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This page contains archived news from April 2005

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Headline News - April 1, 2005

Nunavut
POV hospital in turmoil

New funds equal more teaching time per Nunavut student

Picture: Cst. Ben Tyler Williams

Five Snow Challenge racers break three-hour record

Revenue Canada recruits Inuit to provide tax help in Inuktitut

Heat's on Nunavut MP for dog inquiry

Climate change endangers Nunavik hunters

Teenage nightlife curtails youth violence

Around Nunavut
Man charged in Maghagak homicide

Around Iqaluit
Iqaluit this week

KRG give Iqaluit the silent treatment

Tenant vacates apartment near waste site

Nunavik
Salluit student threatens classmate with BB gun

Nunavik employment expected to rise with self-government

Makavik Corp. employee heads to Everest

Around Nunavik
Ungava Bay community gets new hotel

Long-term care gets shot in arm

Features
Cambridge Bay turns on and tunes in

Around the Arctic
Seal hunt starts in Norway

Arctic expeditions stranded in Russia

Canada's melting glaciers raising sea levels

 

Headline News - April 8, 2005

Nunavut
MPs beat up on the BFC

Fired GN worker calls on Human Rights Commission

Salvation Army rescues Iqaluit homeless shelter

Bishop: Pope John Paul II like "a grandfather"

Fired ADM sues premier, cabinet ministers

Youth demand more Inuktitut in schools

Military shops to replace aging Twin Otters

Fashion-seekers flock to Arctic Closet

Freeze-up a happy accident for Aussie couple

Around Nunavut
Kenn Borek pilot found dead in Calgary

Iqaluit
Homeowners group in a huff about tax notices

Photo: Proud new owners of traditional drums

Pond Inlet encounter inspires hocky book

Around Iqaluit
Iqaluit this week

City supports compost scheme

A second look at Illitiit handouts?

Claude Martel appointed to council

Nunavik
Self-rule no "magic solution" for Nunavik, Kelley warns

Features
Youth centre has kids dancing all the way to Florida

Around the Arctic
Circumpolar world mourns Pope John Paul II

Goose Bay radar project in trouble

Explorers' logs show climate change may be a recurring phenomenon

Greenland's hunters a dying breed

Call up for country food Nuuk

Greenland elects municipal leaders

Duo abandons polar trek

Easter in Iceland for chess champ

Arctic foxes plunder Aleution seabird

 

Headline News - April 15, 2005

Nunavut
As Ilisaqsivik goes, so goes Clyde River

Picture: Breakfast service for students

Savoie to lead new Inuit secretariat

Spring fever hits Iqaluit Monday

Liberals reveal glimpse of Kyoto plans

Nunavut Arctic College pushes for tuition increase

Snowmobiles a "huge" problem, coroner warns

Council rescinds shelter handouts

Photographer to send message from top of the world

Around Nunavut
Ann Hanson named commissioner of Nunavut

BFC boss says Commons hearing "positive"

Sheila Watt-Cloutier named "Champion of the Earth"

Three years later, tenants get homes in Gjoa Haven

Pay your power bills at Northern

Iqaluit
Spite-ridden spa feud lands in the laps of the lawyers

Hip hop takes the edge off self-help

Around Iqaluit
Iqaluit this week

Nunavik
From the tundra to the battlefield

Around Nunavik
Makivik AGM approves draft AIP

Features
Exchange introduces students to tress, maple syrup

 

Headline News - April 22, 2005

Nunavut
Nunavik coasts face total bans on beluga hunting

Nunavut's MP says yes to same-sex marriage

Picture: Dick Smith receives a standing ovation

James Houston dies at 83

Peary caribou migrating towards endangered species list

Inuit, environmentalists unimpressed with Ottawa's Kyoto plan

BFC breakaways ink deal with Labrador Inuit co-op

Military fails disaster response test

Computer translation brings Inuktitut one step closer to language of government

NTI considers alliance with southern aboriginal bank

Clyde River proposes 16,000 square-km territorial park

Around Nunavut
Watt-Cloutier wins $100,000 prize

Around the Arctic
21 cm and 2000 calories

Mapping indigenous genes

Borders bad for Saami

Greenland cabinet shuffle

Countries, parties, people cooperate

Around Iqaluit
Iqaluit this week

Features
Forty years of Toonik Tyme

 

Headline News - April 29, 2005

Nunavut
Kitikmeot: Nunavut's forgotten region

NTI seeks southern lending power for local businesses

RCMP to interview retired officers on sled dog killings

Stars come out to highlight Arctic warming

Picture: Ann Meekitjuk Hanson

Nunavut's new commissioner

Alaska prepares to lead Inuit Circumpolar Conference

New books bring Inuktitut, Innuinaqtun to classrooms

Rangers get enhanced status in new defence policy

Private art collection becomes public treasure

Around Nunavut
Manitoba road study begins

Nunavut students win big at Skills Canada

Sanikiluaq shows art

CLEY rewards volunteers

In the Legislative Assembly
Same sex marriage "not acceptable"

Coral Harbour snowed in

More time for Wildlife Act?

More teachers on the way

Ilisaqsivik out of luck

GN top employees reap bonus money

Boarding worth $50 for patients, but $75 for GN employees

Iqaluit
Iqaluit DEA tackles dropout rates

Homeowners vs. city hall: the latest chapter

Toonik Tyme draws visitors from near and far

Around Iqaluit
Iqaluit this week

Man charged with manslaughter

Features
Naalagit: A new way to make them listen

Around the Arctic
Alaska's bowhead whale hunt underway

Greenlandic tupilaks hit the comic books

Polar bears share turf with brown bears in Alaska

Kotzebue reopens local jail

 


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