Headlines for Nunavut News - April 22

ᖃᒡᒋᐊᕘᑦ ᓂᕆᐅᒃᐳᑦ ᑐᓂᓯᓂᕐᒥ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᒥ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒧᑦ ᐃᓚᖃᖅᑐᒥ ᓴᙱᔪᓂ ᐃᓄᖕᓄᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᖃᕐᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ ᑎᑭᑉᐳᖅ ᓴᙱᒃᑎᒋᐊᖅᓯᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᒥᒃ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐅᓗᕆᐊᓇᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᒥᒃᖠᕚᓪᓕᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ

Funding boosts Qaggiq dream Feds give $500,000 to take Nunavut's performing arts to global audience

Volume 73 Issue 50

MONDAY, April 22, 2019

Revived science fair sends youth to nationals

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The amazing story of the five-minute polar bear hunt

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150,000 reasons to smile in Pond Inlet

Showdown stars

Cambridge Bay's youth square dancers head home after being crowned youth and overall champions at the Showdown in Gjoa Haven.

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– Guest columnist Paul Pryce on taking full advantage of Nunavut's offshore fisheries, page 9.

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amazing on-the-land stories

ᑲᔾᔮᕐᓇᖅᑐᓂᒃ ᓄᓇᒥ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᑦ: ᑯᕆᔅᑏᑦ ᐆᔪᑯᓗᒃ ᐃᒃᐱᐊᕐᔪᒃ.

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ᑲᔾᔮᕐᓇᖅᑐᓂᒃ ᓄᓇᒥ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᑦ

amazing on-the-land stories: Kristine Oyukuluk Arctic Bay.

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amazing on-the-land stories

ᑲᔾᔮᕐᓇᖅᑐᓂᒃ ᓄᓇᒥ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᑦ

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ᖁᕐᓗᖅᑐᖅ ᐊᑕᐅᓯᖅ ᓇᑦᑎᖅ ᐱᙳᐊᕐᓂᕐᓄᑦ ᐊᖏᓛᖑᔪᒥ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᓱᐃᔨᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᑕᐃᑲᓃᓚᐅᙱᑉᐳᖅ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒍᑎᖃᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐅᐱᕐᙶᒥ ᐱᙳᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐱᓇᓱᐊᕈᓯᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ, ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᐳᐃᒍᖅᑕᐅᓚᐅᙱᓚᖅ. ᓘᓯ ᐋᓐ ᒪᓂᔪᔩᓇ ᐃᓅᔪᓐᓃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐊᐃᑉᕆᓕ 14-ᒥ ᓵᓚᖃᕋᓱᒃᑲᓐᓂᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᑳᓐᓱᒧᑦ. ᐃᓱᓕᓚᐅᖅᓯᒪᙱᑦᑐᒥ ᐅᐸᒃᓯᒪᐃᓐᓇᖅᐸᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐅᐱᕐᙶᒥ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒍᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒃᑎᑦᑎᕙᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑲᑎᙵᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᓕᒫᒥ. "ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᖏᓐᓇᖅᐸᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᖃᓄᐃᑦᑐᑐᐃᓐᓇᓄᑦ ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓂ ᖃᓄᐃᓐᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ. ᑎᔅᓯᓈᕆᔨᐅᒐᓚᒃᖢᓂ, ᐃᙱᖅᑎ ᐊᒻᒪ ᒧᒥᖅᑎ ᑲᑎᙵᐅᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᐊᑕᐅᓯᕐᒧᑦ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐲᑕ ᑕᐃᐸᓇ, ᒪᓂᔪᔩᓇᐅᑉ ᐊᐃᖓ. ᑐᕌᕆᓇᓱᐊᖏᓐᓇᖅᐸᓚᐅᖅᑕᖓ ᖃᖓᓕᒫᖅ ᐃᓄᖕᓂ ᐃᒡᓚᖅᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᒡᓚᖅᑎᑦᑎᕐᔪᐊᖅᓯᒪᕗᖅ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᒐᓴᓄᑦ." ᐃᖅᑲᐅᒪᔭᐅᓂᖓᓄᑦ ᒪᓂᔪᔩᓇᒧᑦ, ᕼᐋᒻᓚᒃᑯᑦ ᖁᕐᓗᖅᑑᒥ ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᑲᓕᑕᐅᔪᒥ ᑐᕌᖓᓂᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᒻᒥᓄᑦ, ᐱᐅᓴᖅᑕᐅᓯᒪᓪᓗᓂ ᐊᑎᖓᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᒥᓱᓂ ᐊᔾᔨᙳᐊᓂ ᒪᓂᔪᔩᓇᒥᒃ. "ᓘᓯ ᑭᓱᓕᒫᖑᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐱᙳᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᓂᑦ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. "ᒥᓯᔅ ᖁᕐᓗᖅᑑᓚᐅᖅᓯᒪᕗᖅ ... ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓄᓇᓯᐅᑎᖓ, ᐃᓚᐅᑎᖃᑦᑕᓚᐅᖅᐸᖓ ᐱᙳᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐱᐅᓴᕈᓘᔭᖅᐸᒃᖢᓂᐅᒃ. ᓄᓇᓯᐅᑎᖓ ᑕᑯᔭᐅᕙᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑭᒃᑯᓕᒫᓄᑦ." ᓂᐱᖃᙱᓚᐅᑲᖕᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᒪᓂᔪᔩᓇᒥ ᐃᖅᑲᐅᒪᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᔭᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐱᙳᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᒪᑐᐃᖅᐸᓪᓕᐊᓂᖓᓂ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒍᑕᐅᔪᓂ.

Please see Nattiq, page 10

ᓄᑖᒥᒃ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕕᖕᒥ ᑎᑭᑉᐸᓪᓕᐊᕗᖅ

ᑭᙵᐃᑦ ᓇᑉᐸᖅᑎᕆᒃᑲᓐᓂᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᓂᐊᖅᐳᖅ ᑭᙵᓂ ᐅᑭᐊᒃᓵᖑᓂᐊᖅᑐᒧᑦ ᓄᑖᒥᒃ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕕᖕᒥ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑯᕕᖅᑕᒐᕐᓄᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᕝᕕᐅᔪᒥ ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓄᐊᖅᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᐳᑦ. ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᒐᕙᒪᒃᑯᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᕙᓪᓕᐊᕗᑦ ᕿᓂᕐᓂᕐᒥ ᑳᓐᑐᕌᒃᑎᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ 19,300-ᑭᑉᐹᕆᒃᑐᒥ-ᐃᓯᒐᓪᓗᐊᓂ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕕᒃᓴᒧᑦ, ᓇᑉᐸᖅᑎᖅᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᒥ ᐃᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐲᑕ ᐱᑦᓯᐅᓛᖅ ᖁᑦᑎᒃᑐᒥ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᕕᓂᐅᔪᒥ. ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᒃ ᓄᖑᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᑭᑦᑐᒧᑦ 2015-ᒥ. ᓇᑉᐸᖅᑎᕆᓂᖅ ᓂᕆᐅᒋᔭᐅᕗᖅ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᓄᑦ ᒪᕐᕉᖕᓅᓂᐊᕐᓂᖓᓂ.

Please see New health centre, page 10

ᕿᒥᕐᕈᓇᖕᓂᖅ ᓄᓇᒥᙶᖅᑐᓂ ᐆᒻᒪᖅᑯᑎᖃᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓂᕈᐊᒐᒃᓴᐅᔪᓂ

ᐃᖃᓗᒃᑑᑦᑎᐊᖅ ᐃᖃᓗᒃᑑᑦᑎᐊᕐᒥ ᐱᕙᓪᓕᐊᔪᓕᕆᔨᖓ ᐋᓐᔨᓚ ᒎᕐᐳᕌᓐᑦ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᓂᐊᖅᐳᖅ 10-ᖑᔪᓂ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᔪᓂ ᑳᑦᓯᐱᐅ, ᐊᓛᔅᑲᓕᐊᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᐊᐃᑉᕆᓕ 23-ᒥ ᒪᐃ 4-ᒧᑦ ᐃᓕᑦᑎᒃᑲᓐᓂᕆᐊᖅᑐᕐᓗᑎᒃ ᓄᓇᒥᙶᖅᑐᓂ ᐆᒻᒪᖅᑯᑎᖃᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓂᕈᐊᒐᒃᓴᐅᔪᓄᑦ. "ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᓕᒫᒥ, ᖃᐅᔨᒪᕗᒍᑦ ᑎᑭᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒥ ᐅᖅᓱᐊᓗᖕᒥ ᐊᑭᑐᔪᒻᒪᕆᐊᓘᓂᖓᓂ, ᐃᓚᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᖃᓄᐃᑦᑐᑐᐃᓐᓇᕐᓂ ᐊᑦᑕᕐᓇᖅᑐᓂ ᐊᑲᐅᙱᓕᐅᕈᑕᐅᔪᓂᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓯᑲᐅᒧᑦ ᐅᐸᒃᑕᐅᙱᒃᑯᕕᑦ, ᐊᑲᐅᙱᓕᐅᕈᑎᖃᕐᓂᐊᖅᐳᑎᑦ. ᐃᓱᓕᓱᐃᑦᑐᒥ ᐊᑲᐅᙱᓕᐅᕈᑕᐅᕗᖅ," ᒎᐳᕌᓐᑦ ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᖅᑕᐅᒋᐊᒃᑲᓐᓂᖁᔨᓂᖅ ᓄᓇᒥᙶᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᐆᒻᒪᖅᑯᑎᓄᑦ ᓇᑭᙶᕐᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐊᓯᐊᒎᖅᑑᓂᐊᕐᓗᓂ. ᐊᓄᕆᒧᑦ ᐆᒻᒪᖅᑯᑎᖃᕐᓂ, ᐆᒪᔪᐃᑦ ᓄᓇᒥᓗ ᐱᕈᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᐊᑐᖅᑕᐅᓲᓂ ᐅᖅᓱᐊᓗᒋᔭᐅᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᐊᒻᒪ ᓯᕿᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐆᒻᒪᖅᑯᑎᓂᑦ, ᐱᓕᕆᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᕋᖅᓯᒪᔪᓄᑦ ᓂᒡᓚᓱᒃᑐᒥ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᑐᒥ ᓯᓚᐅᔪᓄᑦ, ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᐳᑦ.

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ᖁᕐᓗᖅᑐᖅ

ᐅᓇ ᐊᖑᑦ ᐱᒃᑲᐅᓛᖑᖅᑰᖅᑐᖅ ᐊᖑᓇᓱᒃᑎᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᐆᒪᔪᓂᑦ! ᐱᓕ ᒥᒃᐅᐃᓕᐊᒻ ᐊᐅᓪᓛᖅᐸᓪᓕᐊᓕᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᕼᐊᓐᓇᓚᖏᓐᓂ ᒪᐃᔪᔅᓂ ᖁᕐᓗᖅᑐᖅ ᐅᖓᑖᓄᑦ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐹᖓᓂ ᓇᓐᓄᒐᓱᖕᓂᐊᕐᓂᖓᓄᑦ, ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᓯᓚ ᐊᓯᐊᓂᒃ ᐸᕐᓇᐅᑎᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ!

5 ᒥᓂᑦᓂ ᐅᖓᓯᒃᑎᒋᔪᒥ ᐃᒡᓗᑦᑎᓐᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐹᖅᓯᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐆᒥᖓ ᐱᐅᔪᒻᒪᕆᐊᓗᖕᒥ ᐆᒪᔪᒥᑦ, ᐃᒻᒥᓄᑦ ᐃᓱᒪᓪᓗᓂ 'ᐊᔾᔮ, ᐊᖏᔪᐊᓘᓪᓗᓂ ᖃᐅᓪᓗᖅᑕᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᕿᒻᒥᐅᕗᖅ ... ᐊᐃᑦᑖ, ᐊᒪᕈᖃᐃ? ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐅᒃᐱᕈᓱᓚᐅᙱᓚᖅ ᑕᑯᔭᒥᓂᑦ. ᓇᓐᓄᓚᐅᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ ᐅᑎᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑐᐹᖅᖢᓂᖓ ᐅᖃᖅᖢᓂᓗ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐹᒥ ᓇᓐᓄᖕᓂᖓᓂ, ᐃᒡᓚᓚᐅᖅᐳᖓ ᐃᓱᒪᓪᓗᖓ 'ᐅᐊᑲᓪᓚᖔ, 5 ᒥᓂᑦᑐᐃᓐᓇᓂᑦ ᐊᐅᓪᓛᖅᓯᒪᓚᐅᑲᒃᑲᕖᑦ, ᓇᓐᓄᒃᐱᑦ.' ᓴᒡᓗᓇᓱᒋᓚᐅᖅᐸᕋ – ᓴᒡᓗᓚᐅᙱᑦᑐᖅ. ᐅᓇ ᐊᔾᔨᓕᐅᖅᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᖁᕐᓗᖅᑐᖅ ᓯᓚᑎᑦᑎᐊᖓᓂ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑎᐅᔪᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᓂᑦ ᑎᓱᕋᕐᕕᒋᓲᖓᓐᓂ ᓱᕈᓯᕐᒥᓂᑦ. ᐅᐱᓐᓇᖅᐳᑎᑦ ᐱᓖ! ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐹᖕᓂ ᓇᓐᓄᒃᑕᕐᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐱᓕᕆᖃᑕᐅᓂᕐᓂ ᐃᑲᔪᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓂ ᐊᑦᑕᓇᙱᓐᓂᖓᓂ, ᓇᓗᓇᖅᐳᖅ ᓇᓄᖅ ᓇᒧᙵᐅᓇᔭᓚᐅᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᑕᑯᖅᑳᓚᐅᙱᒃᑯᕕᐅᒃ.

Jenny Klengenberg Kugluktuk

This guy has got to be the luckiest hunter alive!

Billy McWilliam was just heading out to start his journey hundreds of miles away from Kugluktuk to try and catch his first polar bear, but Mother Nature had other plans in mind!

He was five minutes away from our house and he runs into this beautiful creature, thinking to himself 'Oh wow that's a big white dog ... oh no, maybe a wolf?' He said that he couldn't believe his eyes.

After he got the bear he came back home to wake me up saying he got his first polar bear, I laughed thinking 'Wow, in all of the five minutes that you were away, you got yourself a bear.' I thought he was joking – he wasn't.

This photo was taken just outside of Kugluktuk where residents spend days sliding with their children.

Congratulations Billy! On your first polar bear and for doing your part to help keep the community safe, who knows where that bear would've made its way to if you hadn't seen it first.

Share your amazing story Do you have an amazing story from your adventures on the land? Tell us your story and show us your photos for a chance to win $100. Each week, we will pick one story

from those submitted to editor@nunavutnews.com, or by mail to Nunavut News, PO Box 28, Iqaluit, NU, X0A 0H0. Entries will be placed on our Facebook page. The story

and photo with the most combined likes and shares at the end of the week wins.

This week's winner is Rose Kolola.

Congratulations!

ᓵᓚᒃᓴᖅᑐᖅ: ᕉᔅ ᑯᓗᓛ

ᑭᒻᒥᕈᑦ

ᐅᓇ ᐊᔾᔨᓕᐅᖅᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᐊᐃᑉᕆᓕ 4-ᒥ. ᓯᑯᖓ ᒪᕐᕉᖕᓂ ᓇᑉᐸᓪᓗᐊᖓᓂᓗ ᐃᓯᒐᓪᓗᐊᖑᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. ᑭᒻᒥᕈᑦ ᓯᓚᑖᓂ ᑕᐃᔭᐅᔪᒥ 'ᐃᖃᓗᖕᓂ ᐃᖃᓪᓕᐊᖅᕕᒃ.

