Arctic Moment: Shoulder Season
Location: Tibbitt Lake, North Slave Region
Photo by Tashina Weagle/NWTT
Features
Putting some meat on the backbone
A Q&A with Curtis Shaw, Northwestel COO, on what the feds’ $50-million announcement means for Nunavut.
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The Pizza Man
Meet Mike Mancini, the man behind the Snack Bar restaurant in the tiny Yukon town of Keno City. During Keno Gras, the annual Labour Day weekend festival, the town is tossed upside down.
Mike Mancini. Photo by Emily Sheff
Balancing The Scales
For women coming forward with domestic or sexual assault charges, the road to justice is rough at the best of times, but even more so under the pressures and scrutiny of small-town life. A pilot program in the Yukon is looking to change that.
A Refuge At Risk
Subsistence hunting in the Eastern Arctic hangs on one area of open water in North Baffin Bay. And Inuit at its edge are making sure their way of life is protected.
Long haul: It's 7 p.m. at the icy shore of Pond Inlet, Nunavut. Photo by Elaine Anselmi
Going It Alone
What happens when a small Northern community takes on an empire
Illustration by Beth Covvey
