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Good afternoon everyone. My name is Peter Adamek and I'm NOVA Gold's Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Thank you for attending this virtual Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of NOVAgold Resources, Inc. We wish to thank our shareholders for their virtual participation in this meeting. We are grateful for your interest and support. For today's agenda, I will begin by taking us through the formal business portion of the meeting. Following the conclusion of formal business, Dr. Thomas Kaplan, Novigold's Chairman, and Greg Lang, Novogold's President and CEO, will provide an overview of Novigol's 2025 results and the outlook for the remainder of 2026. We will then conclude with an opportunity for shareholder questions. Copies of the Management Information Circular, the 2025 Shareholder Meeting Minutes, and the rules and procedures for the conduct of the meeting are available to shareholders in the Materials section of the Virtual Meeting Portal. For those of you joining the meeting as guests, the Management Informations Circular is available on our profile on Cedar Plus and EDGAR. As this meeting is being held virtually, we would like to set out a few rules for the orderly conduct of the meeting. Due to the virtual nature of the meetings, voting results will be provided after the completion of the meet in order to limit the waiting time for tabulating the results of votes provided. For specific vote tabulations, please see Novigold's report of voting results which will be posted to Novigolds Cedar Plus profile at cedarplus.ca and Edgar profile on scc.gov after this meeting. Voting on all matters will be conducted by electronic ballot using the Broadridge virtual interface. Registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders will be asked to vote on each business item. If you have already voted by proxy, it is important that you not vote again here at the meeting unless you intend to change your initial vote. When the polls are open, registered chair holders and duly appointed proxy holders may cast their votes using the voting button on the virtual meeting screen. You will only have a certain amount of time to vote before the polls close at the end of the formal business portion of this meeting. The online polls are now open for voting. Registered shareholders or duly appointed proxy holders will be permitted to ask questions through the Q&A button in the lower right hand corner of the screen. refer to the rules and procedures for the conduct of the meeting for additional information. If a shareholder has a question about one of the matters in the agenda to be voted on by the shareholders, that question may be submitted through the Ask a Question button on your screen at or before the time the matters are before the meeting. If you believe your question or comment relates to the official business of the meeting, please label it as official business in your submission. Please note that there will be a slight delay in the publication of the communications received. We will answer relevant questions on any matter on the agenda to be voted on by the shareholders at the meeting before the voting is closed. The meeting will now come to order. To expedite the meeting, I will move all motions, and in accordance with the Articles of the Company, no motions need to be seconded. Pursuant to the Artacles of the company, and with the consent of the meeting I will act as the meeting chair, and Sean Petty will act meeting secretary. With the consent to the meeting the chair appoints Beth Vanderbeek as scrutineer. The notice calling this meeting of shareholders was mailed by Broderidge to all shareholders of record as of March 18, 2026. The declaration of mailing is available for inspection by any shareholder. Mr. Petty will append the declaration as a schedule to the minutes of this meeting. the scrutineer has tab the scrutinier has completed the tabulation of the shareholders present in person or represented by proxy a quorum for a meeting of nova gold shareholders is achieved if at least two persons are personally present at the meeting and those two persons are, or who represent by proxy shareholders who, in the aggregate, hold at least 25% of the issued shares of the company entitled to vote at the meeting. The report of the scrutineer indicates that a quorum is present, and as notice has been properly given, I declare this meeting regularly and duly called and constituted for the transaction of business. There are nine items of formal business before the meeting today. One, to verify the minutes of the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Two, to receive the annual report of the directors containing the consolidated financial statements of the company for the year-ended November 30, 2025, together with the report of auditors thereon. 3. To elect directors for the forthcoming year. 4. To appoint the company's auditor and to authorize the directors through the Audit Committee to fix the auditor's remuneration for the fourth coming year. 5. To consider and pass an ordinary resolution to amend the Stock Award Plan to reduce the maximum share reservation limit from 8% to 7% and approve all unallocated entitlements under the stock award plan. Six, to consider and pass an ordinary resolution to approve all Unallocrated Entitlements under the Performance Share Unit Plan. Seven, to considering and pass an ordinary Resolution to approve all UnAllocated Entitlement under the Deferred Share Unit plan. 8. To consider and approve a non-binding resolution approving the compensation of the company's named executive officers, and 9. To considering and approve the non- binding resolution on the preferred frequency of holding the non binding advisory vote on the executive compensation. The minutes of the Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on May 15, 2025 have been made available for review by any shareholder. Receiving no objections, the minutes will be taken as read and verified. We will now present the Annual Report of Directors containing the Consolidated Financial Statements of Novigold for the year ended November 30, 2025, together with the Auditor's Report thereon. A copy of the Annual Financial Statement was mailed to each shareholder of record who specifically requested a copy. are also available for review on the company's website at scc.gov and at cedarplus.ca. Mark Patterson of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the company�s auditor, is present at the meeting today. If there are any questions on the financial statements of the company, please submit your questions in the Ask a Question box of the virtual platform to be addressed at the end of the meeting. The next item of business is the election of directors. The Board of Directors and Shareholders determined that the business of the company can be properly conducted by a board consisting of 10 directors. 