School board offers some teachers a cash incentive to avoid non-essential travel
A cash incentive seems to have worked to keep Nunavik’s southern-based teachers in the region over their winter break.
Resident travelled home from the south and is now in isolation
Three-year plan unclear on how Nunavik will benefit
Sarah Aloupa acclaimed during Kativik Ilisarniliriniq meetings Dec. 7
Students from Tarsakallak school in Aupaluk pose in front of a new mural they recently helped create in the Nunavik school’s gymnasium. Aupaluk won a region-wide fire prevention contest put on by the Kativik Municipal Housing Bureau’s Pivallianiq program earlier this year. Their winning prize was a mural event run by a professional muralist, in which students painted imagery from the Inuit legend Kautjajuk. (Photo courtesy of Pivallianiq)
Nunami by Nunavik’s Thomassie Mangiok now available on Amazon and at Nunavik’s co-op stores
The first layer of ice is seen on the Koksoak River near Kuujjuaq on Nov. 5. The river’s ice has since thickened and become coated with snow. (Photo by Maxence Chavanne)
Randy Koneak will serve a life sentence for killing 28-year-old Chloé Labrie
“Inflicting emotional and psychological trauma on children should never be normal”
Randy Koneak is accused of the 2018 first-degree murder of Chloé Labrie
Hunter support programs urged to switch to land mobile radio
Charlie Arngak of Kangiqsujuaq will be awarded the Order of Military Merit for almost 50 years of active service in the Canadian Rangers. The award was announced by the Rangers Nov. 24 during Kativik Regional Government council meetings. Arngak, 67, is also an executive member of the KRG regional council. “His experience over the years in the self-sufficient mobile forces working in some of the most isolated and remote terrain in the country has made him a mentor and a highly respected member of his unit,” said Benoit Mainville, lieutenant-colonel with the 2nd Canadian Ranger Patrol Group. The Governor General will award the medal to Arngak in the new year. (Photo courtesy of KRG)
“It’s the place where you can find out where you came from and what’s happening in the world”
“This is the result of many years of work”
The freezing Koksoak River is seen from the Range neighbourhood of Kuujjuaq at dawn on Nov. 22. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
Impaired driving causing injuries, minor mischief way up in 2020
The rising sun shines upon the backbone of a beluga whale near Iqaluit on Nov. 19. (Photo by Frank Reardon)
“We thought the best we could do was to ratify a deal to hold us until we could pick it up again”
A ptarmigan, or aqigqiq, caught by Etua Snowball cooks over a log fire during an outing at Tasialuk Lake, just outside Kuujjuaq, on Nov. 15. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
Two Inukjuak residents were infected while in the south
“We’re using all that we can”
The first class of Nunavik’s Institutional and Homecare Assistance program graduated this month. The program was launched by Kativik Ilisarniliriq and the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services last year to train people to care for Nunavimmiut who are sick, injured or have lost autonomy. Graduates are pictured from left: Levina Ittulak (Kuujjuaq), Nancy Watt (Kuujjuaq), Susie Annatok (Quaqtaq), Louisa Etok (Kangiqsualujjuaq), Natalie Shipaluk (Kuujjuaq, absent from photo), Eva Sequaluk (Kuujjuaq) and Maggie Saunders (Kuujjuaq). (Photo courtesy of NRBHSS)
Research also finds elders are also working longer, supporting families
Alasie Kenuajuak Hickey sits on her cooler while ice fishing at Tasirlak Lake near Kuujjuaq on Nov. 15. Malaya Qaunirq Chapman says that Hickey is “relaxed and zen like, doing what she absolutely loves,” when she’s ice fishing. “She and her family spend as much time as possible outdoors, spending time and making memories.” (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
Police seized equipment from home in Akulivik Nov. 22
