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Ivana Shein Will Make You **** Your Pants

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree couldn't be more applicable than the talent that is Ivana Shein.

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Related Topix: Canada, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television

Thu May 23, 2013

CBC News

Duffy expense claims reveal more about campaign travel

Election spending records show Senator Mike Duffy campaigned with Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the Northwest Territories during the 2011 election, while also claiming he was on Senate business.

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Related Topix: Stephen Harper, North America, Canada, World News

Tue May 21, 2013

CBC News

Northerners struggle with new temporary foreign worker rules

The federal government is tightening rules for businesses that want to hire temporary foreign workers, but some northern businesses people say the changes will make it harder to recruit the employees they need.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News,

Thu May 16, 2013

CBC News

Yellowknife Catholic school board votes to allow HPV shots

HPV is a common sexually transmitted infection that is linked to cervical cancer.

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Related Topix: Canada, Vaccinations, Health

Mon May 13, 2013

CBC News

Fire chief defends actions in icy Yellowknife dogsled rescue

It took the department four minutes to get to the edge of Great Slave Lake after receiving a call that someone went through the ice.

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Related Topix: Canada, Fire

Sat May 11, 2013

CBC News

Yellowknife dogsledder falls through ice on bay

Bystanders and the Yellowknife fire department saved a man and his dogs who broke through thin ice on Yellowknife Bay Friday.

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Related Topix: Canada, Fire

Fri May 10, 2013

CBC News

B.C. youth facing handgun charges in Yellowknife gets bail

The 17-year-old is facing four weapons charges and one charge of trafficking cocaine , as is his co-accused, 21-year-old Joshua Petten.

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Related Topix: Canada

Thu May 09, 2013

CBC News

Giant Mine roaster clean-up work to begin

Crews will begin removing asbestos and arsenic trioxide found in the roaster complex at Yellowknife's Giant Mine this summer.

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Related Topix: Canada

Wed May 08, 2013

Edmonton Journal

Northern hydro may be in the future for cleaner Alberta electricity

Atco is setting its sights on the potential for northern hydro projects and new transmission lines to energize natural gas production in booming northwestern Alberta and British Columbia.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, North America,

Turtle Island News

Assembly of First Nations Offers Condolences after passing of Shirley Firth Larrson

Turtle Island News is now providing the only national native news service delivered to your computer or cell each morning.

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News

Tue May 07, 2013

Anchorage Daily News

Video: Vocal raven becoming a YouTube star

Alaska wildlife authorities would discourage you from trying this at home: Merlyn Williams of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, has developed a verbal relationship of sorts with a raven he named Raymond that's been visiting his porch for food handouts.

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Related Topix: Canada

Mon May 06, 2013

CBC News

Q & A with two of the most powerful people in Canadian health care

Two Hamilton-area health care experts weigh in on the most serious issues in health facing Canada and Hamilton.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Medicine, Family Practice

Tue Apr 30, 2013

Market Wire

Petro-Occidente Capital Corp. Announces NI 43-101 Report and Non-Brokered Private Placement

Petro-Occidente Capital Corp. is pleased to announce the completion and filing of a technical report prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 for the Uptown Gold Project located in the Northwest Territories Mining District of the Northwest Territories, approximately three kilometres north of the city of Yellowknife as well as provide ... (more)

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Related Topix: Canada, Recreational Vehicle, Diamond

Mon Apr 29, 2013

Nunatsiaq News

Photo: Day of Mourning, April 28

A woman lays a flower April 28 at a ceremony in Nunavut's legislative assembly in Iqaluit to mark the National Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job.

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Related Topix: Canada

Sun Apr 28, 2013

National Post

Assault conviction thrown out because court failed to notify former...

A Yellowknife court has thrown out an assault conviction against a former teacher because he was not properly informed of his Charter right to a French trial, despite being given the choice of either language early on.

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Related Topix: Canada

Sat Apr 27, 2013

Sys-Con Media

Minister Aglukkaq Celebrates Daffodil Day

"The Canadian Cancer Society's Daffodil Day honours the thousands of people in Canada who live with cancer and those who have lost their lives to the disease," said Minister Aglukkaq.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News

Fri Apr 26, 2013

CBC News

New trial ordered for former Inuvik teacher

A former Inuvik, N.W.T., teacher convicted of assaulting his 17-year-old girlfriend has been granted a new trial.

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Related Topix: Canada

Thu Apr 25, 2013

CBC News

N.W.T. plans to ramp up mine inspections

The Giant Mine site in Yellowknife has been listed as one of the most contaminated sites in the country.

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Related Topix: Canada