10 individuals have been nominated to serve on the Board of Directors as set out in the Management Information Circular. The nominees are Dr. Elaine Darward-King, Ali Irfan, Dr. Thomas Kaplan, Hume Kyle, Greg Lang, Kalidas Matapedi, Kevin MacArthur, Daniel Muniz-Cantania, Ethan Shutt, and Don Whitaker. There being no more nominations, I declare the nominations closed. I will move to the next item of business. the next item of business is to appoint auditors of the company to hold office until the next annual meeting there is a motion before the meeting that price waterhouse cooper's llp located in vancouver british columbia be appointed auditorsof the company to holdoffice until thenextannualmeetingoruntiltheirsuccessorsaredulyappointed and that the directors through the Audit Committee be authorized to fix their remuneration. I will move to the next item of business. The next item of business is to consider, and if thought fit, approve an ordinary resolution amending the Stock Award Plan to reduce the maximum share reservation limit from 8% to 7% and to approve all unallocated entitlements under the Company Stock Award Plan as amended. A copy of the Stock Award plan is included as Appendix A to the Management Information Circular. The full text of the proposed resolution approving the unallocate entitlements under the Stock Awards Plan is set out on page 113 of the Management Informations Circular I will move to the next item of business. The next item of business is to consider and if thought fit approve an ordinary resolution approving all unallocated entitlements under the company's performance share unit plan as amended. A copy of the performance share unit plan is included as Appendix C to the Management Information Circular. The full text of the proposed resolution, approving the unallocated entitlements under the Performance Share Unit Plan, is set out on page 126 of the Management Information Circular. I will now move to the next item of business. the next item of business is to consider and if thought fit approve an ordinary resolution approving all unallocated entitlements under the company's deferred share unit plan as amended a copy of the deferred shared unit plan is included as appendix e to the management information circular The full text of the proposed resolution approving the unallocated entitlements under the Deferred Share Unit Plan is set out on page 136 of the Management Information Circular. I will move to the next item of business. The next item is to consider, and if thought fit, approve a non-binding resolution approves the compensation of the company's named executive officers. The company's compensation discussion and analysis is contained on pages 46-68 of the Management Information Circular. The full text of the proposed non-binding resolution approving the compensation of the company's named executive officers is set out on page 24 of the Management Information Circular I will move to the next item of business. The next item of business is to consider, and if thought fit, approve a non-binding resolution on the preferred frequency of holding the non-abiding advisory vote on Executive Compensation. The discussion regarding the proposed non- binding resolution of the preferred frequency of the holding the Non-Binding Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation is found on page 25 of the Management Information Circular. I will move to the voting on the foregoing items of business. As previously mentioned, the polls are now open and all registered holders and proxy holders who have properly logged in with their control numbers and wish to vote are able to vote all motions being brought forth at this meeting by clicking on the voting button on their screen. If you have already voted by proxy, you do not need to vote again here at the meeting unless you intend to change your initial vote. If you haven't already done so, please register your votes by accessing the voting page and selecting the for or withhold buttons next to the name of each proposed director and next to their resolution with respect to the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as the company's auditors. Please register your votes by selecting the for, against, or abstain buttons next to the resolutions approving the amendment to the stock award plan and the unallocated entitlements thereunder, the unalocated awards under the performance share unit plan, the unallocate awards under deferred share unit plans, and the non-binding resolution approving the compensation of the company's named executive officers. Please register your vote for the non-binding resolution on the frequency of holding the non- binding vote on Executive Compensation by selecting either 1 year, 2 years or 3 years or abstain. As all questions and comments on the proposals have been addressed, we will pause for a few moments to allow time for voting before closing the polls on the proposal before this meeting. Voting has now been closed, and I have received the preliminary results of the vote on all matters before the meeting from the scrutineer. I declare Dr. Thomas Kaplan, Dr. Elaine Darward-King, Ali Irfan, Hume Kyle, Greg Lang, Kalidas Madhapedi, Kevin McArthur, Daniel Muniz-Kentania, Ethan Schutt and Don Whitaker elected as directors of the company to hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders of Novigold or until their successors are duly elected or appointed. Two, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP be and are hereby appointed auditors of the company to hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders or until they're successors are duely appointed and that the directors through the audit committee be and hereby authorized to fix their remuneration. 3. The resolution approving the amendments to the Stock Award Plan and all unallocated entitlements thereunder has been approved by a majority of the votes cast on the resolution. 4. The Resolution approving all unAllocated Entitlements under the Performance Share Unit Plan has been Approved by a Majority of the Votes Cast on the Resolution. five the resolution approving all unallocated entitlements under the deferred share unit plan has been approved by a majority of the votes cast on the resolution six the non-binding resolution approving the compensation of the company's named executive officers carried by a minority of the votes cast On the resolution and seven a frequency of one year for the frequency of holding the advisory vote on executive compensation was selected by a majority of the votes cast on the resolution. Details as to the votes for or withheld from voting for each individual nominee will be disclosed in the manner provided for in the majority voting policy. And the full voting results of this meeting will be posted on the company's Cedar Plus profile at cedarplus.ca and edgarprofile at sec.gov after this meeting. That concludes the formal items of business, and I declare the formal business of this meeting is now terminated. Thank you for your attention. I would now like to turn the time over to Greg Lang, Novigold's President and CEO.