Man faces firearms charges after emergency alert in Rankin Inlet
RCMP warned of a ‘possible danger to the public’ on May 30
A man faces firearms charges in relation to an emergency alert that RCMP issued in Rankin Inlet on May 30. (File photo)
A 46-year-old man faces gun charges after an incident that led to what RCMP called a “possible danger to the public” in Rankin Inlet’s Char River/Mine Road area last week.
RCMP issued the alert to the people’s mobile devices May 30, using the Alert Ready System, after officers followed up on a firearms complaint, said RCMP Cpl. George Henri in an email to Nunatsiaq News.
RCMP also posted a warning on its V Division Facebook page.
Officers from the local RCMP detachment responded along with crisis negotiators working remotely from Iqaluit, Henri said.
He said he didn’t know the exact time that the alert was sent out, however he believed the incident lasted at least three hours and was resolved by 4:30 p.m. (CDT).
A suspect was arrested without incident and charged with careless use of a firearm as well as possession of a firearm while prohibited, Henri said.
Nobody was injured, he said.
I could never understand why the GN would open up beer and wine stores when we have so many social issues, so much trauma from residential schools, TB sanitariums, from colonization.
We have so many to deal with and no support in place but the GN very quickly opens beer and wine stores that we know will just make things worse for Nunavut and not help to improve lithe living conditions or address all these social issues we have.
It’s like people from the outside telling us what we need and have to do without really knowing what is really needed.
This is not the Nunavut we wanted, we have taken several steps back to what the spirit of Nunavut was to be.
We have lost even more control and it’s being dictated from outside. I wish we had stronger leadership at of Nunavut Government and not the photo op popularity contest that it is today, some serious changes need to be done and the leadership today and past have failed miserably.
We have to stop blaming outsiders (whatever those are).
We vote for the people we want to lead in the municipality, the territorial and federal governments. WE put them there.
Do you realize the majority of people we put in these positions are Inuit?
So it isn’t that we have the opportunity to better things.
I’m not telling you what you need. I am only telling you to vote for those who will work their butt off to make our territory better for all of us (not just Inuit).
It is YOUR CHOICE!!
BTW: The residents in each community KNOW who the dealers and bootleggers are. Why aren’t they taking their proof to the local RCMP.
Get your councilors working for you. Make DEMANDS that the streets are cleaned up of this garbage.
Oh, and I put the GN at the same level as the bootleggers only they make sales legal.
Will it’s hard not to when the decision is made by people not from Nunavut on how things are to be done in Nunavut, our GN is run and operates like it’s from the south and we see this constantly with all kinds of decisions being made for Nunavummiut.
The revolving door of transient workers doesn’t help, people who stay just for a few years and leave but have made a impact on how things will be done.