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elder Qappik Attagutsiak, who is 99, during a community feast on Thursday, Aug. 1. (Photo by Jim Bell)
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The National Film Board of Canada announced this week it is producing a documentary on
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Cambridge Bay elders Bessie Pihuak Omilgoetok, left, and Mary Akariuk Kaotalok, who are both in their 80s, celebrate the return of the sun by following the same tradition that Omilgoetok learned from her grandparents, on Wednesday.
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A full moon shines over Pond Inlet,
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Niore Iqalukjuak captured this magical image of Jack Willie and his daughter Christy, who were taking their own photos, in Victor Bay, which Iqalukjuak said is over the hill from Arctic Bay, on Saturday, Nov. 24. (PHOTO BY NIORE IQALUKJUAK)
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That's how we play hockey in Nunavut... on the ocean. Pangnirtung, waning light, Jan. 17.
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New Iqaluit-produced children’s show offers
#Inuit
entertainment, education: "It's like a Sesame Street, but in
#Inuktitut
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“If you think about it, the set on The National has never had sealskin, moosehide or caribou tufting on it, and this week it’s seen all three," says Juanita Taylor
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Noel Kaludjak of Rankin Inlet built this iglu on Feb. 12, while helping to teach inmates how to find good snow and build the structure. “The Rankin Inlet Healing Facility does this every year,” he writes. (Photo courtesy of Noel Kaludjak)
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Students in Pond Inlet show off sealskin wind pants they made in a local sewing class. The sewing program is held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the community hall. Clockwise from top left: Deanna Panipakoocho, Agnowyak Kilukishak, Rebecca Killiktee and Celina Satuqsi.
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Isabelle Dubois took this photo of the autumn landscape near Kuujjuaq while out berry-picking on Sept. 15.
#Nunavik
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Meet the all-Inuit, all-female team of guest curators for the inaugural exhibitions at the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Inuit Art Centre, slated to open in 2020. From left: Jade Nasogaluak Carpenter, Krista Ulujuk Zawadski, Asinnajaq, and Heather Igloliorte. (PHOTO COURTESY OF WAG)
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Muskox made by Cambridge Bay
#Nunavut
youth from recycled scrap metal w/help from visiting artists Kerry & Amanda Illerbrun PHOTO/D. LEBLEU
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Qikiqtani Inuit Association launches project to support Inuit dog team owners: Three-year pilot project will offer team owners $3,000 a year
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Green light means Larga Baffin can proceed with plan for six-storey, 220-room boarding house for medical travellers from Nunavut in Ottawa
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A "fog bow" sometimes called a white rainbow in Cambridge Bay
#Nunavut
- appears when light hits moisture in the air PHOTO/D. ANDERSON
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Cambridge Bay,
#Nunavut
, saw its first same-sex marriage on Wednesday, when Jason Koblogina, 27, and Kyle Mercer, 20, exchanged vows in the Luke Novoligak Community Centre. (PHOTO COURTESY OF AOPAK ANGLULALIK)
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Here’s one of our most popular photos of 2019, based on how many views and likes it received on the Nunatsiaq News Facebook page: Mosesee and Meekai Duval had a surprise visitor during a day trip outside Pangnirtung. (Photo by Mosesee Duval)
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Niore Iqalukjuak & Jaaki Vuili explore the asungasungaat, or hoodoos, at Akiani, past Sauniqsiutiit Issuani in Arctic Bay. "We walked into this in sometimes waist-deep snow for maybe close to half a mile along with gear on our backs," Iqalukjuak said. (PHOTO BY NIORE IQALUKJUAK)
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Midnight sun alights on a mountain outside Clyde River
#Nunavut
. Things you see when you're hunting narwhal PHOTO/R. KAUTUK
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BREAKING |
@JustinTrudeau
,
@j_akeeagok
to sign ‘largest land transfer in Canada’s history’
Devolution agreement to take effect in 2027
#Nunavut
#Iqaluit
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While waiting for seals to surface during a hunt near Bylot Island on the weekend, Pond Inlet’s Avery Arreak snapped this photo of the scenery.
