Qikiqtani Inuit Association and Qikiqtaaluk Corp., are taking the lead on building a long-awaited deepsea port in Qikiqtarjuaq, shown in this file photo. (File photo by Cedric Yves Denis)
Paul Irngaut, vice-president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., speaks at the Nunavut Trade Show in Iqaluit on Tuesday morning. His talk was billed as a fireside chat about Nunavut’s role in Canada’s economic future. “If you don’t have healthy communities, you can’t really have clear sovereignty and security in the North,” he said. (Photo by Daron Letts)
A sealift worker drives a pickup truck off a sealift barge in Kuujjuaq on Tuesday afternoon. Like other remote northern communities, Kuujjuaq relies on the summer sealift for the shipment of large goods such as vehicles, construction materials and various other products. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)