OTTAWA — An award-winning Inuit artist has been identified as the woman who was found dead earlier this week in the Rideau River in Ottawa. Police say the body of Annie Pootoogook, 46, of Ottawa was discovered on Monday, but don’t suspect foul play. Pootoogook, who was born in Cape Dorset, on Dorset Island, came from a family of artists. She won the 2006 Sobey Art Foundation Award, an annual prize given for contemporary Canadian art, for her pen and coloured pencil drawings representing facets of Inuit life. Nunavut Premier Peter Taptuna offered his condolences to Pootoogook’s family Friday afternoon on Twitter.

Source: National Post September 24, 2016 02:26 UTC