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A curious Arctic wolf tries to steal Anne Oppliger’s bag on May 4 during a photography expedition with Ausuittuq Adventures on Ellesmere Island. “He tried to take the bag four times,” said New Jersey-based photographer Gregory Garnich, who captured the moment. He said he believes the wolf was drawn to the bag after “a small Arctic fox peed on it in Resolute Bay.” This trip was Garnich’s second to the Canadian North, but his first time seeing Arctic wolf packs. (Photo by Gregory Garnich)

Construction is underway Tuesday on Uquutaq Society’s new 44-bed low-barrier shelter in Iqaluit. It will replace the current 17-bed shelter on the Road to Apex. The frame of the new building is up on the former site of Nunavut Country Food at 158 Nipisa St. and the project is expected to be completed in 2026. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)

Dinah Pikuyak holds a sign demanding justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women at Iqaluit’s Red Dress Day march Monday. Approximately 75 people attended on the May 5 National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit-Plus people. “I’m here on behalf of my niece Savanna who was murdered in Ottawa when she went for a nursing program,” she said. Savanna Pikuyak, 22, was murdered in Ottawa on Sept. 11, 2022, a week after she moved to Ottawa from Sanirajak. (Photo by Daron Letts)

Judo Nunavut members Meeka MacDonald, 12, top, and Charlotte Fewer, 13, compete in the Judo Nunavut year-end tournament, held Saturday in the Aqsarniit Ilinniarvik School gymnasium in Iqaluit. More than 80 competitors in three age categories participated in the event, making it the biggest tournament turnout in the organization’s 21-year history. Registration for the next season will take place in September, said coach Matilda Pinksen. (Photo by Daron Letts)

Cecile Panika rocks a custom Toronto Maple Leafs amauti on April 20, made from a John Tavares jersey. “We are hardcore Leafs fans from Whale Cove,” she said. Panika said a friend converted the jersey, which was owned by her 22-year-old son who died last year. “Every time I [wear] it, I feel my late son is with me,” she said. With a win Thursday, the Leafs can eliminate the Ottawa Senators in Round 1 of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Leafs lead the series 3-2. (Photo courtesy Cecile Panika)

A polar bear noses around a home in Ivujivik early Wednesday morning. Nunavik Police Service deputy Chief Jean-François Morin said officers weren’t called, and it’s believed the bear later wandered back to the tundra near the airport without incident. (Photo courtesy of Jusipi Mangiuk)

Larry Audlaluk, left, and Olaf Christensen check their seal net outside Grise Fiord on Wednesday afternoon. The pair had one ringed seal caught in their net, which was set in a crack in the sea ice. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)

Jimmy Kooneeliusie from Qikiqtarjuaq, left, and Bobby Uttuigak from Igloolik varnish wooden seal-hunting harpoons they carved at Ottawa’s Isaruit Inuit Arts’ wood and metal workshop. Guided by sculptor Ruben Komangapik, they are learning to make traditional Inuit tools like ulus from modern materials for Tungasuvvingat Inuit. Uttuigak joined in November and is learning “new tricks,” Komangapik said. (Photo by Nehaa Bimal)

After the Easter Bunny hopped out of Rankin Inlet on Monday morning, kids jumped on the ice for some “speedy pond hockey fun,” resident Jim MacDonald said. He credits fellow residents Gavin Gee and Jocelyn Merritt for organizing the hockey games. (Photo courtesy of Jim MacDonald)

Hunter Aningmiuq, 11, holds up a ptarmigan he hunted earlier this spring at a family friend’s cabin outside Iqaluit. Aningmiuq hunts often, says his mother Annie Aningmiuq, who added he caught three ptarmigan Saturday as well. (Photo courtesy of Annie Aningmiuq)

Jarloo Kiguktak throws a broomstick Monday during Grise Fiord’s Easter games. At least 30 people in Nunavut’s smallest and northernmost community gathered outside the hamlet office to take part in the games, which also included an Easter egg hunt, bunny hop and egg-on-spoon races. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)

