Your North: Best reader photos for week of Feb. 20

An airport proposal, a feisty lynx and a micro-masterpiece headline your best photos of the week sent to us from across Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Nunavik.

Photos Your North: Best reader photos for the week of Feb. 13

There were some beautiful skies and some close encounters with wildlife in your best shots of the week from across the North.

Cree leaders tour new governance agreement and constitution for members' input

by Jaime Little, Betsy Longchap

Over the next two months, Quebec Cree have a chance to learn more about two documents that could change the way their region is run: a governance agreement that would allow Cree greater control over the lands immediately surrounding their communities, and a Cree constitution.

Divers search for Waswanipi man who may have fallen through ice on snowmobile

The search continues for the body of Eric Boutin, a Waswanipi, Que., man who went missing on a snowmobile trip earlier this week and may have fallen through ice.

Body of missing Salluit man who drove snowmobile off cliff found

The body of Steven Yuliusi, a Nunavik man who was reported missing last week from the community of Salluit, was found Wednesday morning, according to the co-ordinator of the community's search efforts.

Search continues for Northern Quebec man who may have driven snowmobile off cliff

Search and rescue teams in Northern Quebec are looking for a man who may have driven his snowmobile off a cliff five days ago.

A Christmas feast for the elderly in Sherbrooke

by Julia Page

Little Brothers, a network that pairs up elderly people with volunteers, makes sure no one need spend Christmas alone.

Makivik Corp calls for end to sport hunting of Quebec's Leaf River caribou

Nunavik's Makivik Corporation is calling on the Quebec government to stop the sport hunting of a rapidly declining caribou herd.

Cree reiterate call to end sport hunt of declining caribou herd

by Jaime Little, Christopher Herodier

Tensions between the Cree Nation and the Quebec government are mounting as the government continues to permit sport hunting of a rapidly declining caribou herd in Northern Quebec.

'Inuit children need protection too,' says Pauktuutit president about sexual abuse

by Elyse Skura

Rebecca Kudloo, the president of Canada's national Inuit women's organization, says she hopes Inuit won't be forgotten when federal leaders discuss ways to tackle the "very serious" and "ongoing" problem of childhood sexual abuse.

Cree outraged over 'disturbing' caribou hunt despite changes to this year's rules

by Christopher Herodier, Jaime Little

Photos on social media of dozens of dead caribou on the Transtaiga Highway near Chisasibi in Northern Quebec, have yet again provoked outrage among Cree leaders, hunters and environmentalists.

'So open to us as Cree people': Eastmain says goodbye to Anglican priest of 4 years

by Christopher Herodier, Jaime Little

Marilyn van Duffelen left Eastmain, Que., this week after more than four years as the Anglican priest in the coastal community of 650 people, about 700 km north of Val-d'Or.

New aboriginal entrepreneurship program starts at Mistissini high school

by Jaime Little

Cree teenagers in Mistissini, Que., now have the chance to create business plans, learn from local mentors and even access start-up funding under a new entrepreneurship program created by former prime minister Paul Martin’s Martin Family Initiative.

Mistissini to get new adult education facility

by Jaime Little

Representatives of the Quebec and federal governments announced $32 million for a new adult education facility as well as 40 new housing units for school board employees in Mistissini.

Northern Quebec mining project looks at airships as alternative to road

by Nick Murray

Quest Rare Minerals has signed a memorandum of understanding to have Straightline Aviation operate a fleet of seven ships at its proposed Strange Lake mine along the Quebec-Labrador border.