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Fort Liard curfew to keep kids alert at school: mayor
The mayor of Fort Liard, N.W.T., says a curfew currently in the works will help children do better at school by getting them in bed earlier at night.
CBC.ca  –  Oct 6, 2008 10:09 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
4 to run in South Baffin byelection
Four candidates from Kimmirut and Cape Dorset are running in a Nov. 3 byelection in Nunavut's South Baffin constituency.
CBC.ca  –  Oct 6, 2008 8:47 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
Yukon Energy proposes power rate cut - and increase
Yukon Energy Corp. applied to the territory's utilities board on Monday to cut residential power rates by almost 18 per cent, but it also wants to apply a higher rate for homeowners who use more than 1,000 kilowatt hours a month.
CBC.ca  –  Oct 6, 2008 8:19 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
Anawak appeal could derail territorial election in Akulliq: lawyer
A Nunavut court judge is expected to rule Monday on whether former member of Parliament Jack Anawak can appeal a decision that barred him from running in Nunavut's territorial election.
CBC.ca  –  Oct 6, 2008 3:49 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
'Yukon Erik' Nielsen remembered at Whitehorse memorial
Several hundred people paid tribute to longtime Yukon MP Erik Nielsen in Whitehorse over the weekend as his ashes were brought back to the territory he represented for three decades.
CBC.ca  –  Oct 6, 2008 3:13 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
Crew member's body found in Labrador harbour
RCMP are investigating the death of a mariner whose body was recovered from a Labrador harbour this weekend.
CBC.ca  –  Oct 6, 2008 09:31 AM [GMT]  –  comment?
Dion promises money, planes in bid to hold Nunavut
A Liberal government would spend $25 million for small craft harbours and buy new search-and-rescue planes for the North, party leader Stéphane Dion said.
CBC.ca  –  Oct 5, 2008 8:59 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
Support for Northern communities key to Arctic sovereignty: Layton
New Democratic Leader Jack Layton pledged more support for communities in the North, saying it's key to ensuring Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic.
CBC.ca  –  Oct 4, 2008 03:01 AM [GMT]  –  comment?
Former MP Anawak appeals Nunavut candidacy disqualification
Jack Anawak, a former Member of Parliament in the eastern Arctic, launched a court challenge Friday to a decision to disqualify him from running in this month's territorial election.
CBC.ca  –  Oct 3, 2008 10:11 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
New complaint filed against Canadian in decades-old slaying
U.S. prosecutors filed a new complaint against a Yukon man on Friday, less than two hours after a judge dismissed his indictment in the killing a Nova Scotia woman almost 33 years ago.
CBC.ca  –  Oct 3, 2008 8:04 PM [GMT]  –  comment?