#Nunavut
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Today is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. “Please recognize and honour them,” writes Nathalia Okalik of Iqaluit,
#Nunavut
, who posted this image of herself with a red amauti.
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Iqaluit teen spends weekends gathering bikes from dump to fix for local kids
‘The kids’ smiles after they get a new bike, that’s my favourite part,’ says Joseph Takpannie
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Musician teaches Inuktitut over TikTok to 22,000 followers
Arctic Bay-raised Becky Han just released The Bee, a children’s book based on one of her songs
#Nunavut
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#Iqaluit
-born student completes master’s thesis on ringed seal health: “There were quite a few hunters who were really keen on finding out the results”
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Arctic Bay elder Qapik Attagutsiak, who turns 101 on June 11, is one of 12 Indigenous Canadians nominated for an Indspire lifetime achievement award this year.
#Nunavut
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Polar bear cubs wrestle as their mother rests by the airstrip of the Arviat airport on Thursday, Oct. 29. (Photo by Gordy Kidlapik)
#Nunavut
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#Inuit
Art Quarterly hires its first Inuk editor: Taqralik Partridge brought aboard as editor-at-large
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Canada’s first
#Inuit
heart surgeon, Donna May Kimmaliardjuk, received the “One to Watch” award from Queen’s University on Saturday, April 6. The award is given to recent Queen's graduates who are making significant contributions in their fields. (Photo via
@DKimmaliardjuk
)
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David Kakuktinniq spotted these muskox—or umingmak in Inuktitut—between Rankin Inlet and Baker Lake,
#Nunavut
, on April 28. “These beasts are awesome,” he wrote. (Photo by David Kakuktinniq)
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The feast celebrated the completion of the
#Inuit
impact and benefit agreement for the Tallurutiup Imanga national marine conservation area and the start of a process aimed at creating the 320,000-square-kilometre Tuvajuittuq marine protected area off northern
#EllesmereIsland
.
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Rebecca Veevee, host of the popular cooking show Niqitsiat, prepares fish at Sylvia Grinnell park in Iqaluit. The final season of the Inuit Broadcasting Corp. series is about to kick off, starting Monday, Jan. 8 at 10 p.m. EST on APTN.
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Drum dancer David Nanook celebrates the return of the sun at Netsilik School in Taloyoak on Thursday, Jan. 31. (Photo by Jonathan Nuss)
#Nunavut
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Canada Goose’s new collection called Project Atigi features the work of 14 Inuit seamstresses, who made unique designs that reflect their families’ heritage. Read more next week at . (Photo courtesy of Canada Goose)
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Air Inuit pilot Melissa Haney became the first Inuk woman to be captain on the
#Nunavik
airline’s Boeing 737-200 this month. Here, Haney is piloting a Sept. 1 commercial flight from Montreal to Puvirnituq. (Photo by Jean-Pierre Bonin)
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We honour
#Arctic
winter's magical return to Pangnirtung on our Facebook page w/a stunning shot from
@NorthPhoto
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Our third most popular photo of 2017, based on views, likes and shares on our Facebook page: Titled "Moonlight Night Scene," this photo by Pudloo Pitsiulak of Kimmirut won NTI's contest for best photo of 2016. NTI revealed the winner in Jan. 2017. (PHOTO BY PUDLOO PITSIULAK)
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Today, Canada Post is set to release a new stamp and postcard featuring this stunning image by the talented Arctic Bay photographer Clare Kines. (IMAGE COURTESY OF CLARE KINES)
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River McCluskey, 9, from Iqaluit, is one of 25 young Canadian chefs chosen as winners at the Kid Food Nation gala. The event was held at the Fairmount Chateau Laurier in Ottawa last weekend. River won the prize for a recipe for baked Arctic char with citrus relish.