WINNER: Rose Kolola Kimmirut

This photo was taken April 4. Ice was about two-and-a-half feet. Outside Kimmirut at the lake called 'Iqaluit Iqalliaqvik'.

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Cambridge Bay youths crowned ᐃᖃᓗᒃᑑᑦᑎᐊᖅ ᐊᒡᕼᐊᓕᐊᒃ ᒧᒥᖅᑏᑦ ᒧᒥᖅᐳᑦ ᐃᓄᒋᐊᓄᑦ ᒧᒥᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓵᓚᖃᕋᓱᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᒥ.

photo courtesy of Helen Okhina Blewett

The Ikaluktutiak Aghaliak Square Dancers perform for the crowd at the Square Dance Showdown in Gjoa Haven.

The 10th square dance competition saw crowds and big wins

by Elaine Anselmi

Northern News Services

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Eight youth from Cambridge Bay were crowned winners of this month's Square Dance Showdown in Gjoa Haven. Arriving on April 11, they started dancing at 7 p.m. and picked up again every day until April 14.

"They were so excited, so impressed with themselves," said their instructor Helen Okhina Blewett. "They were so excited that some couldn't sleep."

And that's even after three days of dancing.

Okhina Blewett has been leading the group for a few years, but they hadn't danced in competitions until last year, when the showdown was hosted in their community. They came in third.

"We've been practicing tirelessly and the kids did great," she said.

"They never complained, they just came to practices and they laughed so much."

All of the work paid off at the competition in Gjoa Haven, with the group taking home $10,000.

Youth, adults and children competed for the most points in their division and overall points deter-

mined the first, second and thirdplace winners of the showdown.

This year saw 14 groups compete for the top square-dancing spot, as well as a shot at the title of best jigger.

An adult group from Gjoa Haven took home second, with a $5,000 prize and third place was a children's group also from the host community, earning $3,000, confirmed organizer Elizabeth Anavilok.

"It was lots of fun over the weekend," Anavilok said. "Everybody enjoyed the Square Dance Showdown because everybody had different moves, so it was

really good to watch."

The community was very supportive of the event, billeting the teams from out of town and filling the gym every night to cheer on the dancers, said Okhina Blewett.

"The community hall where they were having the showdown was packed every night," she said. "The crowd was very supportive and the Gjoa Band was excellent."

As well as 10 teams from Gjoa Haven, teams came in from Baker Lake, Kugaaruk, Taloyoak and, of course, Cambridge Bay. While it wasn't the biggest turnout in the Showdown's history

– some years have had 22 teams compete – Anavilok said it was a success.

And the winners out of Cambridge Bay now have a good start on their fundraising for next year's competition, said Okhina Blewett.

"I'm very proud of the Ikaluktutiak Aghaliak Square Dancers," she said. "They worked so hard, they worked tirelessly and they all got along well with each other.

"They never complained, we just had so much fun, we helped one another we encouraged one another.

"They danced like no one was watching."

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Three projects headed to nationals Students and chaperones need $10,000 to head south after first Qikiqtaaluk science fair in 18 years

by Michele LeTourneau Northern News Services

Iqaluit

Thanks to a movement to resurrect science fairs in the region, three Inuksuk High School students will represent the Qikiqtaaluk at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in May, providing they can raise $10,000.

The national fair takes place in Fredericton, N.B. May 15 to 17.

Teacher Steve Penney brought science fairs back to Inuksuk High School four years ago and, with the help of others on the newly-minted Qikiqtaalummi Science Fair Association, launched the regional fair.

Clyde River's Wayne Robinson and Rohan Hollingsworth, Iqaluit's Tara Vandeveer and Rick Armstrong are also members of the association.

"In excess of 35 projects were judged for our first science fair in over a decade," stated Robinson on the regional fair's Facebook page.

"The kids were really up for it.

It was so amazing passing by their classrooms while they prepared for the event."

Penney said Clyde River and Iqaluit were the only participants in the regional virtual fair.

"We had six projects, three from Iqaluit and three from Clyde River," said Penney. "We're hoping to increase that number exponentially.

But this was our first year. This was the first time the regional fair has happened since 2002."

Judges were provided by Let's Talk Science, a science organization that does science outreach to youth across Canada. Penney used this service in the Kivalliq region when he was involved in science fairs there.

The three Iqaluit projects won the three top spots: Alysha Lippert took first place with Is There a Correlation Between Iqaluit's Meteorological History and National CO2 Emissions, Penelope Armstrong took second with What's in Your Water?, and Lena Chown and teammate Rosalie DeMaio took third with Iqaluit's Water.

Clyde River's Nikita Hainnu took the Ted Rogers Innovation Award with her project Solar Cell Phone Charger.

Each Canadian region can only send three participants based on its Grade 7 to 12 school population.

"I conducted a seven-day experiment where I tested all the water I drank during that week. I tested for four elements – pH, alkalinity, chlorine and hardness," said Armstrong.

"I did this because I understand that safe water is the key to a safe community. I wanted to see if my water met government standards and if levels depended on infrastructure and location."

Armstrong found all water does meet government standards.

"I went to the pool, I went to my house, my friend's house, different

places in the school. Overall, our water did fluctuate, it did change, but it was quite constant," she said.

"So that means our water treatment plant is doing a very good job."

Chown and DeMaio, meanwhile, wanted to find out about the hardness levels of Iqaluit water, carbon dioxide levels, as well as alkalinity and acidity. They drew water from Frobisher Bay, pumped water from home, trucked water and the school fountain.

"We found that the hardness levels were really high on trucked water and the school fountain. Some of the tests didn't work for certain waters and I believe that could be due to different chemicals within the water that interacted, causing it to be inconclusive," said Chown.

Hardness, explained Chown, relates to the calcium and magnesium levels in water.

"If it's really hard water and you heat it up, it can really clog your pipes and appliances ... and lower their efficiency and they won't last as long," said Chown, also a Grade 9 student.

Jean-Francois Latour, who will be one of two adults to accompany the students to the national fair, explained Lippert's project, which examined how CO2 emissions in Canada affected the weather in Nunavut.

"In her case it was a study and she collected the data from many,

ᐸᖅᑭᔨᐅᔪᖅ ᔭᓐ-ᕗᕌᓐᓱᐊ ᓚᑑᐅᕐ, ᓴᐅᒥᖕᒥ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᖕᒥ ᑲᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ-ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᓵᓚᒃᓴᖅᑏᑦ ᓖᓇ ᓴᐅᓐ, ᕉᓴᓕ ᑎᒪᐃᔪ. ᐊᓖᓴ ᓕᐳᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐱᓇᓗᐱ ᐋᒻᔅᑐᕌᖕ ᖁᕕᐊᑉᐳᑦ ᖃᓄᐃᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ – ᐱᓕᕆᐊᕆᔭᖏᑦ ᑭᒡᒐᖅᑐᐃᓂᐊᖅᐳᑦ ᐊᕕᒃᑐᖅᓯᒪᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᑲᓇᑕᓕᒫᒥ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᒪᐃᒥ.

photo courtesy of Steve Penney

Chaperone Jean-Francois Latour, left, and Qikiqtaaluk science-fair winners Lena Chown, Rosalie DeMaio, Alysha Lippert and Penelope Armstrong are excited at the prospect their projects will represent the region at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in May. many years and compared them and came to the conclusion that there is an effect," he said.

Water was the theme this year for the Canada-Wide Science Fair.

That Iqaluit is experiencing water

issues is a coincidence.

To raise funds, a GoFundMe page was started. Currently, of the $10,000 goal, $1,100 has been raised. Penney said he will be soliciting funds in the coming weeks.

ᐱᖓᓱᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᔪᓂ ᑐᕌᖅᐸᓪᓕᐊᕗᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᓕᒫᒥ ᓵᓚᖃᕋᓱᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑏᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐸᖅᑭᔨᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ ᐱᔭᕆᐊᖃᖅᐳᑦ $10,000-ᓂ ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑦ ᓄᓇᖓᓐᓄᙵᐅᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐹᖑᔪᒥ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᓂ 18-ᓂ ᖁᔭᓐᓇᒦᒃ ᐃᖏᕐᕋᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ ᓴᖅᑭᑎᑦᑎᒃᑲᓐᓂᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᐊᕕᒃᑐᖅᓯᒪᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ, ᐱᖓᓱᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᓱᖕᒥ ᖁᑦᑎᒃᑐᒥ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᖓᓂ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑏᑦ ᑭᒡᒐᖅᑐᐃᓂᐊᖅᐳᑦ ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᖕᒥ ᑲᓇᑕᓕᒫᒥ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᒪᐃᒥ, ᐱᕈᖅᑎᑦᑎᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᐊᕈᑎᒃ $10,000-ᓂ. ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᖅ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᓂᐊᖅᐳᖅ ᕗᕋᑐᕆᒃᑎᓐ, ᓂᐅ ᐳᕋᓐᔅᐅᐃᒃᒥ ᒪᐃ 15-ᒥ 17-ᒧᑦ. ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨ ᓯᑏᕝ ᐸᓂ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᐅᑎᖅᑎᑦᑎᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ ᖁᑦᑎᒃᑐᒧᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᖕᒧᑦ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᑦ ᑎᓴᒪᐅᓕᖅᑐᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ, ᐊᓯᖏᓐᓂ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑕᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᓄᑖᖑᔪᒥ-ᓴᓇᔭᐅᓯᒪᔪᒥ ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᖕᒥ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᑲᑐᔾᔨᖃᑎᒡᒋᖑᔪᓄᑦ, ᐱᒋᐊᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᐊᕕᒃᑐᖅᓯᒪᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᓂᐅᔪᒥ. ᑲᖏᖅᖢᒑᐱᖕᒥᐅᑕᖅ ᐅᐊᐃᓐ ᕌᐱᓐᓯᓐ ᐊᒻᒪ ᕈᕼᐋᓐ ᕼᐋᓕᖕᔅᕗᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᖃᓗᖕᓂ ᑖᕋ ᕚᓐᑎᕕᐅᕐ ᐊᒻᒪ ᕆᒃ ᐋᒻᔅᑐᕌᖕ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᒋᕗᑦ ᑲᑐᔾᔨᖃᑎᒌᖑᔪᒥ.

"35-ᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᔪᓂ ᐅᖓᑖᓂ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᖅᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐹᖑᔪᒥ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᑦ ᖁᓕᓂᑦ ᐅᖓᑖᓂ. ᓄᑕᖅᑲᐃᑦ ᐱᔪᒪᑦᑎᐊᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ. ᑲᒪᓇᑦᑎᐊᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᖄᖏᖅᓯᓪᓗᓂ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᐊᕈᓯᕐᓂ ᐸᕐᓇᒃᐸᓪᓕᐊᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᕐᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᕌᐱᓐᓯᓐ ᐊᕕᒃᑐᖅᓯᒪᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ ᕙᐃᔅᐳᒃᑯᑦ ᒪᒃᐱᖅᑐᒐᖓᓐᓂ.

"6-ᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖅᑕᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ, ᐱᖓᓱᑦ ᐃᖃᓗᖕᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐱᖓᓱᑦ ᑲᖏᖅᖢᒑᐱᖕᒥ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐸᓂ. "ᓂᕆᐅᒃᐳᒍᑦ ᐅᓄᖅᓯᒋᐊᓛᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᐅᓄᕐᓂᐅᔪᓂᑦ ᓱᒃᑲᓂᖅᓴᐅᔪᒥ. ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐸᕆᓪᓗᑎᒍᑦ ᐊᕐᕌᒎᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐹᖑᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐊᕕᒃᑐᖅᓯᒪᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᖅ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᓂᖓᓂ ᑕᐃᒪᙵᓂ 2002-ᒥ." ᖃᐅᔨᓴᖅᑎᐅᔪᓂ ᑐᓂᔭᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᐅᖃᓪᓚᓚᐅᖅᑕ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᕐᒥ, ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑲᑐᔾᔨᖃᑎᒌᖑᔪᓄᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᓴᒃᓯᒪᓂᖃᓲᓂᑦ ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᓄᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᓕᒫᒥ. ᐸᓂ ᐊᑐᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐆᒥᖓ ᐱᔨᑦᑎᕋᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᑭᕙᓪᓕᕐᒥ ᐊᕕᒃᑐᖅᓯᒪᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᖃᑦᑕᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᑕᐅᕙᓂ.

ᐱᖓᓱᓂ ᐃᖃᓗᖕᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᔪᑦ ᓵᓚᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᐱᖓᓱᓂ ᖁᑦᑎᓛᖑᔪᓂ ᐃᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ: ᐊᓖᓴ ᓕᐳᑦ ᐱᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐸᐅᔪᒥ ᐃᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᖃᖅᐸ ᐅᑯᓇᓂ ᐃᖃᓗᖕᓂ ᓯᓚᒥᒃ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᕐᒥᒃ ᖃᓄᐃᑉᐸᓚᐅᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ CO2 ᐊᓂᐊᕙᓪᓕᐊᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ, ᐱᓇᓗᐱ ᐋᒻᔅᑐᕌᖕ ᒪᕐᕈᒋᔭᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑭᓱᖃᖅᐸ ᐃᒪᐃᑦ?, ᐊᒻᒪ ᓖᓇ ᓴᐅᓐ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐱᓕᕆᖃᑎᖓ ᕉᓴᓕ ᑎᒪᐃᔪ ᐱᖓᔪᒋᔭᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ ᐃᒪᖓᓐᓂ. ᑲᖏᖅᖢᒑᐱᖕᒥᐅᑕᖅ ᓂᑮᑕ ᕼᐊᐃᓐᓅ ᐱᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑎᐊᑦ ᕌᔾᔪᕐᔅ ᓄᑖᓂᒃ ᓴᖅᑭᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᓯᔾᔨᕈᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᓵᓚᖃᐅᓯᐊᒥᒃ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᕆᔭᖓᓄᑦ ᓯᕿᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐅᖃᓘᑎᕋᓛᒧᑦ ᓄᒃᑭᒃᓴᐅᑎᖓᓄᑦ. ᐊᑐᓂ ᑲᓇᑕᒥᐅᑕᕐᒥ ᐊᕕᒃᑐᖅᓯᒪᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᓇᒃᓯᐅᔾᔨᑐᐃᓐᓇᕈᓐᓇᖅᐳᑦ ᐱᖓᓱᓂ ᐃᓚᐅᔪᒃᓴᐅᑕᐅᔪᓂ ᑐᙵᕕᖃᖅᑐᓂ ᖁᑦᑎᖕᓂᓕᖕᓄᑦ 7-ᒥ 12-ᒧᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᖏᑕ ᐃᓄᒋᐊᖕᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ. "ᐱᓕᕆᓚᐅᖅᐳᖓ ᐅᓪᓗᓂ-7-ᓂ ᐆᒃᑐᕋᐃᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᐃᓪᓗᖓ ᐃᒥᖅᑕᓕᒫᓐᓂᑦ ᐱᓇᓱᐊᕈᓯᐅᔪᒥ. ᖃᐅᔨᓴᓚᐅᖅᐳᖓ ᑎᓴᒪᓂ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᔪᓄᑦ – ᐆᑕᕐᓇᖅᑐᓂᒃ ᐆᒃᑐᕋᐅᑎᒥᒃ, ᓄᖑᓴᐃᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᖓᓂ, ᐃᒥᑦᑎᐊᕙᙳᖅᑎᑦᑎᔾᔪᑎᒥᒃ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑎᓯᓂᖓᓂ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐋᒻᔅᑐᕌᖕ. "ᐱᓕᕆᓚᐅᖅᐸᕋ ᑐᑭᓯᐅᒪᒐᒪ ᐊᑦᑕᓇᙱᑦᑐᒥ ᐃᒪᕐᒥ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᑦᑕᓇᙱᑦᑐᒧᑦ ᓄᓇᓕᐅᔪᒧᑦ. ᑕᑯᔪᒪᓚᐅᖅᐳᖓ ᐃᒪᕋ ᑭᐅᒪᓂᖓᓂ ᒐᕙᒪᒃᑯᓐᓄᑦ ᐊᑐᒐᒃᓴᓂ ᐋᖅᑭᒃᑕᐅᓯᒪᓂᖏᓐᓂ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᑭᒡᓕᐅᔪᑦ ᒪᓕᒃᑐᓂ ᓄᓇᓖᑦ ᐊᑐᖅᐸᒃᑕᖏᑦ ᐊᐅᓚᔪᓐᓇᖁᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓂᖓᓂ." ᐋᒻᔅᑐᕌᖕ ᓇᓂᓯᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᒪᓕᒫᑦ ᑭᐅᒪᓂᖏᓐᓂ ᒐᕙᒪᒃᑯᓐᓄᑦ ᐊᑐᒐᒃᓴᓂ ᐋᖅᑭᒃᑕᐅᓯᒪᓂᖏᓐᓂ. "ᐳᐃᔾᔪᕋᕐᕕᓕᐊᓚᐅᖅᐳᖓ, ᐃᒡᓗᓐᓄᐊᓚᐅᖅᐳᖓ, ᐱᖃᓐᓇᕆᔭᒪ ᐃᒡᓗᖓᓄᑦ, ᐊᔾᔨᒌᙱᑦᑐᓄᑦ ᐃᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᖕᒥ. ᑕᒪᐃᑎᒍᑦ, ᐃᒪᖅᐳᑦ ᐊᓯᔾᔨᕐᓂᖃᓚᐅᙱᓚᑦ, ᐊᓯᔾᔨᕐᓂᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ, ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᑕᐃᒪᐃᖏᓐᓇᒐᓚᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. "ᑕᒪᓐᓇ ᑐᑭᖃᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᒪᕐᒧᑦ ᓴᓗᒻᒪᖅᓴᐃᕝᕕᕗᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᑦᑎᐊᖅᑐᒻᒪᕆᐅᕗᖅ." ᓴᐅᓐ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑎᒪᐃᔪ, ᖃᐅᔨᔪᒪᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᑎᓯᓂᖓᓂ ᑭᒡᓕᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐃᖃᓗᖕᓂ ᐃᒪᖓᓐᓂ, ᐳᔪᕐᓗᒃ ᑭᒡᓕᐅᔪᓂ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗᑦᑕᐅᖅ

ᓄᖑᓴᐃᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐆᑕᕐᓇᕐᓂᖓᓗ. ᐃᒥᖅᑕᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ Frobisher ᐃᒪᖓᓐᓂ, ᐃᒥᖅᑕᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᐃᒪᕐᒥ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒥ, ᐃᒥᖅᑕᐅᒻᒥ ᐃᒪᕐᒥ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᐅᑉ ᐃᒥᕐᕕᖏᓐᓂ. "ᓇᓂᓯᓚᐅᖅᐳᒍᑦ ᑎᓯᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᑭᒡᓕᐅᔪᑦ ᖁᑦᑎᕐᔪᐊᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᐃᒥᖅᑕᐅᒻᒧᑦ ᐃᒪᖓᓐᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᐅᑉ ᐃᒥᕐᕕᖏᓐᓂᑦ. ᐃᓚᖏᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᐅᔪᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᔪᓐᓇᓚᐅᙱᓚᑦ ᐃᓚᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᐃᒪᐅᔪᓄᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᐅᒃᐱᕈᓱᒃᐳᖓ ᐱᔾᔪᑎᖃᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᐊᔾᔨᒌᙱᑦᑐᓄᑦ ᐃᓚᐅᕈᑎᒃᓴᓄᑦ ᐃᒪᐅᑉ ᐃᓗᐊᓃᑦᑐᓄᑦ ᑲᑎᖃᑎᒋᓚᐅᖅᑕᖏᓐᓂ, ᐱᑎᑦᑎᔪᒥᒃ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᓯᓯᒪᙱᑦᑐᒥ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᓴᐅᓐ. ᑎᓯᓂᖓ, ᐅᓂᒃᑳᖅᐳᖅ ᓴᐅᓐ, ᐱᔾᔪᑎᖃᖅᐳᖅ ᑎᒥᐅᑉ ᓴᐅᓂᓕᐅᕈᑎᖓᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ magnesium ᑭᒡᓕᐅᔪᓂ ᐃᒪᕐᒥ. "ᑎᓯᕐᔪᐊᕈᓂ ᐃᒪᐅᓗᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐆᓇᖅᓯᑎᒃᑯᕕᐅᒃ, ᓱᓪᓗᑯᑖᖕᓂ ᓯᒥᒃᓯᕐᔪᐊᕈᓐᓇᖅᐳᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᒡᓗᒥᐅᑕᓄᑦ...ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᑦᑎᒃᓯᒋᐊᖅᑎᑦᑎᓗᓂ ᐊᑑᑎᖃᑦᑎᐊᕐᓂᖏᓐᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᕿᓚᒻᒥᐅᓂᖅᓴᒥ ᓱᕋᖕᓂᐊᖅᐳᑦ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᓴᐅᓐ, ᖁᑦᑎᖕᓂᓕᖕᒥ 9-ᒥ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᐅᔪᖅ. ᔭᓐ-ᕗᕌᓐᓱᐊ ᓚᑑᐅᕐ, ᐊᑕᐅᓯᐅᓗᓂ ᒪᕐᕉᖕᓂ ᐃᓐᓇᐅᖃᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᒪᓕᖕᓂᐊᖅᑐᓂ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᓂᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒧᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᒥ, ᐅᓂᒃᑳᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᓕᐳᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖓᓂ, ᕿᒥᕐᕈᓇᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ ᖃᓄᖅ CO2 ᐊᓂᐊᕙᓪᓕᐊᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᐊᒃᑐᐃᕙᖕᓂᖓᓂ ᓯᓚᒥᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ. "ᐱᓕᕆᓂᖓᓂ, ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᑲᑎᖅᓱᐃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑎᑎᕋᖅᓯᒪᔪᓂ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᖅᑕᐅᓂᑯᓂ ᐊᒥᓱᓂ, ᐊᒥᓱᓄᑦ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕈᑎᒋᓪᓗᓂᒋᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓱᓕᑦᑎᓂᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᐊᒃᑐᐃᓂᖃᕐᓂᖓᓂ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. ᐃᒪᖅ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑕᒪᑐᒪᓂ ᐊᕐᕌᒎᔪᒥ ᑲᓇᑕᓕᒫᒧᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᒥ. ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ ᐊᑐᕐᓂᖃᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᐃᒪᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᑲᐅᙱᓕᐅᕈᑕᐅᔪᓂᑦ ᓈᒻᒪᖅᑯᑎᓯᒪᑐᐃᓐᓇᖅᐳᖅ. ᑮᓇᐅᔭᓕᐅᕋᓱᐊᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ, GoFundMe ᒪᒃᐱᖅᑐᒐᕐᒥ ᐱᒋᐊᖅᑕᐅᔪᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. ᒫᓐᓇᐅᔪᒥ, $10,000,-ᒧᑦ $1,100 -ᓂ ᐱᕈᖅᓴᐃᓯᒪᕗᑦ. ᐸᓂ ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᓂ ᑐᒃᓯᕋᖃᑦᑕᕐᓂᐊᖅᐳᖅ ᑎᑭᑉᐸᓪᓕᐊᔪᓄᑦ ᐱᓇᓱᐊᕈᓯᐅᔪᓂᑦ.

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UBLUKKUT IKALUKTUTIAMIN. INUIN NAAMMAINNAKTUT. UPINGALIKTUK HILA. ALIANAKHIYUK AUDLARIAMI. APITAKTUK NUNAKPUT ILLA. MAUJARAALUK PIHURIAMI. NUTAKKAT NAAMMAINAKTUTLU. HULILUGAKPAKTUT. UNAGUIKHIKTUT TADJA. UDJIKNAHUAT TAPKUAT NUTAKKAT ILIHAKTUT APRIL 24MI. ILANGIT AUDLAKPAKTUT ILAUVAKHUTIK KATIMAYUNLU ULAPKIVAKTUTLU MUUKPAKTUTLU PULAAKHUTIKLU UNGNA HIKTUMUTLU . QUANA ILLA TAPKUAT IKAJUKPAKTAIT INUUHUKTUT. KABLUNAAT TIKIHIMAVAKTUT UMINGMAKHIUKTUT. NIKI TUNIJAUJUT INUNGNUT. QUANAQPIAQ. IPAKHANI INUIN NUNAVUNMIT TIKIHIIMAJUT HUUQULAAQTUNIKLU. QUNGIAKRIAMI ALIANAK. NAAMMAKLUHI QUANA PULAAKHIMAJUT IKALUKTUTIAMUT. NAUJAMIRUQ PINAHUAT 2020MI. NIPILIUKTUT QUNGNIALIUKTUT KABLUNAT YALUNAIMIT UUTAKKIRALINNIAKKURUT. NAAMMAKLUHI. HAPI EESAKKAFFI. Happy Easter from Cambridge Bay on Victoria Island, one of world's largest islands. Spring has arrived in our land of snow and ice. It seems a little earlier than other years. Warmer temperatures and more daylight with lots of sunshine gives us much opportunity to spend more time outdoors. Kids are already tanned, we say brown!

This time of year, cabin owners begin heading to their campgrounds to shovel out all that snow to get ready to start camping and being out-on-the-land. This year we have had so much more snow than other years. Makes our land look so beautiful in white.

Students and staff are all out on their spring break and return from their holidays on April 24. Our youth have been so busy traveling to different events such as sporting events, congratulations to Eekeeluak Avalak on your silver medal for

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The Inuinnait stig collection on display at the Kitikmeot Heritage Museum in Cambridge Bay. Hand sewn by the late Mary Akhayok Avalak, the late Mary Nateet Kilaodluk, Annie Panak Atighioyak and Mabel Pongok Etegik. wrestling and to the Ikaluktutiak Aghaliak dancers, who went to Gjoa Haven Square Dance Showdown and won first place in the youth category. Congratulations to Helen Blewett and her group. A high school student trip overseas, hope they are all having fun. Our youth are on the move and living a healthy lifestyle, which is so positive and nice to see.

Well, our arena and staff have been constantly happy and busy now that it is open after being shut down for a number of months due to mould. There was a few games of senior hockey and our local hockey fans and their families are happy to be at the arena again yelling and screaming and cheering on their teams. It was a short hockey season this year, minor hockey players did not get a chance yet to play a game, so see you next season. Public skate and rentals have been busy with our beautiful kids with their parents and friends. Quana to the

Cambridge Bay Tea Talk with Navalik Tologanak email: helent@qiniq.com

hamlet staff and renovation contractors for ensuring that the arena get fixed so it is much healthier for all to enjoy.

It was a real pleasure to meet all our drum dancers from across Nunavut who participated in the 2019 Drum Dance Festival. Watching and listening to Pihiit in your beautiful outfits in the styles our ancestors wore. Each evening Cambridge Bay was entertained by songs and drum dance from the festival participants. It was a beautiful week for culture and tradition, which will live on for generations to generations and years on and on. Quana so much to Haogak for all your hard work and commitment to this tradition which is so important to teach our youth. Quana for the memories.

God be with you son.

Your son is going camping and hunting this Easter weekend.

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Qaggiavuut one step closer to dream Along with strong Inuit employment comes strengthening of culture and risk reduction

by Michele LeTourneau Northern News Services

Iqaluit

With $500,000 from the federal government, Qaggiavuut is one step closer to fulfilling the dream of a performing arts centre in Nunavut.

"One of the arguments we have is that this would be very good for our economy, that there is a cultural tourism potential with the Qaggiq Hub. This is one way we can prove that there's a market for Inuit performing arts," said executive director Ellen Hamilton, about what Qaggiavuut is doing with the money.

The federal funding came by way of the Creative Export Canada Program and the Qaggiavuut Nunavut Performing Arts Centre is one of 20 projects receiving a total of $7.8 million.

The funding was specifically for work related to preparing two shows – the muchlauded Kiviuq Returns and Arctic Song – for the world stage, including international marketing, promotion and showcasing.

Arctic Song is Qaggiavuut's latest creation, born of a summer 2018 pissiit course, which also led to a digital application.

"The funding allowed us to hire approximately 42 Inuit artists, arts managers and technical artists to train as tour managers, actors, stage managers, video projectionists, photographers, musicians, singers, drum dancers and arts facilitators," said Hamilton.

"It included training in Iqaluit and in Montreal at the National Theatre School of Canada and showcases to international festivals, theatres and showcases. It has also allowed us to develop video promotional materials."

Qaggiavuut sparks international interest Most recently, Qaggiavuut pitched Arctic Song in Montreal to international music festivals at the International Folk Alliance in mid-February. That yielded performances in Finland in June, Norway in July, France in August, Shanghai, China in September, as well as Indigenous music festivals in Canada.

Qaggiavuut performer and project manager Christine Tootoo and Vinnie Karetak will travel to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August to pitch Kiviuq Returns to theatres and theatre festivals from around the world.

"It's the largest showcase for theatre in the world and everyone looking for unique and interesting theatre is going to be there," said Hamilton.

Tootoo is excited.

"But I'm a little bit nervous," said the young performer.

"I'll just have to rehearse."

