Larry Audlaluk, left, and Olaf Christensen check their seal net outside Grise Fiord on Wednesday afternoon. The pair had one ringed seal caught in their net, which was set in a crack in the sea ice. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)
Jimmy Kooneeliusie from Qikiqtarjuaq, left, and Bobby Uttuigak from Igloolik varnish wooden seal-hunting harpoons they carved at Ottawa’s Isaruit Inuit Arts’ wood and metal workshop. Guided by sculptor Ruben Komangapik, they are learning to make traditional Inuit tools like ulus from modern materials for Tungasuvvingat Inuit. Uttuigak joined in November and is learning “new tricks,” Komangapik said. (Photo by Nehaa Bimal)
After the Easter Bunny hopped out of Rankin Inlet on Monday morning, kids jumped on the ice for some “speedy pond hockey fun,” resident Jim MacDonald said. He credits fellow residents Gavin Gee and Jocelyn Merritt for organizing the hockey games. (Photo courtesy of Jim MacDonald)
Hunter Aningmiuq, 11, holds up a ptarmigan he hunted earlier this spring at a family friend’s cabin outside Iqaluit. Aningmiuq hunts often, says his mother Annie Aningmiuq, who added he caught three ptarmigan Saturday as well. (Photo courtesy of Annie Aningmiuq)
Jarloo Kiguktak throws a broomstick Monday during Grise Fiord’s Easter games. At least 30 people in Nunavut’s smallest and northernmost community gathered outside the hamlet office to take part in the games, which also included an Easter egg hunt, bunny hop and egg-on-spoon races. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)
Rival candidates James T. Arreak, left, of the Conservatives, and NDP incumbent MP Lori Idlout are making stops all over Nunavut during their federal election campaigns. They were booked on the same plane on Tuesday. “James and I have known each other awhile and we have respect for each other. We both ended up in Baker Lake and now are travelling at the same time to Rankin Inlet,” Idlout said in a social media post. (Photo courtesy of Lori Idlout)
Andrew Maher, right, and his dog Ikuma hold a slight lead over Sarah McNair-Landry and her dog Roscoe in the two-kilometre Toonik Tyme skijor race Tuesday night. Maher won the race, which drew 14 human racers, each accompanied by a dog, as well as more than 50 spectators to the entrance of Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park. Toonik Tyme, Iqaluit’s annual spring festival, continues through April 20. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)
Iqaluit Mayor and lifelong igloo builder Solomon Awa shows how to carve snow into blocks during a Toonik Tyme igloo-building workshop at Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park on Saturday. About 100 people took part in the workshop, watching Awa work and attempting to help. According to Toonik Tyme’s schedule, at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday a scavenger hunt will be held followed by the annual skijor race at 6 p.m., where competitors on skis are pulled by a dog. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)
Ben Kovic hams it up for a photographer after chipping off pieces of frozen caribou on Frobisher Bay on Sunday. He was among the spectators watching the Toonik Tyme race from Iqaluit to Kimmirut, which he participated in during the 1970s and 1980s. (Photo by Daron Letts)
“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)
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)
