Lucie Idlout stars in Toronto play
In a novel career move, Inuit singer Lucie Idlout will star in Two Words for Snow, a play that opens this weekend at the Artword Theatre in Toronto.
The play’s Toronto publicists describe Two Words for Snow as "a lyrical account of the love, passion and betrayal surrounding the 1909 Peary expedition to the North Pole."
It’s written by poet Richard Sanger, directed by Ross Manson, and produced by Volcano, an award-winning experimental theatre company from Toronto.
Sanger’s play tells the story of Matthew Henson, a black man who accompanied Robert Peary to the North Pole, and whom Peary later betrayed and discarded.
Idlout, best known in Nunavut for the CD E5770 — My Mother’s Name, is also the host of the APTN show Buffalo Tracks. In Two Words for Snow, she plays the role of Akatingwah, Matthew Henson’s Greenlandic lover.
The play opens Jan. 11 and runs to Jan. 19.
Nunavut goose turns up in Scotland
A snow goose from Bylot Island near Pond Inlet has turned up on the Hebridean island of Islay off the west coast of Scotland, the National Post reported this week.
Bylot Island snow geese normally winter in the U.S. state of Maryland.
Experts say the errant North Baffin goose may have followed a group of white-fronted geese, a closely related species.
Echo Bay charged in death of mine worker
The Nunavut-NWT Workers’ Compensation Board has charged Echo Bay Mines Ltd. with five offences under Nunavut’s Mine Health and Safety Act, in connection with the death of miner David Francis Matthews in December 2001 at the Lupin Mine.
A WCB news release says that the offences allege that the company failed to take every reasonable precaution to ensure the safety of its workers, specifically in the training and in the operation of equipment from a safe location.
If convicted, Echo Bay Mines Ltd. would face a fine of $500,000 for each offence.
The aging, small-scale Lupin gold mine in the Kitikmeot is the last producing mine left in Nunavut.
Igloolik fire under investigation
Police are treating a minor fire that caused $100 in superficial damage to Igloolik’s community hall on Dec. 31 as suspicious, said Mayor Elijah Evaluarjuk.
A teen dance was under way at 3:30 a.m. when bystanders noticed smoke coming from the building’s hallway.
No one was injured in the early-morning blaze. Three volunteer firefighters were medevaced to Iqaluit where they were treated for chemical exposure from the firefighting materials.
Evaluarjuk said the fire was quickly contained and the RCMP are continuing their investigation.
"We’ve heard someone lit the fire on purpose," Evaluarjuk said.
Baffin businesses set trade show date
The Baffin Regional Chamber of Commerce announced this week that this year’s Nunavut Trade Show will be held May 1 to 3 at Iqaluit’s Arctic Winter Games Arena.
Organizers brag that it’s "Northern Canada’s largest business event."
During the three-day event, business people from southern Canada and Nunavut will exhibit their wares and schmooze each other at a variety of social events.
Rankin Inlet man charged with drug possession
Cody Utman, 23, faces one charge of drug possession after Rankin Inlet RCMP seized a stash of marijuana with an estimated street value of $6,700 on Jan. 3.
The drugs were seized at the Rankin Inlet airport.
Utman was released on a promise to appear in the Nunavut Court of Justice on April 1.
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