ᐋᒍᔅᑎ 2018-ᒥ, ᐃᓄᑐᖃᐃᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑕᐅᕙᒃᑐᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᔨᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᓕᒫᒥ ᑲᑎᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᐱᓯᕐᓄᑦ (ᑕᐃᔅᓱᒪᓂᑐᖃᖅ ᐃᙱᐅᓯᐅᔪᓄᑦ) ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐊᑐᐃᓐᓇᐅᑎᑕᐅᔪᓂ ᖃᒡᒋᐊᕘᒻᒧᑦ. ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᖅ ᑐᕌᕐᓂᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐱᕙᓪᓕᐊᑎᑕᐅᓂᖓᓂ ᓄᑖᖑᔪᒥ ᓴᖅᑭᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥ ᐱᓯᕐᓂᑦ, ᐳᓚᕋᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᓕᒫᒧᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᖃᕋᓴᐅᔭᑎᒍᑦ ᐊᑐᓕᖅᑎᑕᐅᓂᖓᓄᑦ. ᑐᓄᐊᓂ, ᓴᐅᒥᖕᒥ: ᓛᓴᓘᓯ ᖃᑦᑕᓕᒃ, ᓲᓴᓐ ᐊᒡᓘᒃᑲᖅ, ᓵᑦ ᕼᐊᔪᕼᐅᒃ, ᕉᑕ ᐅᖔᓛᖅ, ᑎᐊᕆ ᑯᓱᒐᖅ, ᓵᓕᑦ ᖃᒪᓂᖅ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐸᓂᖓ, ᐊᐃᑉᕋᕼᐋᒻ ᐄᑕᒃ, ᑯᐊᕆ ᐸᓂᑲ, ᐅᕕᓂᒃ ᖃᒪᓂᖅ, ᓯᕚᓐ ᐊᕐᓇᑦᓯᐊᖅ ᒨᕕ, ᓵᓕ ᐸᓂᐸᒃ, ᐄᕙ ᓱᓗᒃ, ᕼᐃᓗ ᑕᒍᕐᓈ, ᐋᔪ ᐲᑕ, ᐃᓕᓴᐱ ᐊᕕᙵᖅ, ᐅᓖᐱᑲ ᐊᓇᕕᐊᐱᒃ ᓲᓯ ᐊᒻᒪ ᒫᕐᓕ ᑕᓐᑯᕐᔅ. ᕿᑎᐊᓂ, ᓴᐅᒥᖕᒥ: ᐋᓂ ᐃᐱᖅ, ᕇᑯ ᒪᓃᑦᑐᖅ, ᑎᕇᓴ ᓯᑯᐊᖅ, ᐱᕐᓇᑎ ᐅᑕᒃ, ᒥᐅᕆᐊᒻ ᐊᒡᓘᒃᑲᖅ, ᓯᑐᓂ ᓂᕐᓗᖓᔪᖅ, ᕗᕌᓐᓯᔅ ᖃᐳᑦ, ᓇᑖᖅ ᐅᖔᓛᖅ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᒧᕉᑦ ᒪᒃᑖᓄᑦ. ᓯᕗᓂᐊᓂ, ᓴᐅᒥᖕᒥ: ᔫᓂᔅ ᐋᕆᐊᖅ, ᐊᓕᐊᓇᐃᑦ ᓂᕕᐊᑦᓴᖅ, ᐊᓕᑲ ᖁᒪᖔᐱᒃ ᐊᒻᒪ ᓄᑲᖓ, ᐋᓇᐱᓚ ᐱᐅᒑᑦᑐᒃ, ᓰᓇ ᐊᑯᒪᓕᒃ, ᑑᒪ ᓚᐃᓴ, ᑯᕆᔅᑏᓐ ᑑᑑ ᐊᒻᒪ ᒧᕇ ᐱᓘ.

In August 2018, elders and performance artists from all over Nunavut gathered for a pisiit (ancient songs) course offered

by Qaggiavuut. That course led to the development of the new production Arctic Song, will which tour the world and a digital application. Back row, from left: Lazarus Qattalik, Susan Aglukark, Chad Hayohok, Rhoda Ungalaq, Terrie Kusugak, Charlotte Qamaniq and daughter, Abraham Eetak, Corey Panika, Uvinik Qamaniq, Siobhan Arnatsiaq Murphy, Charlie Panipak, Eva Suluk, Hilu Tagoona, Aajua Peter, Elisapee Avingaq, Rebecca Anaviapik Soucie and Marley Dunkers. Middle row, from left: Annie Ipirq, Rico Manitok, Theresa Sikuark, Bernadette Uttaq, Miriam Aglukaaq, Sidone Nirlungayuk, Francis Qaput, Natar Ungalaq and Emerald MacDonald.

Front row, from left: Eunice Arreak, Alianait Niviatsaq, Alika Komangapik and sister, Annabella Piugatuk, Sheena Akoomalik, Tooma Laisa, Christine Tootoo and Marie Belleau. photo courtesy of Thibaut Larquey

Meanwhile, project manager and artist Kathleen Merritt is currently co-ordinating all things Arctic Song.

"We're proving there is a market and if we had a space here, people would come here," said Hamilton.

The Qaggiq Hub is planned to include teaching spaces, activities for children, a sewing space for seamstresses and spaces for hunters and artists to sell their products – an all-inclusive traditional and professional hub.

"There would be events, activities, festivals, theatre runs going on all the time," she said.

Benefits across the territory Qaggiavuut continues to tour Nunavut communities, creating workshops for young Inuit interested in the performing arts. The workshops are linked to its shows.

Project manager, performer and theatre technician Rico Manitok offers an example of why developing the performing arts in the territory may be just as important as mining, which has lately been linked to higher graduation rates. Youth who had dropped out of school, went back to school.

"They saw that we were coming and they wanted to be a part of the workshop," Manitok said, adding they had to be in school to participate.

"There's one that sticks out.

"When we were in one community, I had one youth come up to me and say, 'When my friend committed suicide a month or two before ...' He wasn't going to school. When he found out we were going to

that community, he wanted to be a part of it.

"He seemed a bit rough, but when we started doing the workshops, he just brightened up. He was telling the younger kids, 'Look, these people are here to teach you. Listen.' And he kept going to school."

Manitok has also come across youth who want to learn what he does – the technical side of performance.

"So I had them help me set up the projectors, the scrims and all that stuff."

Manitok, from Rankin Inlet, also points out his father and uncle worked at a mine.

"And I don't see myself. I'm probably the first one in my family to do what I'm doing right now. They're like, 'Why don't you just get a GN job?' I like what I'm doing. I'm paid to do it," said Manitok, who was, in fact, a GN employee for five or six years.

Hamilton said this past year, Qaggiavuut expanded its staff to six full-time employees, including five Inuit and herself, as well as 36 parttime Nunavut artists and technical artists.

Qaggiavuut hopes to begin a feasibility study in May to provide the necessary details on construction costs, design, operating, governance and funding.

"To date, through private donations, we have raised more than $200,000 – this from individual Canadians who support us. We are a charitable society and the funds are kept in a trust account until the feasibility study is underway," said Hamilton.

The design for the Qaggiq Hub was provided by Diamond Schmitt Architects, the firm responsible

for the National Arts Centre's $110.5-million upgrade and several other high-profile, as well as community, art cen-

tres internationally, as a donation.

For a preview of Arctic Song, head to Qaggiavuut's

home at Building 411 in Iqaluit the evening of Friday, April 26. Admission is by donation.

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ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᖅ ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᓅᑦᕋ-ᑕᐃᒻ ᐱᐊᕆᔅᒥ ᐃᑭᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. ᐃᒃᓯᕋᕐᔪᐊᕐᒥᐅᑕᐃᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᓯᖏᓐᓂ ᐅᒃᐱᖅᑐᐃᑦ ᐸᕐᓇᒃᐸᓪᓕᐊᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᒪᑭᕝᕕᐊᓄᑦ, ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕆᔭᐅᕗᖅ ᐅᒃᐱᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᐱᓇᓱᐊᕈᓯᕐᒥ ᑲᒪᓇᖅᑐᓕᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐃᒡᓗᕐᔪᐊᖅ ᓄᖑᓪᓚᕆᓚᐅᙱᓐᓂᖓᓂ. ᑕᕝᕙᓂ ᑎᑎᕋᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ, ᓱᔪᐃᓂᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᑭᒡᓕᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᓄᖅᑲᖅᓯᕋᐅᔭᕐᒧᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᕐᔪᐊᖅᑐᒧᑦ, ᐃᒡᓘᑉ ᖁᓕᖓᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓚᖓᓐᓂ ᐃᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᐊᑖᓂ. ᐃᒡᓗᕐᔪᐊᑉ ᓵᖓ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᖏᓛᖓ ᑕᖅᓯᖅᓱᖅᓯᒪᔪᖅ ᐃᒐᓛᖓ ᓴᐳᔾᔭᐅᔫᔮᖅᑐᑦ. ᖁᔭᓐᓇᒦᒃ ᓄᓇᓕᖅᐸᐅᔭᐅᑉ 400-ᖑᔪᓂ ᖃᑦᑎᕆᔨᐅᔪᓄᑦ, ᐃᓚᖃᖅᑐᒥ ᑕᐃᒃᑯᓄᖓ ᐋᖅᑭᒃᓱᓚᐅᖅᑐᓂ ᐃᓄᖕᓂ ᑐᑭᓕᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᓪᓗᓂ ᐱᐊᕆᔅᒥ ᖃᑦᑎᕆᔨᒃᑯᑦ ᑐᒃᓯᐊᕐᕕᖕᒥᐅᑕᐅᔪᒥ ᓴᐳᔾᔨᓇᓱᕐᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᐅᑎᖅᑎᒐᒃᓴᐅᙱᑦᑐᓂ ᐱᖁᑎᑐᖃᕐᓂᑦ, ᐃᓚᖃᖅᑐᒥ ᐅᒃᐱᕆᔭᐅᔪᒥ ᑲᐱᓐᓇᖅᑐᓕᖕᒥ ᓇᓴᕆᓚᐅᖅᑕᖓᓂ ᔩᓱᓯᐅᑉ ᓂᐊᖁᖓᓄᐊᖅᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᓯᒪᔪᒥ ᓴᓐᓂᖓᔪᒧᑦ ᑭᑭᐊᒃᑐᖅᑕᐅᑎᓪᓗᒍ. ᐃᑲᕐᕋᒐᓴᓂ, ᐱᕐᔪᐊᖑᔪᑦ ᐅᐃᕖᓂᑦ ᑲᑐᔾᔨᖃᑎᒌᖑᔪᑦ ᐊᖏᖅᓯᒪᓂᖃᓚᖅᐳᑦ ᕼᐊᓐᓇᓚᖏᓐᓂ ᒥᓕᐊᓐᓂ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᓂᒃ ᓴᓇᔭᐅᒃᑲᓐᓂᕐᓂᖓᓄᑦ ᐃᒡᓗᕐᔪᐊᒥ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᐅᓄᕐᓂᖅᓴᐅᔪᓂ $1 ᐱᓕᐊᓐᓂ ᐊᖏᕈᑕᐅᓯᒪᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᒥᒧᑦ. ᑮᓇᐅᔭᓂᒃ ᐱᕈᖅᓴᐃᓂᖅ ᐱᒋᐊᓕᑐᐃᓐᓇᖅᐳᖅ. ᐃᑭᓐᓂᐅᔪᖅ ᐃᖅᑲᐃᑎᑦᑎᔪᒃᓴᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᓚᖏᓐᓂ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᖅᑎᓂᑦ 2005-ᒥ ᐃᑭᑦᑐᒥᑦ

ᓱᔪᐃᑦᑎᐊᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ ᐃᖃᓗᖕᓂ ᓴᐃᓐᑦ ᔫᑦ ᑐᒃᓯᐊᕐᕕᖓᓂ, ᐃᒻᒥᓂᒃ ᐅᐸᒃᑕᐅᓂᐅᕙᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ ᐊᒥᓱᓄᑦ ᐳᓚᕋᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᐊᖓᔪᖅᑳᖃᕐᕕᖕᒧᑦ. ᐊᕐᕌᒍᓂ 12-ᓂ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᓂᒃ ᐱᕈᖅᓴᐃᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᐊᑭᓖᓂᕐᒧᑦ $11 ᒥᓕᐊᓐᑐᖅᑐᓂ ᓴᓇᔭᐅᒃᑲᓐᓂᕐᓂᖓᓄᑦ. ᐱᓕᐊᓂᐊᑕᖃᓚᐅᙱᓚᖅ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᔪᓂ: ᑕᒪᕐᒥᒐᓚᒃ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᑦ ᐱᔭᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᒥᑭᑦᑐᓂ ᑐᓂᓯᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ, ᐃᒻᒪᖄ ᐃᓕᖕᓂᙶᖅᑐᒥᑦᑕᐅᖅ. ᑮᓇᐅᔭᖃᕐᕖᑦ ᒪᑐᐃᓚᐅᙱᓐᓂᕐᓂ ᐃᑲᔪᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓴᓇᔭᐅᒃᑲᓐᓂᕐᓂᖓᓄᑦ ᓅᑦᕋ-ᑕᐃᒻ-ᒥ – ᓇᖕᒥᓂᕆᔭᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᕗᕌᓐᔅᒥ ᒐᕙᒪᖓᓐᓂ, ᖃᐅᔨᒪᒋᑦ – ᐃᓱᒪᒋᒍᒃ ᑭᐅᓗᖕᓂᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᑐᓂᔭᐅᔪᒥ ᐊᒥᓱᓂ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᓯᒪᔪᓄᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥᐅᑕᓂᑦ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᑎᑦ ᐊᓯᐊᒍᑦ ᐊᑐᖅᑕᐅᑦᑎᐊᒃᑲᓐᓂᕈᓐᓇᖅᐳᑦ. ᐃᓱᒪᒋᒍᒃ ᐃᒃᓯᕋᕐᔪᐊᒃᑯᑦ ᑐᒃᓯᐊᕐᕕᖓᑕ ᐊᖏᙲᓐᓇᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᒪᒥᐊᓐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᓯᒪᔪᓄᑦ ᐃᓄᖕᓄᑦ ᐅᐊᖕᓇᓕᒫᒥ ᐊᒻᒪ ᓂᒋᕐᒥ ᐊᒥᐊᓕᑲᒥ ᑎᒍᓯᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᓯᐊᓛᕆᔭᐅᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᒥᓱᒻᒪᕆᐊᓗᖕᓂ ᑐᖁᕋᐃᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᒪᓕᒐᓄᑦ ᓱᕋᐃᓂᕋᐃᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᑐᒃᓯᐊᕐᕕᖕᒧᑦ ᑕᐃᒪᙵᓂ ᐃᒃᓯᕋᕐᔪᐊᕌᐱᒃ ᓂᑯᓚᔅ V ᑐᕌᖓᑎᖦᖢᓂᐅᒃ ᒎᑎᒧᑦ ᓵᓚᖃᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ 'ᓄᑖᖑᔪᒥ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᒥ' ᐊᒻᒪ ᐋᕗᕆᑲᒥ ᓯᒡᔭᖅᐸᓯᖓᓐᓂ. ᐅᕘᓇ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᐅᑕᐅᔪᒥ ᖃᔅᓯᒐᓚᖕᓂ ᐃᒃᓯᕋᕐᔪᐊᖑᔪᓄᑦ ᑎᓕᐅᕆᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᑲᑎᙵᐅᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᑕᐃᔭᐅᔪᒥ ᐅᒃᐱᕆᔭᐅᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᓇᓂᔭᐅᓂᖏᓐᓂ – ᓱᓕ ᒫᓐᓇ ᐊᑐᕐᓂᖃᖅᑐᒥ,– ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᓯᐅᔨᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᓄᓇᖏᓐᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓅᓯᖏᓐᓂ. ᐊᒃᑐᐃᓂᐅᔪᑦ ᓱᓕ ᒫᓐᓇᒧᑦ ᐃᒃᐱᒋᔭᐅᓲᖑᕗᑦ ᑕᐃᒃᑯᓄᖓ ᐊᑐᕐᓂᖃᓚᐅᖅᑐᓂ ᐱᓂᕐᓗᕐᔪᐊᕐᓂᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ ᐊᐅᓪᓚᖅᑎᑕᐅᓪᓗᑎᒃ

ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕆᐊᓂᕐᓄᑦ. ᒫᓐᓇᒧᑦ ᑎᑭᖦᖢᒍ, ᐃᒃᓯᕋᕐᔪᐊᕌᐱᖕᒥ ᒪᒥᐊᓯᒪᔪᖃᙱᓚᖅ ᐃᒃᓯᕋᕐᔪᐊᑦ ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᓚᐅᕐᓂᖏᓐᓂ ᐆᒥᖓ ᐋᔾᔨᒌᓕᖅᑎᑦᑎᓇᓱᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᔪᒥ. ᐱᓂᕐᓗᒡᔪᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᖅ ᐆᒪᙵᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᓯᖏᓐᓂ ᐊᔾᔨᒌᓕᖅᑎᑦᑎᓇᓱᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᐊᒃᓱᕈᕐᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᐃᒃᐱᒋᔭᐅᖏᓐᓇᖅᐳᖅ ᐅᓪᓗᒥ ᐊᒥᓱᓄᑦ ᐃᓄᖕᓄᑦ, ᐱᓗᐊᖅᑐᒥ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᖃᑦᑎᐊᙱᓐᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ, ᓂᕿᒃᓴᖃᑦᑎᐊᙱᓐᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᓯᐅᔨᓂᕐᒥ ᑭᓇᐅᓂᖏᓐᓂ. ᓅᑦᕋ-ᑕᐃᒻ ᐃᑭᓐᓂᐅᔪᖅ ᐅᕙᑦᑎᓐᓂ ᐃᖅᑲᐃᑎᑦᑎᕗᖅ ᑲᑎᙵᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐃᒡᓗᕐᔪᐊᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓅᖃᑎᒌᖕᓂᐅᔪᒥ. ᐅᕙᓂ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒥ, ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᐃᒡᓗᓕᕆᔨᕐᔪᐊᒃᑯᑦ ᐊᖓᔪᖅᑳᖓ ᑎᐊᕆ ᐊᐅᓪᓚ ᐅᖃᖅᓯᒪᕗᖅ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᐱᔭᕆᐊᖃᕋᔭᕐᓂᖏᓐᓂ $1.2 ᐱᓕᐊᓐᓂ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒃᓴᓂ ᓴᓇᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᓗᓪᓕᖅᓯᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐱᔭᕆᐊᖃᕐᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᓵᙵᔭᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᓕᒫᒥ. ᑖᓐᓇ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᖅ ᖃᓂᑦᑐᒥ ᑎᑭᔾᔮᙱᓚᖅ. ᐃᓚᒋᐊᖅᓯᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐋᓐᓂᖅᓯᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ, ᐃᑭᑦᑐᓕᒫᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᐃᓱᒪᒋᔭᐅᓗᐊᖃᑦᑕᙱᓚᑦ ᓄᓇᓕᐅᑉ ᓯᓚᑖᓂ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓚᒋᐊᖅᓯᒃᑲᓐᓂᑐᐃᓐᓇᖅᐳᖅ ᑎᑎᕋᖅᓯᒪᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᑕᐃᒃᑯᓄᖓ ᐱᔭᕆᐊᖃᖅᑐᓄᑦ. ᐱᓕᐊᓐᓂ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᖃᕐᓂᕈᕕᑦ ᑐᓂᔭᒃᓴᒥ, ᑕᐃᒪᐃᒃᑲᔭᕆᕗᑎᑦ ᐅᐃᕖᓄᑦ ᐱᓕᐊᓂᐊᖑᔪᑎᑐᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᑦ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ ᖃᓂᑎᓪᓗᒍ. ᓅᑦᕋ-ᑕᐃᒻ ᐃᒡᓗᕐᔪᐊᑐᐃᓐᓇᐅᕗᖅ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᓱᐃᓂᖃᖅᐳᖅ ᑕᐃᒪᐃᑦᑐᓄᑦ ᖃᓄᐃᑦᑑᓂᖏᓐᓂ ᐃᓄᖕᓂ. ᓄᖅᑲᓚᐅᑲᒋᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓕᖕᓂ ᐊᐱᕆᓗᑎᑦ: ᑭᓇ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᓱᐃᓂᐊᖅᐸ ᓴᓂᓕᔅᓯᓐᓂ ᐱᔭᕆᐊᖃᖅᑐᓄᑦ?

If we had a billion dollars Northern News Services

As the world watched, the famed Notre-Dame de Paris burned.

As Catholics and other Christians were preparing to celebrate Easter, they're calling it a Holy Week miracle that the building escaped total destruction.

As of this writing, the damage was limited to the iconic spire, the roof and some areas below. The facade and the largest rose stained glass windows appear to have been saved.

Credit goes to the city's 400 firefighters, including those who formed a human chain led by the Paris Fire Brigade's chaplain to save priceless relics, including what is believed to be the Crown of Thorns placed on Jesus's head during the Crucifixion.

Within hours, major French corporations had committed hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild the building and more than $1 billion has been committed to date. The fundraising has only begun.

The fire probably reminded some readers of the 2005 fire that destroyed Iqaluit's St. Jude's Cathedral, itself an attraction for many visitors to the capital. It took 12 years of fundraising to pay off the

The effects continue to be felt today by those experiencing the The issue: trauma of residential schools. To Notre-Dame burns this day, no pope has apologized for We say: Catholic involvement in this assimiConsider your neighbours lation project.

The trauma of this and other assimilation efforts continues to $11 million cost of rebuilding. be felt today by many Inuit, particuThere were no billionaires in larly through homelessness, food sight: most of the money came insecurity and loss of identity. from small donors, perhaps yourself The Notre-Dame fire reminds us included. of the connection between buildBefore you open your wallet to ings and humanity. Here at home, help rebuild Notre-Dame – which is Nunavut Housing Corporation presiowned by France's government, by dent Terry Audla has stated that the the way – consider the argument territory would need $1.2 billion to presented by many Indigenous Can- build homes to fill the need faced adians that your money could be across Nunavut. That money is better spent. not coming any time soon. To add Take into account the Catholic insult to injury, every fire that hapChurch's persistent refusal to apolo- pens in Nunavut gains little attengize to Indigenous people all over tion outside of the community and North and South America for the only adds more people to the list of enslavement and genocide sancthose in need. tioned by the Church since Pope If you had a billion dollars to Nicholas V sanctified the conquest donate, you would do the same as of 'the New World' and the African the French billionaires and keep coast. Under the authority of several that money close to home. papal directives collectively called Notre-Dame is just a building and the Doctrine of Discovery – still has the support of those types of in effect, by the way – Indigenous folks. Take a moment and ask yourpeople lost their lands and their self: who's going to support your lives. neighbours in need?

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ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᔪᖅ ᐊᑦᑎᖅᓱᐃᓂᖅ: ᖃᐅᔨᒪᕕᓯᐅᒃ ᐃᓐᓇᑐᖃᖅᓯ?

MIKAN No. 4899324 ᐃᓄᒃ ᐊᖑᑎ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᕐᓇᖅ ᓄᑕᕋᓛᒥᒃ ᑎᒍᒥᐊᖅᑐᒥ ᐃᒃᓯᕚᖅᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᖓᓂ. ᓴᓪᓕᓂᑦ (ᓱᒡᓕᐊᖅ), ᓄᓇᕗᑦ. 1948. ᐃᑲᔪᕈᓐᓇᖅᐲᑦ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᑕᐅᓇᓱᒃᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᑕᒡᕙᓃᑐᑦ ᐊᔾᔨᖑᐊᕐᒦᑦᑐᑦ? ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᔪᖅ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᔪᓄᑦ ᐊᑦᑎᖅᓱᐃᓂᕐᒧᑦ, ᑕᐃᓐᓇ ᐱᖓᓱᓂᒃ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕐᓂᒃ ᐊᑐᖅᓱᓂ ᖃᕆᑕᐅᔭᒃᑯᑦ ᑕᑯᓂᐊᖅᑕᐅᕕᖓᑦ ᓴᓇᔭᐅᓯᒪᔪᖅ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ, ᖃᓪᓗᓇᑎᑐᑦ, ᐅᐃᕖᖅᑎᑐᓪᓗ ᑎᑎᕋᖅᓯᒪᓗᓂ, ᑐᕋᒐᖃᖅᐳᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᔪᑦ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᔭᐃᕐᓂᕐᒥᒃ ᐃᓄᖕᓂᒃ ᐊᔾᔨᖑᐊᕐᓃᑐᓂᒃ ᑲᑎᖅᓱᖅᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᒐᖃᕐᕕᖓᓐᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᑐᖁᖅᓯᓯᒪᕕᖓᓐᓂ ᑎᑎᖃᑐᖃᕐᓂᒃ ᐊᔾᔨᕕᓂᕐᓂᒡᓗ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ, ᐋᑐᕚᒥ. ᓄᑕᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᑎᑦᑎᔾᔪᑎᒃᓴᐃᑦ ᐃᓚᔭᐅᖃᑦᑕᖅᐳᑦ ᐊᔾᔨᖁᑎᕕᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᐸᐸᑦᑎᕕᖕᒥ (ᖃᕆᑕᐅᔭᒃᑯᑦ ᑐᕌᕈᑎᓕᒃ www.collectionscanada.ca/inuitᒥᒃ). ᑕᑯᒋᐊᕐᓂᐊᖅᐸᐃᑦ. ᐊᑏᑐᖅ ᑐᔪᐃᓂᐊᖅᐳᑎᑦ ᑐᓴᖅᑎᑕᑦᑎᓗᑎᒃ ᐅᑯᓄᖓ ᐅᕙᓂ ᑐᕌᕈᑎᓕᖕᒥ photo@nnsl.com ᐅᕝᕙᓗᓐᓃᑦ ᑎᑎᖃᕐᓂᐊᕐᕕᖕᒧᑦ ᑐᔪᖅᑕᐅᓗᑎᒃ ᐅᕗᖓ Box 2820, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2R1.

ᑲᖏᕿᓂᖅ/ Rankin Inlet street talk with Darrell Greer

ᑭᑐ ᓯᑖᓐᓕ ᐃᕐᙳᓯᐊᖅᑖᕐᓂᐊᖅᐸᑦ Who will win the Stanley Cup?

ᑏᕕᑦ ᑐᓗᒐᒃ "The Washington Capitals."

David Tulugak: "The Washington Capitals."

Project naming: Do you know your elders?

MIKAN No. 4899324 S.J. Bailey/Library and Archives Canada photo An Inuit man and woman holding a baby while seated in their home.

Southampton Island (Shugliaq), Nunavut.

1948.

Can you help identify the people in this old photograph?

Project Naming is a trilingual Web exhibition and searchable photographic database available in Inuktitut, English and French. The goal of this project is to identify Inuit in the photographic collections of

Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.

The new information is added to these historical photographs at (www.collectionscanada.ca/inuit). Come visit.

Please send submissions to photo@nnsl. com or mail to Box 2820, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2R1.

Charting a course for Nunavut's offshore fisheries Guest Comment Paul Pryce is the Principal Advisor to the Consul General of Japan in Calgary.

As Nunavut's current five-year Fisheries Strategy enters its fourth year, it is worth taking stock of Nunavut's emerging offshore fisheries industry and opportunities for further growth.

With the decision by Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) in 2017 to grant an increase in the turbot allocation for Nunavut's fisheries, the total landed value of the annual catch, both inshore and offshore, has reached approximately $148 million, which is quite an increase from the $14 million generated by the industry in 2004. Yet Nunavummiut still do not enjoy the full economic benefits of their strategic location, next to the pristine waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.

This is because Nunavut has only a limited capacity to process fish and seafood onshore.

Aside from a few exceptions, much of what has been fished in Nunavut's adjacent waters is then processed at sea by factory freezer trawlers or is offloaded in other jurisdictions, such as Greenland or Newfoundland and Labrador.

Therefore, to secure maximum value for Nunavummiut, the territorial government's next Fisheries Strategy could include several initiatives to promote value-added processing in Nunavut as well as the diversification of the kind of fish and seafood products Nunavut can offer overseas markets.

For example, the Government of Nunavut could offer incentives for businesses and investors to establish large-scale processing facilities in the territory. Similar such initiatives have been introduced elsewhere in Canada and beyond in order to foster the growth of emerging industries.

Such investment could also become easier

to attract as Nunavut's fisheries industry establishes a reputation of environmental sustainability and social responsibility. An assessment is currently underway by Acoura Fisheries to determine whether future in-store packaging of Nunavut turbot can display a stamp of approval from the Marine Stewardship Council. This assessment is expected to be completed sometime in 2019 and the seal would demonstrate to consumers that all of the Nunavut Fisheries Association members are responsible stewards of marine resources.

With regard to diversification, CanNor has invested in research to determine the commercial viability of porcupine crab. This is a bycatch for those fisheries using gill nets and it has not conventionally been used as food. However, were a market to be found for porcupine crab, this would create more local jobs while at the same time reducing waste.

Fisheries of various cod species could also be explored, as there has been some reported subsistence fishing of these along the eastern coast of Baffin Island. However, such development would have to be pursued cautiously, as some of these species fulfil an important role in North Atlantic and Arctic marine ecosystems; for example, Arctic cod is known to be a valuable source of food for narwhals and other whale species.

Continued advocacy required This push to advance Nunavut's offshore fisheries will require continued advocacy from policymakers. In 2016, the DFO scrapped its 'last in, first out' (LIFO) policy on the issuance of shrimping licenses and shrimp allocations in the North Atlantic, which has allowed for the entry of new players, such as Qikiqtaaluk Corporation. However, when it comes to turbot, allocations afforded to Nunavut fisheries account for only approximately 40 per cent of adjacent resources, which is substantially lower than the 80-90 per cent allocations for various fisheries resources Nunavut's southern neigh-

bours enjoy. Securing a more equitable distribution of turbot allocations would certainly fuel further growth in Nunavut's industry.

Policymakers can also play a powerful role as ambassadors of the Nunavut brand, securing new markets. This is particularly important as Nunavut shrimperies contend with the loss of the Russian market: the Russian Federation had been the leading importer of shrimp from Nunavut for several years, but geopolitical disputes concerning the territorial integrity of Ukraine led Russia in 2014 to impose a ban on imports of Canadian food products.

In order to ensure that offshore fisheries remain a stable source of economic activity and quality jobs for Nunavummiut, dependence on any one market should be avoided. Trade missions led by government officials can be invaluable for achieving this by introducing Nunavut fish and seafood products to new markets.

Other provincial and territorial governments frequently undertake such trade missions. For example, in October 2018, Saskatchewan's Minister of Trade and Export Development led a trade mission to Israel in order to promote exports of chickpeas and lentils. The Northwest Territories has also recognized the importance of face-to-face contacts in overseas markets and has managed, despite facing financial constraints, to provide the resources necessary for its premier to also lead trade missions to Japan and China in recent years.

Even if overseas trade missions may not be within the Government of Nunavut's financial means at this time, support from federal counterparts could be sought, with a federal Cabinet Minister championing Nunavut fish and seafood products abroad.

The measures mentioned here need not be saved for the next five-year Fisheries Strategy.

Yet pursuing the diversification of both markets and the products offered would have a lasting impact for Nunavut and another generation of Nunavummiut eager to find meaningful work at home.

ᒫᒃ ᕗᐊᐃᐊᑦ "Tampa Bay ᐅᕝᕙᓘᓐᓃᑦ Saint Louis."

Mark Wyatt: "Tampa Bay or Saint Louis."

ᒌᑉ ᖃᕐᓕᒃ "ᕙᓂᐹᒃ ᔭᒃᑯᑦ"

Gabe Karlik: "The Winnipeg Jets."

