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October 31, 2008
Iqaluit
Nunavik
Nunavut
- Four ministers dumped; Okalik wins squeaker
- No director bonuses: Canadian North parent
- NTI seeks to trim delegates at annual meeting
- An exclusive brand of party politics in Iqaluit West
- In the Kivalliq, a changing of the guard
- Curley enjoys luxury of loafing through election
- Newmont postpones Hope Bay gold mine
- Will lone woman MLA reach for top?
- First decisions will set tone for assembly
- Nunavut election 2008: by the numbers
- St. Jude’s Cathedral Picture
- Safecrackers nab thousands in cash, merchandise
- Around Nunavut
October 24, 2008
Features
Iqaluit
Nunavik
- Beneficiaries press for First Air bonus repayments
- New power plant arising on Kuujjuaq’s outskirts
- World’s oldest known rocks found in Nunavik
- Around Nunavik
- Financial co-op lobbies for banking business
Nunavut
- In Iqaluit, it’s seven against one on Oct. 27
- Okalik Eegeesiak removed from ballot
- Rankin mayor targets women’s champion
- Kugluktuk candidates agree on friendly rivalry
- Five fishermen airlifted to Qikiqtani hospital
- Candidates push for a second riding for Arviat
- Two promise infrastructure, one promises nothing
- Qikiqtani boss “astounded” by revenue jump
- Around Nunavut
October 17, 2008
Features
Iqaluit
Nunavik
- Expert: $600,000 director bonus unheard of
- Bloc’s Lévesque posts third electoral victory
- George River to be safe from development: Charest
Nunavut
- Leona’s blue shift takes Nunavut for Tories
- Amittuq tells a tale of two candidates
- Four candidates contest Iqaluit Centre
- Judge promises speedy ruling on Anawak’s rights
- Sanikiluaq must choose from among three rookies
- NDP wins CamBay’s mock student election
- Controversial Simailak faces two challengers
October 10, 2008
Features
Iqaluit
- Iqaluit This Week
- Iqaluit residents march against sexual assaults
- Multiplex dream continues, despite council vote
Nunavik
- Watt “disgusted” by First Air board bonuses
- Makivik board member charged with drug trafficking in Quaqtaq
- Breakfast Picture
- Stats show Nunavik residents not doing well
Nunavut
- Mayor, premier jostle for seat in legislature
- It’s a wide open race in Iqaluit East
- Second Nunavut candidate’s eligibility challenged
- Anawak ruled ineligible for Nunavut election
- Victims sue over rogues’ gallery of child molesters
- Harper’s Arctic approach an insult, Dion says
- Layton pledges health, school dollars for North
- RCMP busy as flights tempt dope dealers
- Around Nunavut
- A challenger’s lonely quest to unseat Barnabas
- Nunavut teens star in African documentary
October 3, 2008
Features
Iqaluit
Nunavik
- First Air directors pay themselves hefty bonuses
- Nunavik has choice of five federal election candidates
- Charest’s grand plan for Quebec’s “magnificent territory”
Nunavut






