Kuuvik is the northernmost major river of the west coast of Nunavik, Québec. Several islands are at its mouth, including Aqiggituut which means abundant with ptarmigans. Inuit knew of the abundance of seals and whales in this area, making it an ideal place for Inuit families to winter.
Shelly De Caria from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, became the first Inuk CEO at Canadian North in December 2023
ITK is calling for government to consider a legislative response to protect the livelihoods of Inuit artists
Federal and Inuit leaders meet to discuss housing, education at ICPC meeting May 9
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami President Natan Obed deliver opening remarks at a meeting of the Inuit-Crown Partnership Committee (ICPC) in Ottawa
MY NAME IS JESSICA WINTERS and I grew up in Makkovik, Nunatsiavut. Christine Nochasak was my Inuktitut teacher for several years at the school in Makkovik.
When Katherine Takpannie was 15, she took a point‐and ‐shoot camera she got from her uncle and began a project where she took a photo every day for about nine months: people, nature, buildings. She still has those photos and when she looks at them now, she sees how the seeds of curiosity and wonder bloomed into a career in photography.
On November 20th, 2018, history was made at Waddington’s Auction House in Toronto. A limited edition print of Kenojuak Ashevak’s “Enchanted Owl” sold at auction for a whopping $216,000. This simultaneously shattered previous records held by the famous bird, and reopened a recurring debate in the Canadian arts landscape—resale right.
NELLIE AREY HAS LIVED IN AKLAVIK SINCE 1959 and has raised her family there, as well as continuing to make a subsistence living on the land. Nellie is here to tell some of what it was like growing up on the land, teaching her kids and grandkids the way her family taught her. This interview was special for me, as I am one of her grandkids, and I heard stories that were new even to me.
THINK OF THE MOUNTAINS WHEN YOU TELL THIS STORY. A voice over the phone instructs me to remember my first time visiting the hamlet of Ausuittuq. I see immense mountain ranges all around, cloaked in a permanent blanket of snow and the Arctic Ocean at the hems of its shores. At the base of the mountains
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami President Natan Obed, federal Cabinet ministers and elected leadership from the four Inuit Treaty Organizations gathered for a meeting of the ICPC in Ottawa
LIKE MOST OF MY UPBRINGING, it was a challenge for me to place myself in spaces I was not invited. Speaking from when I was not particularly aware of my own presence, I would feel that sometimes my mere existence was welcomed. It was the way someone would look at me with frowned eyebrows, glances or the movement in their lips. The unspoken awkward silence, the idea that perhaps not saying anything is the only way of saying something. There are often no words required to know if you are welcomed or not.
