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Joanna Quassa resigns as Nunavut environment, energy minister

Nunavut MLA Joanna Quassa has resigned from cabinet for family reasons, the territory's premier announced on Monday.

Indigenous film wins Amplify Voices Award at Toronto International Film Festival

Indigenous film wins Amplify Voices Award at Toronto International Film Festival

An Indigenous film that had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has won a festival award. During a ceremony held on the final day of the festival on Sept. 17 it was announced that the film titled Tautuktavuk (What We See) had captured the Amplify Voices Award as the Best BIPOC Canadian Feature. The film features a pair of sisters, Uyarak and Saqpinak, who are from the Inuit hamlet of Igloolik in Nunavut. After experiencing domestic violence in her community, Uyarak flees to live in Montreal.

Canada's Indigenous Filmmakers Build on Success With More Films and Visibility at Toronto Festival

Indigenous filmmakers continue to make strides in Canada, building industry capacity on their own terms and telling stories that both honor their communities and reach out to global audiences. Toronto’s 2023 slate offers audiences and buyers vital, provocative, and — because we need it — hilarious world-premiering work from established creators and up-and-comers. “Tautuktavuk (What We …

Canada's Indigenous Filmmakers Ride Wave to Screens

Canada’s Indigenous Filmmakers Ride Wave to Screens

TIFF 2023 Reviews: Tautuktavuk (What We See) and Boil Alert

Two films highlighting different social and political issues affecting the Indigenous peoples of North America are amongst those having their world [...]

Snowmobile fire grows to engulf home in Igloolik

Multiple homes have burned in Igloolik, Nunavut, in a matter of weeks, including Desiree Attagutaluk's. Now the family awaits answers.

Directors Lucy Tulugarjuk and Carol Kunnuk's Indigenous drama 'What We See' to premiere at TIFF

The co-directors found a way of imparting heartbreaking information so subtly, you don’t always realize what’s being said until it echoes in your own chest

Igloolik man sentenced in killing of 17-year-old girlfriend

Nunavut recovery centre breaks ground in Iqaluit

Leaders from various levels of government turned the tundra in Iqaluit on Monday to mark the beginning of the construction of the Nunavut Recovery Centre, now called Aqqusariaq.