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• Flu fears at summer camp
  With several Ontario children's camps experiencing problems with sick campers it would not be too much of a surprise if many parents refrain from ...
• Striking a chord with United Air
  He's a well-known musician in these parts, but Dave Carroll extended those boundaries with his song and video, 'United Breaks Guitars.' He also ...
• Concessions for a necessary evil
  If video lottery terminals are a necessary evil, and if we cannot do without the $150 million-plus in annual revenue they bring to our province's ...
• Your home and native land
  It just wouldn't be Canada Day without the token debates over cultural identity and estimations of our collective patriotism as Canadians by our ...
• Tragedy should spark safeguards
  Without diminishing the tragedy of a couple waiting for days to be rescued on a mountainside, the latest development is troublesome in another ...
• Objections over fanaticism
  Some Canadians, it seems, will not be content until they are no longer Canadians. On Sunday the Parti Quebecois unveiled its newest strategy to ...
• While you were sleeping
  Proposed changes to the Criminal Code of Canada are flying low on the public's radar, being presented as a mere curio by the media rather than ...
• Wasting time on Green Party
  When the Green Party of Nova Scotia fails to make a dent at the polls it won't be because they had a weak platform. The Green's failure won't ...
• Who will mend our broken ERs?
  In almost every election since the early 1990s political leaders have claimed to have the solution for what's ailing Nova Scotia's failing ...
• But what about the kids?
  We can expect some good old-fashioned politics after Nova Scotia selects its government June 9. A minority government for either side is ...
• Making profit off falsehoods
  There's nothing like taking advantage of a bad situation. That's exactly what several countries around the world are doing in trying to confuse ...
• Here comes another one
  Anew flu and possible pandemic has the world flustered. Attached to the common flu virus - Influenza A - the swine flu skipped the species ...
• Tougher regulations
  There could hardly be a more creditable voice for tougher food-quality controls than the company at the centre of last year's listeriosis ...
• It would be wise to heed reality
  As much as government and business leaders attempt to reassure Canadians that the worst of the recession is over, reality says otherwise. Figures ...
• An ugly step backwards
  During recent International Women's Day festivities we were told that as far as women have come in the last few decades there's still a long way ...
• You can go away Galloway
  Some people think too highly of themselves. Like the case of George Galloway, a controversial Member of Parliament from the United Kingdom who ...
• What gets tossed around
  It had about as much wit and humour mixed into it as a dish of 'freedom fries.' Canadians are used to getting little attention from south of the ...
• One hurdle is psychological
  It was more so the optimism of public relations, but it would help if the average Canadian held as much hope for economic recovery as Stephen ...
• What, exactly, are they thinking
  Politics is either dying a slow death or entering a strange state of evolution. With the succession of Keith Hunter as Cumberland North's ...
• Another banner day in Ottawa
  The nation awoke Monday to read the love affair between the federal Conservatives and Liberals, which saved Prime Minister Steven Harper's ...
• A?time to create unity
  On Sept. 12, 1759, less than 10,000 French and English troops squared off outside Quebec City in what was to be the most pivotal battle of the ...
• Understanding and learning
  A bone flute found in China is believed to be the oldest musical instrument in the world. Discovered in 1962, the Neolithic discovery was later ...
• Weak and petty accusations
  The bogus accusation against Independent MP Bill Casey taken to the RCMP during the last federal election sounds like a witch hunt. The federal ...
• The fire department wants you
  It was the beginning of a great banquet. Friends and supporters of the Springhill Fire Dept. came from near and far to its annual banquet at the ...
• A city of two tales
  It was a catch phrase too good to go unnoticed. In covering Human Resources Minister Diane Finley's announcement Sunday, that the federal ...
• Burned out looking for bailouts
  What's that old saying? Fools rush in? Perhaps we can be glad that the Canadian banking system was better off than many systems in other ...
• Telegram for the Liberal Party
  Were we to look at the laws of the land 100 years ago it's fair to say the rules that governed Canada closely mirrored the 10 Commandments with a ...
• Beneficial goal offered by feds
  Many Canadians will be amused over the debut Jan. 1 of the tax-free savings account. For those with plenty of surplus to set aside, the ability ...
• The beast with two mouths
  It seems the only parties affected by the recent prorogue of government in Canada are that of the opposition. Calling for the prorogue after a ...
• Leading by example
  Signs of an economic meltdown are now rippling through the province. The cost of gas has dropped significantly, holiday shopping deals are much ...