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Canada News
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Written by Wire Services
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Tuesday, 08 November 2005 |
Nov. 8 - Women across Canada are more satisfied in bed than their partners, according to the 2005 Global Sex Survey by Durex(R) released today. Are Canadian men better lovers? Are women over-exaggerating their love lives? Experts say no. Women are just better at asking for what they want: 47 percent of Canadian women versus just 37 percent of men said they were confident asserting their sexual needs with their partners.
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Nova Scotia News
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Written by NDP News Release
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Tuesday, 08 November 2005 |
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November 8, 2005 - Halifax, NS - NDP Education Critic Bill Estabrooks is calling on Education Minister Jamie Muir to direct all of the province's school boards to standardize the tracking of school suspensions after learning about 17,500 school suspensions that took place last school year. |
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Canada News
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Written by D.L. McCracken
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Monday, 07 November 2005 |
 The possibility of a Christmas election is closer than ever to becoming a done-deal with the news that NDP leader Jack Layton and his party will not support the federal Liberal health care package submitted by Paul Martin last week.
After analyzing the Liberal's proposals over the weekend, Layton said today, "What the government is proposing is unacceptable. No real effort to monitor and track public medicare's decline and private care's rise. And today's Liberal Party is unwilling to attach any conditions to prevent privatization to the funds it currently invests in health." |
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Canada News
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Written by Government of Canada
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Monday, 07 November 2005 |
 Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew and International Cooperation Minister Aileen Carroll today condemned the recent killings of humanitarian aid workers in separate attacks in southern Sudan and northern Uganda. The ministers called for state and non-state actors to ensure respect for international humanitarian law and to be held accountable for attacks on aid workers operating in territory under their control.
"Canada strongly condemns these killings, which, while deplorable in and of themselves, restrict vital humanitarian operations and thereby threaten the security of countless civilians," said Minister Pettigrew. "We call on all parties to ensure the full, safe and unhindered access of humanitarian workers to the people in need in Sudan and northern Uganda." |
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Canada News
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Written by Administrator
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 For almost six million Canadians who experience some form of chronic pain, the results of a recent public opinion survey will be discouraging. A recent survey, completed by Decima Research (November 2005) for the Canadian Pain Coalition (CPC) involving more than 1,000 adults in all provinces, highlights the confusion and lack of awareness about pain and those it affects.
Twenty-one percent of respondents indicated they suffered from chronic pain while 46% indicated they knew someone with the disease. Only 47 per cent of Canadians surveyed fully believe that chronic pain is real. |
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Nova Scotia News
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Written by NS Government News Release
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Monday, 07 November 2005 |
Low-income Nova Scotians will get help financing home repairs thanks to an additional $2 million in funding. Nova Scotia has some of the highest rates of home ownership in the country, and some of the oldest homes.
To qualify for housing repair program grants, total household income must be below set income thresholds. Eligible household income levels are determined by where an applicant lives in Nova Scotia and by household size. |
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Monday, 07 November 2005 |
Communities across Nova Scotia will soon benefit from improved access to back-up electrical power during an emergency.
The second and final phase of a program to install back-up electrical power to communities across Nova Scotia will begin on Thursday, Nov. 17.
The province will help municipal emergency measures co-ordinators purchase generators for use in comfort centres throughout the province. Schools, community centres or fire halls that municipalities use to provide shelter during an emergency will be eligible for the generators. |
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Nova Scotia News
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Written by NDP Media Release
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Monday, 07 November 2005 |
 Cole Harbour MLA Kevin Deveaux is calling on the Minister for Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations, Barry Barnet, to consider changes to the Sales Tax Act and HST regulations so drivers like Bob McNeill can get the same rebate break given to those who drive vehicles equipped with ramps.
"Louise McNeill has lost the use of her limbs as the result of a stroke," says Deveaux. "She is dependent on her husband Bob for transportation in the family car. Bob should get a rebate for the HST he has paid when he purchased their vehicle, just like every other family that transports a person with a disability. However because he lifts Louise into the car, rather than using a built-in ramp, the regulations exclude him from eligibility for the rebate." |
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Science & Technology
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Written by Wire Services
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Monday, 07 November 2005 |
Beginning on October 24, 2005 and ending on November 30, 2005, Forbes.com is collecting thousands of letters that their readers have written to themselves. And they'll deliver them up to 20 years later.
According to Forbes.com, preserving a physical time capsule is simple: just shove it in the dirt and forget about it. But the process gets a lot more complicated when you're trying to store something digitally. |
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Health News
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Written by Wire Services
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Monday, 07 November 2005 |
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Experts at WHO and elsewhere believe that the world is now closer to another influenza pandemic than at any time since 1968, when the last of the previous century's three pandemics occurred. WHO uses a series of six phases of pandemic alert as a system for informing the world of the seriousness of the threat and of the need to launch progressively more intense preparedness activities. We are currently at number 3. |
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