A pall descended on normally good natured Hay River for six months of online mudslinging, face-to-face confrontations, vandalism and even calls to the RCMP as the community split and took sides over a municipal worker strike, all over a change in workers’ wages worth fractions of a percentage point.
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In the red corner, the reigning champ: first ever repeat NWT premier, eight-year veteran MLA and former career deputy minister who juggled four cabinet portfolios in each of the last three assemblies.
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An inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls will launch by the summer, but its final form has yet to be determined.
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From the deep south to the far north of the Northwest Territories, voters rallied one last time on Dec. 14 for the final municipal elections of 2015.
READ MORENorthwest Territories MP Michael McLeod said last week an increase to the tax break for Northern Canadian residents is still in the cards.
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Bob McLeod became the first politician to repeat as premier of the NWT when at least nine of the other MLAs in the territory voted for him in a secret ballot on Dec. 16.
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