Photo: Arctic Bay protests high food costs

By SPECIAL TO NUNATSIAQ NEWS

People in Arctic Bay protest the high cost of food in their community outside the local Northern store on June 9. Read more on Nunatsiaqonline.ca later about the similar protests held outside Iqaluit, in Clyde River, Grise Fiord, Pond Inlet, Pangnirtung, Igloolik and at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, where people also gathered to protest high food prices and poverty in Nunavut. You can also hear from people who protested in Igloolik and from Simona Arnatsiaq in Ottawa on June 11, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Nipivut Nunatinnii, Our Voice at Home, the online community radio at http://bit.ly/KnHEVl. (PHOTO BY CLARE KINES)


People in Arctic Bay protest the high cost of food in their community outside the local Northern store on June 9. Read more on Nunatsiaqonline.ca later about the similar protests held outside Iqaluit, in Clyde River, Grise Fiord, Pond Inlet, Pangnirtung, Igloolik and at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, where people also gathered to protest high food prices and poverty in Nunavut. You can also hear from people who protested in Igloolik and from Simona Arnatsiaq in Ottawa on June 11, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Nipivut Nunatinnii, Our Voice at Home, the online community radio at http://bit.ly/KnHEVl. (PHOTO BY CLARE KINES)

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