CBC News Online - North Digest - 2015-03-05

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Thu, 5 Mar 2015 16:06:25 EST Yukon justice can do more to rehabilitate inmates: report Thu, 5 Mar 2015 16:06:25 EST The Auditor General of Canada has released a report critical of Yukon's correctional system. Michael Ferguson's report, which looked at whether Yukon's Justice Department was meeting its responsibilities for offenders in the system, highlights a couple of key shortcomings. Read More Former Inuvik educator David Button guilty of 1970s sex assault Thu, 5 Mar 2015 19:58:28 EST David Button was found guilty in Yellowknife Thursday of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy in the 1970s. Read More Iqaluit couple share dogsledding tips on 4,000-km Baffin Island trip Thu, 5 Mar 2015 19:01:43 EST Sarah McNair-Landry and Erik Boomer are learning and sharing tricks of the trade with Nunavut dogsledders as they make their way around Baffin Island with their team of 14 dogs. Read More Nunavut can't measure repeat criminal behaviour, program effectiveness Thu, 5 Mar 2015 18:50:02 EST Nunavut's correctional system does not have the capacity to evaluate the rate of repeat criminal behaviour or measure the effectiveness of rehabilitation, according to answers to a written question in the legislature. Read More 15-year-old driver charged in fatal Alaska Highway crash Thu, 5 Mar 2015 16:12:02 EST Charges have been laid against a 15-year-old driver in connection with an Alaska Highway collision that killed two young people in Whitehorse last summer. Read More More Headlines Robertson headframe could be demolished by 2016 Benedict Corrigal pleads guilty in Hay River highrise killings Deline self-government bill passes 3rd reading Agnico Eagle's Meliadine gold mine gets its project certificate No suspects yet in Yellowknife homicide: RCMP Na-Cho Nyak Dun election not 'above board': member Alaskan communities vote on local marijuana regulations Buffalo Airways pitches on-time, no-bumping cargo flights to Kitikmeot Arctic Council leaders want more indigenous representation Franklin expedition's HMS Erebus to be examined by dive teams in April