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“You will experience hardship in life, that’s manilaaksiuniq, or rough ice,” said Isaruit Arts elder consultant Asenath Kannutaq. She lit the qulliq to start the second day of the Creators’ Conference in Ottawa. She spoke with attendees about being on the ice with her father in Sanirajak, maintaining a qamutiik, navigating blizzards, and giving her pualuuk, or mittens, to her mother to keep her hands warm. (Photo by Nehaa Bimal)

Two dog teams face off Thursday to reach the finish line of the Puvirnituq Snow Festival race. A first-place finish earns $2,400, and if the record of one hour and seven minutes is broken, another $1,000 is added to the pot. (Photo by Cedric Gallant)

Author Kathleen Lippa reads from her new book, “Arctic Predator: The Crimes of Edward Horne Against Children in Canada’s North,” during a book launch Tuesday evening in an Ottawa bookstore. Lippa, who worked as a journalist in Iqaluit in the early 2000s, learned about Horne’s crimes and wrote the book because she said Canadians needed to learn more about their “Arctic brothers and sisters.” Horne was a school teacher and principal in several Nunavut communities during the 1970s until the mid-1980s. (Photo by Corey Larocque)

Hugh Tulurialik plays keyboard during a performance at Baker Lake’s community hall on Saturday as part of the lineup at the Baker Lake music concert. A square dance followed the free event. (Photo courtesy of Iqklu Killulark)

Michael Foote, with the 1st Patrol Group of the Canadian Rangers, dons polar bear pants Tuesday during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to Iqaluit. Foote purchased the hide from a hunter in Kinngait, scraped and tanned it, and designed the pants pattern. He also made a neck warmer and mitts from the fur. They serve him well in the field but spring temperatures hovering around -17 C to -27 C this time of year are getting too warm to wear the gear, he said. (Photo by Daron Letts)

When Charlie Tookaluk from Umiujaq chose sobriety in 2020, he also picked up a paintbrush. “I saw many images of different art styles of Mona Lisa, I was thinking of painting the Mona Lisa as an Inuk.” He completed Inuk Mona Lisa in November 2021, followed by Inuit Gothic, his take on the iconic couple, in 2023. Tookaluk had previously taken a painting class at John Abbott College in Montreal and later refreshed his skills on his own in Toronto in 2019. (Photo courtesy of Charlie Tookaluk)

Nunavut Sivuniksavut students sing traditional Inuit songs during a signing ceremony in Ottawa last Saturday for the renewal of the Nunavut Agreement. Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree, Premier P.J. Akeeagok and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. president Jeremy Tunraluk signed an agreement that will see the federal government provide $1.5 billion to the Government of Nunavut and NTI over the next decade. (Photo by Corey Larocque)

Rev. Canon Aigah Attagutsiak lights the qulliq at the start of Saturday’s signing ceremony for the Nunavut Agreement renewal at Nunavut Sivuniksavut in Ottawa. Attagutsiak, who is an Anglican priest at St. Margaret’s Church in Vanier, explained the history of the qulliq, including how women used qulliqs of different sizes to provide heat and light in Inuit homes. The ceremony took place, coincidentally, on March 8 — International Women’s Day. (Photo by Corey Larocque)

Felix Karpik, 8, sits in on the Nunavut legislative assembly proceedings alongside his grandmother, Pangnirtung MLA Margaret Nakashuk, on Thursday. Felix said he liked examining the Speaker’s mace inside the chamber and that he even had the chance to sit in the Speaker’s chair during a midday break. (Photo by Daron Letts)

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A team of sled dogs gets some food while waiting to start the next leg of the Ivakkak race Tuesday. Eleven teams kicked off the 328-kilometre race, which started in Kangiqsualujjuaq and ends in Tasiujaq. The mushers stopped for two nights this week in Kuujjuaq and enjoyed a community feast. (Photo by Cedric Gallant)

Eleven-month-old Jackson Enook-Churchill holds tight to his mother Uluappak Enook during the opening ceremony Feb. 28 of the new home for Tumikuluit Saipaaqivik Child Care Centre in Apex. It moved there from its former site downtown. Baby and mom were among approximately 40 people who came to the ceremony at Iqaluit’s only Inuktitut daycare, along with Jenna Sudds, the federal minister of families, children and social development, Premier P.J. Akeeagok and Nunavut NDP MP Lori Idlout. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)

Lutie Kaviok, a Nunavut Sivuniksavut student, performs songs he wrote while classmates wave their cellphones with flashlights Feb. 20 at the Aqsarniit Trade Show and Conference in Ottawa. Students from the Ottawa college for Nunavut Inuit students sang, drum danced and demonstrated games as part of the event’s entertainment. (Photo by Corey Larocque)

