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The defence closed its case Friday in the Iqaluit trial of Pingoatuk Kolola, who’s facing a charge of first-degree murder in the shooting death of RCMP Const. Douglas Scott.
Kolola appeared as a witness in his own defence Friday morning. He was the only witness for the defence.
Kolola said he...
Dan Shewchuk, the Nunavut environment minister, announced March 5 that the annual hunting quota for the Baffin Bay sub-population of polar bear will drop from 105 to 65 over the next four years.
Since 2004, 105 polar bear tags have been distributed every year to hunters and trappers organizations...
Police in Pond Inlet have arrested a man seen wandering around Feb. 26 with a box full of mickeys.
As members of the RCMP detachment approached the man, he tried to ditch the box, saying it was full of trash.
But after police looked inside, they found 10 375-millilitre mickeys of whiskey, with a...
RCMP members in Iqaluit seized $115,000 in cash from a 49-year-old man attempted to travel from Iqaluit to Ottawa on Feb. 23.
Police said in a press release March 4 that they found the money, the alleged proceeds of contraband trafficking, hidden in the man’s luggage.
Acting on a tip, police went...
The Nunavut cabinet announced in a news release March 4 that they favour a by-election date of April 26 for the Nattilik seat, made vacant recently by the resignation of Enuk Pauloosie of Gjoa Haven.
Nattilik takes in the communities of Gjoa Haven and Taloyoak, and was previously held by Leona...
Three members of Nunavut’s Arctic Winter Games volleyball team, Amber Eleehetok of Gjoa Haven, Stephan Angotialuk of Repulse Bay and Brittany Masson of Iqaluit, model the blue, orange and red outfit that more than 200 Nunavut athletes, performers, coaches and staff will wear at the games, to be...
It’s not fair for the European Union to ban the import of seal products when Nunavut’s Liquor Commission continues to order wines and spirits from the 27 EU member countries, Fred Schell, MLA for South Baffin, said in the Nunavut legislature March 4.
Schell planned to introduce a motion in the...
The Nunavut legislature kicked off its March 4 sitting with an announcement from Health Minister Tagak Curley, who said the Government of Nunavut’s medical travel office for the Baffin region will move back to Iqaluit from Pangnirtung on April 1.
The three employees who now work with medical...
Joey Partridge, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2007, will get a new trial, unless he decides to plead guilty to manslaughter for his role in the brutal killing of Claude Bourget, a Kuujjuaq accounting clerk, on Feb 2, 2005.
Partridge, Bobby “Teelu” Snowball Jr and Thomassie Koneak...
An RCMP commercial crime unit has finished a lengthy forensic investigation into business loans issued by the Nunavut Business Credit Corp. and will now meet with Crown prosecutors and officials with the Government of Nunavut’s Department of Finance to “determine the next course of action and-or...
RANDY BOSWELL
Canwest News Service
Special to Nunatsiaq News
A controversial proposal to open a coal mine on Ellesmere Island — potentially one of the planet’s most northerly industrial operations — has hit a major roadblock after a Nunavut review agency ruled that “the high likelihood of...
Last year’s federal spending spree will wind down this year as Ottawa gets ready to tackle Canada’s $53.8 billion deficit.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tabled the federal budget Thursday, March 4.
It contains the second half of the federal stimulus program, worth $19 billion, but also $17.6...
Nunavut MLAs reconvened in Iqaluit March 4 for a legislative assembly session likely to be dominated by Finance Minister Keith Peterson’s budget speech, to be given March 8, and numerous questions from regular MLAs for cabinet ministers. On March 4, Tagak Curley, the health minister, announced that...
The Parc national Tursujuq project is “a good project,” although it falls short of offering “all possible protection to rare, endangered or vulnerable species and their habitat,” says a Kativik Environmental Quality Commission decision on the proposed provincial park between Kuujjuaraapik and...
MARGARET MUNRO
Canwest News Service
Large amounts of methane, a potent climate warming gas, are escaping from a remote swath of the Arctic Ocean that holds vast stores of the gas, say scientists, who suspect the seabed is “destabilizing.”
An international team reports about seven-million tonnes...
The first-degree murder trial of Pingoatuk Kolola adjourned unexpectedly today, just as Kolola was expected to enter the witness box to give evidence in his defence.
Kolola, 39, is on trial for killing RCMP Const. Douglas Scott, 20, in Kimmirut in November of 2007.
As Justice Robert Kilpatrick...
The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has nominated Nunavut rocker Lucie Idlout’s Swagger for the Aboriginal Album of the Year category in this year’s Juno awards competition.
Swagger, released in 2009, has already won the Best Rock Album of the Year award at the Canadian Aboriginal...
The mayor of Resolute Bay, Ludy Pudluk, asked Nunavut’s health minister this week if there is any procedure for rotating nurses out of a community once they’ve been there for a while.
Nurses can get “tired,” when they’re no longer new in town, Pudluk said.
When a nurse is new, they’e excited and...
David Aksawnee, the mayor of Baker Lake, displays the first gold bar produced at Agnico-Eagle’s Meadowbank gold mine on Feb. 27. From left: James Nasso, the chair of Agnico-Eagle’s board; Baker Lake businessman Peter Tapatai; David Aksawnee; Ebe Scherkus, president and CEO of Agnico-Eagle; Baker...