#Nunavut
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#Nunavut
remembers: These four men, among the first Canadian Rangers in Pond Inlet, stand at the community’s Remembrance Day ceremony. (PHOTO BY
@wordlybeth
)
#RemembranceDay2018
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Celebrity
#sealhunt
tweet ignites another Twitter war: “I am not optimistic that
@TheEllenShow
will ever be brave enough to speak with us,” says
@Alethea_Aggiuq
#Inuit
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She shoots, she scores in Nunavut: Sanikiluaq girls hit the ice
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Coronation news | Read the back story behind the garment
@GGCanada
Mary Simon wore to King Charles' coronation, paying tribute to her Inuit culture.
#Nunavik
#Nunavut
#Inuit
#CoronationDay
@RoyalFamily
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Jon Ningark caught this sundog early April 28 outside of
#Kugaaruk
, where spring has arrived: the sun is now rising by 3 a.m. and setting past 9 p.m. in the
#Kitikmeot
community. (Photo by J. Ningark)
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Arctic Bay photographer
@NunavutBirder
took this photo during the waning light of the evening of Sept. 15 around 7 p.m. It shows Adams Sound, with snow atop a mountain known as Tununirusiq. In the foreground are the seed heads of Arctic dryad, or malikkaat.
#Nunavut
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Arviat’s six-year-old Brody Panigoniak is seen after hunting his first seal on Tuesday evening. After catching the animal, a bright smile spread across his face, said his mother, Hilda Panigoniak. “My son was so happy.”
(Photo courtesy of Hilda Panigoniak)
#Nunavut
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Naomi Koneak, a kindergarten teacher at Kuujjuaq’s Pitakallak elementary school, is seen with her class during pajama day on Friday, Oct. 16. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
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Young
#Inuit
artist wins first prize in Indigenous Arts and Stories contest
“I just wanted to capture the feeling I get when I watch the drum dancers in my life move”
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Our 2nd-most popular photo of 2017, based on views, likes and shares on our Facebook page, by Iqaluit plane-watcher Miali Buscemi: On Feb. 4, a huge Antonov 124 jet, carrying a $24-million replacement engine for a SWISS Boeing 777, lands at
#Iqaluit
. (PHOTO BY MIALI BUSCEMI)
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The sun sets on sea ice remnants near Qikiqtarjuaq on Aug. 1 around 9:45 p.m. in this photo taken by Maggie Kuniliusie. “We were ... a little bit sad ... as ... the sun disappeared behind those mountains,” she writes. “This signifies 24 hour sunlight is over.” (Maggie Kuniliusie)
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The northern lights glow above one of the old Hudson Bay Company buildings in Apex, just outside Iqaluit, on March 14, 2019.
#Nunavut
(Photo by Bill Williams)
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Michelle Sabourin-Curley shared this photo of her granddaughter, one-year-old Odelia Curley, enjoying her
#berrypicking
in
#RankinInlet
on Sept. 9. (Photo courtesy of M. Sabourin-Curley)
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We found grizzly, black and polar bears together for the first time: "This particular story of the three bears isn’t over" via
@ConversationCA
@yukondoug
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A Grade 9 student from Baker Lake whom the Government of Nunavut identifies as Haley H. drew this picture, which won the grand prize for the Nunavut Liquor and Cannabis Commission’s 2020 Let’s Be Aware calendar challenge. (Screen capture)
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A dogsled team heads out onto Adams Sound near Arctic Bay on Feb. 20, as the sun peeks over the mountain known as Tununirusiq. (Photo by Clare Kines)
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In Grise Fiord,
#Nunavut
,
#Canada
's most northerly community, residents wear jerseys April 12 to honour the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team and the 16 members who died in an April 6 bus crash (PHOTO BY K. WATSKO)
#JerseysforHumboldt
#Nunavut