Nunavut Sivuniksavut student Denise Nowyuk sings while classmate Cynthia Joanasie plays the guitar during a performance at the Aqsarniit Trade Show and Conference Thursday in Ottawa. Students from the Ottawa college for Inuit students from Nunavut sang, drum danced and demonstrated games as part of the event’s entertainment. (Photo by Corey Larocque)

From left, Nunavut Sivuniksavut students Kalluk Burton, Paul MacDonald and Nolan Kuluguqtuq carry Brent Quassa in a four-man carry, a traditional Inuit game. They demonstrated the game to an audience at the Aqsarniit Trade show and Conference Thursday in Ottawa. (Photo by Corey Larocque)

Dinner guests dance while Qimitjuit, a band from Inukjuak, performs during the Aqsarniit Trade Show and Conference gala Thursday night in Ottawa. The band’s four members — from left, singer and guitarist Charlie Iqaluk, drummer Eric Atagotaaluk, keyboardist Paulosie Kasudluak, and bassist Jobie Oweetaluktuk — have been playing together for 35 years and have built a following across Inuit Nunangat. The dinner marked the end of the four-day trade show and conference organized by the Baffin Regional Chamber of Commerce and Makivvik Corp. (Photo by Corey Larocque)

Dozens of people visit the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre in Iqaluit Feb. 14 for the launch of a photo and video exhibition about food sovereignty. The exhibit includes photos of country food captured by hunters and youth in Kinngait and Pond Inlet as part of a three-year research project on food sovereignty in Nunavut. Dozens of people visited the exhibit throughout the evening with country food provided to them. The food centre will host the installation until September. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)

The Canadian flag flies above the federal building in Iqaluit on Friday. Although Saturday is National Flag of Canada Day, few Iqaluit businesses or residences had flags displayed prominently Friday. Flags also didn’t appear to be offered for sale at grocery stores. In a joint statement this week, Canada’s five surviving former prime ministers — Joe Clark, Kim Campbell, Jean Chretien, Paul Martin and Stephen Harper — urged Canadians to fly the flag on Saturday in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats against Canadian sovereignty. (Photo by Daron Letts)

The under-18 boys’ soccer team scrimmages Saturday in the Inuksuk High School gym for Soccer Day in Iqaluit. The event attracted dozens of young athletes eager for skill-challenging drills, games and lots of pizza. (Photo by Daron Letts)

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Colton Whalen, 7, runs a drill during his first-ever curling lesson with instructor Sadie Pinksen. He’s taking part in the Little Rocks program, hosted Monday nights by the Iqaluit Curling Club for children aged six to 12. (Photo by Daron Letts)

Sukhpaul Garcha holds six-week-old Hera in Iqaluit. The newly adopted puppy and her brother, Apollo, got vaccinated at the Nunavut Animal Rescue clinic held at Joamie School on Saturday. A four-member volunteer team from Wellington Veterinary Hospital in Toronto vaccinated approximately 125 dogs for rabies, parvovirus and distemper over the weekend. The next vet clinic is planned for March, said Samantha Oldham, executive director of Nunavut Animal Rescue. (Photo by Daron Letts)

Teachers in Umiujaq picket in front of the school on Jan. 17. Nunavik teachers entered their third day of a four-day strike on Monday. The strike is set to end Tuesday at 11 a.m. The Kativik Ilisarniliriniq school board said last week that schools in the region’s 14 communities are closed during the strike. The teachers have worked without a new contract since May 2023. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman, special to Nunatsiaq News)

Siblings April, Viola, and Nate Fredlund, enjoy a swing at the Nakasuk School playground shortly after sunset on Sunday afternoon, with parents Brianna Eetuk and Nathaniel Fredlund. The family moved to Iqaluit from Rankin Inlet last month. It is dark by late afternoon in the city, but the days are getting longer now that the Dec. 21 winter solstice has passed. (Photo by Daron Letts)

Canadian North’s Amazon Hub team takes a breather Saturday after handling the lingering holiday rush of packages made busier by the Canada Post strike that lasted from Nov. 15 to Dec. 17. Last week, the Iqaluit crew processed 18 flats of parcels — so many, they issued a social media call-out for people to pick up their packages to clear warehouse space. From left are Donald Lyttle, Brad Mackay, Gerard MacDougall, Eduardo Trujillo, Mark Layman, Tajah Pruitt, Rob Rivet, Ammar Hassan, and Shaun Bond, 5, son of off-duty worker Jason Bond. (Photo by Daron Letts)