Delivery driver robbed outside Iqaluit diner
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Two men with a rifle robbed a delivery driver outside a restaurant in Iqaluit on Thursday night.
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Iqaluit mayor, new council sworn in
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Iqaluit's new city council has been sworn in at the Nunavut Court of Justice, about 2½ weeks after residents chose them to lead the Nunavut capital.
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Backhoe accident damages Iqaluit house
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
No one was seriously injured when an excavator rolled over and damaged a house in Iqaluit on Thursday.
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Quebec MP's sealskin portfolio a hit
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A sealskin-covered folder given to a Quebec MP by Iqaluit Mayor Elisapee Sheutiapik has made national headlines and even moved other politicians to ask where they can get their own.
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Iqaluit flu shot clinic draws lineups
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
More than 1,000 people in Iqaluit lined up to receive the H1N1 flu vaccine on Sunday, the first day of a 16-day mass vaccination program in Nunavut.
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Iqaluit flu clinic busy
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
A steady stream of people took advantage of Nunavut's mass vaccination campaign against swine flu, which began Sunday in Iqaluit.
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Iqaluit buildings evacuated over apparent bomb threat
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The Nunavut legislative assembly building and two nearby buildings in Iqaluit have been evacuated because of an apparent bomb threat.
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Fun with CATSA
Dawg's Blawg (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
I'm back from Iqaluit, contracts completed, having left -24 °C temperatures with wind chill for balmy Ottawa. On the way down, I happened to read an article in the Ottawa Citizen about the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (the federal agency running that on-going bad joke known as "airport security"). CATSA is crying poor : CATSA's increasingly distressed and urgent pleas for...
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Nunavut releases flu vaccine clinic dates
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Nunavut's mass H1N1 flu immunization campaign begins next week with a weeklong series of clinics in Iqaluit, while vaccination teams will fly to communities around the territory.
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There Are NO Climate Change 'Deniers' Amongst The Inuit In Canada's Arctic
Buckdog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
In the Canadian arctic community of Iqaluit , the local Nunatsiaq News had to tell readers for the last two years that the unusual red-breasted birds they were seeing everywhere in the spring and summer are called 'robins' . In the Canadian arctic community of Tuktoyaktuk . the melting permafrost is causing havoc in the local cemetery. As well for the first time in Inuit oral tradition, killer whales...
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Alexander out after Iqaluit election recount
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
David Alexander, the incumbent Iqaluit city councillor, has been edged out of council by a newcomer following a recount of last week's civic election results.
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Canadian Northern Wheatear Found in Iceland
Fleetwood Birder (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
I am a member of Bird Studies Canada and the article below was in an e-bulletin I received on 9 th October. I thought that it was so interesting that I thought you would like to read it your selves. "The Northern Wheatear undertakes one of the most remarkable migrations of any songbird. It is the only songbird that breeds in North America and winters in Africa. Alaskan and Yukon breeders migrate...
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Iqaluit election recount called
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Ballots cast in Monday's city election in Iqaluit will undergo an official recount at the request of a candidate who was edged out of council by one vote.
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Polls close in Iqaluit civic election
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Who will lead Iqaluit's city government is being decided Monday night, with municipal polls now closed.
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Election day in Iqaluit, N.W.T. communities
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Monday is municipal election day in Yellowknife and five other Northwest Territories communities, as well as in the Nunavut capital of Iqaluit.