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By Jeff Pelletier, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter\u00a0 Iqaluit Mayor Solomon Awa and Coun. Kyle Sheppard say they want to see stepped-up enforcement of open liquor laws continue following a summer of increased patrols from RCMP. The topic came up at Tuesday\u2019s city council meeting, when Sgt. Zhivka Ivanova presented the RCMP\u2019s monthly reports for July and August. During those months, one of the tasks that kept officers busy was seizing open alcohol and patrolling the city on all-terrain vehicles to curb public drinking. Out of 448 beers seized between January and August, 97 were confiscated in July and 88 in August \u2014 which comes out to 41 per cent of the total for those eight months. Of the first eight months of 2024, August was the busiest for Iqaluit RCMP… <\/p>\n

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By Jeff Pelletier, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter\u00a0 Iqaluit Mayor Solomon Awa and Coun. Kyle Sheppard say they want to see stepped-up enforcement of open liquor laws continue following a summer of increased patrols from RCMP. The topic came up at Tuesday\u2019s city council meeting, when Sgt. Zhivka Ivanova presented the RCMP\u2019s monthly reports for July and August. During those months, one of the tasks that kept officers busy was seizing open alcohol and patrolling the city on all-terrain vehicles to curb public drinking. Out of 448 beers seized between January and August, 97 were confiscated in July and 88 in August \u2014 which comes out to 41 per cent of the total for those eight months. Of the first eight months of 2024, August was the busiest for Iqaluit RCMP... <\/p>\n

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