Headline News - December 5, 2003

Nunavut
Nunavut urged to create new Official Languages Act

Chrétien appoints Jack Ananwak as Arctic ambassador

There's big bucks if you're prepared to loiter

HIV statistics for Inuit called deceptively low

Preventing AIDS means dispelling misconceptions

Five communities to elect new mayors

NFB seeks artists for animation workshop

Flu closes more schools, daycares

Nunavut to extend smoking ban to almost all workplaces

Around Nunavut
KIA reaches benefits deal with Tahera

NTI prepares for March 16 election

Student nurses receive cheques

Iqaluit
IDEA seeks advice on repatriating Iqaluit school tax

A burning issue gets students' attention

Iqaluit and other communities to share fire, building inspector

New sewage plant set for 2005

Accused killer faces preliminary hearing

Features
Baffin region's daycare revolution

Around the Arctic
Alaskan village gets free gas

Saami battle Norwegian military

Court rules against relocated Inughuit

Sewers produce caffeine jag

Police nab young arson suspects

Suspected arson in Salluit

New money for UArctic

King crabs scare fishermen

Norwegian churches welcome gays and lesbians

Headline News - December 12, 2003

Nunavut
NNI's extreme makeover begins

Become role models, not offenders, MLAs urged during vigil

Chief medical officer orders pre-holiday flu preparations

Glenn McLean won't seek re-election

McCallum wins by landslide in Cambridge Bay

And the winners are...

Study reaps knowledge from names

Around Nunavut
Stornoway reports Aviat drilling results

Nunavut reaches settlement with Trumper

Nunavut grandparents raise 2.3 per cent of kids

REAL Women accuses Cauchon of pushing gay "agenda"

Ottawa curbs water sales in Nunavut, NWT

In the Legislative Assembly
GN lowers fuel price

Kelvin Ng's final speech

A flag for Apex

Wildlife Act receives third reading

MLAs pass write-off bill

Nunavik
Nunavik rescue efforts to get $1.5-million boost

Nunavik to get more money, control

Around Nunavik
Nunavik takes aim against poachers

Iqaluit
A full bus means full stomachs

Williams blasts city drivers for idling away tax dollars

Around the Arctic
Joe Handley wins NWT's top job

Finns dreaming of White Christmas

Australia joins missile defense

Radon poses danger in northern Russia

Inuit singers win big

From Greenland to Canada

Headline News - December 19, 2003

Nunavut
Out with the old minister, in with the new

Too many inmates and suicides, too few graduates

Video visits help cure hospital homesickness

Unions ready to raise issues, endorse candidates in election

Who’s in — and out — as election looms

Deadbeat NPC customers won’t see electricity cut off

Nunavik
At southern festivities, there’s no taste like home

Police forces pair up to end fugitive’s flight

Nunavik waits for judge’s decision

Around Nunavik
Fire closes in Kuujjuaraapik

Man in custody over violent death in Inukjuak

Iqaluit
Leave crummy pavement alone, council urged

Teens make quitting cool

Gordon advocates for an Iqaluit “youth councillor”

Iqaluit plans asset sale as budget balloons

Around Iqaluit
One arson suspect arrested, more sought

Iqaluit loses senior administrator

Features
A hidden refuge for troubled minds

Art for a community’s sake

New grads ease task of making the law accessible

Around the Arctic
Iceland sending seal to China

Nuke storage site for northern Russia

Route mapped for Siberian pipeline

Bootleggers lose snowmobiles

Killer whale star dies