Nunavut

Rankin Inlet council appoints new member

Marvin Dion will replace Art Sateana, who resigned in July

Rankin Inlet’s hamlet council chose a new councillor out of two applicants on Monday. They selected Marvin Dion in a secret-ballot vote. He had applied to the position, along with Troy Rauhala.

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Painting the Arctic through the decades

Janet Armstrong, 77, says she has been painting since at least the 1980s. She uses her maiden name — Ripley — when she signs her paintings and started painting late in life because, she says, “I didn’t know I could paint.” Throughout close to 50 years in the Canadian Arctic, Armstrong has created hundreds of paintings of the region. Many capture a Nunavut of the past, such as Nanisivik, a mining community near Arctic Bay that no longer exists. One of her paintings showing qamutiks is exhibited at the Black Heart Café. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)

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