To survive, Pangnirtung artists use new ideas

“After 50 years the whole Inuit art scene is shifting, changing”

In an effort to make their work more appealing and to stave off mounting financial losses, artists with the Uqqurmiut print shop in Pangnirtung are trying new styles this year.

The 2011 Pangnirtung print collection, which features work from new artists as well as a diversity of styles, is designed...

Canada’s North digs in for the good — and bad — of a mining boom

"We're having a party here, but we have to think about when that party ends. What happens then?"

BRADLEY BOUZANE AND CHANTAL MACK
Postmedia News

You can see the effects of the mining boom in Canada’s North on the streets of its communities: There’s commotion; there’s optimism; and there’s money.

Boris Kotelewetz says he’s witnessed first-hand the changes growth in the mining sector across...

From glacier to glacier: Nunavut meets Nepal

"Looking at the children, I saw myself”

Ask four Nunavummiut from Clyde River about their recent two-week trip to Nepal, and they’ll tell you 10,000-kilometre journey to the Himalayan country was “a trip of a lifetime.”

Hunters Laimikie Palluq and David Iqaqrialu, along with Mike Jaypoody, a young filmmaker and computer technician, and...

Kitikmeot youth take test drive on the road to jobs

“It showed me you can do it”

Learning to use carved fruits and vegetables to make an edible duck: that’s a skill Jen Angohiatok acquired when she recently visited the culinary arts program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Alberta.

Angohiatok, 17, a recent graduate of Cambridge Bay’s Kiilinik High School,...

CamBay women learn to cut, stitch and share

A Nunavut Arctic College workshop brings skilled elders and aspiring seamstresses together

CAMBRIDGE BAY — When Annie Neglak of Cambridge was a young girl growing up in Bathurst Inlet, her mother sewed parkas, boots, mitts and other essential items of clothing for the family.

But, in 1959, at the age when Neglak would have started practicing and perfecting her sewing skills, she was...