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March 18, 2005

Qikiqtarjuaq teens face attempted murder charges

Two teenagers from Qikiqtarjuaq stand accused of attempted murder after a gun was fired in the community’s school last week.

The two 17-year-old boys were scheduled to appear in court yesterday in Iqaluit for a show cause hearing to determine whether they should be kept in custody.

The RCMP major crimes unit flew into Qikiqtarjuaq on March 10 after police at the local detachment responded to a complaint of a firearm going off in the Inuksuit school in the early morning.

Police arrested the two teens later that day.

Police charged each boy with attempted murder, firearms violations, and other criminal code offences.

March 18, 2005

Rangers train on

The Canadian military will respond to a fake airplane crash as part of this year’s major sovereignty patrol in the North.

Canadian Forces Northern Area is sending a team of 14 Canadian regular Rangers and eight Ranger instructors to test their skills on a remote island in Nunavut, west of Ellesmere Island next month.

Dubbed Operation Kigliaqvik, the expedition is an annual show of Canada’s control over far-flung corners of the Arctic.

The team will travel by plane from Yellowknife to an abandoned weather station at Isachsen on Ellef Ringnes Island on March 31.

The simulated air crash exercise will mimic the wreck of a U.S. Air Force DC-3 plane that crashed on island in the past. Organizers say the event will test the armed forces’s search and rescue abilities in the High Arctic.

The exercise will take place on April 8, and the team will return April 15.

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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