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In The Legislative
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March 4, 2005
Cash for seal skins
Seal skins from Nunavut sold for a whopping $70 each at the December 2004 auction in North Bay, Environment Minister Olayuk Akesuk said Tuesday.
That means the GN’s fur price program, designed to help hunters, has actually made a profit.
“As a result, I have obtained authorization from the financial management board to provide Nunavut seal harvesters with a one-time second payment of $10 for every seal skin that was delivered to our wildlife offices for the 2004 North Bay auction,” Akesuk told the legislative assembly.
Cheques will be sent out as soon as the paperwork is done.
March 4, 2005
Take a pill, Wente
Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente has no right to call Canada’s north a “welfare ghetto,” Iqaluit East MLA Ed Picco told the legislative assembly on Monday.
Picco was responding to a Jan. 6 article in which Wente slammed the Newfoundland government for its efforts to strike a resource-sharing deal with the federal government.
Rural Newfoundland, along with our great land north of 60, is probably the most vast and scenic welfare ghetto in the world, Wente wrote.
“The economic stimulus from Ms. Wente’s supposed ghetto is well welcomed by the thousands of people employed in the South because of... the people north of 60,” said Picco, originally a Newfoundlander.
“I say pipe down, Margaret Wente, and take a pill... The only ghetto here is in Margaret Wente’s head. And, Mr. Speaker, that’s a big hole to fill.”
March 4, 2005
Improved gas on the way
Snowmobilers with spark plug problems will soon get relief.
In the legislative assembly on Monday, Peter Kilabuk, minister of community and government services, said that Shell Canada will deliver improved fuel treated with a special additive, to the affected communities.
Rankin Inlet East MLA Tagak Curley, Hudson Bay MLA Peter Kattuk, Arviat MLA David Alagalak, and Quttiktuq MLA Levi Barnabas had all raised concerns about gas fouling spark plugs more than usual, making some hunters afraid to go out on the land.
“Sanikiluaq is a traditional community and my constituents are dependent on a reliable supply of gasoline,” Kattuk said.
March 4, 2005
Made-in-Nunavut public housing
The Nunavut Housing Corp. has come up with its own design for public housing in the North, Housing Minister Peter Kilabuk announced Tuesday.
The housing corporation asked elders, youth, tenants and community leaders for input into the new design.
As a result, they designed a single-story five-plex where each apartment has two exterior doors, large storage areas, and a country food preparation station with a sink and cutting surface.
The design can be scaled to include eight units or two, and is made with energy efficient materials.
The new design will go into use in 2005/2006.
March 4, 2005
Inuk warden for BCC
Lew Philips of Arctic Bay was appointed warden of the Baffin Correctional Centre, Justice Minister Paul Okalik announced Tuesday.
Philips was the first Inuk regular member of the RCMP and has 27 years of experience in Nanisivik, Igloolik, Pond Inlet and Iqaluit.
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