Iqaluit cake shop in a school bus donates sweets to nearby shelter

By William Koblensky Varela, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunavut News Cobra’s Confections has one of the more distinct storefronts in Nunavut. The Iqaluit cake and sweets shop has operated out of a school bus for the past month. Rawad “Cobra” Gafar said buying a school bus instead of renting a building helps him pass along savings to his customers. “I’ve been seeing the chocolate is like $5, $6. Nobody can afford that, and maybe because I come from tribes, I learned how to break the bread between me and the other people, and then I tell myself ‘I have the knowledge to bring like the chocolate, the chips.’ That’s why the chocolate over here is for $2. The chips for $1 and a half,” Gafar said. Gafar was born in…

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