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• Prison pension for the lowest
  It's not hard to become outraged when you learn that someone like notorious child killer Clifford Olson has been receiving Canada Pension while ...
• Action is a true delicacy
  Thumbing their nose and mugging for the press, Members of Parliament sampled one of the nation's less-known culinary morsels in response to the ...
• What would you do if...
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper seemed to be still living off the high from performing in October with cellist Yo Yo Ma after it was announced in ...
• Party faces work to restore faith
  Nova Scotia voters may have taken care of the Conservatives last spring when they elected this province's first ever NDP government, but eight ...
• Whats good for the goose...
  Its fair to wonder why fishing agreements are in place if the parties are in no way bound to them and sometimes make no effort to stay within the ...
• Break costs Conservatives
  After trying ­ and failing for several months to find that silver bullet to stop Conservative momentum, it appears Prime Minister Stephen Harper ...
• Prevention and rehabilitation
  With a mandate to prevent infectious disease, Canada HIV/AIDS Legal Network launched a report last week weighing heavily on offering a needle ...
• In one end and out the other
  Clearly it's not organic food that needs to be labeled at the supermarket. Rejecting a Kings County request to restrict the application of ...
• Time to turn the page
  The Canadian National Institute for the Blind pressed federal and provincial governments last week to help fund its library services for people ...
• Too big an issue to tuck away
  We've known for some time that Canadians are becoming increasingly overweight. Will another study showing we're less fit encourage the collective ...
• Youthful appeal
  At a time when it's getting harder to attract people to the ballot box, federal New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton just may be on to ...
• A little shimmy to the right
  Those concerned about the possibility of a deficit budget in this province can look westward for an interesting note of comparison. Alberta has ...
• Apply caution when criticizing
  No doubt Nova Scotia Finance Minister Graham Steele is wishing he hadn't stuck his foot in his mouth. It's no extravagance that the premier would ...
• A growing list of displeasure
  That a new provincial jail will not be built in this area is by no means a dying issue. With the NDP content to roll over this region and truck ...
• Daring stunt highlights issue
  With them or against them, you can't help but admire a bit of ingenuity going into a protest. The bunch who got their message across at the ...
• Good, bad and worse options
  Imagine what might have been: a party kicked out of power, Parliament experiencing progress through the harmony of the Liberals, NDP and Bloc ...
• Preventing tradgedy
  Making safe and sensible decisions during the holiday season should be easy, but statistics show there are still too many Canadians who get ...
• Now is the time to keep fighting
  The NDP's decision to table $18 million from the budget and put the building of a new provincial jail in Springhill has not been without its ...
• Is it hysteria or news?
  How much information is too much information? Growing concern with the seriousness of the second wave of the H1N1 virus has touched off a ...
• Answers there, but not simple
  Sometimes you have to be careful what you ask for: the answer could be overwhelming. In a response that invokes slapstick images, the ...
• Big city decision changes small town lives
  It's unfortunate that in this age of layoffs and restructuring that a company such as Bell Aliant does not recognize the value of jobs in ...
• Church cant hide from problems
  These are tough times in the Catholic Church and the sudden resignation and subsequent arrest of the head of the church's Antigonish diocese is ...
• Its all about the headlines
  It was a devastating blow for this area when the NDP government tabled the construction of a new correctional facility in its budget last week. ...
• Harper needs etiquette lessons
  America is a proud nation that, unlike Canada, has no qualm in praising its rise to independence, its strides towards liberty and the men and ...
• Uttered behind closed doors
  Does anyone believe for a moment that politicians, when among their own kind, don't take shots at their opponents? The Liberals and other ...
• A?menu from our fields and streams
  Catching on to the slow food movement, Agricultural Minister John MacDonnell has challenged Nova Scotians to eat locally this coming Sept. 4, in ...
• Time for a reality check
  News that the province's financial position is not as good as earlier thought is certainly not surprising as much as it is shocking. It's not ...
• A man who didnt seek fame
  The man often thought of as a reluctant hero for his people died Thursday. People's views of Donald Marshall Jr. were divided during his ...
• If that was you or me...
  So, what should we make of this situation? Witnesses at a local pub Sunday evening watched as Springhill's Canine Control Officer backed his work ...
• Learning what were eating
  We're getting there bit by bit, seeing limits on certain unhealthy ingredients in food products. The problem is, however, such progress often ...