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Written by NSTU
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Tuesday, 30 May 2006 |
Halifax principal Mary-Lou Donnelly has been re-elected president of the 10,600-member Nova Scotia Teachers Union. Her second two-year term of office begins August 1.
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Written by Staff
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Tuesday, 30 May 2006 |
In response to escalating violence in Iraq's Anbar province, the United States has ordered the activation of 3,500 U.S. reserve troops currently based in Kuwait. It is hoped that the new deployment will be successful in re-gaining control from the increasingly powerful insurgency in the area.
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Written by Health Canada
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Tuesday, 30 May 2006 |
Health Canada is advising consumers not to use Ocean Plasma Isotonic Living Water and Ocean Plasma Hypertonic Living Water because they are unapproved products that contain unacceptable amounts of aerobic bacteria.
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Written by Wire
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Monday, 29 May 2006 |
The Canadian Association of Journalists is calling on all political parties in the upcoming Nova Scotia election to commit publicly to meaningful reforms of the province's restrictive freedom of information regulations. Specifically, the CAJ challenges the Progressive Conservatives, New Democrats and Liberals to promise, if elected, that they will:
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Written by Wire Services
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Monday, 29 May 2006 |
Canada’s federal climate policy has done little or nothing since 1990 to reduce the economy’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to a C.D. Howe Institute Commentary released today. Continuing with the now-defunct policy would have cost at least $80 billion over the next 35 years — but without reducing GHG emissions, says the report.
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Written by Wire Services/Staff
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Monday, 29 May 2006 |
In the wake of CUPE Ontario's decision on Saturday to support an international campaign that is boycotting Israel over its treatment of Palestinians, officials at the Toronto-based Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies are expressing outrage that Ontario's largest public sector union has voted to support an international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
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Written by D.L. McCracken
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Monday, 29 May 2006 |
The U.S. and British military have some explaining to do. Acting on information provided by U.S. intelligence, 50 British and US Special Forces conducted an after-dark raid on a home near Basra thought to be a haven for insurgents who were stockpiling at least twenty SA16 surface-to-air missiles and an SA80 assault gun.
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Written by Staff
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Friday, 26 May 2006 |
Despite the latest scientific data warning of melting Arctic icecaps, the United States House of Representatives have voted yet again to open the North Slope of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
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Written by Canada post
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Friday, 26 May 2006 |
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Canada Post launched new stamps today to honour the lives and achievements of four Canadians who made a lasting impression in Hollywood: John Candy, Lorne Greene, Mary Pickford and Fay Wray. The Canadians in Hollywood stamp issue - the first of its kind in Canada – offers Canadians a unique way to celebrate Canadian success in Hollywood.
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Written by Wire Services
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Thursday, 25 May 2006 |
Pepsi-QTG Canada and Frito Lay Canada today announced the signing of a three-year agreement with Sidney Crosby, who recently became the youngest player ever to lead tournament scoring and named the top forward in the recent 2006 IIHF World Hockey Championship in Latvia and was also selected for the all-star team.
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