (Photo by Angel Ootoova)

Raeya Kakuktinniq, 7, and Kukik Kusugak, 6, show off their new northern children’s books from Inhabit Media at an author meet-and-greet event at Iqaluit’s Frobisher Inn on Feb. 2. (Photo by Beth Brown)

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Artist Martha Kyak, right, and her helper Ina Kaunak at Ottawa Winterlude’s Powwow 2019 du Bal de Neige. The two women sold Kyak’s art and designs during the Feb. 3 event, which was held at the Canadian Museum of History. (Photo by Kahlan Miron)

The Asinabka Festival’s third annual snow-screening event featured Inuit film this year as part of Ottawa’s Winterlude. Projected on a wall of snow, Asinabka played films like Nyla Inuksuk’s “Finding Home,” Ericka Chemko’s “Tide” and Qajaaq Ellsworth’s “Nippaq” from Feb. 1 to 3. The event was called “Unikkaaqtuarniq: Stories from the North.” In past years, the snow-screening featured films from a variety of Arctic Indigenous groups around the world. The Ottawa festival’s winter theme fits with a northern focus, explained co-director Howard Adler. The Asinabka Festival highlights Indigenous film, and stories exploring Indigenous issues, through year-round small-scale programming as well as an annual film and media festival in Ottawa. (Photo by Kahlan Miron)

Nunavut Premier Joe Savikataaq met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday, Feb. 4. Addictions treatment, elder care and housing are among the priorities discussed. The meeting occurred as the territorial and federal governments are preparing for their upcoming spring budgets. (Photo courtesy of the Government of Nunavut)

The first of two new sewage trucks flown from Yellowknife to Agnico Eagle’s Meadowbank mine Feb. 4 has been assembled and driven to Baker Lake, where it’s expected to be in service later today. The second should follow shortly. Six of Baker Lake’s seven sewage trucks were destroyed in a Jan. 29 fire at the hamlet’s municipal garage. In the meantime, the hamlet has asked residents to conserve water. (Photos courtesy of the Hamlet of Baker Lake)