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“That’s no sunset!” writes Rankin Inlet photographer David Kakuktinniq. “That’s the moon over the horizon. Along with the beautiful northern lights/ᐊᒃᓴᕐᖕᓂᖅ outside of Rankin Inlet,
#Nunavut
.” (Photo by David Kakuktinniq)
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The northern lights glow above a hockey player on a frozen Stewart Lake by Kuujjuaq on Nov. 11. (Photo by Maxence Chavanne)
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Canada has a new Inuk senator: Inuvialuk Margaret Dawn Anderson appointed to the Senate on Dec. 12
#Inuit
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You can learn
#Inuktitut
in downtown
#Montreal
: The 12-week course with Georges Filotas starts Sept. 16
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Olympic gold medalist & CWHL forward
@natspooner5
poses with a wee fan in Iqaluit Apr 26 during charity visit PHOTO/
@FrankReardon1
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Iqaluit’s sky turns bright orange as the sun sets on Monday, Nov. 30, at 1:30 p.m., as seen from the dining room of Letia Obed. The ship in the bay is the fuel tanker Kitikmeot W. (Photo by Letia Obed)
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Last week’s full moon was photographed in all its splendour by Clare Kines in Arctic Bay,
#Nunavut
. (Photo by
@NunavutBirder
)
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Here's our fifth most popular photo of 2017, based on views, likes and shares on our Facebook page. Cousins Erica Taipana of Cambridge Bay, aged 22 months, and Ophelia Bolt of Kugluktuk, aged 20 months, model new winter parkas. (PHOTO COURTESY OF JAMIE TAIPANA)
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#Arctic
solidarity: At the mosque in
#Iqaluit
,
#Nunavut
, notes, flowers left Friday: "The Muslims living in Iqaluit have been showered with message of love and support by this community," says post shared by
#Muslim
community member on social media.
#NewZealandMosqueAttack
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Jaanimmarik student and photographer Sarah Kudluk captures the bright and busy northern lights shining over Nunavik’s Pingualuit park last week. Read more about Jaanimmarik’s young photographers at . (Photo by S. Kudluk)
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Known in Kivalliq as qavvik, wolverines, the largest member of weasel family, have been known to take down caribou PHOTO/
@putulik_m
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Have a good evening! Alice Kokiapik of Kuujjuaraapik
#Nunavik
catches the sunset over Hudson Bay May 9 as a hunter returns home.
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Natan Obed has been re-elected as president of
#Inuit
Tapiriit Kanatami, as decided by the organization's voting delegates at its annual general meeting in Inuvik today. Read more later at . (PHOTO COURTESY OF
@ITK_CanadaInuit
)
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If you are homeless in or around Nuuk, Greenland, you can now live in these heated weather havens, put up by the Sermersooq municipality to aid social distancing and combat the spread of COVID-19.
#Arctic
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The sun rises behind frost-coated Arctic grass near Rankin Inlet on Oct. 19 around 8:30 a.m. (Photo by Noel Kaludjak)
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Daisy Etungat woke Saturday morning to a young visitor outside her door in Cape Dorset. No one was injured by the polar bear; a wildlife officer eventually chased the animal out of town. PHOTO/ D. ETUNGAT
#Nunavut
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Our most popular photo of 2017, based on views, likes and shares on our Facebook page: Iqalungmiut gather near the
#Iqaluit
mosque Jan. 30, 2017, following the shooting Jan. 29 at a mosque in Sainte-Foy, Que. that killed six people and injured another 19. (PHOTO BY THOMAS ROHNER)
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Josephee Adams, 70, is
#Nunavut
’s first recipient of a COVID-19 vaccine. Adams, a resident of the Iqaluit Elders’ Centre, received the vaccine today from public health nurse Susie Pearce. (Image courtesy of the Government of Nunavut)
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@sermitsiaqag
. In Uummannaq,
#Greenland
, people head up to mountains after
#tsunami
,
#earthquake
warning June 19. (PHOTO BY I. HEGELUND/
@sermitsiaqag
)
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