May 8th, 2024

Ten innovative teams from across Canada’s North were awarded a share of over $3.2 million for their groundbreaking by the North and for the North projects. These Arctic Inspiration Prizes were awarded during a celebration held on May 7, 2024 in Whitehorse in partnership with the Arctic Indigenous Investment Conference

May 8th, 2024

An Inuit cultural project based in northern Labrador walked away with this year’s $1 million Arctic Inspiration Prize (AIP). The AIP provides money for northern innovation projects with a focus on education, health and wellbeing, culture, arts and language, science and traditional knowledge, climate change and the economy.

May 8th, 2024

A group of youth in Hopedale in northern Labrador have won $1 million to build their dream of an Inuit cultural centre in their home community, marking the first Nunatsiavut project to win the top Arctic Inspiration Prize. 

September 4th, 2024

Months after winning $1 million from the Arctic Inspiration Prize, a group of young people in Hopedale, N.L., have incorporated their organization and found a place to offer programming, give crafting lessons and start Inuttut language lessons.

2025

Inotsiavik provides language and culture programming for Inuit in Nunatsiavut in person and online.  This looks like language lessons by Inuit instructors, sewing circles and courses, in person elders gatherings, land based activities and culture skills workshops such as animal skinning and cleaning and traditional tool making (uluit, Kullet for example). We go by what programming our Inuit community members would like to see and listen to their feedback.

December 21st, 2025

Since the Labrador Inuit Lands Claims Agreement came into effect 20 years ago, formally recognizing Nunatsiavut, the artists who live there have been busy. From winning awards to curating touring exhibitions and creating local spaces for artists, they continue to make their presence known. Read on to discover what they have achieved.

March 19th, 2026

Inotsiavik is offering youth-led cultural programming, Inuttitut lessons, and more in northern Labrador. Founders say that winning the million-dollar Arctic Inspiration Prize in 2024 allowed them “to have the freedom to just do what the community wants to see.”

March 20th, 2026

Description goes hereThe Inotsiavik Centre is a youth-led non-profit that offers Inuit cultural and Inuttitut programs. In 2024, the group behind the centre won the $1-million Arctic Inspiration Prize. With that money, the team has been providing programming in Nunatsiavut in-person and online. 

March 21st, 2026

After winning the million-dollar Arctic Inspiration Prize in 2024, the facility is offering language lessons, traditional arts workshops and more in northern ‘Labrador’.