Posted: Jan 29, 2021 12:44 PM ET | Last Updated: January 30
Lennese Kublu (centre) and Dwight Brown (left) both pleaded guilty to manslaughter, a few months apart, in the death of Kublu s mother, Susan Kublu-Iqqittuq (right), in January 2019. Brown also pleaded guilty to committing an indignity to a body.(Kublu family )
The daughter of an Ottawa woman who was repeatedly stabbed and her body put in a dumpster two years ago has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter.
Susan Kublu-Iqqittuq, from Igloolik, Nunavut, was last seen alive on Jan. 10, 2019. Police later found her body at Ottawa s Trail Road landfill after searching for more than three weeks.
Posted: Jan 27, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 27
Clyde River Mayor Jerry Natanine says until Pond Inlet is comfortable with a production expansion at Mary River Mine, the other surrounding communities won t support the project. (Beth Brown/CBC)
At the outset of the final environmental hearings for an expansion at Nunavut s Mary River Mine, five communities in the territory s northern Qikiqtaaluk region are saying they can t support the project as it is being proposed.
For those communities especially Pond Inlet, which is nearest to the mine the primary concern is what impact a new railway and increased shipping from Milne Inlet could have on local wildlife like caribou and narwhal.
Four Women On How To Thrive In A Nunavut Winter
We spoke to four Nunavummiut women in and from Iqaluit about living in and loving the cold. Anubha Momin Updated Photo by Erik Boomer, courtesy of Laura Pia Churchill.
A lack of daylight, freezing temperatures, dangerously icy (or, alternatively, over-salted) sidewalks; winter can be a trying time in the best of years, and this past year has not been that. Tighter restrictions as coronavirus case numbers increased in the fall all but cancelled Christmas, and now the majority of Canadians are staring at what will likely be a long lockdown winter. But for the 39,353 Canadians living in Nunavut, “winter” or at least, its hallmarks started months ago.
I was so excited, my late father had so many stories, she told Powder in a
bonus episode airing Tuesday. Stories about Inuit culture and Inuit ways, I was so happy, one of his stories was found.
Audrey s brother also heard the episode and contacted Powder to reveal his father s name as the storyteller.
Audrey said her father died nearly 20 years ago, but he passed his stories on to her, many of which she videotaped, or recorded. She s never played them for anyone else. I loved my father, it was kind of hard to try and listen or watch them, she said.
Despite Inuit opposition, Mary River mine hearing to go ahead next week
Gathering to be broadcast live on Uvagut TV
Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. uses the port at Milne Inlet to ship iron ore to markets in western Europe. If the federal government permits its current expansion proposal, Baffinland will be allowed to ship up to 12 million tonnes of ore through this port, involving up to 176 ship transits. (File photo)
Despite persistent opposition from Inuit community groups, the Nunavut Impact Review Board will forge ahead next week with a long-awaited public hearing on a major railway-based expansion of the Mary River iron mine.