Photo: 2015 Iqaluit Arctic Council ministerial starts with a qulliq lighting

Lena Evic-Twerdin, watched by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Canada’s senior Arctic official, Vincent Rigby, and Nunavut MP and Arctic Council Minister Leona Aglukkaq, tends a qulliq and offers a history lesson about life in the past to the ministers of the Arctic Council assembled in the Nunavut Legislature’s chamber. “We are happy to use these important survival tools in ceremonies,” Evic-Twerdin said. Read more about the ministerial, which wrapped up at 4:30 p.m. on Nunatsiaqonline.ca. You can find more photos on the Nunatsiaq News Facebook page. (PHOTO BY THOMAS ROHNER)