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Pauloosie Keyootak is a Canadian
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politician from Broughton Island, Northwest Territories, now Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut. He was elected to the
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, representing the electoral district of Uqqummiut, in a
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on February 9, 2015."Pauloosie Keyootak elected MLA for Uqqummiut in byelection"
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, February 10, 2015.
He won the by-election over Niore Iqalukjuak, who had been the second-place candidate behind
Samuel Nuqingaq Samuel Nuqingaq is a Canadian, Inuk politician from Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in the 2013 election. He was expelled from the legislature in 2014. Political career Election Nuqinqaq ran for e ...
in the 2013 election, and former MLA James Arreak. Keyootak is a resident of Qikiqtarjuaq. He was formerly a president of the Qikiqtani Inuit Association, who was removed from that position in 2000 for reportedly violating the organization's
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, although the organization has never disclosed the nature of the alleged violation. He subsequently served on the municipal council in Qikiqtarjuaq, and on the board of directors of Arctic Co-op.


Attempted travel to Pangnirtung

On March 22, 2016 Keyootak, his son and another adult, left
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by
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for
Pangnirtung Pangnirtung (or Pang, also Pangniqtuuq, in syllabics: ᐸᖕᓂᖅᑑᖅ ) is an Inuit hamlet, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, located on Baffin Island. Pangnirtung is situated on a coastal plain at the coast of P ...
. When they did not arrive, search and rescue teams from both Iqaluit and Pangnirtung were sent out on March 29. A specially equipped
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of
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based at
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was sent by the
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. In addition, a local
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with spotters were dispatched to assist with the search. Officials said that a CH-149 Cormorant along with a second Hercules, to relieve the first, had been dispatched. Ed Zebedee, emergency services coordinator for the Government of Nunavut, said that the search was the 5th of the Easter weekend and the 58th of the year. On March 31, the three were found alive south of Iqaluit, Pangnirtung is about north. They were spotted from the Twin Otter which landed near the travellers. The Twin Otter was damaged on landing and was unable to take off and a CH-149 Cormorant picked up the men.


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