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Former Cape Breton Mi'kmaq chief jailed for sexual assault
A former Cape Breton Mi'kmaq chief was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for sexually assaulting an unconscious 20-year-old woman at a Dartmouth hotel in spring 2006.
'Spring is going to take its sweet time': Canada's top climatologist
Spring may have officially sprung, but Environment Canada's senior climatologist says winter is a bully determined to stick around.
The EVC is Dead (Long Live the EVC)
Over the last year I have been trying to negotiate with my company to start an Employee Volunteer Committee. This week I finally threw in the towel. Perhaps someone else out there may have better luck implementing the idea.What I wanted to do was start a committee that organized volunteer activities - say one a month for an afternoon. Employees would volunteer on company time (so the company is really volunteering the time). There are three goals: (1) Help out in the community; (2) Improve camaraderie among employees; (3) Provide good public relations for the company in our community.
2,4-D Redux
As we head into summer a number of Waterloo Region residents are up in arms about new by-laws that restrict the use of chemicals on lawns. How times have changed. Parents battled for decades to stop the government from spraying 2,4-D on schoolyards. Here's an article I wrote about the issue nearly 30 years ago, detailing what I saw to be a concerted effort by government to dismiss citizens' concerns. Spraying with 2,4-DThe Sun tries to get to the bottom of the 2,4-D weed spray controversy and finds only one thing for certain: The Ministry of the Environment hasn't been much help.by Ruth Haworth, Kawartha Sun, July 3, 1979School is over, and the controversy raging over 2,4-D spraying in local schoolyards will probably fade into memory as another lost cause.Parents in the Northumberland-Newcastle School District battled all spring with the Board of Education and Ontario Ministry of the Environment, trying to protect their children from the shortrun effects (nausea, fever, pain) and longrun effects (cancer, birth defects) that are the suspected results of 2,4-D herbicide poisoning.
Whitehorse eagles may be making spring comeback
A pair of young eagles that were the talk of Whitehorse last summer may have returned on Thursday.
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