This page contains archived news from May, 2009.
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May 29, 2009
Iqaluit
Nunavik
- Nunavik hunters rejoice as beluga quota upped
- Kuujjuaq resident charged in uncle’s 1987 murder
- Globetrotting Inuk heads home with Columbia degree
- Around Nunavik
Nunavut
- Former Yukon premier heads GN review
- GG eats seal to show support for Inuit
- Watt-Cloutier gets honorary degree from Bowdoin College
- Nunatsiaq takes 13 community newspaper prizes
- Around Nunavut
- Polar bear consultation a sham, Redfern declares
- Watt-Cloutier tells the world about life up here
- Indigenous people need more protection: forum
May 22, 2009
Iqaluit
Nunavut
- GN to seek buyers within territory for shunned seal skins
- Premier appoints Bob Long to head EDT, tackle NBCC
- Northerners must define north’s future: senators
- Cleanup camp fits neatly into shipping containers
- Fund seeking proposals for victims of crime
Features
Arctic
May 15, 2009
Climate
Iqaluit
Nunavut
- Merde miasma engulfs downtown Cape Dorset
- Retailers pledge support for improved food mail program
- Here’s your chance to join the world on stage
- Housing corporation must reinvent itself: Fraser
- Greater Arctic marine presence urged for Canada
- Many EU MEPs ambivalent on seal ban decision
- GN drops appeal on child welfare case
- Lawyers group wants courts to fix legal aid
- Don’t make us sue GN too, NTI urges
Arctic
May 8, 2009
Iqaluit
Nunavik
Nunavut
- GN promotes fur in face of EU sealskin ban
- Henry Coman called to the Nunavut bar
- Bowheads recovering in Arctic, group says
- School survivor applauds Pope’s words of contrition
- Nunavut gets a C-minus on its green report card
- Mamisarvik moves a happlier place in Ottawa
- Iqaluit eyes a fix for its non-functioning sewage treatment
- Aglukkaq spends $59,000 to win Nunavut riding for Tories
- Inuit TV programs focus on men, youth, childbirth
Features
May 1, 2009
Climate
Iqaluit
Nunavik
- Nunavik hands out tickets to public drunks
- Cruise North faces uncertain 2009 season
- Salluit mourns death of Father Kees Verspeek
Nunavut
- Nunavut, Nunavik on guard against swine flu
- Arctic ship disaster highly likely, experts say
- How to make the seas more safe
- Sisters seek mother’s cancer records from hospital
- Cooperation urged as Arctic shipping boom looms
- Report: Food mail program a dog’s breakfast
- What’s wrong with the food mail program?
- ICC unveils Arctic sovereignty statement
- National organization launched for southern Inuit
- Around Nunavut
- Many expectant moms in Nunavut stressed, abused: Statscan
