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Investigators work at the scene of the First Air crash site in Resolute, Nunavut, in August 2011. (Vincent Desrosiers/CBC)
Airline alleges negligence by military air traffic control

The airline First Air is suing Canada's Department of National Defence for negligence in the August 2011 crash in Resolute, in Canada's eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, that killed 12 passengers and crew and injured three passengers.

The First Air Boeing 737 crashed into a hillside close to the community's airport as it was preparing to land.

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Alaska Dispatch
Let's call it the polar express.

The multi-year ice floes that once dominated the Arctic Ocean have been shrinking fast over the past decade, replaced by pans that form anew each winter and melt away each spring.

The increase in the extent of this seasonal ice has the potential to dramatically accelerate the warming of the planet's far northern sea, according to a new four-year study published this week in Geophysical Research Letters.

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Alexina Kublu, Nunavut's languages commissioner, held a public meeting in Iqaluit Wednesday night to gather information about language services at the Qikiqtani General Hospital. (CBC)
Public meeting held in Iqaluit Wednesday night

The languages commissioner in Canada's eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut held a public meeting Wednesday night to gather information about language services at the Qikiqtani General Hospital in the territory's capital city of Iqaluit.

The office is conducting a systematic investigation into whether services are available in the Inuit language and French, one of Canada's official languages along with English.

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Report on Native 8(a) Program
Twenty American Indian and Alaska Native companies receiving special benefits under a controversial federal contracting program returned more than $100 million to their communities in 2010. That's the good news.

The not-so-good? Native people represented just 5 percent of the companies' workforce, according to a new report touting the program.

Thanks to the controversial federal advantages, those Native companies and others have won contracts valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, often without competing for them against other bidders.

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nvestigators work at the scene of the First Air crash site in Resolute Bay, Nunavut on Sunday Aug. 21, 2011. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nicolas Laffont)
The survivors and some family members of the victims in last year's First Air crash in Resolute, a community in Canada's eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut are suing the airline, NAV Canada and the federal government for negligence.

On August 20, 2011 a Boeing 737 crashed into a hillside close to the community's airport. The crash killed 12 people, including the two pilots and two crew members. Three people survived.

Two separate lawsuits have been filed at the Nunavut Court of Justice in Iqaluit, Nunavut's capital city.