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Written by Wire Services
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Wednesday, 30 November 2005 |
Quebec Superior Court Justice James Brunton's decision to lift all previous court-ordered restrictions on Karla Homolka means that the convicted child killer can go wherever she wants, do what she pleases and talk to anyone she wishes including the families of the two schoolgirls she murdered.
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Written by NDP News Release
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Wednesday, 30 November 2005 |
NDP Leader Jack Layton said that this wide-open election campaign allows Canadians to choose between the Liberal record of broken promises and the NDP’s plans to make parliament put people first.
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Written by Wire Services
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Wednesday, 30 November 2005 |
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 Wal-Mart Canada today released the company's eighth annual "top 10" list of the most popular toys in Canada. For the eighth year in a row the retailer has polled its toy buyers and stores nationwide to compile the annual "Wal-Mart" list of toys that Canadians are buying most for the holiday shopping season of 2005.
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Written by Office of The Premier
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Wednesday, 30 November 2005 |
In his seventh and final annual state of the province address, Premier John Hamm is praising Nova Scotians for creating a more prosperous, optimistic, self-reliant province -- and urged them to keep building on that progress.
"We've come a long way in Nova Scotia over the past several years and it's very important to me, and to you, that we continue to build on the strong base we've established," the premier said in a speech to the Halifax Chamber of Commerce today, Nov. 30.
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Written by Office of The Premier
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Wednesday, 30 November 2005 |
Premier John Hamm is offering the province's condolences to the family of the late Terry Donahoe, who died Tuesday night, Nov. 29, in Halifax. Mr. Donahoe had been battling cancer. He was 61.
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Written by Wire Services
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Wednesday, 30 November 2005 |
Aliant President and CEO Jay Forbes today presented school children of the Membertou First Nation, Cape Breton with a new Mik'maq language book - Jo'jo the Bully.
Originally written in English by R.J. MacNeil, an Aliant employee in Sydney, the book was first published in 2003 and distributed to schools in Halifax. The book tells the story of a bully who has no friends because they do not want to hang around with somebody who does not respect others.
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Written by Wire Services
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Wednesday, 30 November 2005 |
Canada's car insurers announced today that the 1999 and 2000 Honda Civics SiR 2-door hold the dubious distinction of topping this year's most stolen vehicles list. The two models also had the highest theft claims cost per vehicle. In addition, the Honda Civic 1994, 1995, and 1993 models are also found in the 4th, 6th and 10th spots respectively on the list of most frequently stolen vehicles.
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Written by HRM
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Wednesday, 30 November 2005 |
Halifax Regional Municipality has been selected to present its Climate SMART initiative at the international Urban Leaders Forum. The Forum is a parallel event to the United Nations 11th Conference of the Parties (COP 11) world summit on climate change being held in Montreal November 28th - December 9th.
HRM will be presenting its Climate SMART initiative in a forum with representative cities from Asia, Africa, South America, Europe and the Far North.
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Written by Frank Streicher
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Tuesday, 29 November 2005 |
 Care to watch a live volleyball match From Beijing? How about a soap opera from Guangdong? Still not sold? Here is something that might catch your fancy: free HBO and ESPN, or maybe a soccer game or two. Real-time peer-to-peer (P2P) television is already making it happen. Welcome to the future of television, one that could render the CRTC obsolete and is soon to have television executives everywhere scratching there heads, wondering how much their acquired broadcast rights are actually worth. |
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Written by Staff
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Tuesday, 29 November 2005 |
Conservative leader Stephen Harper took less than an hour into the federal election campaign to confirm that, as Prime Minister, he would attempt to roll back the Charter rights of Canadian minority groups.
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