Photo: Nunavut MLAs get back to work

Nunavut MLAs reconvened in Iqaluit March 4 for a legislative assembly session likely to be dominated by Finance Minister Keith Peterson’s budget speech, to be given March 8, and numerous questions from regular MLAs for cabinet ministers. On March 4, Tagak Curley, the health minister, announced that the troubled three-person medical travel office in Pangnirtung will be moved back to Iqaluit by April 1 this year. Also on March 4, the Nunavut cabinet announced in a news release that they favour a by-election date of April 26 for the Nattilik seat, made vacant recently by the resignation of Enuk Pauloosie. Nattilik takes in the communities of Gjoa Haven and Taloyoak. (PHOTO BY JANE GEORGE)