CBC News Online - North Digest - 2015-03-06

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Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:44:48 EST Yukon government recommends focus on horizontal fracking Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:44:48 EST PowerPoint presentation prepared for caucus by senior officials at Energy, Mines and Resources notes that select committee "did not recommend a ban or moratorium on fracking." Read More Millions in CanNor funding left unused, says N.W.T. MP Bevington Fri, 6 Mar 2015 19:45:25 EST Northwest Territories MP Dennis Bevington is questioning the federal government's use of Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency funding, saying $14 million was left untouched between 2010 and 2014. Read More Chipewyan baby name not allowed on N.W.T. birth certificate Fri, 6 Mar 2015 09:43:53 EST Shene Catholique Valpy has spent over a year fighting for the traditional spelling of her daughter Sahaiʔa's name, but the N.W.T. government says all legal names must be written in the letters of the Roman alphabet. Read More B.C. RCMP officer fined for not reporting Yukon moose hunt Fri, 6 Mar 2015 17:07:47 EST In Yukon territorial court on Friday, an RCMP officer in Terrace, B.C. was fined $5,000 and ordered to forfeit a set of antlers from a moose he shot, but failed to report, in September 2011. Read More RCMP investigate death of Chantal Alexie in Inuvik Fri, 6 Mar 2015 14:33:42 EST Police say no evidence of foul play has been found but the cause of Alexie's death has not yet been determined. Read More More Headlines Brendan Bell steps down as N.W.T. Power Corp chair Air Greenland cuts Nuuk-Iqaluit scheduled flights in 2015 Long wait list for Whitehorse French immersion Stay off river ice in Whitehorse area: emergency officials Cambridge Bay woman offers baking lessons in Facebook group Nunavut to allow escorts for unilingual elders on medical travel Iqaluit school closures in -50 windchill have some parents irked $36M for Yellowknife's Canada Games could be better spent elsewhere Nunavut MLA Isaac Shooyook walks out of Question Period 'I can't. I'm too scared': Labrador woman recounts polar bear hunt