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Alec Nichol, 9, gets his green thumb on with help from Nancy Fynn-Sackey during the Iqaluit Community Greenhouse Society’s regular youth program. Held each Sunday afternoon, the program allows youngsters to get their hands dirty working in the gardens in the greenhouse and take home what they harvest. Fynn-Sackey is a board member with the greenhouse society, which also hosts weekly Wednesday harvest nights starting at approximately 5:30 p.m. where people can take home the vegetables they pick. (Photo by Gord Howard)

Josephie Naglingniq works on a drawing of a bear eating a seal during a busy lunch hour Thursday at the Black Heart Café. Naglingniq has been drawing for nearly 17 years and often works at one of the tables at the cafe in order to meet potential buyers. He sells his drawings for $20 apiece. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)

Qalingu Napartuk, also known as Young Black Inuk, brought his cyphers and rhymes to a dancing crowd at Aqpik Jam in Kuujjuaq Wednesday. The energy was high on the second night of the four-day festival that runs until Friday. (Photo by Cedric Gallant)

Beatrice Deer invites William Tagoona, who is considered one of Nunavik’s fathers of Inuit rock, on stage for one song Tuesday during Aqpik Jam’s opening night in Kuujjuaq. The crowd expressed joy at the guest appearance by Tagoona, who had performed earlier on Tuesday’s opening night. (Photo by Cedric Gallant)

Tristan Logan Quasa Duffy Taparti always carries a sword when going out. The 29-year-old Rankin Inlet resident says he owns more swords that he “ever cared to count.” Most of his swords are just for training and are not dangerous to the people around him. On Aug. 5, he performed with his sword at the Jammin’ on the Bay Tribute Fest while singing a song to his father, who carved him his first wooden sword when he was five. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)

Loron Sharp and Richmond Niviatsiak show off the autographs they collected from performers on their hoodies on the closing day of the Jammin’ on the Bay Tribute Fest in Rankin Inlet on Aug. 5. Sharp, 13, had more than 18 signatures by the end of the day, while Niviatsiak, 11, had around five. “I thought it would be cool,” Sharp said of the project. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)

George Satuqsi removes a narwhal’s two-metre-long tusk on a warm, sunny Tuesday near Pond Inlet after the rest of the animal was taken away to harvest. Satuqsi is the father of Henry Maktar, 15, who hunted the narwhal — his first — earlier in the day off the coast of the north Baffin hamlet. It took Henry Maktar 40 minutes to bag the narwhal with his harpoon after it was first spotted, said Maktar’s uncle, Bernard Ulaayuk Maktar. This catch will be the first of many in his lifetime, Ulaayuk Maktar predicted. (Photo courtesy of Bernard Ulaayuk Maktar)

Meadow Mae Hakongak Evans sells lemonade and homemade cookies in front of her home in Cambridge Bay on July 26. The five-year-old entrepreneur is saving up money for her family’s trip to Disneyland in California in October. All told, she earned about $200 for her efforts, all of which went to her Disney trip saving box, said her aunt, Nuka Olsen-Hakongak, who helped with the sale. Olsen-Hakongak said her niece will start kindergarten in the fall, and with all the positive feedback about her lemonade Meadow Mae might have another sale before that. (Photo courtesy of Nuka Olsen-Hakongak)

Isa Oqutaq carves an inuksuk in front of his house in Kinngait on July 20. He is one of the few carvers in Kinngait still making art during the hunting season. Oqutaq says he is planning to sell his inuksuk to the West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative that sells Inuit art all around the world. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)

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Kate Dalgleish poses next to her creation — a Lego “postcard” of Iqaluit, complete with the old and new Iqaluit airport, an inuksuk, St. Jude’s Anglican Cathedral and the Nunavut legislature building, against a backdrop of the northern lights. A lawyer by trade, Lego builder by night, Dalgleish and her partner Evan are part of a group of adult builders in Ottawa called ParLUGment who display their Lego designs at fairs and hobby events in Ottawa. Dalgleish was inspired by Lego’s postcards, which are 3D buildable sets sold by the company based on iconic landmarks in major cities. Realizing that Lego did not have a Canadian series, Dalgleish began creating her own postcards, starting with Ottawa, where she lives, her hometown of Calgary, and her next travel destination, Iqaluit. She plans to travel through the city this summer, en route to Pangnirtung for a hiking trip in Auyuittuq National Park. Dalgleish’s postcards will be on display at Ottawa’s Lego Store at the Rideau Centre in August. (Photo courtesy of Kate Dalgleish)

Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok, left, receives King Charles III’s Coronation Medal Monday from Nunavut Commissioner Eva Qamaniq Aariak. Akeeagok is one of 30,000 Canadians to receive the medal, which is 32 millimetres in diameter and silver in colour. The medal celebrates the 2023 coronation of King Charles and honours those who “made a significant contribution to Canada or to a particular province, territory, region or community in Canada,” according to the official description by the Government of Canada. (Photo courtesy of Nunavut Premier’s office)

Yannick Perreault pours gravy on poutine in the Perreault Food Truck in front of Nakasuk Elementary School in Iqaluit last Friday. The Perreault family reopened the truck May 30 for the third consecutive season. On an average Friday, the truck sells more than 150 orders of poutine and 110 burgers, Perreault said. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)

Lymiki Kalluk opens the final concert of Alianait Arts Festival on Tuesday. Aasiva, Debbie and Jeremy Tunaraluk, Kamalukutak Band and Agaaqtoq also performed. Alianait celebrated its 20th year with a daily roster of live entertainment, food and cultural activities that ran from Saturday through Tuesday in Iqaluit. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)

Tylie Arnatsiaq practises juggling with stones in Iqaluit Square on July 6. Arnatsiaq is a member of Artcirq, a performing arts collective from Igloolik. He was practising for a masterclass he was doing later that day on circus performing, as part of Alianait Arts Festival. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)

Sebastien Enequist, lead singer of Sound of the Damned, flips his hair during the band’s closing set July 7 at Alianait Arts Festival in Iqaluit. The Nuuk death metal band brought a headbanging performance to the main tent to close out the day’s festivities. The festival continues Monday and Tuesday with more performances in the city. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)

Kinngait Mayor Jimmy Manning, left, and RCMP reservist Const. Dianne Stairs (beside Manning) and Const. Ying Hao Ho, right, joined junior rangers from Kinngait to celebrate Canada Day in the hamlet on July 1. The community met outside the hamlet office to sing “O Canada,” followed by a parade with the whole town. Festivities continued into the afternoon with more than 300 people attending a community barbecue and Canada Day games. (Photo courtesy of Kineta Mathewsie)

More than 300 people join in a Canada Day barbecue in Kinngait on July 1. People in the Qikiqtaaluk region hamlet of 1,500 met outside the hamlet office to sing O Canada, then they held a parade followed by festivities that continued into the afternoon. (Photo courtesy of Kineta Mathewsie)

Iqlauit firefighters take the maple leaf flag off a fire truck after the chili handout they organized for Canada Day on Monday in front of the Nakasuk Elementary School. The chili handout was one of the many events marking Canada’s 157th birthday. The City of Iqaluit organized a parade, a bike-decorating contest and free face- painting. Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok, Nunvut MP Lori Idlout and Iqlauit mayor Solomon Awa spoke a the official ceremony in a tent in front of the school. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)

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Nunavik singer-songwriter Elisapie holds up the Canada Post stamp that commemorates her. The stamp was unveiled in a ceremony in Montreal on Thursday as part of a series to celebrate Indigenous leaders. Elisapie’s 2023 album, Inuktitut, won a Juno Award in the Contemporary Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year category. (Photo by Pinpoint National Photography)

Chance Ross got his gloves on, brought out a black bag and started picking up litter in Iqaluit on Tuesday afternoon. Ross said that he wanted to do something about the garbage in town and realized the problem was not that hard to address. He added that “you just pick up some gloves and a bag.” The City of Iqaluit is planning to host its community cleanup day Friday. (Photo by David Lochead)

A few geese pick through the grass for food last Saturday evening in the causeway area of Iqaluit. The arrival of geese is one sign of the start of spring, they will lay their eggs in June and depart by the fall. (Photo by Jason Sudlovenick, special to Nunatsiaq News)

Gulls have flown up from the south, their arrival signifying the start of spring and warmer months to come. This colony was spotted in the causeway area of Iqaluit last weekend, where temperatures reached a high of 0 C, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. (Photo by Jason Sudlovenick, special to Nunatsiaq News)

Tom Whiteley, left, Lukasi Tukkiapik, David Pearson and Jeffrey Saunders Pearson (lying down in front) pose May 11 with their harvest from a recent hunting trip near Kuujjuaq. The group went on a four-day trek to a secret family location and came back with 71 geese. They handed most of them to people in in the community. (Photo courtesy of David Pearson)

Artist Andrea Anderson, left, takes a moment with fellow artist Yurak and Family Services Minister Margaret Nakashuk to enjoy Yurak’s art piece. The piece is one of several items that were on display in a Red Dress Day exhibit May 5 at the Aqsarniit hotel in Iqaluit. The event was organized by Qulliit Nunavut Status of Women Council. Red Dress Day is held nationally each year to recognize and spread awareness of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and gender diverse people. (Photo by David Lochead)