ᔨᕝ ᑐᓗᒐᒃ "ᕙᓂᐹᒃᑯᑦ"

Jeff Tulugak: "The Winnipeg Jets."

ᐳᔾᔫᑦ ᑯᓱᒐᒃ "ᕙᓂᐹᒃᑯᑦ, ᑕᐃᒪᑐᖅ."

Pujjuut Kusugak: "The Winnipeg Jets, I hope."

ᑲᐃᔪ ᑕᑦᑐᐃᓂ "ᑖᒃᑯᐊ ᓱᓕ ᒥᐳ ᓖᕝᑯᑦ ᓱᓕ."

Kyle Tattuinee: "I'm still saying my Maple Leafs will win."

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Nattiq Frolics pays tribute to Lucy Ann Maniyogena

ᐅᑐᐊᔪᒃ ᒪᓂᔪᔩᓇ, 8, ᐅᐱᕐᔪᐊᖅᐳᖅ ᒪᑭᕝᕕᐊᓂ ᐴᖓᓂ ᓴᓇᓚᐅᖅᑕᒥᓂ ᐳᕕᒐᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᓄᕕᖅᓵᒃᓴᒥ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕌᓂᒃᑳᖓᑕ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᔪᒥ ᒪᐃ ᕼᐊᑯᖓᖅ ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓂ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᒐᖃᕐᕕᖓᓂ.

Kugluktuk One of the Nattiq Frolics' biggest supporters wasn't there to celebrate the spring carnival last week, but she wasn't forgotten.

Lucy Ann Maniyogena died on April 14 after another incidence of cancer. She was a perennial fixture during the spring festivities and brought cheer to gatherings throughout the year.

"She always participated in any kind of community event.

She's part comedian, singer and dancer all put together in one," said Peter Taptuna, Maniyogena's brother-in-law. "Her intentions all the time were to make people laugh and she's done that very well over the years."

As an homage to Maniyogena, the Hamlet of Kugluktuk's parade float was dedicated to her, adorned with her name and many images of her. Close friend Millie Kuliktana conceived of the tribute during Maniyogena's final days, said Nadene McMenemy, a Nattiq Frolics organizer.

Maniyogena gave the idea her blessing with tears in her eyes shortly before she died, McMenemy said.

"Lucy was everything the Frolics is," she said. "She was actually Mrs. Coppermine ... and her truck, she would put it in the Frolics parade and decorate it all up. Her truck was viewed by everyone."

Maniyogena, who spent close to 40 years working for the Kugluktuk Housing Association, was a "very liked and loved person in the community ... very well thought of," added McMenemy.

A moment of silence in Maniyogena's memory was held during the Frolics' opening ceremony.

"She's good-hearted and good-natured and that's what's going to be missed about her," said Taptuna.

– Derek Neary

Easter fun at the library

Ikaluktutiak/Cambridge Bay Rarely has a library seen as much fun as Easter time at the May Hakongak Community Library in Cambridge Bay. During the past two weeks, up to 30 children have shown up to make Easter crafts.

"The after-school kids did some baskets. Some are out of balloons, some are out of Popsicle sticks and some out of craft paper," said librarian Pamela Langan, who has help from fellow library workers Maria Raillard and Peter Evetalegak.

"The Easter rabbit came and put some chocolates in their baskets. They said, 'I never saw him come! I didn't see him!' So they had five little Easter eggs in their baskets."

ᐆᒻᒪᕆᒃᑐᒥ ᓘᓯ ᐋᓐ ᒪᓂᔪᔩᓇ ᓂᑯᔾᔮᖅᑐᖅᐳᖅ. ᐲᑕ ᑕᑉᑑᓇ, ᐊᐃᖓ, ᐅᓂᒃᑳᕆᓚᐅᖅᐸᖓ "ᐃᓚᖓᒍᒃ ᓯᒃᑲᖓᔮᖅ, ᐃᙱᖅᑎ ᐊᒻᒪ ᒧᒥᖅᑎ ᑲᑎᙵᕈᓘᔭᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᐊᑕᐅᓯᕐᒧᑦ."

photo courtesy Pamela Langan

Otoayok Maniyogina, 8, is super-pleased with the Easter basket she made with a balloon and yarn during the after-school program at the May Hakongak Community Library.

The after-school programing runs every day from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. The children from the daycare also visit three times a week for fun times at the library.

Next up, the children will be making crafts for Mother's Day, then Father's Day. "We do crafts all the time with them," said Langan.

"Whatever's going on, we'll do some kind of craft with them.

But I can't tell you the Mother's Day one because then the mothers will know."

– Michele LeTourneau

New health centre on the way

Kinngait/Cape Dorset Another round of construction will be underway in Cape Dorset by fall as a new health centre and a sewage treatment plant will go up in the community.

The Government of Nunavut is in the process of seeking a contractor to take on the 19,300-square-foot health centre, which is to be erected in the location of the former Peter Pitseolak High School. The school was destroyed by fire in 2015.

Construction is expected to take two years.

While residents will appreciate the new health centre and improved services, senior administrative officer John Hussey acknowledged that finding and retaining nurses is a challenge for the government.

"They don't stay. They move around quite a bit," he said of health staff.

Cape Dorset's last major construction cycle saw the new power plant open earlier this year and the new high school and Kenojuak Cultural Centre and Print Shop officially open in September.

– Derek Neary

Examining renewable energy options

photo courtesy of Miranda Atatahak

An animated Lucy Ann Maniyogena gets up on her toes. Peter Taptuna, her brother-in-law, describes her as "part comedian, singer and dancer all put together in one."

Ikaluktutiak/Cambridge Bay Cambridge Bay economic development officer Angela Gerbrandt will be among 10 Nunavut delegates heading to Kotzebue, Alaska from April 23 to May 4 to learn about renewable energy options.

"All across the Arctic, we know that bringing in fuel is ridiculously expensive, fraught with all kinds of safety issues and if you miss the barge, you're in trouble. It's endlessly problematic," Gerbrandt said of the appeal of renewable energy sources as an alternative.

Wind power, biomass and solar power, proven to work in cold Northern climates, will be on display.

"It cuts down on all the trials and tribulations of getting to a workable system by seeing something that's already in oper-

ation. I'm really thrilled to be doing this," she said.

The American government is paying for the trip in hopes of forming future business partnerships related to environmentally-friendly energy, Gerbrandt noted.

– Derek Neary

Nominate a literacy hero

Nunavut Premier Joe Savikataaq needs the help of Nunavummiut in his search for someone dedicated to Inuktut literacy.

Nomination are now being accepted for the 2019 Council of Federation Literacy Award, which recognizes an individual who supports, encourages and shares ways to strengthen literacy skills in Nunavut.

The award will be bestowed upon someone "who supports and inspires others to use Inuktut and develop their literacy skills – oral, written or through artistic expression," states the news release.

"Nominate someone who has gone above and beyond to support and encourage others to develop their literacy skills – a student, a teacher, a community volunteer, an elder or a co-worker."

The winner receives a medallion and certificate presented by Savikataaq in the fall.

The deadline for nominations is May 31.

– Michele LeTourneau

Let's Be Aware team visits Qik and Pang

Qikiqtarjuaq and Panniqtuuq/Pangnirtung The Government of Nunavut Let's Be Aware campaign is visiting two more communities in the coming weeks – Qikiqtarjuaq from April 27 to 30 and Pangnirtung from May 1 to 3.

"We're trying to move away from the binge-drinking culture, toward a more responsible culture," manager of corporate policy for the Department of Finance Mads Sandbakken previously told Nunavut News.

"Trying to make people more aware of their own drinking habits, their own drinking patterns and try to discourage binge drinking."

The Let's Be Aware harm-reduction campaign swung into action in 2017.

"We're trying not to talk about alcohol in terms of bad or good," said Sandbakken.

"We're trying to give the people education and resources so they themselves can make the decision for their own selves when it comes to alcohol."

– Michele LeTourneau

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ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᔪᑦ ᐊᐃᕙᓐ ᑯᓄ, ᓂᐅᓪᓯᓐ ᐊᑕᒍᑦᑕᒃ, ᓴᓂᐅᓪ ᑯᓄ ᐊᒻᒪ ᔫᓯᕖᓇ ᑯᓄ ᓇᖏᖅᐳᑦ ᒥᕐᙳᐃᖅᓯᕐᕕᖕᒥ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᐃᑲᔪᕈᑎᒃᓴᓄᑦ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᔨᐅᔪᖅ ᐳᕋᐃᔭᓐ ᑯᓄ ᓴᓂᐊᓂ ᓯᕐᒥᓕᒃ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᒥᕐᙳᐃᖅᓯᕐᕕᖓᑕ ᐃᒡᓗᕕᒐᓕᐅᖅᓴᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ.

ᓯᕐᒥᓕᒃ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᒥᕐᙳᐃᖅᓯᕐᕕᖓ ᐋᖅᑭᒃᓱᐃᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᒪᕐᕈᖓᓂ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᑕᒫᒥ ᐃᒡᓗᕕᒐᓕᐅᖅᓴᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᒥᑦᑎᒪᑕᓕᖕᒥᐅᓄᑦ ᐊᐃᑉᕆᓕ 13-ᒥ. ᐃᒡᓗᕕᒐᓕᐅᖅᓴᓂᖅ ᐱᖅᑯᓯᑐᖃᖅᑎᒍᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᐅᕗᖅ ᐃᓄᖕᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓱᓕ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᕐᔪᐊᖅᐳᖅ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᒡᓗᕕᒐᓕᐅᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ, ᐱᓗᐊᖅᑐᒥ ᐊᔪᖅᓯᓯᒪᔪᖃᕈᓂ ᓄᓇᒥᑦ. ᐃᓚᐃᔾᔭ ᐸᓂᒃᐸᑯᑦᓱ ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᐅᒃᑲᓐᓂᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑕᒪᑐᒪᓂ ᐊᕐᕌᒎᔪᒥ. ᒥᕐᙳᐃᖅᓯᕐᕕᖕᒥ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᑲᑎᙵᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᔪᑦ ᑐᓴᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᐊᒥᓱᓂ ᐱᐅᔪᓂ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᒃᓴᓕᐊᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐊᓕᐊᓇᐃᒍᓱᖕᓂᖏᓐᓂ ᑕᑯᑐᐃᓐᓇᖅᖢᒍ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᓇᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ.

ᐊᐃᕙᓐ ᑯᓄ ᓇᖏᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᒡᓗᕕᒐᐅᑉ ᖄᖓᓂ ᓴᓇᓚᐅᖅᑕᒥᓂ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᓂᖓᓂ ᓴᙱᓂᖓᓂ.

photo courtesy Parks Canada/Carey Elverum

Participants Ivan Koonoo, Nelson Atagootak, Shanelle Koonoo and Josephina Koonoo stand alongside Parks Canada resource management officer Brian Koonoo during the Sirmilik National Park iglu-building workshop.

Iglu-building Feature

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photo courtesy Parks Canada/Carey Elverum

Ivan Koonoo stands on top of the iglu he built during the workshop to show its durability.

ᖁᕕᐊᓱᖕᓂᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᓚᐃᔾᔭ ᐸᓂᒃᐸᑯᑦᓱᖕᒧᑦ, ᐅᑎᖅᑐᒥ ᐃᓄᒃ ᐃᓄᑐᖃᖅ ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᐅᔪᒧᑦ ᑕᒪᑐᒪᓂ ᐊᕐᕌᒎᔪᒥ ᐃᒡᓗᕕᒐᓕᐅᖅᓴᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐅᕐᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ.

by Parks Canada Mittimatalik/ Pond Inlet

Workshop draws two dozen Northern News Services

Sirmilik National Park organized its second annual iglu-building workshop for residents of Pond Inlet April 13.

Iglu-building is a traditional practice of Inuit and it is still very important to know how to build one, especially

ᕼᐋᓇ ᐸᓂᒃᐸᑯᑦᓱ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᐃᒡᒐ ᐊᑕᒍᑦᑕᒃ ᐱᔭᕇᖅᓯᓕᒑᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᐃᒡᓗᕕᒐᖓᓐᓂ.

if one gets stuck on the land.

Elijah Panipakoocho was the instructor again this year.

Parks Canada team members heard a lot of positive feedback and the participants' enjoyment was easily observed.

– text provided

by Parks Canada

photo courtesy Parks Canada/Ivan Koonoo

Hannah Panipakoocho and Iga Atagootak near completion of their iglu.

ᓃᐅᓪ ᕼᐊᓐᑐᓴᓐ ᐊᒻᒪ ᕕᓕᔅ ᑲᓇᔪᖅ ᓇᖏᖅᐳᑦ ᐱᔭᕇᖅᑕᒥᓂᑦ ᐃᒡᓗᕕᒐᖓᓐᓂ.

ᒥᕐᙳᐃᖅᓯᕐᕕᖕᒥ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᐃᑲᔪᕈᑎᒃᓴᓄᑦ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᔨᐅᔪᖅ ᐳᕋᐃᔭᓐ ᑯᓄ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒃᖢᓂ ᐊᐅᕕᒃᓴᓕᐅᖅᐳᖅ.

photo courtesy Parks Canada/Ivan Koonoo

Joy was in the air for Elijah Panipakoocho, the returning Inuit elder instructor for this year's iglubuilding workshop.

photo courtesy Parks Canada/Ivan Koonoo

Parks Canada resource management officer Brian Koonoo happily cuts iglu blocks.

photo courtesy Parks Canada/Ivan Koonoo

Neil Henderson and Phyllis Kanayuk pose alongside their completed iglu.