The Nunavut education department has given Sanikiluaq’s cash-poor district education authority a bail-out of $130,000 to cover its urgent debts and other obligations.
Louis Tapardjuk, the education minister, said the money will allow the DEA to buy necessary supplies and hire casual staff, like...
RANDY BOSWELL
Canwest News Service
Special to Nunatsiaq News
A new report by a leading European think-tank says China is “paying increasing attention to the consequences of the melting of the ice in the Arctic” and positioning itself for an influential role in the emerging realm of polar...
RANDY BOSWELL
Canwest News Service
Special to Nunatsiaq News
A team of international scientists is sounding alarms about the state of a natural ice dam in northeastern Canada that has historically prevented older, thicker Arctic Ocean sea ice from drifting south through a narrow passage along...
Pingoatuk Kolola admitted to police, after hours of interrogation at the Iqaluit police detachment, that he shot RCMP Const. Douglas Scott, a jury heard Tuesday.
Kolola, 39, is accused of shooting Scott in Kimmirut on Nov. 5, 2007 and faces a charge of first-degree murder.
Crown prosecutors...
There’s unease now among hunters and wildlife managers in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut who fear that Northwest Territories hunters may damage herds shared shared by the two territories.
Following a Jan. 1 ban on hunting caribou from the Bathurst herd in the Northwest Territories, the Government...
KUUJJUAQ — By January of 2011, Nunavimmiut receiving medical care in Montreal will have a spacious new residence.
The Nunavik regional board of health and social services isn’t ready yet to announce exactly where the new 100-bed facility will be located.
But it’s likely to be located close to...
ALLISON CROSS
Canwest News Service
DNA extracted from a polar bear fossil found in Norway is giving scientists rare insight into the origin of the species, suggesting that polar bears may have evolved from brown bears in response to climate change in the past.
“Our results confirm that the polar...
It wasn’t hard for Baffin mayors to recite long lists of demands when they met March 1 with Lorne Kusugak, the Nunavut minister of Community Government and Services, at their annual mayors’ meeting in Iqaluit.
But Kusugak was unable to offer the mayors much more than sympathy.
Kusugak, a former...
Iqaluit’s 2010 budget is shaping up to be the largest ever, and homeowners will have to absorb a small property tax hike to pay for it.
On Feb. 28, the city’s committee of the whole voted in favour of a 0.5-mill hike to all categories of the city’s mill rate, leading to slight increases in...
Iqaluit’s swimming pool might end up being shut down on short notice.
A new proposed lease for the pool between the City of Iqaluit and the pool’s owner, Nunastar Properties, states that Nunastar can shut down the pool 90 days after notifying the city that the company plans to do renovations on...
An RCMP firearms expert told an Iqaluit court March 1 that he couldn’t make a complete match between a shell casing and a rifle found in Pingoatuk Kolola’s home after the shooting death of Const. Douglas Scott in November 2007.
Pingoatuk Kolola, 39, has stood trial since the beginning of last...
Managers and workers at the Meadowbank gold mine near Baker Lake joined with community leaders Feb. 27 to celebrate the production of the mine’s first gold bar.
The gold bar, or brick, weighed about 250 ounces, but by next week the mine will churn out bars weighing 1,000 ounces each, at a rhythm...
Eighteen-year-old Adamie Philie of Kangiqsujuaq is competing in three events at this year’s Arctic Winter Games in Grande Prairie, Alberta, which kick off March 6 and run until March 13. (PHOTO BY SARAH ROGERS)
SARAH ROGERS and JANE GEORGE
KANGIQSUJUAQ — Adamie Philie is a modest athlete.
He shouldn’t be.
The tall and fit teen is representing Kangiqsujuaq at this year’s Arctic Winter Games in three events— the kneel jump, the triple jump and the high kick.
The games take place March 6 to March 13 in...
KUUJJUAQ — As a 21-year-old Kuujjuaq man fought for his life this past week in a Montreal hospital and his female companion grappled with serious leg injuries, some Nunavimmiut say snowmobile drivers and passengers should wear helmets to protect themselves from severe injury.
Bruce Turner, the...
RANDY BOSWELL
Canwest News Service
OTTAWA — The Conservative government took another step this past Friday to assert Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic after publishing new rules regulating domestic and foreign ship traffic in northern waters — a potentially controversial registration system...
This ice carving of a polar bear, which has been displayed already in Quebec City and Ottawa, is now at Montreal’s Place Ville Marie Belvedere, where it will stay until it has melted away.
The ice bear display is part of climate change campaign organized by the Quebec environmental group Equiterre...
KANGIQSUJUAQ — If every dog is meant to have its day, then regular veterinary care just might become a reality in Nunavik.
Animals and their owners could benefit from on-site veterinary services as soon as 2012, including canine and feline sterilization.
That’s because the many organizations that...
Hockey players and skaters will once again skate inside the Arctic Winter Games arena when repair work ends this fall
Iqaluit’s recreation coordinator, Amy Elgersma, told city council this past week that she expects the arena to be ready for the start of the 2010-2011 hockey season in September...
If you have a new Arctic Cat snowmobile, your ride might be hotter than you think.
The 2010 Arctic Cat 500 Sno Pro has been recalled by the U.S. Consumer Safety Product Safety Commission over a potential fire hazard.
The notice of recall on the Arctic Cat company website says the mounting screws...
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