“Sixty-three per cent of N.W.T’s population have been evacuated”
Alty says at least 6,500 residents have left since the evacuation order was given on Wednesday, with more departing today
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Yellowknife
“It’s like going off to war”: This man is helping evacuate fire-plagued Yellowknife
“Northerners are the toughest people on the planet, and we come together in a crisis”
The flap over Yellowknife’s flag-raising practices
At the request of Turkish Yellowknifers, the city proclaimed Oct. 29 as ’Turkish Republic Day’ and raised the iconic flag outside city hall. Then complaints started rolling in.
’This place is what Canada is all about’
The ball hockey-playing prince wooed the crowd in four languages
Ignatieff’s pitch
I have a story in this week’s print edition about Michael Ignatieff’s position going into the last two weeks of this campaign and...
A statistically unrepresentative sample of Canadian concerns
Over the last few days, Michael Ignatieff has discussed astrophysics with a six-year-old girl (true story), purchased two cakes...
Stephen Harper and the Canada Health Act
Greetings from the Northwest Territories, where the Conservative and Liberal campaigns have come to debate Stephen Harper’s...
Breaking the ice
Canada’s first army reserve unit north of 60 gets its boots wet
The tally
With 51 precincts reporting specific estimates—restricting the count to media-reported figures and, where available, police...
Meghan McCain fights back, Georgia May Jagger models, and Jean Sarkozy gets a boost
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