CBC News Online - North Digest - 2015-02-10

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Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:54:21 EST Whitehorse mayor delighted with new Community Services minister Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:54:21 EST The mayor of Whitehorse says the relationship between the city and the territorial Department of Community Services is fantastic since a new minister was appointed. Read More Brent Sass 1st Yukon Quest musher into Dawson City Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:59:53 EST Brent Sass is the first musher in the 2015 Yukon Quest to reach the halfway point, Dawson City. He and his team arrived just after 3 p.m. Tuesday. Read More Nunavut Francophone school board will meet with parents Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:27:39 EST Nunavut's Francophone school board has agreed to meet with parents who are upset with how École des Trois-Soleils is being run. Read More Paul Leroux gets parole after serving 1 year for residential school abuse Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:46:31 EST Former residential school supervisor Paul Leroux has been granted full parole after serving one year of his sentence for sexually abusing boys at Beauval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan. Read More Tuktoyaktuk cancer survivor's coverage cut by Health Canada Tue, 10 Feb 2015 08:55:50 EST Patrick Kuptana's lymph node cancer is in remission but he can't swallow anything more solid than yogurt and applesauce. Last week his year-long coverage for a prescribed nutritional drink was cancelled by the federal government's non-insured health benefit program. Read More More Headlines Man arrested at Whitehorse Airport with cocaine and knife Iqaluit searches for an Honorary Toonik Poor highway drainage surrounds N.W.T. elder's cabin with ice Devolution resource money less than predicted: GNWT Yellowknife city staff recommend abandoning Robertson headframe TRC may ask Vatican to repeal the Papal Bulls of Discovery Firefighters calendar raises $21K for Whitehorse animal shelter Pauloosie Keyootak elected MLA for Uqqummiut in byelection Iqaluit mayor responds to deficit concerns from businesses Striking town workers picket recreation centre in Hay River