Rival candidates James T. Arreak, left, of the Conservatives, and NDP incumbent MP Lori Idlout are making stops all over Nunavut during their federal election campaigns. They were booked on the same plane on Tuesday. “James and I have known each other awhile and we have respect for each other. We both ended up in Baker Lake and now are travelling at the same time to Rankin Inlet,” Idlout said in a social media post. (Photo courtesy of Lori Idlout)

Andrew Maher, right, and his dog Ikuma hold a slight lead over Sarah McNair-Landry and her dog Roscoe in the two-kilometre Toonik Tyme skijor race Tuesday night. Maher won the race, which drew 14 human racers, each accompanied by a dog, as well as more than 50 spectators to the entrance of Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park. Toonik Tyme, Iqaluit’s annual spring festival, continues through April 20. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)

Iqaluit Mayor and lifelong igloo builder Solomon Awa shows how to carve snow into blocks during a Toonik Tyme igloo-building workshop at Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park on Saturday. About 100 people took part in the workshop, watching Awa work and attempting to help. According to Toonik Tyme’s schedule, at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday a scavenger hunt will be held followed by the annual skijor race at 6 p.m., where competitors on skis are pulled by a dog. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)

Ben Kovic hams it up for a photographer after chipping off pieces of frozen caribou on Frobisher Bay on Sunday. He was among the spectators watching the Toonik Tyme race from Iqaluit to Kimmirut, which he participated in during the 1970s and 1980s. (Photo by Daron Letts)

“You will experience hardship in life, that’s manilaaksiuniq, or rough ice,” said Isaruit Arts elder consultant Asenath Kannutaq. She lit the qulliq to start the second day of the Creators’ Conference in Ottawa. She spoke with attendees about being on the ice with her father in Sanirajak, maintaining a qamutiik, navigating blizzards, and giving her pualuuk, or mittens, to her mother to keep her hands warm. (Photo by Nehaa Bimal)

Two dog teams face off Thursday to reach the finish line of the Puvirnituq Snow Festival race. A first-place finish earns $2,400, and if the record of one hour and seven minutes is broken, another $1,000 is added to the pot. (Photo by Cedric Gallant)

Author Kathleen Lippa reads from her new book, “Arctic Predator: The Crimes of Edward Horne Against Children in Canada’s North,” during a book launch Tuesday evening in an Ottawa bookstore. Lippa, who worked as a journalist in Iqaluit in the early 2000s, learned about Horne’s crimes and wrote the book because she said Canadians needed to learn more about their “Arctic brothers and sisters.” Horne was a school teacher and principal in several Nunavut communities during the 1970s until the mid-1980s. (Photo by Corey Larocque)

Hugh Tulurialik plays keyboard during a performance at Baker Lake’s community hall on Saturday as part of the lineup at the Baker Lake music concert. A square dance followed the free event. (Photo courtesy of Iqklu Killulark)

Michael Foote, with the 1st Patrol Group of the Canadian Rangers, dons polar bear pants Tuesday during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to Iqaluit. Foote purchased the hide from a hunter in Kinngait, scraped and tanned it, and designed the pants pattern. He also made a neck warmer and mitts from the fur. They serve him well in the field but spring temperatures hovering around -17 C to -27 C this time of year are getting too warm to wear the gear, he said. (Photo by Daron Letts)

When Charlie Tookaluk from Umiujaq chose sobriety in 2020, he also picked up a paintbrush. “I saw many images of different art styles of Mona Lisa, I was thinking of painting the Mona Lisa as an Inuk.” He completed Inuk Mona Lisa in November 2021, followed by Inuit Gothic, his take on the iconic couple, in 2023. Tookaluk had previously taken a painting class at John Abbott College in Montreal and later refreshed his skills on his own in Toronto in 2019. (Photo courtesy of Charlie Tookaluk)