CBC News Online - North Digest - 2015-03-10

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Number of non-N.W.T. residents working at diamond mines almost doubles Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:13:59 EDT Number of non-N.W.T. residents working at diamond mines almost doubles Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:13:59 EDT The number of non-N.W.T. residents working at diamond mines in the territory almost doubled in the last five years while the number of N.W.T. residents working there rose by 20 per cent, according to a survey of mine employees released today. Read More Auditor general cites slew of problems at notorious Nunavut jail Tue, 10 Mar 2015 07:20:01 EDT Nunavut's largest jail puts the safety and security of inmates and staff at risk, and the territory's Department of Justice has been aware of the problem without fixing it for almost 20 years, according to a damning report by the auditor general of Canada. Read More Man survives after throat cut at downtown Whitehorse hotel Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:28:45 EDT Whitehorse RCMP are investigating after a man's throat was cut at the Riverview Hotel Saturday. Read More Repulse Bay to officially change name to Naujaat July 2 Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:19:26 EDT The hamlet of Repulse Bay, Nunavut, will change its name to traditional Inuktitut name Naujaat on July 2 after the minister of Community and Government Services recently approved the community's request. Read More Nunavut still not ready to take Inuit artifacts stored in Yellowknife Tue, 10 Mar 2015 09:14:22 EDT The N.W.T. government says it can't keep storing more than 140,000 Inuit artifacts at Yellowknife's Prince of Wales Heritage Centre, but the Nunavut government says plans for the new Nunavut Heritage Centre are at a standstill. Read More More Headlines Fracking documents reveal 'dishonest' government: Don Roberts Can spruce gum cure cancer? First Nations woman says it did Council of Yukon First Nations holds education summit Long legal road ahead for Madeleine Redfern, QIA Ceiling collapse closes Inuvik's Children First daycare Christy's weather: snow expected in southern N.W.T. Tentative deal reached in $1B Nunavut land claim lawsuit Yukon to look at more space for early French immersion: minister Dehcho First Nations, N.W.T. gov't at impasse over land claim Yukon draft fracking strategy was unseen by caucus: gov't