Headline News - February 1, 2002

Nunavut
Ellesmere Island eyed for NMD site

The crisis in Nunavut schools

IDEA recommends sending students home if no substitute teacher is available

Arctic borders need tighter control, former commander says

Premiers support Okalik in health-care fight

Northern Canada a "rudderless ship," NWT says

Bowhead hunt power may go to regions

Inquest recommends changes to correctional camps

Nunavummiut in the spotlight

Northerners mourn Peter Gzowski

Dental therapist charged with sexual exploitation

Gjoa Haven wants a piece of Boothia polar bear hunt

Cambridge Bay man convicted of bootlegging

Man charged after drugs seized from home

Nunavik
KRG and co-ops duke it out over Internet access

Ivakkak Cup race set to start Feb. 4 in Kuujjuaq

Nunavik loses friends in Quebec cabinet

Crees set to sign deal on Feb. 7

Avalanche experts visit Nunavik communities

Features
Taking ’em to the top

Scratching the surface

Iqaluit

Student becomes teacher

Lower Base residents to find out how much they owe

City looks for a few "healthy" homes in Apex

>Will the bus stop here?

Commercial radio comes to Iqaluit

Man charged after drug bust in Iqaluit bar

Arctic

Is polar ice shrinking, growing or both?

New Greenlandic environmental group gets cash

Greenland’s Home Rule government says it won’t finance "anarchy"

KIA election this spring

Language Week will focus on standards

Teachers, GN negotiate new contract

Lakes hold key to how warming works

Headline News - February 8, 2002

Nunavut

Knowledge is power, auditor general says

Surviving the system

Language Week

GN is an English government, Aariak warns

GN translators can’t keep up with demand

The price of doing business in Nunavut

Anawak supports language commissioner’s recommendations

Living in an English world

Northerners spared from paying new security tax

Nunavut accident rate high, report shows

Kimmirut artists compete in Ottawa snow sculpture competition

Feds pass new youth justice law

Inuktitut linguist dies in Toronto

Devon Island — a bridge to Mars?

Aeroplan revises point requirements

Court Wrap-up

"A lot of technology" in child pornography case

Teen shooter to make a plea

Standing up for the fish

Brief brush with freedom

Home brew party ends in assault conviction

Love triangle goes wrong

The triangle continues

Accused fraudster appears in court

Is Barents Sea the world’s cleanest

Indigenous peoples show support for Thule Inughuit

Clarifications and Corrections

Not racing after all

Name/place mix-up

No decision yet in Salluit

Nunavik
Judge stops trial to acquit man of sex charges

Native affairs secretariat introduces new chief

Rocks for cash

Nunavik parties discuss framework agreement for self-government negotiations

Kuujjuaq men plead guilty to manslaughter

Features
When the mighty beaver thrived on Ellesmere

Sharpening his skill

Iqaluit
Neighbourhood endures a week without water

Arctic

NMD a costly proposition

Arctic Eco-tourism conference

Environmentalists are Russia’s new dissidents

Headline News - February 15, 2002

Nunavut
GN takes a second look at hospital leases

Understaffing led to questionable lease

Nunavut’s new health projects: the cost

A different school of thought

Raptors docs in town for the Games

German car ad mangles Inuit culture

Language Week

Kunuk hopes film breaks down barriers to funding

Iqaluit pharmacy ahead of the game

Un guichet unique pour les services en français au Nunavut

Nunavut celebrates language week

QIA sues Kilabuk for back rent

Okalik meets with federal cabinet ministers in Ottawa

Armed teen goes on shooting rampage

Fender bender grounds RCMP plane

Release of Inuit calendar coincides with return of the sun

Illisaivattunut Ulluq to celebrate teachers

Birthing centre hires new midwife

IN THE COURTS

Not an appealing week

Accused murderer awaits trial date

Nunavik
Controversial boxer hopes to repair image in Nunavik

100th baby born in Inukjuak

Labrador Inuit Health Commission studies teen health and behaviour

Crees seal billion-dollar agreement with Quebec

Kuujjuaq prepares for population influx during conference

KRPF warns Nunavik elders to watch out for solicitors

Web site tracks progress of Ivakkak competitors

Vaccination campaign under way

Features
And the winner is...

The colours of Kuujjuaq

Iqaluit
City consults business owners on smoking bylaw

City gets cash for hazardous waste education program

Increased sunshine makes up for the cold

Arctic
Northern Norway braces for protests

Alaskan sea otters need protecting, group says

UArctic finally online

Greenland protests against Danish budget cuts

Finland tops in protecting environment

Alaska’s glaciers melting away

Headline News - February 22, 2002

Nunavut
MLAs ponder enriched pension plan

NDP candidate, agent charged under Elections Act

The crisis in Nunavut schools

Arctic Winter Games

Theft strands Team Magadan

It’s all in the details

Language Week

Preserving language — in print

Language Week the talk of the territory

Single window for French services in Nunavut?

Poster children of Arctic Bay

Nunavut falls short in French-language services

Team Canada delegates make business connections in Germany

Fourth time’s a charm

Rebuilding QIA

Teen pleads guilty to creating bogus $100 bills

Last-minute cash saves shelter from closure

Sexual assault trial stirs emotions

Nunavut MLAs reconvene in Iqaluit

Inmate found guilty of sexually assaulting BCC employee

Domestic disputes settled

Nunavik
Fire destroys Puvirnituq garage

Deal gives KRG responsibility for new Nunavik parks

Quebec poverty strategy moving slowly

Kuujjuaq's Junior May wins Ivakkak 2002

Art from Inukjuak on display in Montreal

Quaqtaq man declared long-term offender

Features
Woven through time

Exploring the explorer’s mind

Iqaluit
Save old Arnaitok arena, residents plea

Businessman asks city council for permission to extend hours

Norway increases quota for minke whales

Greenland politicians to visit the U.S. and Russia

U.S. to study global warming in the Arctic

Alaska to change subsistence hunting requirements

Whales chased off