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Cosmetics and cancer drugs via Nunavut?

A P.E.I. researcher and Nunavut Tunngavik are negotiating what’s being described as a precedent-setting agreement to share any profits from bioprospecting finds in Frobisher Bay.

Russell Kerr, a University of P.E.I. chemistry professor, wants to dig through Nunavut‘s mud in search of bacteria that could potentially be used in products ranging from face creams to cancer [...]

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Internet, high speed

While using distance learning technology to connect to Sioux Lookout over the internet, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff announced that a future Liberal government will achieve the goal of 100 percent high-speed internet connectivity within three years of being elected, and expand mobile phone coverage for rural and remote Canada.

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