Around Nunavik
August
19, 2005
Airport improvements
coming to Kuujjuaq
Two top transportation
ministers visited Kuujjuaq earlier this month.
Jean Lapierre, the federal
minister of transportation, was there to announce a $14.3 million project to
build a new airport terminal building and to expand the airstrip and parking
lot.
The work, to begin in 2006,
will take two years to complete.
"This project will
make it possible to support local economic activity and employment, while restoring
essential facilities that should certainly be able to serve this community for
many years to come," Lapierre said.
Shortly after Lapierre
took off for Iqaluit, Julie Boulet, the provincial transportation minister,
arrived in Kuujjuaq.
Boulet did not announce
any major projects, but she met representatives of the Kativik Regional Government
and Makivik Corporation.
The issues raised during
her visit included a need for more sea navigation aids and a subsidy to cover
the higher cost of transportation in Nunavik.
August
19, 2005
Aqpik Jam underway
There was a special buzz
this week about an ABBA tribute band traveling all the way from Calgary for
the annual Aqpik Jam music festival, which got underway in Kuujjuaq this past
Tuesday.
Claude Mackenzie, formerly
of Kashtin, was also on the guest list.
Among the list of other
musicians scheduled to play were: Kaina Nowdlak and Looee and Josee Arreak of
Iqaluit; Tim Evic and the Band from Pangnirtung; Charlie Paniguniaq from Ranking
Inlet; Innu Band from Sept Isle; and Tanya Tagaq Gillis of Cambridge Bay.
Several Iqalummiut got
a sneak preview of another musical guest when Johnny Olsen of Greenland's Nuuk
Posse rap group, took the mic at karaoke night at the Storehouse Bar this past
Tuesday, singing his own music in Greenlandic to the sounds of Young MC's "Bust
a Move," and great applause. Nuuk Posse will appear with another Greenlandic
act, Nuutit.
Festival-goers can also
expect bingo, golfing, cribbage tournaments and fireworks. This past Tuesday,
a hypnotist provided the late night entertainment.
August
5, 2005
Aupaluk man murdered on camping trip
One man was shot dead and a young woman stabbed repeatedly in two separate
incidents last weekend in Nunavik.
Simeonie Igiyuk, 44, of Aupaluk was declared dead shortly after 10 p.m on Friday
night.
Igiyuk, his common-law wife and two children, aged 12 and two, were traveling
from Kuujjuaq to Aupaluk by freighter canoe when they stopped at a camp located
between the two Ungava Bay communities.
Police say an argument broke out over some cans of beer and a man was shot
dead with a rifle.
Passers-by alerted the Kativik Regional Government about the shooting and within
an hour, two officers, a doctor and a nurse arrived on site.
Igiyuk was declared dead at the scene.
Lydia Oovaut, 34, also a resident of Aupaluk, was charged earlier this week
with second-degree murder in connection with the incident. She remains in detention
in Amos.
In another incident this weekend, a young woman in Akulivik was stabbed 12
times. She is expected to recover. A male family member under the age of 18
was taken into custody.
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