Spirit Healthcare Group bridging gaps for Indigenous communities
Walk down the aisles of drug stores across Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Nunavut and you’ll increasingly find shelves stocked with products bearing the Spirit Healthcare Group logo.
The Stackton by AdrianMartinus Design
Adrian and Martinus were inspired by Japanese artist Haroshi’s work recycling skateboards into sculptures.
Uvagut by Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona
A few months ago, Ottawa-based printmaker and ceramicist Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona came across artworks by her grandmother and great-grandmother in the Art Gallery of Guelph’s collection.
Kitikmeot women being sent to Edmonton for births amid N.W.T. nurse shortage
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With the largest hospital in the Northwest Territories too understaffed to handle births, some expecting mothers in Nunavut have to fly even further to have their babies.
A New Light
Montréal’s classic street lamps are being modernized, replaced individually with LED bulbs, rendering the familiar glowing glass orbs obsolete. But with the help of a local artisan, some will see a new life.
Solid Grounding
How IQ – or Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, meaning traditional knowledge – is contributing to a more holistic conservation model with the Aviqtuuq IPCA in Nunavut.
Pang print shop in limbo as artists decry lack of funding
Jolly Atagoyuk, a printmaker from Pangnirtung, opens shallow wooden drawers — one by one — and sifts through dozens of his sketches and prints from years past.
Home and Away
In just a matter of weeks, thousands of stone sculptures by Inuit artists were brought up from dark vaults in the basement of the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) into the light.
Iqaluit’s water crisis
When the tap water in Nunavut’s capital became unsafe to use, community members swung into action to help those in need.
Nunavut parents weight pros and cons of school amid COVID-19
With an overcrowded home and two children too young to be vaccinated, one father from Cambridge Bay worries about sending his children back to class.
Pang’s only B&B owner reflects on 5 years in the biz
In a bright yellow house facing the mountains in Pangnirtung, the hamlet’s only bed and breakfast operator, Markus Wilcke, spends most mornings making omelettes or pancakes for his guests.
Trudeau jets into Iqaluit to pledge $360M for housing if re-elected
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau sat down with Nunatsiaq News Monday in Iqaluit to talk about his party’s promise to provide $360 million over four years for housing across Inuit Nunangat.