Photo: Labour group uses baggage allowance to donate food

Iqaluit’s Niqinik Nuatsivik food bank board president Stephen Wallick, left, with board member Stephanie Bernard, accept a 600-lb food bank donation from Alex Lambrecht, president of the Northern Territories Federation of Labour June 5. Each year, the federation’s executive board members meet in either Yellowknife or Iqaluit and those coming to the Iqaluit meeting this year decided to bring food donations as part of the checked luggage since all they needed was carry-on bags. “The NTFL is hopeful that other people and organizations will be inspired to do something similar to help address and spread the awareness of food insecurity in Canada’s Arctic regions,” said Lambrecht, in a June 5 news release.
(PHOTO BY CHRIS PARSONS)