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March 4, 2005

New languages commissioner

The government of Nunavut has picked a former teacher and politician from Rankin Inlet to serve as the territory’s next languages commissioner.

Nunavut MLAs unanimously appointed Johnny Pujjuut Kusugak as the new commissioner on Feb. 25, after receiving a recommendation from the legislative assembly’s standing committee, Ajauqtiit.

Kusugak was the president of Nunavut Arctic College in the late 1990s, before serving as executive director of the Kivalliq Inuit Association.

Kusugak officially becomes the commissioner after approval from the Commissioner of Nunavut, Peter Irniq.

March 4, 2005

Cape Dorset stabbing victim named

Police have released the name of a Cape Dorset man who died from a stab wound earlier this month in a suspected murder.

Manumikalak Pudlat, 34, died in the early morning hours of Feb. 21.

Police arrested a woman shortly after the incident on a charge of second-degree murder.

Pitseolak Qiatsuq made her first appearance on the charge in court in Iqaluit on Feb. 28.

March 4, 2005

Trades school at Lupin Mine

Kitikmeot Corp. in Cambridge Bay is making efforts to acquire some of the physical assets of the Lupin Gold mine, which is soon to be abandoned by Kinross Gold Corp.

The Inuit corporation hopes to establish Nunavut’s first ever mining training school to prepare Inuit for mining jobs.

“The mining exploration companies require a homegrown workforce that is trained in skills,” Cambridge Bay MLA Keith Peterson told the legislative assembly last Friday.

The two parties signed a memorandum of understanding in mid-February.

March 4, 2005

Muddy water at Coppermine

Kugluktuk residents are sick of drinking cloudy water when spring break-up churns up sediments in the Coppermine River, which provides the community with its water supply.

“The water may meet standards for health,” says Kugluktuk MLA Joe Allen Evyagotailak, “but I have heard residents say that it’s like drinking mud.”

Funding for a water treatment investigation is scheduled into 2006-07 of the five-year capital plan, but Evyagotailak would like to see the investigation start sooner.

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