In the four years Elgersma was chief administrative officer, the city saw a number of disasters, like when Iqaluit's biggest store, Northmart, caught fire, and several water emergencies. Rod Mugford is set to be the interim CAO.
It's election day in Nunavut, the final day for roughly 14,000 eligible voters to go to polling stations throughout the territory to elect new members of the legislature for 17 constituencies.
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James Henry Bell, long-time journalist, editor and opinion writer at Nunatsiaq News, died on Aug. 24 at age 69, after speaking truth to power for nearly four decades from Iqaluit during a period of profound political, economic and environmental change.