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ᖃᒡᒋᐊᕘᑦ ᓂᕆᐅᒃᐳᑦ ᑐᓂᓯᓂᕐᒥ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᒥ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒧᑦ ᐃᓚᖃᖅᑐᒥ ᓴᙱᔪᓂ ᐃᓄᖕᓄᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᖃᕐᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ ᑎᑭᑉᐳᖅ ᓴᙱᒃᑎᒋᐊᖅᓯᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᒥᒃ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐅᓗᕆᐊᓇᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᒥᒃᖠᕚᓪᓕᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ

$500,000-ᑖᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᒐᕙᒪᑐᖃᒃᑯᓐᓂ, ᖃᒡᒋᐊᕘᑦ ᖃᓂᓐᓂᖅᓴᒻᒪᕆᐅᓕᖅᐳᑦ ᑎᑭᐅᑎᓂᖏᓐᓂ ᐃᓱᒪᒋᔭᐅᓯᒪᔪᒥ ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑕᐅᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓴᓇᐅᒐᓕᕆᕝᕕᖕᒥ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ. "ᐊᑕᐅᓯᖅ ᑭᐅᓘᑎᐅᓂᐅᔪᖅ ᑕᒪᓐᓇ ᐱᐅᕐᔪᐊᕋᔭᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᑮᓇᐅᔾᔭᒃᓴᓂᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ, ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᑎᒍᑦ ᐳᓚᕋᖅᑐᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐱᑕᖃᕈᓐᓇᕐᓂᖃᕐᒪᑦ ᖃᒡᒋᖅ ᑲᑎᕝᕕᐅᔪᕐᒧᑦ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᓱᒻᒥᖅᑐᐃᔨ ᐊᓚᓐ ᕼᐋᒧᓪᑎᓐ, ᑭᓱᓄᑦ ᖃᒡᒋᐊᕘᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᖏᓐᓂ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᓄᑦ. ᒐᕙᒪᑐᖃᒃᑯᓐᓂ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᖃᖅᑎᑕᐅᓂᖓᓂ ᑎᑭᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐅᕘᓇ ᐃᓱᒪᑐᔪᓄᑦ ᓂᐅᕐᕈᑎᖃᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᔪᒧᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᖃᒡᒋᐊᕘᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑕᐅᕙᒃᑐᓄᑦ ᓴᓇᐅᒐᓕᕆᕝᕕᖓᓄᑦ ᐊᑕᐅᓯᐅᕗᖅ 20-ᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᒃᓴᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐱᔪᓂ ᑲᑎᓪᓗᒍ $7.8 ᒥᓕᐊᓐᓂ. ᑮᓇᐅᔭᖃᖅᑎᑕᐅᓂᖅ ᑐᕌᖓᓂᖃᓪᓗᐊᑕᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐱᔾᔪᑎᖃᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᐸᕐᓇᐃᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᒪᕐᕉᖕᓄᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ – ᐅᐱᒋᔭᐅᕐᔪᐊᖅᑐᒥ ᑭᕕᐅᖅ ᐅᑎᖅᐳᖅ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥ ᐱᓰᑦ – ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᒧᑦ ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ, ᐃᓚᖃᖅᑐᒥ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᒥ ᓂᐅᕕᐊᒃᓴᖃᕆᐊᖅᑐᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ, ᖁᕝᕙᖅᓴᖅᑕᐅᓂᖓᓄᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᓂᐅᔪᒧᑦ. ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥ ᐱᓰᑦ ᖃᒡᒋᐊᕘᑦ ᑭᖑᓪᓕᖅᐹᖑᓪᓗᓂ ᓴᖅᑭᑎᑕᐅᓂᕆᕙᖓ, ᐱᒋᐊᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ ᐊᐅᔭᒥ 2018-ᒥ ᐱᓰᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ, ᑐᕌᕐᓂᖃᓚᐅᕐᒥᔪᒥ ᖃᕋᓴᐅᔭᑎᒍᑦ ᐊᑐᓕᖅᑎᑦᑎᓂᐅᔪᒥ. "ᑮᓇᐅᔭᖃᖅᑎᑕᐅᓂᖅ ᐅᕙᑦᑎᓐᓂ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᖅᑎᑦᑎᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᖅᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒥ 42-ᐸᓗᖕᓂ ᐃᓄᖕᓂ ᓴᓇᐅᒐᓕᕆᔨᐅᔪᓄᑦ, ᓴᓇᐅᒐᓄᑦ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᑎᔨᐅᔪᓂ, ᑕᕐᕆᔭᓕᐊᒧᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᔨᐅᔪᓄᑦ, ᐊᔾᔨᓕᐅᕆᔨᓂ, ᑎᑕᒃᑎᓂ, ᐃᙱᖅᑎᓂ, ᕿᓚᐅᔾᔭᖅᑎᓂᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᓴᓇᐅᒐᓄᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᔨᐅᔪᓂᑦ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᕼᐋᒧᓪᑎᓐ. "ᐃᓚᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐱᓕᒻᒪᒃᓴᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥ ᐃᖃᓗᖕᓂ ᐊᒻᒪ ᒪᓐᑐᕆᐊᒥ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᖁᙱᐊᕐᕕᐅᔪᒥ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᖓᓂ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᒥ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒍᑕᐅᔪᓄᑦ, ᖁᙱᐊᕐᕕᓂᑦᐊᒻᒪ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᓂᐅᔪᓂᑦ. ᐱᔪᓐᓇᖅᑎᑦᑎᓚᐅᕆᕗᖅ ᐱᕙᓪᓕᐊᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒥ ᑕᕐᕆᔭᓕᐊᖑᔪᓄᑦ ᖁᕝᕙᖅᓴᐃᓂᐅᔪᓂᓱᓇᒃᑯᑖᓂᑦ." ᒫᓐᓇᓕᓴᐅᓛᖑᔪᒥ, ᖃᒡᒋᐊᕘᑦ ᓴᖅᑭᑎᑦᑎᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥ ᐱᓯᕐᓂᑦ ᒪᓐᑐᕆᐊᒥ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᒧᑦ ᑎᑕᖕᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒍᑕᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᒥ ᐃᓄᖕᓄᑦ ᑲᑐᔾᔨᖃᑎᒌᖑᔪᓄᑦ ᕕᕈᐊᕆᐅᑉ-ᕿᑎᖅᐸᓯᐊᓂ.

ᐱᑎᑦᑎᓂᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑕᐅᓂᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᓂ ᕕᓐᓛᓐᒧᑦ ᔫᓂᒥ, ᐅᓄᕐᓂᖏᓐᓂ. ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᑦ ᓄᖅᑲᖅᓯᒪᔪᓄᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᖕᒥ, ᐅᑎᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᓄᐊᕙᐃᒧᑦ ᔪᓚᐃᒥ, ᕗᕌᓐᔅᒧᑦ ᐋᒍᔅᑎᒥ, ᓵᖕᕼᐊᐃ, ᓴᐃᓇᒧᑦ ᓯᑎᐱᕆᒥ, ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᓄᑦ. ᐊᒻᒪᓗᑦᑕᐅᖅ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᓯᒪᔪᓄᑦ ᑎᑕᖕᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒍᑕᐅᔪᓂᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ. "ᑕᑯᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᑎᑭᑉᐸᓪᓕᐊᓂᑦᑎᓐᓂ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᔪᒪᓚᐅᖅᐳᑦ ᖃᒡᒋᐊᕘᑦ ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑕᐅᕙᒃᑐᖅ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᕆᔭᑦᑎᓐᓂ," ᒪᓃᑦᑐᖅ ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ, ᐱᓕᕆᐊᒃᓴᒧᑦ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᑎᔨ ᑯᕆᔅᑏᓐ ᑑᑑ ᐊᒻᒪ ᕕᓂ ᑳᑦᓖᓐ ᒥᐊᕆᑦ ᒫᓐᓇᐅᔪᒥ ᐃᓚᒋᐊᖅᓯᓪᓗᓂ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᖕᓃᑦᑕᕆᐊᖃᖅᐳᑦ ᖃᕆᑕᖅ ᐊᐅᓪᓛᕐᓂᐊᖅᐳᑦ ᐃᑎᖕᐴᒡ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒍᑎᖓᓂ ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᓂᕐᒧᑦ. ᑲᒪᒋᔭᖃᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐋᒍᔅᑎᒥ ᓴᖅᑭᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑭᕕᐅᖅ "ᐊᑕᐅᓯᖅ ᐃᖅᑲᐅᒪᓇᓗᐊᖅᐳᖅ. ᐊᑕᐅᓯᕐᒥ ᐃᓯᖅᐸᓪᓕᐊᔪᓂ ᐅᑎᖅᐳᖅ ᖁᙱᐊᕐᕕᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᖁᙱᐊᕐᕕᓄᑦ ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓃᑎᓪᓗᑕ, ᐊᑕᐅᓯᕐᒥ ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᒥ ᐊᓂᕙᓪᓕᐅᓂᐅᔪᓂᓗ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒍᑕᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᓕᒫᒧᑦ. ᐅᕙᓐᓄᐊᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐅᖃᖅᖢᓂ, 'ᐱᖃᓐᓇᕆᔭᕋ ᐳᓚᕋᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥ ᐃᒻᒥᓃᓚᐅᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᑕᖅᑭᒥᑦ ᒪᕐᕉᖕᓂᓪᓘᓐᓃᑦ "ᐊᖏᓛᖑᓪᓗᓂ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᓂᐊᖅᐳᖅ ᐱᓯᕐᓂ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᓕᒫᒧᑦ. ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑕᐅᕙᒃᑐᓄᑦ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᓕᒫᒥ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᑭᒃᑯᓕᒫᑦ ᓯᕗᓂᐊᓂ ...' ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᓚᐅᙱᓚᖅ. ᕿᓂᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᐊᔾᔨᐅᙱᑦᑐᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑕᑯᒥᓇᖅᑐᓂ ᖃᐅᔨᒐᒥ ᓄᓇᓕᖓᓐᓄᐊᕐᓂᐊᕐᓂᑦᑎᓐᓂ, ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᑕᐃᑲᓃᓐᓂᐊᖅᐳᑦ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᖃᑕᐅᔪᒪᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. ᕼᐋᒧᓪᑎᓐ. "ᑲᑉᐱᐊᓇᒐᓚᒃᑑᔮᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ,ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᐱᒋᐊᕋᑦᑕ ᑑᑑ ᖁᕕᐊᑉᐳᖅ. ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᓂ, ᖁᕕᐊᑦᑕᒃᐹᓪᓕᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ. "ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᖁᓱᕈᔪᒃᑐᖓ," ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᖅ ᐅᖃᐅᔾᔨᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᒪᒃᑯᖕᓂᖅᓴᓂ ᓱᕈᓯᕐᓂᑦ, ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑕᐅᕙᒃᑐᖅ. 'ᑕᑯᒋᑦ, ᐅᑯᐊ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᕙᓃᑦᑐᑦ ᐃᓕᖕᓂ "ᐱᔭᕆᐅᖅᓴᕆᐊᖃᕐᓂᐊᖅᐳᖓ." ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᑦᑎᔭᖅᑐᖅᖢᑎᒃ. ᓈᓚᓚᐅᕆᑦ.' ᐊᒻᒪ ᒫᓐᓇᐅᔪᒥ, ᐱᓕᕆᐊᒃᓴᐅᔪᒧᑦ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᑎᔨ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕆᐊᖏᓐᓇᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ." ᓴᓇᐅᒐᓕᕆᔨ ᑳᑦᓖᓐ ᒥᐊᕆᑦ ᒫᓐᓇᐅᔪᒥ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᑎᕗᖅ ᒪᓃᑦᑐᖅ, ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᕐᒥᐅᑕᖅ, ᐅᖃᓚᐅᕆᕗᖅ ᑭᓱᓕᒫᓂᒃ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥ ᐱᓯᕐᓂᑦ. ᐊᑖᑕᖓ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᒃᑲᖓ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᖅᐳᑦ ᖃᒡᒋᐊᕘᑦ ᐳᓚᕋᐃᓐᓇᖅᐳᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᓄᓇᓕᐅᔪᓄᑦ, ᐅᔭᕋᖕᓂᐊᕐᕕᖕᒥ. ᓴᖅᑭᑎᑦᑎᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᓄᑦ "ᐊᒻᒪ ᐅᕙᓐᓂᑦ ᑕᑯᙱᓚᖓ ᑕᐃᒪᐃᓐᓂᕐᒧᑦ. ᐃᓄᖕᓄᑦ ᐱᔪᒪᓂᖃᖅᑐᓂ ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑕᐅᓂᕐᓄᑦ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐸᐅᔪᒃᓴᐅᕗᖓ ᐃᓚᓐᓂᑦ ᑕᐃᒪᐃᓕᐅᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓴᓇᐅᒐᓕᕆᓂᕐᓄᑦ. ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓃᑦ ᑲᑎᙵᓂᖃᖅᐳᖅ ᒫᓐᓇ ᐱᓕᕆᔭᓐᓂᑦ. ᐃᒪᐃᑉᐳᑦ, 'ᖃᓄᐃᒻᒪᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ Kathleen Merritt: is ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᕙᒃᑐᓄᑦ. ᒐᕙᒪᒃᑯᓐᓄᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᖅᑖᙱᓚᑎᑦ?' ᐊᓕᐊᓇᐃᒋᕙᕋ currently handling the ins ᐱᓕᕆᐊᒃᓴᐅᔪᒧᑦ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᑎᔨ, ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑕᐅᕙᒃᑐᖅ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᕆᔭᓐᓂ. ᐊᑭᓕᖅᓱᖅᑕᐅᓲᖑᕗᖓ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ," and outs of touring Arctic ᐊᒻᒪ ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑕᐅᕙᒃᑐᓂ ᐋᖅᑭᒃᓱᐃᔨ ᐅᖃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᒪᓃᑦᑐᖅ.

Song internationally. ᕇᑯ ᒪᓃᑦᑐᖅ ᐊᑐᐃᓐᓇᖃᖅᑎᑦᑎᕗᖅ ᖃᒡᒋᐊᕘᑦ ᓂᕆᐅᒃᐳᑦ ᐱᒋᐊᓛᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐆᒃᑑᑎᐅᔪᒥ ᖃᓄᐃᒻᒪᑦ ᐱᕙᓪᓕᐊᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒥ ᐊᔪᕐᓇᕐᔮᙱᒃᑲᓗᐊᕐᒪᖔᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᖅᑕᐅᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᖁᙱᐊᖅᑕᐅᕙᒃᑐᓄᑦ ᓴᓇᐅᒐᓕᕆᓂᖅ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᒪᐃᒥ ᑐᓂᓯᓂᕐᒥ ᐱᔭᕆᐊᖃᖅᑐᓂ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᕆᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᖃᕈᓐᓇᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᐅᔭᕋᖕᓂᐊᓂᖅᑎᑐᑦ, ᒫᓐᓇᓕᓴᒥ ᓇᑉᐸᖅᑎᕆᓂᕐᓄᑦ ᐊᑭᖏᓐᓂ, ᓴᓇᔭᐅᓂᖓᓂ, ᐊᐅᓚᑕᐅᓂᖓᓂ, ᑲᑎᙵᓂᖃᕐᓂᕋᖅᑕᐅᔪᒥ ᖁᑦᑎᖕᓂᖅᓴᒥ ᐃᓱᓕᑦᑎᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᑎᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᖃᖅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ.

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150,000 reasons to smile ᐊᓇᐅᓕᒑᕐᕕᖓ ᒥᑦᑎᒪᑕᓕᖕᒥ ᐊᐳᔾᔭᐅᓯᒪᕗᖅ ᐅᕙᓂ ᐊᔾᔨᓕᐅᖅᑕᐅᔪᒥ ᔭᓄᐊᕆᒥ ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᑐᓄᐊᓂ ᓄᖅᑲᕐᕕᐅᔪᖅ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑕᒪᒃᑭᓗᒃᑖᖓ ᐃᓂᐅᔪᖅ ᐊᔾᔨᒋᙱᕐᔪᐊᕐᓂᐊᓕᖅᐸᖓ ᕿᓚᒻᒥᐅᔪᒥ ᖁᔭᓐᓇᒦᒃ ᔭᐃᔅ ᐸᖅᑭᓂᕐᓄᑦ ᑐᙵᕕᐊᔪᓄᑦ ᑐᓂᕐᕈᓯᐊᖓᓐᓂ $150,000-ᒥ ᐃᑲᔪᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐋᖅᑭᒋᐊᖅᓯᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᓇᐅᓕᒑᕐᕕᐅᔪᒥ.

photo courtesy of Jays Care Foundation

The baseball diamond in Pond Inlet is covered in snow in this shot taken in January but the backstop and the entire area will look a lot different in good time thanks to the Jays Care Foundation's grant of $150,000 to help refurbish the field.

Pond Inlet receives grant from Jays Care Foundation to help rebuild baseball field

by James McCarthy

Northern News Services

Mittimatalik/Pond Inlet

The Toronto Blue Jays may not ever get to Pond Inlet anytime soon, but a piece of the team will be around in the community for years to come.

