CBC.ca
RCMP murder trial jurors deliberate a 3rd day
CBC.ca
5, 2007, Scott was investigating a drunk-driving complaint in Kimmirut, a remote hamlet on Baffin Island, when he was shot. Investigators later found Scott ...

CBC.ca
Pay Inuit for polar bear quota cut: Nunavut MLA
CBC.ca
Inuit leaders and hunters have expressed outrage at coming reductions in the polar bear hunting quota in Nunavut's Baffin Bay region, where bear populations ...
INUIT ANGER AT GOVERNMENT QUOTASGoallover.org
USA & CANADA CLASH OVER POLAR BEARSGoallover.org

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Nunatsiaq News
Seal of disapproval: Nunavut MLA proposes EU liquor boycott over seal ban
National Post
South Baffin MLA Fred Schell proposed to legislature a ban on liquors imported from the European Union to counter Europe's ban on the marketing of Canadian ...
Okalik sticks the needle into Nunavut cabinetNunatsiaq News
Nunavut wimpers back against the EU seal skin banWestern Standard (blog)

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Eight Remarkable Canadians Win Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts
Art Daily
... while Terry Ryan received the Outstanding Contribution Award as long-time general manager of West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in Cape Dorset, Nunavut and ...

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CBC.ca
Nunavut jury rests in RCMP murder trial
CBC.ca
... Nunavut, more than two years ago. Kolola, 39, is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Const. Douglas Scott, 20, in the Baffin ...

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Wacky winter a signal of years to come: Climatologist
Montreal Gazette
This winter was a standout, with records being shattered from BC to Baffin Island to the Great lakes. The North saw extraordinary temperatures, ...

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Baffin Bay polar bear quota cut
Northern News Services (subscription)
IQALUIT - The Government of Nunavut is reducing the number of Baffin Bay polar bears that can be hunted starting this year. ...

Baffin medical travel re-centralized
Northern News Services (subscription)
The bar poured at the Meadowbank mine north of Baker Lake was the first gold produced in Nunavut since the closure of the Lupin mine in 2002. ...

Eight winners of Governor General's Awards in Visual Arts announced
Toronto Star Blogs (blog)
Worth special mention is Terry Ryan, the long-time manager of the West Baffin Eskimo Collective in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, a tiny, remote spot with a ...

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Nunavut targets EU liquor to avenge seal skin ban
Montreal Gazette
South Baffin representative Fred Schell said he will propose a motion this week in the Nunavut legislature to stop the import of booze from the European ...

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Canadian Inuit Reduce Polar Bear Quota
EcoWorld.com
The hunting area is in Baffin Bay, which separates northeastern Canada from Greenland. Biologists say the number of polar bears in the area is shrinking, ...
Baffin Bay polar bear quota cutNorthern News Services (subscription)

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Northern News Services (subscription)
The Government of Nunavut is reducing the number of Baffin Bay polar bears that can be hunted starting this year. The Kimmirut man on trial for killing an ...

Northern News Services (subscription)
The kitchen sessions
Northern News Services (subscription)
Mackenzie created the album with support from the Baffin Business Development Corporation. Mackenzie will perform at the Kicking Caribou Pub in Iqaluit at 8 ...

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MLA proposes retaliatory ban on liquor imported from Europe
Financial Post
South Baffin MLA Fred Schell will propose a motion next week in the Nunavut legislature that seeks to stop the import of booze from the European Union into ...

Scientists urge caution on polar bear fossil find
Metro Canada - Vancouver
IQALUIT, Nunavut - The Nunavut government has cut the number of polar bears that can be killed in Canada's Baffin Bay region. Waste watchers? ...

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Llanberis climbers to conquer unclimbed Arctic peak on Baffin Island
Daily Post
On May 2, the experienced trio will travel to Ottawa, Canada, then Montreal and Clyde River – a tiny outpost in the Nunavut Territories – before being taken ...

Welsh climbers prepare to conquer unclimbed Arctic peak
Daily Post
THREE Welsh climbers are preparing to conquer a previously unclimbed, mile-high vertical wall on the Arctic's remote Baffin Island. ...

Nunavut politician urges ban on European alcohol over seal-hunt protest
The Province
South Baffin representative Fred Schell says he will propose a motion next week in the Nunavut legislature that seeks to stop the import of booze from the ...

Nunavut politician urges ban on European alcohol over seal-hunt protest
Vancouver Sun
South Baffin representative Fred Schell says he will propose a motion next week in the Nunavut legislature that seeks to stop the import of booze from the ...
Nunavut MLA calls for EU booze boycottCANOE
Nunavut MLA calls for EU alcohol banCBC.ca
Nunavut MLA calls for local ban on EU alcoholCTV.ca
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City judge sits on Arctic bench
Hamilton Spectator
... hamlet on Baffin Island. Whitten, 64, who normally presides at Hamilton's John Sopinka Courthouse, spent the past week as a deputy judge of the Nunavut ...