{"id":627937,"date":"2026-04-25T15:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627937\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:17:31","slug":"toonik-tyme-fishing-derby-outdoor-games-rescheduled-for-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627937\/","title":{"rendered":"Toonik Tyme fishing derby, outdoor games rescheduled for Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\"><a class=\"category news\" href=\"https:\/\/nunatsiaq.com\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Apr 24, 2026 \u2013 12:57 pm EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"subhead\">Iqaluit spring festival postponed events due to bad weather<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Toonik.jpeg\" title=\"Toonik Tyme fishing derby, outdoor games rescheduled for Saturday\"><br \/>\n                                <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Toonik.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" title=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of people line up for a free Toonik Tyme barbecue hosted by officers at RCMP V Division in Iqaluit on April 10. The festival\u2019s fishing derby and outdoor games are scheduled for Saturday after being postponed due to poor weather. (Photo by Daron Letts)<\/p>\n<p class=\"author custom\">By Nunatsiaq News<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still Toonik Tyme in Iqaluit, at least for two events.<\/p>\n<p>A fishing derby and outdoor games will be held Saturday at Imiqtarviminiq Lake in Iqaluit.<\/p>\n<p>Originally scheduled for April 19, members of the non-profit 123Go! host organization rescheduled both events due to cold and windy weather during the annual April festival.<\/p>\n<p>The new times and date were posted to the Toonik Tyme Facebook page on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Registration for the fishing derby is scheduled to start on site Saturday at 10 a.m. and final measurements are planned to be recorded at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The outdoor games begin at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The regular schedule for this year\u2019s Toonik Tyme ran from April 10 to 19.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nunatsiaq.com\/ads\/260417-nwmb\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"373\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260417.100.91.png\" class=\"no-lazy-load wp-post-image\" title=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imiqtarviminiq Lake takes its name from the Inuktitut term for \u201cformer place to get water.\u201d The lake served as the municipal water supply in the 1950s and 1960s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News\u00a0\u00a0Apr 24, 2026 \u2013 12:57 pm EDT Iqaluit spring festival postponed events due to bad weather Hundreds of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-627937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}