‘I lost my legal right to vote’: Booths closed early — or didn’t open at all — in some Nunavik villages
Elia Lauzon doesn't trust the government, or the electoral system. Still, she turned up Monday to the polling station in Puvirnituq, Que., to have her say. "I do know it's the…
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