Benjamin Alivaktuk, a beach volleyball player with Team Nunavut, serves the ball during training in Dartmouth, N.S., Aug. 3. Coach Rob Tomyn says training in the Maritimes has prepared the athletes for Newfoundland’s summer heat. (Photo courtesy of Rob Tomyn)
Saturday’s opening ceremony, competitions can be watched live online
Team Nunavut athletes are in Newfoundland to compete at the Canada Summer Games — and their first opponent will be a tag team of summer heat and wildfire smoke. The Games’ opening ceremony is scheduled to begin Saturday at 5:30 p.m.
Judo Nunavut members Meeka MacDonald, 12, top, and Charlotte Fewer, 13, compete in the Judo Nunavut year-end tournament, held Saturday in the Aqsarniit Ilinniarvik School gymnasium in Iqaluit. More than 80 competitors in three age categories participated in the event, making it the biggest tournament turnout in the organization’s 21-year history. Registration for the next season will take place in September, said coach Matilda Pinksen. (Photo by Daron Letts)
After the Easter Bunny hopped out of Rankin Inlet on Monday morning, kids jumped on the ice for some “speedy pond hockey fun,” resident Jim MacDonald said. He credits fellow residents Gavin Gee and Jocelyn Merritt for organizing the hockey games. (Photo courtesy of Jim MacDonald)