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Over the sea and back again
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It is winter as you walk through the streets of St. Petersburg. The snow drifts gently down, quietly blanketing the canals and bridges on your way to the metro. Manicured parks and onion-domed cathedrals...
This is no Disney movie
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Recently, Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico, has been under international scrutiny for a reason other than drugs and violence. Last week, Marisol Valles Garcia, a 20-year-old criminology student and mother of one, was named the...
Letters to the Editor – Nov. 3, 2010
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RE: Those damned election signs (Oct. 20, 2010)
I couldn’t agree more that those dreaded election signs are nothing if not impolite and ugly to the passers-by, but I have to wonder why they don’t...
Economies Gone Wild
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Let’s take a look at the economy in a few other parts of the world and their effect in North America. In the first week of October, Japan lowered their interest rates from 0.1...
Our daily bread
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It has been said, “No good deed goes unpunished.” I’ve recently seen the wisdom in those words firsthand.
The incident in question occurred last week. I was working for a dollar store chain on Pembina...
Find municipal politics a little boring?
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Another municipal election is here. Yet, besides an occasional lawn sign or article tucked somewhere in the newspaper, it would not be difficult to forget that an election was even happening. Apathy, it seems,...
A triumph of courage
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The terrible plight of 33 Chilean miners gripped the attention of people around the world. It has been estimated that over 1 billion people were watching the rescue effort, an audience rivalling, perhaps even...
