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IQALUIT, Nunavut (CP) - A mysterious skull discovered on the edge of the Arctic Circle has sparked interest in what creatures roamed Baffin Island in the distant past, and what life a warming climate may support in the future. Andrew Dialla, a resident of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, says he found the skull protruding from the frozen tundra during a walk near the shore with his daughter about a month ago. The horned skull is about the size of a man's fist. It resembles a baby caribou skull, except at that age, a caribou wouldn't have antlers, researchers and elders have pointed...

The Inuit are warning the federal government that allowing gays and lesbians to marry would conflict with a traditional way of life that is based on survival and procreation. In the Baffin Island community of Iqaluit, population 6,000, Inuit leaders gathered in a local hotel yesterday to make presentations to the House of Commons justice committee as it wrapped up cross-country hearings with a rare trip to the north. Speaking through an interpreter in her native language of Inuktitut, Kanayuk Salomonie said homosexuality is very much in the closet around the Nunavut capital, and that's where it should stay. "We...