ᐲᑕ ᐋᑕᒥ ᐅᑎᕐᐳᖅ ᒪᑭᕕᒃᑯᓐᓄᑦ ᐊᖓᔪᖅᑳᖑᓂᕐᒧᑦ
ᐋᑕᒥ ᓵᓚᒃᓴᖅᑐᑦ 67 ᐳᓴᓐᑎᓂᒃ ᓂᕈᐊᕐᑕᐅᓪᓗᓂ, ᓵᓚᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᓂᕈᐊᖅᑕᐅᒃᑲᓐᓂᕋᓱᒃᑐᒥᑦ ᓵᓕ ᕗᐊᑦ
ᐋᑕᒥ ᓵᓚᒃᓴᖅᑐᑦ 67 ᐳᓴᓐᑎᓂᒃ ᓂᕈᐊᕐᑕᐅᓪᓗᓂ, ᓵᓚᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᓂᕈᐊᖅᑕᐅᒃᑲᓐᓂᕋᓱᒃᑐᒥᑦ ᓵᓕ ᕗᐊᑦ
Health-care workers welcome Kuujjuaq residents to the community’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic, hosted Wednesday and Thursday in the Jaanimmarik school gym. General vaccination clinics are being held in communities across Nunavik this month for adults age 18 and up. The next few villages to host clinics will be Kangirsuk Feb. 15-16 in its school gym; Tasiujaq Feb. 15-16 at the local health centre; Akulivik Feb. 15-20 in the school gym and Kangiqsualujjuaq Feb. 18-19 in the school gym. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
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A caribou herd stands beneath the golden sky about 190 kilometres up river from Kuujjuaq Jan. 31. (Photo courtesy of Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
Malaya Qaunirq Chapman poses next to two caribou she caught, 190 kilometres up river from Kuujjuaq on Jan. 31. “I’m so happy to do as my ancestors did, hunt long distances and provide for my friends and family. I’m in my element here,” she writes. (Photo courtesy of Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
Daniel Gadbois, Etua Snowball and Tiivi Dupuis butcher caribou they’ve caught north of Kuujjuaq on Jan. 31 to provide meat for friends and family. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
Etua Snowball takes aim at a caribou herd on Jan. 30, 190 kilometres up river from Kuujjuaq. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
“I think it bring new ideas to what we do,” says Taqramiut Nipingat’s director general, Julie Grenier
Second doses of the Moderna vaccine could be delayed until March or April, health board says
A woman and a man were found dead in Kuujjuaq early Friday
Kuujjuaq children flock to a popular sledding hill Jan. 29. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
“I find it very worrying,” inmates’ lawyer says
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The sun sets on the frost-covered boreal forest outside Kuujjuaq on Jan. 28. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
Matthew Hubloo, a Secondary 2 student at Jaanimmarik School here in Kuujjuaq, plays two chess matches simultaneously against the school’s vice-principal, Nicholas Ramsay, and Grade 4 English teacher, Sarah Nickerson, on Jan. 26. Hubloo won both games. (Students at the school are not required to wear masks in the classroom.) (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
“The further I keep going the more I want to stay sober,” says Kangirsuk participant
Individual flew Jan. 30 on Canadian North flight 5T164
Lavinia Flaherty of Kuujjuaq takes her two huskies, Chubby and Hunter, for a walk and snuggle Jan 26. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
Water vapour rises off the Koksoak River in Kuujjuaq at sunrise around 8 a.m. on Jan. 22. “The water, which has not yet frozen, and the smoke are reflected like a river of lava surrounding the icebergs,” writes photographer Maxence Chavanne. (Photo by Maxence Chavanne)
A boat sits on the banks of the Koksoak River near Kuujjuaq Jan. 18. “Super late into the season, and still, the Kuujjuaq River isn’t frozen,” writes Malaya Qaunirq Chapman. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
James Novalinga, 70, was the first resident of Puvirnituq to receive the COVID-19 vaccine Jan. 21, administered by nurse Vanessa Asfar at the Inuulitsivik health centre. Last week, Nunavik communities received a portion of the 1,000 shots of Moderna’s vaccine shipped to the region. As of Jan. 25, the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services says 568 people have been immunized. Roughly 85 per cent of those have gone to residents aged 55 and up, while the rest have been given to frontline workers and health-care staff. (Photo courtesy of NRBHSS)
“I feel like Inuit have been left behind,” says former CEO of Air Inuit
“I think it’s really something to be proud of,” says Makivik VP Maggie Emudluk
“I’m in the perfect place to do this,” says former senator seeking re-election as president of region’s Inuit birthright organization