Jasmine Doig, left, Indigenous graduation coach at Ottawa Technical Secondary School and Ginnifer Menominee, the Indigenous languages co-ordinator for the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, stand in the smudging room of the secondary school where the first-ever Inuktitut course in Ontario was launched Feb. 3. (Photo by Nehaa Bimal)
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board launched program on Feb. 3
Sam Aipellee sits in an Ottawa Technical Secondary School classroom, watching as language specialist Nina Kuppaq carefully lights a soapstone qulliq after filling it with olive oil and cotton.
Children at Aakuluk Daycare in Iqaluit peer outside as they wait for their rides home at the end of the day. This month, the non-profit daycare is selling products from the Dieleman fundraising catalogue to raise money to cover daily operational costs. (Photo courtesy of Leslie Evaloakjuk)
Approximately 500 Iqaluit high school and middle school students join in the annual Terry Fox Run on Friday in honour of the Canadian cancer activist who died in 1981. Since his death, the Marathon of Hope that Fox started as a trek across the country has raised millions of dollars for cancer care and research. Iqaluit students ran from Aqsarniit Middle School to Inuksuk High School, making a four-kilometre loop around the city. The fastest runner reached the finish line in just above 15 minutes. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)