North · Photos Your North: Best reader photos for the week of May 14 The long weekend is here! Celebrate getting into the swing of May with our weekly gallery of your best photos from across the Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories.
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The long weekend is here! Celebrate getting into the swing of May with our weekly gallery of your best photos from across the Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories:
Cultural immersion: a group of women in Iqaluit show off their wares after an intensive kamik making course, put on by the Tukisigiarvik Centre. (Submitted by Ina Tikivik) Pretty nice balancing act! Adil Syed sent us this shot of his pup out playing in the spring weather to our CBC Yukon Facebook page. (Submitted by Adil Syed) Jets fever has hit Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut! Alecia sent us this shot of her son Linden - and a friend - ready to cheer on Winnipeg in the Western Conference Finals. (Submitted by Alecia Lowe) A grizzly bear mother keeps an eye out as her cubs get set for a good stretch between Skagway, Alaska and Whitehorse. Daniel O'Shea got a good look. (Submitted by Daniel O'Shea) Break-ups never looked so good: Jaime Cardinal sent us this gorgeous sunset shot over the ice break-up from Tsiigehtchic, N.W.T. (Submitted by Jaime Cardinal) Quack quack! Two ducks fly as the ice begins to melt in Inuvik, N.W.T., in this great shot by Kristian Binder. (Submitted by Kristian Binder) No doubt thoughts behind this smile have something to do with plans for the long weekend! Sue Thomas sent this shot to our CBC Yukon Facebook page. (Submitted by Sue Thomas) This busy mama was spotted by Tony Gonda last weekend on Yukon's popular upper ridge trail of the Hidden Lakes. 'A telephoto lense with high pixel count and cropping makes it seem that I was closer than I really was.The mother bear seemed as if it were running away from something... obviously encouraging its cubs to hurry and keep up. It may have been running away from a male bear that we spotted from a different vantage point about 15 minutes later.' (Submitted by Tony Gonda)