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Nunavut
August
6 , 2004
Armed man found dead
Police are investigating the death of a man in Chesterfield Inlet. He was seen
wandering around the community with a rifle and later found dead in a house
cordoned off by officers called in from Iqaluit.
RCMP officers in the community responded to worries about the 34-year-old seen
with a gun in hand on July 30. He later walked into a house, which police cordoned
off before asking for back-up from a special containment team.
Police tried to contact the man, but received no reply. They entered the house
and found he was dead. No one else was in the building.
The coroner's office is investigating.
August
6 , 2004
Bootlegger bust in
Repulse Bay
Two men face charges of
bootlegging in Repulse Bay after police received a tip from residents who heard
about a southern construction worker smuggling 40 375-ml bottles of liquor into
the community.
Police laid charges on
July 28 against local resident John Marie Ivalutanak, 30, who was already in
custody on unrelated charges.
Police allege that Ivalutanak
was acting as a middleman for Roy Dyke, a 44-year-old construction worker for
Ninety North Construction.
Police later had Dyke arrested
at his home in Bonavista, Newfoundland.
The two men are to appear
in court on Oct. 21 in Repulse Bay.
August
6 , 2004
Spy technology for
narwhals
Scientists will outfit
14 narwhals in the north Baffin with high tech "spot tags" in order
to track the animals movements for the next year.
Jack Orr, field co-ordinator
for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, will arrive in Resolute Bay tomorrow,
and then join 14 other scientists in a camp at Kakiak Point, across Admiralty
Inlet from Arctic Bay.
The tags are about the
size of two decks of cards, stacked together, and are attached by minor surgery
once the narwhals are captured and tranquilized. "It's basically like getting
one ear pierced," Orr says.
Each tag contains a miniature
computer charged with lithium batteries and costs about $2,500. The tags report
the animal's position via satellite.
Nine narwhals will also
be tagged in the Beaufort Sea by Tuktoyaktuk and the Nelson River this summer.
The goal is to learn where different groups of animals travel during the winter
and summer, and how much time they spend in Greenland waters.
A veterinarian from the
Calgary Zoo is traveling with the researchers to study the effect of the procedure
on the animals. An acoustic researcher will study the sounds and echoes the
narwhals make.
National Geographic will
also be on hand with its "critter cam." The critter cam is a special
TV camera that can be attached to the narwhals with suction cups, and produce
video footage of how narwhals behave when humans aren't around.
The camera is equipped
with floats, so that it rises to the ocean's surface once the suction cups release
the animal.
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