Robert Connelly, president of the Kivalliq Trade Show Society, says this year’s trade show starting Monday will be about Arctic sovereignty and the changing world. Connelly is seen here speaking at last year’s trade show gala. (Photo courtesy of the Kivalliq Trade Show Society)
Delegates from business and government expected to land in Rankin Inlet next week for annual event
Arctic sovereignty and the changing economic and political landscape will be major topics at the 16th annual Kivalliq Trade Show next week in Rankin Inlet.
Paul Irngaut, vice-president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., speaks at the Nunavut Trade Show in Iqaluit on Tuesday morning. His talk was billed as a fireside chat about Nunavut’s role in Canada’s economic future. “If you don’t have healthy communities, you can’t really have clear sovereignty and security in the North,” he said. (Photo by Daron Letts)
A sealift worker drives a pickup truck off a sealift barge in Kuujjuaq on Tuesday afternoon. Like other remote northern communities, Kuujjuaq relies on the summer sealift for the shipment of large goods such as vehicles, construction materials and various other products. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)