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Inuujaq Leslie Fredlund’s Maybe Somewhere grows despite launching just before pandemic

When Rankin Inlet’s Inuujaq Leslie Fredlund decided she was going to open her store selling Indigenous-made products at the beginning of 2020, she knew there would be challenges ahead. But not even she could have expected a global pandemic that would bring the local economy to a grinding halt. “It was the summer of 2019 […]

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‘We’re still standing’; Arctic Bay entrepreneurs cope with Covid fallout

Zipporah and Moses Oyukuluk are seeing a gradual return of guests at their Tangmaarvik Inn after the pandemic wiped out bookings from mid-March through June. “Covid-19 touched our business quite a bit,” Zipporah said. Moses and Zipporah Oyukuluk started out with a taxi business in Arctic Bay in the 1990s. They branched into heavy equipment

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