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February 8, 2001

"A lot of technology" in child pornography case

The case against James Paton of Iqaluit has been adjourned until April 8. Paton, 34, appeared in court on Feb. 3 to face charges of possession of child pornography, sexual interference and sexual assault. Defence counsel Evan Mackay requested the adjournment. "There is a lot of technology I have to get a hand on," Mackay said.

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February 8, 2001

Teen shooter to make a plea

An Arctic Bay teen accused of ambushing RCMP officers with gunfire on Jan. 16 is expected to make a plea on April 8. The 17-year-old male, who cannot be named under the Young Offenders Act, is in remand at Baffin Correctional Centre. He faces charges of mischief, intent to cause harm and unlawful use of a firearm. No one was injured in the incident.

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February 8, 2001

Standing up for the fish

The City of Iqaluit will return to court on April 8 to face half a dozen Fisheries Act violations from the spring and summer of 2001. The Crown alleges the city allowed sewage to spill from two lift stations into Koojesse Inlet between April and July last year. Fish and shellfish inhabit the waters of Koojesse Inlet.

Matthew Hough, director of engineering and former director of public works, appeared on behalf of the city on Feb. 3.

Chris Thompson, a Yellowknife lawyer, will represent the city. Vancouver lawyer John Cliffe will act as Crown counsel.

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February 8, 2001

Brief brush with freedom

A 37-year-old inmate who violated his halfway house curfew to drink at the Tulugaq bar on Jan. 14 was sentenced to three months at Baffin Correctional Centre for escaping custody.

Justice Beverly Browne scolded the inmate, Joshua Hunter, for his actions: "You could not have exercised more bad judgment if you tried," Browne said.

Hunter was serving a 12-month sentence for assault at the time of his curfew violation. Halfway house staff notified police after Hunter missed his 10 p.m. curfew. RCMP officers found Hunter at the bar. He smelled of alcohol, court heard, and was in possession of three syringes.

Euan Mackay said his client was not a drug user. He said Hunter simply "picked up" the syringes from the ground.

Before sentencing, Hunter offered an apology. "It was a stupid, stupid thing to do and I’m sorry," he said.

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February 8, 2001

Home brew party ends in assault conviction

Doyle Kukkik, 21, of Hall Beach was sentenced to three months in jail for assaulting a friend with a baseball bat on Jan. 6, while under house arrest.

Court heard that a card game turned violent after a "home-brew" party. Defence counsel Sue Cooper said the trouble began when Kukkik asked guests to leave. The male complainant received a non-life threatening blow to the head. Cooper said the blood from the wound was likely the result of a crack in the bat; not the force of the blow.

Kukkik will serve the remainder of his house arrest concurrently with the three month sentence.

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February 8, 2001

Love triangle goes wrong

Christopher Allen Henderson, 19, was sentenced to two months in jail after pleading guilty to assaulting Steven Mulcahy on Dec. 11 in Iqaluit.

Henderson, whose ex-girlfriend is now involved with Mulcahy, punched Mulcahy in the head at the Navigator lounge. Mulcahy fell to the floor from a bar stool.

Crown counsel John Solski called the incident part of a "grudge," while defence lawyer Euan Mackay referred to the incident as a "love triangle."

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February 8, 2001

The triangle continues

Jayco Kilabuk, 19, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for assault and 14 days for failure to comply with a probation order after pleading guilty to both charges. A nine-month probation period will follow his sentence.

Court heard that Kilabuk and Christopher Allen Henderson kicked down the door of an apartment where Steven Mulcahy and his girlfriend Jennifer Ipirq were staying on Jan. 6. Kilabuk punched Mulcahy in the head. He fled the scene when Ipirq said the police were on the way.

Henderson pleaded not guilty to assault charges from the Jan. 6 incident.

"I think there’s a lot more to this story than we’ll hear about in court," Browne said.

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February 8, 2001

Accused fraudster appears in court

A woman charged with defrauding the Kitikmeot Regional Health and Social Services board is set to appear in Nunavut Court of Justice in Cambridge Bay during the week of April 8.

Linda Burles, 35, was charged with one count of defrauding KHSS of more than $5,000 and one count of falsifying documents on Sept. 25, 2001. She is now employed with Nunavut Impact Review Board.

A publication ban prevents Crown counsel Christine Gagnon from disclosing the amount of money involved. The charge states that incidents are alleged to have taken place from February 1997 to July 1999 in Cambridge Bay. The government of the Northwest Territories was responsible for KHSS during most of that time. However, court records lists the government of Nunavut as a complainant.

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February 8, 2001

Is Barents Sea the world’s cleanest

Russian scientists told the ITAR-TASS news agency in the Arctic city of Murmansk the waters off the northwestern coast of Russia are clean.

In spite of intensive fishing in the Barents Sea and many concerns about pollution and contamination of its waters by nuclear and industrial waste, the scientists maintain the Barents Sea, off the coast of northern Norway and western Siberia, still ranks among the cleanest in the circumpolar region.

Scientists from the Russian Polar Fishing and Oceanography Research Institute looked at the health of the Barents marine life. They also measured levels of 50 of the most widespread chemical compounds known to pollute the marine environment.

They say pollution of the Barents Sea is so insignificant that it can "deservedly claim to be one of the cleanest seas of the world."

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February 8, 2001

Indigenous peoples show support for Thule Inughuit

At a meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva this week, 200 representatives of indigenous peoples supported a resolution backing the Inughuit in Thule and their so-called Hingitaq 53 organization.

In 1953, Inughuit who live in the Thule district of northern Greenland were forced to relocate to Qaanaaq to make room for the U.S. air base in Thule.

The Hingitaq 53 group represents the interests of relocated Inughuit and their descendants in a legal action against the Danish government, asking for the return of their ancestral lands and hunting grounds or compensation.

The Danish High Court is expected to pronounce its judgment on the case later this year.

The resolution approved by the U.N. working group on indigenous peoples reads: "The indigenous peoples gathered at the 7th session of United Nations Commission of Human Rights Working Group on the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, January 28 - February 8, 2002, unequivocally support the Inughuit of Thule, Greenland and Hingitaq 53 in their legal proceedings and demands for return of their ancestral lands and compensation for the adverse impacts caused by the illegal taking of land and forced removal and relocation of the Inughuit,"

The group is responsible for drafting a declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples.

Aqqaluk Lynge, president of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Hjalmar Dahl, director of ICC’s U.N. related work, and Dalee S. Dorough from Alaska, a lawyer and an international expert in aboriginal law, are participating in the meetings.

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