QIA held an election in December 2020 for a number of positions including Community Directors for Arctic Bay, Pangnirtung, and Qikiqtarjuaq. We also have a new Community Director in Pond Inlet. [...]

QIA’s Board of Directors appointed two new Members at Large to its Executive Committee, and assigned portfolios to its new Executive Committee Members on Jan. 13 at its Board of Directors meeting [...]

QIA’s 2021 Winter newsletter Tusarassat, is now available in print and on our website. As always, our newsletter is full of photos and information about all our work across the Qikiqtani Region. [...]

Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA) is pleased to release our 2020 Tallurutiup Imanga Inuit Impact and Benefit Agreement Annual Report. On August 1, 2019, QIA ratified the Inuit Impact Benefit [...]

Arctic Bay’s Shawn Shappa and Dale Aola were traveling from Arctic Bay to Pond Inlet on snowmobile on Wednesday, January 6, typically a seven-to-12-hour journey, when something went wrong. The [...]

November 22 is National Housing Day, a day to call attention to the housing crisis in Canada. In Nunavut, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent outbreak, the need for safe [...]

Inuk-Canadian artist, Pitseolak Ashoona, is one of eight people considered for recognition on a new $5 Canadian bank note. Ashoona, who was born on-the-land on Nottingham Island in the Hudson [...]

Since 2017, the Q-STEP Work Ready Program has been at the core of QIA’s training. About 300 Inuit have completed this training and many have found employment or enhanced their skills. Usually, [...]

2020 began with unprecedented events and drastic changes. In Nunavut, the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic sparked reminders of past trauma of tuberculosis and the ongoing shortcomings of [...]

Arctic College’s Ellie Tungilik won the BMO 1st Art! $7,500 cash prize for her original jewelry work on a necklace titled, “Finding Hope.” “Hope is a vehicle for a brighter day, for finding [...]