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Updated: Power outage in stormy Nunavut community sends many to emergency shelters

Qulliq Energy Corp. restores power to all customers in Sanirajak

Updated on Oct. 8 at 9:34 a.m. Qulliq Energy Corp. has now restored power to all customers A power outage, which started early on Tuesday, Oct. 6, in Sanirajak has now been resolved. The Qulliq Energy Corp. said early on Thursday morning, Oct.

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Collecting kimminait

Malaya Qaunirq Chapman took this photo while picking berries on Sept. 27 in Quurngualuk, a hunting camp about an hour from Kuujjuaq. The berries are known as lingonberries, partridgeberries, mountain cranberries, or in Inuktitut, kimminait. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

Crowberry jackpot

Isabelle Dubois of Kuujjuaq took this photo while berry-picking on Sept. 15. “They are crowberries, or what we like to call just black berries,” she writes. “They’re really easy to pick, especially with the homemade tool I was using, which is like a comb.” (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Changing colours outside Kuujjuaq

Isabelle Dubois took this photo of the autumn landscape near Kuujjuaq while out berry-picking on Sept. 15. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Beautiful day for berry picking

Isabelle Dubois took this photo of her two huskies while out berry picking on Sept. 15. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Hello, snow

“Kuujjuamiut woke up to snow this morning!” writes Malaya Qaunirq Chapman today. “Before lunchtime, Annie Sequaluk’s excited Kindergarten class made a snowman to welcome the snow that seems to be staying for the rest of the year.” (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

Starry night

David Kakuktinniq of Rankin Inlet took this photo of the night sky on Sept. 18. “It was a dark night in #Nunavut, check out the Milky Way! With a hint of northern lights,” he writes.

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Northern lights put on a show over Iqaluit

Blaine Heffernan captured this image of the northern lights above Iqaluit on Monday, Sept. 21. “It was a clear, crisp night to enjoy the magic of the Aurora!” (Photo by Blaine Heffernan)

Autumn outside Kuujjuaq

Malaya Qaunirq Chapman took this photo outside Kuujjuaq on Sunday, Sept. 20. “In the distance is Etua Snowball’s beautiful log cabin, surrounded by the beautiful changing season,” she writes. “Fall is here, and the colours are so pleasing to the eyes, in every direction you look. The air is deliciously crisp and refreshing. Change of season is here, and we are eager for winter to come. Now, we prep for winter!” (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

Fall’s in the air

Autumn has arrived in Kuujjuaq, as evident in this photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman taken on Sunday, Sept. 20. “September in Kuujjuaq is a beautiful time,” she writes. “The trees and bushes are changing colour as far as the eye can see. The familiar September crisp air in here, and people are prepping for winter.” (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

Koojesse Inlet buffeted by strong winds

The Government of Nunavut is creating a youth advisory committee on climate change for Nunavummiut between the ages of 18 and 29 years. (Photo by Dustin Patar)

Shelter from the storm

Tower Arctic marine equipment sits at Iqaluit’s municipal breakwater on Monday night in preparation for a storm that is expected to blow in tomorrow. The storm, which should pass through Kinngait and Kimmirut tonight, is predicted to bring heavy rain, heavy snow and very strong winds. According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, stormy conditions will last in some form until the weekend. Once those conditions have subsided, Tower Arctic will remove the heavy equipment. (Photo by Dustin Patar)

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Ring around the sun

“At 4:40 this afternoon, on the way back from a walk to the end of Lake Geraldine, I caught this photo of my daughter with the fall tundra colours and a 22 degree halo around the sun,” writes Mosha Folger of Iqaluit on Wednesday, Sept. 16. (Photo by Mosha Folger)

Northern lights along the Road to Nowhere

Maria Fellen Atienza of Iqaluit shared this photo of her family watching the northern lights on Sept. 6. along the Road to Nowhere. She says the light to the right is the planet Mars, next to a waning gibbous moon. (Photo courtesy of Maria Fellen Atienza)

Bountiful blueberries outside Kuujjuaq

Lucy Abraham of Kuujjuaq picked these blueberries on Sept. 3. “I went for an ATV ride with the dog, and I brought a container just in case I decided to pick. What a good move! The blueberries are huge and bountiful this year in Kuujjuaq, QC. I picked the berries near Stewart Lake,” she writes. (Photo by Lucy Abraham)