The Jays Care Foundation, the Blue Jays' charitable organization, announced on April 14 that Pond Inlet was one of 15 communities across Canada to receive a grant through the foundation's Field of Dreams program. A total of $150,000 will be allocated to the community to help refurbish the baseball diamond.

Robert Witchel, the foundation's executive director, said it's not the first grant they've made North of 60 but Pond Inlet's is certainly the Northern-most.

"We did Whitehorse last year – the Kwanlin Dun First Nation – but this is the first one in Nunavut and the furthest North," he said.

The application process to receive a grant is done in two steps, beginning with a simple application. From there, the applications are short-listed and then the work really begins.

"We had about 60 applications this year and from that, we narrowed it down to 20," said Witchel. "The second part of the process involved getting us the quotes and pricing, who owns the land where the field is located, how much municipal support there is, the impact it will have on the community, how many kids will benefit from this and a general idea of the demographics of the community."

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Soccer teams set for action

Nunavut Junior Super Soccer in Yellowknife is coming up this week and everything starts on April 24.

Nunavut will have some skin in the game as Rankin Inlet and Kugluktuk are planning to send teams to compete. The Rankin Wolves will have the largest contingent with four teams making the trip while Kugluktuk has just the one squad.

The round-robin phase will happen from April 25 right through the start of the playoffs on April 28 with the finals for all divisions happening on April 29.

When it comes to Pond Inlet, the grant will cover almost everything needed to get the field back in good working order, he added.

"Our contribution will go toward the turf installation and it's artificial because it's tough to grow natural grass in Pond Inlet," he said. "There will be bleachers, benches, dugouts and a gravel-based drainage system."

There is also a provision to fly people up to the community to help put everything together, he said.

The foundation has been working with the Recreation and Parks Association of Nunavut's (RPAN) Get Happy Summer Day Camp program for the past three years and will do so again this coming summer.

Dawn Currie, RPAN's executive director, said she encouraged all of

the communities involved with the day camp program to apply for a grant and when she heard Pond Inlet was in the running, the ears began to perk up.

"I knew they were up there as a finalist in January," she said. "The Blue Jays told me they had a really strong application and our involvement was a big reason why."

Currie then learned Pond Inlet would receive a grant but what she didn't know was the amount.

She said she found out like everyone else did on April 14.

"I knew they would be getting something," she said.

Once everything is done with the field, it will look – and probably feel – a lot better than the old field as Currie said.

Youth ambassadors wanted

Nunavut The 2020 Arctic Winter Games are coming up in Whitehorse next March and part of the Nunavut contingent will include the Nunavut Youth Ambassador Program.

The program is open to any Nunavut resident between the ages of 16 to 21 and it begins by applying to be a part of the program. An interview will follow and if someone is chosen, they will be invited to attend a training session later in the year.

The youth ambassadors act as volunteers on the ground at events such as the Arctic Winter Games and have also run information booths to help promote the territory.

The deadline to get an application in is May 6.

Mission staff wanted

Nunavut Speaking of the 2020 Arctic Winter Games, the territory's sports and recreation division is looking for volunteers to serve as mission staff for Team Nunavut in Whitehorse.

"One Ocean Expeditions is one of our partners with RPAN and they had a cruise ship dock in Pond Inlet last summer," she said. "One of the things the passengers wanted to do was play a game of baseball once they saw the field. The diamond was in pretty rough shape but they worked with it and did the best they could."

With this grant, Currie said she hopes more communities will put their names forward and possibly get what Pond Inlet got.

"Jays Care provides millions of dollars for small communities through baseball," she said. "It takes time to get the proposal together but it pays off because Pond Inlet is going to have a great ball field once everything is completed."

Anyone who applies must be at least 25 years of age, be an active member of a territorial sport organization or be involved in community sports and provide a criminal records check, among other things.

The deadline to apply is May 6 and you can get in touch with Mariele dePeuter, Team Nunavut's chef de mission, for more details.

Award nominees wanted

Nunavut The annual Sport and Recreation Awards are happening later this year and that means plenty of people within the sport community will receive their just due.

The sport and recreation division just needs to know who to give the awards to and that means getting nominations for the awards. Some of the categories include Male and Female Athlete of the Year, Team of the Year and Official of the Year, among others.

You have until May 6 to get your nominations

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Finland may have been robbed but it was the right call Northern News Services "Incidental contact is allowed when the goaltender is in the So the Women's World Hockey Championship wrapped up act of playing the puck outside of his goal crease, provided the in Finland on April 14 and it was a wild gold medal game. For attacking skater makes a reasonable effort to minimize or avoid the first time, Canada wasn't involved in it so I guess that means such contact." another summit, right?

If you take a look at Hiirikoski, she's going hard for the puck The U.S. took on the host nation and it looked like Finland but you'll also notice she doesn't really make an attempt to stop had won the game in overtime. The crowd erupted as you would until the very last second. There obviously was no reasonable expect and the celebration was on. Or was it a bit premature? It effort to stop until she was almost on top of Rigsby and by that appeared it was as the referees wanted to take another look at time, it's too late. In this case, the onus is on the skater to avoid whether American goaltender Alex Rigsby had been interfered the contact, not the goaltender. with prior to Petra Nieminen scoring what everyone thought was Did Hiirikoski mean to hit the goaltender? Of course not but the winner in sudden-death. that's not the definition of the rule. It's all about Turns out Jenni Hiirioski did and the game effort to minimize the contact and that's what was re-started, which was won by the Amerthe video goal judge has to adjudicate. icans in a shootout.

Because Rigsby was knocked sideways by Now, everyone watching, including myself, Hiirikoski, that means Rule 184 comes into wondered why because it appeared Rigsby was effect, a portion of which states: with James McCarthy "If a goaltender is outside his goal crease and away from the play. Yes, she was bumped by an attacking skater prevents the goaltender from Hiirikoski but it appeared it didn't affect the returning to his crease or prevents the goalplay because there was no way Rigsby could tender from playing his position properly while a goal is scored, have gotten back into the play to make the save, bump or no bump, because Nieminen's goal was literally a split-second after the goal will not count and the attacking skater will be assessed Rigsby had been bumped. She was also outside her crease when a minor penalty for interference."

This confused a lot of people, including myself, because she was bumped so it didn't affect her positioning, right?

Well, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has there was a penalty indication from the official who signalled weighed in and provided its reasoning and I will provide my the goal but it was on Rigsby for tripping. By definition of the analysis because arbiters like myself need to break this down. rule above, Hiirikoski should have been sent to the box for Everything has an explanation, right? So let's start with the interference but the video goal judge is neither a penalty-caller one which the video goal judge saw first: nor an upholder of infractions. That's all on the referees and First, there was the issue of contact with the goaltender. IIHF there's one area where it could be argued it went against the Rule 183, states that "at no time is contact initiated by a skater Americans. with an opposing goaltender acceptable ... contact, whether And now we turn to the one rule which almost everyone in incidental or otherwise, may be with a stick or any part of the Finland's corner has used to justify the overtime goal counting: body."

Rule 185. Here's the text: That right there is the very first thing that needs to be "An attacking skater who makes incidental contact with a judged. Did Hiirikoski make solid contact with Rigsby? Every goaltender out of his goal crease while both try to gain possession of the puck will not be penalized. If a goal is scored at this replay angle – the same angles the video goal judges have at time, the goal shall count." their disposal – showed that yes, Hiirikoski did hit Rigsby.

Sure, that would be a rule to use to defend Finland but it Some comments I've seen make light of the fact that Rule isn't. Why, you ask? Simple – go back up and read Rule 183.

183 includes the provision about incidental contact when the Rule 185 can't apply in this situation because Hiirikoski didn't goaltender is outside the crease. Indeed, the following is part of make the attempt to stop until the last possible moment. Had she it:

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put on the brakes while approaching Rigsby, there could be an argument there but it just didn't happen. Also, if you notice, Hiirikoski doesn't touch the puck ergo, she didn't play it. You can't play the puck if you don't touch it.

To wrap it up, we come to Rule 186, which outlines how if non-incidental contact occurs, the offending player is sent to the penalty box and the goal is disallowed.

In summary, it was a crappy situation all around. Finland had one of its finest sporting moments taken away and that sucks. I've been in the situation where my team thinks it's won only to be told sorry. Imagine how soul-sucking it was for Finland to have to go back out and try to win it again. They had to try and get that emotion back and believe me when I say that's tough to do.

I can almost assure you the officials are feeling it as well.

Sure, they got it right in the end but nothing burns more than knowing they had to tell the Finnish bench that the celebration would have to wait.

So the Americans are again the best women's hockey team in the world and it isn't us. But it would have been really nice – and great for the women's game – had that goal counted.

ᐋᓕᒃᔅ ᕆᒡᔅᐱ ᔫᓇᐃᑎᑦ ᔅᑕᐃᑦᔅᓂ ᐊᕐᓇᓄᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᕼᐋᑭᖅᑎᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᓄᖅᑲᖅᑎᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑭᒃᑯᓕᒫᓂ ᕕᓐᓛᓐᑯᑦ ᓵᓚᒃᓴᖅᑐᒥ ᐃᓯ.

photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Alex Rigsby of the U.S. women's national hockey team.

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Volleyball program needs coaches Rankin's junior female volleyball players could be in serious trouble, as two coaches prepare to leave and no replacements in sight

by Darrell Greer

Northern News Services

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It's been a year of transition for the Rankin Royals junior female volleyball team with coaches Robert Kabvitok and Holly Mercer preparing to step down following the Nunavut junior volleyball territorial from May 3 to 5 in Iqaluit.

It's been five years since Kabvitok and Mercer started coaching the Royals in an attempt to reinvigorate the game in Rankin.

They ran two practices every week with the Royals and were always trying to pull together mini-tournaments so the team would have competition.

Mercer said she and Kabvitok were also involved with all the team's fundraising efforts and did their own practice planning and travel scheduling.

She said all things considered, coaching the Royals is a time-consuming endeavour.

"At first we were just going to hold practices here and see who came out but it just kept building," said Mercer.

"Today Robert is the head coach for Nunavut's Canada Summer Games team and he's coached at the Arctic Winter Games (AWG) and the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG).

"So you could say we came a long way during the past five years."

Kabvitok said he got interested in coaching when Mercer would come home from the gym complaining that there was nobody at volleyball and it felt like the sport was dying in Rankin.

He said he was usually watching NHL hockey on TV when she came in and he would have said yes to just about anything to get back to his hockey game.

"It was obvious this routine wasn't going to end anytime soon, so I suggested we coach and try to get female volleyball going again in Rankin," said Kabvitok.

"It ended up being five years with the Royals. The first time we came out to coach there were 30 kids waiting for us and we didn't have a clue what we were going to do.

"We didn't know how to coach or conduct drills, so we started doing workouts and the number of players started declining. After a bit we had eight girls who stuck to our drills and they're, pretty much, today's Royals."

Mercer said two of the girls on today's Royals team have been with her and Kabvitok since day one, with the rest of the squad joining the program the following year.

She said working with the same group of girls for five years is what's making the

choice to leave so hard for her right now.

"The most challenging thing about our five years with the team was really not knowing what to do in the beginning," said Mercer.

"We both played volleyball but it's different when you're coaching and there's a lot of kids who never played before and don't have much volleyball knowledge.

"We got a lot of help from Volleyball Nunavut when they started doing coaching clinics and then we brought up Carsten Stanjeck from Calgary.

He really helped us and it changed a big part of how we coached.

"I'm really going to miss the girls because we've spent so much time with them doing stuff in addition to our practices and it's going to be really hard to walk away from all that."

Kabvitok said the most challenging thing for him was when he first started coaching because he didn't have any daughters and he hadn't coached any female teams previously.

He said when the girls would get emotional he'd ask Mercer to go talk to them because he really didn't know how to and he also found travelling with the team challenging because he had to spend so many days away from his family.

"I would always have Holly coaching beside me, but when I went to the AWG and NAIG she wasn't beside me anymore, so I'd often call her to help me out and I also found that very challenging.

"What I'm really going to miss is these girls wanting to learn from us and they're young enough to still have so much potential.

"We got so attached to them, they're like family to us.

That's what I'm really going to miss.

"Holly has this 'but' she uses – after every practice she's telling me the girls only have a year left, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to start coaching hockey next year because our boys are at that age now where we have to support them and help them out."

Kabvitok and Mercer are hoping against hope somebody will step up and take over the Royals when they leave, but nobody's approached them about it yet.

Mercer said that's why she's having to use her 'but' already.

"We've got the junior girls, we do baseball in the summer for our boys and now Robert's going to start coaching hockey. I'm still hoping we can figure out how to do all that for just the one year.

"That's the hardest part right now. I'm really struggling with just leaving them."

Kabvitok said he's sorry,

ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᕐᒥ Royals, ᑐᓄᐊᓂ ᓴᐅᒥᖅᖠᕐᒥ: ᐊᓕᓴᓐ ᒪᑲᐃ, ᑲᐃᓕ ᖃᕐᓕᒃ, ᐊᒻᐳᕐ ᒍᕆᔭᒻ, ᓴᓐᑏ ᑕᐃᔭᔅ, ᑕᑎ ᑳᓇᓕ - ᑲᓛᒃ, ᓱᓗᕌᔫᖅ ᒧᕐᓴᕐ, Hᐊᓕ ᒧᕐᓱᕐ (ᒥᐊᓂᖅᓯᔨ) ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᕋᐳᑦ ᖃᕝᕖᑦᑐᖅ (ᒥᐊᓂᖅᓯᔨ), ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓯᕗᓂᐊᓂ ᓴᐅᒥᖅᖠᕐᒥ: ᓵᓕᑦ ᓯᒃᓯᒃ, ᓴᓂᓴ ᓇᑯᓛᖅ, ᐹᑯᕐ ᕚᒃᓄᕐ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᒪᒃᓰᓐ ᕋᓄᑦ ᐸᕐᓇᒃᐸᓪᓕᐊᔪᑦ ᑭᖑᓪᓕᖅᐹᒃᑯᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᒪᒃᑯᒃᑐᑦ ᕙᓕᐹᕐᓂᐊᖅᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᐱᒡᒍᓴᐅᔾᔪᐊᕐᓗᑎᒃ, ᖃᕝᕖᑦᑐᖅ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᒧᕐᓱᕐ ᒥᐊᓂᖅᓯᔨᐅᑉᓗᑎᒃ. ᐊᔾᔨᒦᖃᑕᐅᙱᑦᑐᖅ ᐃᓕᓄᐊ ᒧᕐᓱᕐ.

photo courtesy of Holly Mercer

The Rankin Royals, back row from left: Alyson McKay, Kailee Karlik, Amber Graham, Shanti Dias, Tati Connelly-Clark, Sulurayok Mercer, Holly Mercer (coach) and Robert Kabvitok (coach); and front from left: Charlotte Siksik, Sanisha Nakoolak, Parker Faulkner and Maxine Ronald are preparing for their final Nunavut junior volleyball territorial, with Kabvitok and Mercer holding the coaching reins. Missing from photo is Elinor Mercer. but he's not going to think about that because he's trying to put his head towards coaching hockey.

He admits, however, it's in the back of his mind that he really doesn't want to see the

Rankin Royals die because there's no other adult willing to step up and coach the team.

"I also know there are more kids interested in starting the volleyball program.

We always have 10-year olds

asking if there's going to be a junior program so they can play," said Kabvitok.

"They can't wait to be in the Rankin Royals program and that's been on my mind a little, too.

"We'd like to thank our local sports and recreation, the parents and the community for all the support we've received over the years.

"We appreciated all that support very much."

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