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Canada News
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Tuesday, 22 November 2005 |
Eighty-one percent of those particpating in a national Pollara survey believe the number of homeless people in Canada can be reduced, while 63% of those polled feel homelessness has increased over the past three years.
According to the survey conducted in the lead up to Tuesday's National Housing Day, over half of Canadians polled feel that the high cost of housing is contributing to more people being homeless. The study was sponsored by Direct Energy and Raising the Roof which is officially kicking off its ninth annual Raising The Roof Toque Campaign.
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Nova Scotia News
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Tuesday, 22 November 2005 |
International students enrolled at eligible post-secondary institutions in Nova Scotia will soon be able to work off-campus.
Rodney MacDonald, Nova Scotia Immigration Minister, and Joe Volpe, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, announced today, Nov. 22, an agreement that will make it easier and more attractive for international students to study in Canada. Nova Scotia is the first province to sign such an agreement that is the result of a recently expanded international student pilot initiative. Implementation of the program will begin once federal government funding is approved.
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Columnist - D.L. McCracken
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Written by D.L. McCracken
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Tuesday, 22 November 2005 |
 In the news this morning the good people of Canada and more specifically Vancouver have been informed of the grand opening of what can only be interpreted as the official beginning of the two-tier health care system in this country.
The Copeman Healthcare Centre in a press release today announced that they are now open for business and whether by design or entirely coincidental, the Corporate Medical Director is none other than Dr. House. Peter House, no doubt a world renowned Diagnostician. I wonder if he has striking blue eyes...
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Columnist - Hal Jesso
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Written by Hal Jesso
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Tuesday, 22 November 2005 |
 To quote a Halifax politician (Alexa), "I'm shocked and appalled."
Did Councillor Dawn Sloane really blame the media for the violence in Uniacke Square while appearing on a local talk radio show Monday?
I have absolutely no doubt the boisterous water squirting councillor for the downtown core will deny it today, but I'm sure just about everyone that happened to listen in on the Hotline broadcast yesterday will agree with me, she did.
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Cartoon
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Written by Halifax Live Cartoonist
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Monday, 21 November 2005 |
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 Recent events in Uniacke Square inspired this editorial cartoon
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Canada News
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Written by Staff
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Monday, 21 November 2005 |
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A player with the NHL's Detroit Red Wings Jiri Fischer has collapsed while sitting on the bench in the first period of a game between Detroit and the Nashville Predators. CPR began at once and an ambulance has just arrived on scene. |
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Canada News
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Written by Wire Services
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Monday, 21 November 2005 |
A new, Alberta-funded national scholarship program has been launched by the Government of Alberta as an Alberta centennial gift to Canadians.
The Alberta Centennial Scholarships Program will provide 325 scholarships annually, worth $2,005 each, to post-secondary students across Canada. Awards will be provided to 25 students from each province and territory, including Alberta, beginning next year. Premier Ralph Klein announced the scholarship program in a speech in Ottawa on November 21.
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Nova Scotia News
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Written by Wire Services
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Monday, 21 November 2005 |
The Nova Scotia Government needs to "urgently and openly" send a signal to the province's forest based industries that it will not raise electricity rates by 17%, says the head of the largest union of forestry workers in Atlantic Canada.
"Their plan to increase electricity rates is putting upwards of 2,000 jobs on the chopping block. Premier Hamm and his government need to urgently clarify their position on this issue," said Max Michaud, Atlantic Region Vice President of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP).
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Canada News
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Monday, 21 November 2005 |
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is calling the country's phone companies onto the carpet over revelations in Maclean's magazine that U.S. databrokers are selling the home and cellphone records of Canadian consumers.
In a terse letter dated Nov. 18, the telecommunications regulator demands that three phone companies immediately launch internal investigations into how the magazine was able to obtain the phone records of Canada's privacy commissioner, and another
customer, via a Tennessee-based online service.
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Nova Scotia News
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Written by Wire Services
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Monday, 21 November 2005 |
HALIFAX, Nov. 21 - Nova Scotia Power Inc. (NSPI) announced today that it has reached an agreement with its supplier on pricing for natural gas under an existing long-term natural gas purchase agreement.
As a result of the agreement, NSPI will lower its 2006 fuel forecast by $22 million. This will reduce the Company's 2006 rate application from an average increase of approximately 15 per cent to approximately 13 per cent. NSPI has filed supplementary evidence with its regulator, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB).
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Movies & DVDs
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Written by D.L. McCracken
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Sunday, 20 November 2005 |
 Welcome to the near future when the United States military introduces a computer controlled Stealth aircraft to an exisiting group of ace Top Guns played by Biel, Foxx and Lucas.
The latest in technological warfare, the experimental deep combat aircraft (EDI) is completely controlled by an onboard artificial intelligence and communicates using a voice instantly reminiscent of the computer voice of HAL in the movie 2001, A Space Odyssey as in, "Sorry Dave, I can't do that".
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