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On the Nunavut Campaign Trail
No balloons or painted campaign buses, and barely any door-to-door soliciting. Unlike the noisy campaigns to the south, the first election in Nunavut was informal and low-key. Residents in small communities already knew the candidates running — and their families. When people went to the polls in 1999, they did it on their own terms, electing a consensus government and making special provisions for voting in a vast territory. They were looking for candidates to tackle the region's toughest obstacles: poor access to health care and high suicide and unemployment rates.
Last updated: May 7, 2012
Page consulted on December 5, 2012
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Should one man and one woman be required to represent each local ridin...
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Meet three candidates with very different political campaigns.
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Eastern Arctic residents settle land claim, create new territory and c...
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Nunavut's candidates for MLA prefer to run low-key election campaigns.
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A Nunavut election primer for people in Canada's south.
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New MLAs to rule with old Inuit values.
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A profile of selected candidates from the 1999 legislative elections.
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Novice Paul Okalik beats out a popular Arctic politician.
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Eva Aariak becomes Nunavut's second premier, and its first female lead...
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