Shelter staff to try absence forms in effort to monitor safety of Iqaluit’s homeless – CBC

Death of Jake Angurasuk has people asking who is responsible for reporting homeless people missing

Dec 21, 2016

It was 14 days from the last time Jake Angurasuk was seen at the Uquutaq Men’s Shelter in Iqaluit to when his body was found by search and rescue volunteers 10 kilometres outside the city.

His death has raised questions as to why a search wasn’t started sooner.

Jimmy Noble, the search co-ordinator in the case, said Search and Rescue first heard about the disappearance through social media on Dec. 14.

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