Photo:Ottawa coughs up more money for Nutrition North

Mark Strahl, parliamentary secretary to the federal minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, visited Iqaluit Nov. 21 to announce that Ottawa is putting an extra $11.3 million into the Nutrition North air freight subsidy budget for 2014-15. He is pictured here with Elizabeth Cayen, one of the Nunavut members of the Nutrition North Canada advisory board. The funding boost is conspicuously timed — the Auditor General of Canada is scheduled to release his long-awaited comprehensive audit of the Nutrition North program Nov. 25, four days from now. See story on Nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO BY PETER VARGA)