The Aqsarniit Middle School production of “The Lion King Jr.” runs at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with a matinee at 2 p.m. Saturday. (Photo by Daron Letts)
Musical runs Friday and Saturday at Aqsarniit Middle School
Pride is more than just a group of lions, according to three dozen student actors and crew rehearsing for Friday night’s première of The Lion King Jr. at Aqsarniit Middle School.
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)
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)
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)