Mavis Elias Adjun and her spouse Colin have not only learned to take over a business, they’re expanding on it. Mavis worked for Webb Outfitting for years, but the late owner, Fred Webb, was eventually ready to retire. He sold the company to Mavis and Colin in 2015. “We never ran a business in anything […]
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Business partners Kirsten Kaludjak and Lindsay Kidlapik have made one dream a reality and they have another in mind. The Arviat bakers opened K&L Pastries two years ago after completing Inspire Nunavut, a six-month social entrepreneurship training program and business incubator that travels to communities in the territory. “Inspire Nunavut helped a lot. They hired
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Iqaluit born Bernice Kootoo Clarke has a vision to continue showcasing Inuit culture and bring healing to her people through her business. In 2012, Clarke founded a cosmetic business, right in the comfort of her own kitchen. She started with selling “natural” body butters. Then in 2014 a fellow Inuk encouraged her to use
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In late June, the Apex-based Arctic UAV Inc. won third place in a video contest launched by senseFly, the company that makes the eBee mapping drone. Arctic UAV uses that particular unmanned aerial vehicle for work it does in Nunavut. “The team at this indigenous-owned business did a great job of explaining how they use
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Caribou Cabs, the capital’s main taxi company, joined the digital age when it launched a smartphone app two years in the making May 22. With the purchase of Pai-Pa Taxi in March, Caribou Cabs has two 12-hour shifts, with 35 cars on each shift. “We still have our 24-hour, seven days a week dispatching office,
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Arctic Fresh, an Iglulik-based online retailer that brings groceries and other products to Nunavummiut, is ambitiously aiming to serve all of Nunavut, perhaps as soon as next year, says CEO Rhoda Angutimarik. The company, which is currently operational in 13 communities, recently earned a social enterprise award through Startup Canada, an organization that supports and
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Ungalaq Transportation Services has a pickup truck and an SUV on the road to help people in Iglulik get around town and to the airport.
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Charles Zikalala can remember landing in a Nunavut community and having to walk from the airport into town, luggage in hand. “It was kind of hard,” he said.
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