No timeline for city’s report on incident that sent girl to Ottawa for surgery
Updated on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. ET A dog attack that led to an 11-year-old girl being medevaced to Ottawa for surgery is still under investigation by the City of Iqaluit more than a month after the incident.
Guy Uniuqsaraq carves a dancing bear from black marble in front of his Iqaluit residence in the early evening of Sept. 19. Daylight in Nunavut’s capital city dwindles by more than six minutes per day in September. (Photo by Daron Letts)
Pilitak Enterprises workers Mathieu Bonin, left, and Robin Goupil display the Maple Leaf they removed from the Qimugjuk Building on Saturday. The federal office building will be transferred to the territory when devolution takes effect on April 1, 2027. (Photo by Daron Letts)
Galaxy Cat, or John Manzo, seen here behind a portion of his $20,000 DJ roost, is set to host his fifth silent disco dance party at Iqaluit’s Franco Centre on Sept. 26. (Photo courtesy of John Manzo)
Artist Haiga Ashoona sews her felt art designs in the lobby of the Nunavut Trade Show in Iqaluit on Thursday. She is the granddaughter of the late renowned Kinngait sewer and drawer Pitseolak Ashoona. (Photo by Daron Letts)
Workers install a section of Iqaluit’s water and sewer main line at the intersection of Atungauyait Drive and Paunna Road on Saturday. Pauna Road remains open to single-lane traffic, while Atungauyait Drive is scheduled to remain closed until Sept. 27, announced city spokesperson Geoff Byrne in a news release over the weekend. (Photo by Daron Letts)
Jonathan Agligoetok controls traffic as a crew works along the road to Apex shortly after daybreak on Saturday. This summer’s Niaqunngusiariaq Road repaving project is complete, said City of Iqaluit spokesperson Geoff Byrne. Crews were patching up the road over the weekend after completing an installation near Tuktu Road, he said. (Photo by Daron Letts)
Galaxy Cat Entertainment instructor John Manzo, left, and dance club member Assol Kubeisinova promote their next Silent Disco event, planned for Sept. 26 at the Franco Centre. Silent Disco is a dance party where the music is pumped through headphones instead of speakers, so participants have control over the music. The pair were part of the mass registration event at the Iqaluit Curling Club on Saturday, which had 34 organizations participate. (Photo by Daron Letts)
Tara Nutaralak, left, and her partner Tagaaq Saila sell berries in the foyer of Iqaluit’s Arctic Ventures on Sunday evening. The couple picked 17 bags “over the mountain” in Apex. (Photo by Daron Letts)
The work of Puvirnituq artist Juanisialuk Irqumia shines on the facade of Iqaluit’s Northmart. The piece, titled “Hunting Walrus by Kayak,” was installed Aug. 25. (Photo by Daron Letts)
Friends Cameron Sharpe, left, and Caiden Joamie display their catch of Arctic char on Sylvia Grinnell River, near Iqaluit, on Saturday morning. The fish were so bountiful, the teens said, that they snagged them with a jerk of the line without waiting for a bite. (Photo by Daron Letts)