Photo: Iqaluit council votes on committee heads

Iqaluit city councillor Joanasie Akumalik waves across the chamber to councillor Jason Rochon, after beating him five to one in a run-off vote, when the two men were both nominated to serve as a member on the city’s economic development committee for 2018. “I felt as if I was doing an auction,” Mayor Madeleine Redfern said, after calling out the annual appointments of chair, vice chair and member positions on city committees, during the first council meeting of the year, Jan. 9. (PHOTO BY BETH BROWN)