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• Autism Speaks, Autism Awareness .... and the Tall Ships

  Published: July 13, 2007, 8:26 pm

  Tags: Halifax, Tall Ships, Autism Disorder, Autism Awarenss, Autism Speaks, Nascar

  was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on business the past couple of days and finished up around 4 pm yesterday. Rather than drive home last evening I stayed over and went down to see some of the Tall Ships that had begun to arrive. I checked out of my hotel early, around 4:30 am, in order to get back to Fredericton for a 9:30 meeting. As I was

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• New Equipment for Canadian Navy

  Published: July 5, 2007, 9:33 am

  Tags: Canadian Shipyards, Modernization Of Frigates, Frigates, Halifax, Employees, Canadian Companies, Suppliers, Prime Minister Stephen Harper

  5, 2007Halifax, Nova Scotia*linked to Jacks NewswatchPrime Minister Stephen Harper today announced new upgrades to the Navy's Halifax-Class frigates that will improve the Navy's ability to protect Canadian waters while boosting employment in Canada's shipbuilding sector. New updated equipment will make these ships stronger, safer and better

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• No interest in current accounts any more

  Published: September 20, 2007, 4:04 pm

  Tags: Aib, Halifax, Banks, Saving Money, Crazy Restrictions, Interest Rates

  wrote about here previously, Halifax are making a big deal about their offer of 10% on current account in credit, though they have fairly ridiculous and restrictive provisions on the account. Though, not as ridiculous and restrictive as the AIB account highlighted by the anonymous poster in response.The AIB account requires that you lodge 1500

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• BOI Credit Interest account - too good to be true

  Published: October 1, 2007, 5:37 pm

  Tags: Aib, Halifax, Banks, Bank Of Ireland, Interest Rates

  own bank.Given that AIB and Halifax have offered this temporary high-interest current account previously, it's likely that it won't be long before the rest do as well.

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• MPVij 101: Winning Everything Is Everything For Everyone

  Published: October 11, 2007, 1:43 am

  Tags: Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, 101, Action, Army, Canadian, City, Community, Cop, Education, Election, Family, Friends, Government, Halifax, Hate, Health, Ideas, Life, Love, Media, Military, National, Opinions, Party, Police, Politics, Pride, Soldier

  .MPVij 101: Winning Everything Is Everything For Everyone.Canadian Action PartyProject for the New Canadian CenturyPublic domain and open source idea bank for all Canadians.  20/20 Vision for the New Canadian...read more

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• MPVij 101: Winning Everything Is Everything For Everyone

  Published: October 11, 2007, 1:43 am

  Tags: Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, 101, Action, Army, Canadian, City, Community, Cop, Education, Election, Family, Friends, Government, Halifax, Hate, Health, Ideas, Life, Love, Media, Military, National, Opinions, Party, Police, Politics, Pride, Soldier

  .MPVij 101: Winning Everything Is Everything For Everyone.Canadian Action PartyProject for the New Canadian CenturyPublic domain and open source idea bank for all Canadians.  20/20 Vision for the New Canadian...read more

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• MPVij 101: Winning Everything Is Everything For Everyone

  Published: October 11, 2007, 1:42 am

  Tags: Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, 101, Action, Army, Canadian, City, Community, Cop, Education, Election, Family, Friends, Government, Halifax, Hate, Health, Ideas, Life, Love, Media, Military, National, Opinions, Party, Police, Politics, Pride, Soldier

  .MPVij 101: Winning Everything Is Everything For Everyone.Canadian Action PartyProject for the New Canadian CenturyPublic domain and open source idea bank for all Canadians.  20/20 Vision for the New Canadian...read more

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• Equipped for Burglary: Screwdrivers in His Shorts

  Published: October 14, 2007, 6:18 pm

  Tags: Blue Handled, Boxer Shorts, Bull, Burglary, Crime, Equipped, Halifax, Handles, Police, Screwdrivers, Searched, Underpants

  The report below could be taken to mean that the suspect was clad only in his boxer shorts, but that is unlikely to be the case. read more

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• Unique concert

  Published: October 30, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Liveacts, Other, Chant, Halifax Basilica, Music Chant, Religious Chant

  going to be held tonight in Halifax. A vocal group from New York is going to sing the songs, which were found in a medieval book of Gregorian chants that was brought to Halifax in the 1800s. They are going to unlock the choral chants that once filled a convent in Belgium more than 450 years ago. The work put into it is enormous and just

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• Soliloquy VII, an eight-foot photo of naked man

  Published: November 21, 2007, 9:55 am

  Tags: Halifax Daily News, Sam Taylor Wood, Soliloquy Vii

  Lobbyists Tony and Heather Podesta are art collectors and one of the prominent piece from their art collection is a Soliloquy VII, an eight-foot photo by the artist Sam Taylor Wood of a nude man lying on his back.

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• Celine Dion: a little picky

  Published: November 22, 2007, 2:38 pm

  Tags: Halifax Nova Scotia, Rene Angelli, Celine Dion

  Dion had announced a gig in Halifax, and was somewhat surprised that - rather than declare a Celine Dion day - the people of Halifax were a little disappointed. Or, rather, a newspaper columnist was.Celine, however, threw a big fit and pulled the gig. Not quite grasping that people weren't that arsed about her coming in the first place, her

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• Reason #345645 New School Butt-Emo Is Ghey: Halifax’s “Our Revolution” Is a Blatant Rip-Off of “Motley Crue’s “Kickstart My Heart”

  Published: February 5, 2008, 7:35 pm

  Tags: Crime, Idiocy, Music, Drive Thru, Halifax, Kickstart My Heart, Motley Crue, Our Revolution, Listened, Drive, Office, Artist, Records, Record, Year, People

  So this is old news for anyone who actually listened to Drive-Thru records artist Halifax’s new record when it came out last year (which is probably about 5 people), but just now in the office, one of our video guys was encoding the video for Halifax’s “Our Revolution” for our top secret forthcoming project and [...]

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• GOLD, GOLD, GOLD, GOLD, GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Published: May 19, 2008, 3:37 am

  Tags: Canada, Russia Champions, Halifax, Iihf, Gold Medal Game, World Hockey Championship, Final, Russia, 2008

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• Awesome!

  Published: May 21, 2008, 3:45 pm

  Tags: Canada, Halifax, Iihf, World Hockey Championships, Gold Medal Game, Russia

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• Soldier Was Known for Kindness, Loyalty

  Published: June 3, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Soldier, Was, Known, For, Kindness, Loyalty, Kendall Daggett, R J Mann, Jack Daggett, Sadr City, Arizona, Iraq, John K Daggett, Arlington National Cemetery, Baghdad, Cave Creek, Halifax, Meg Smith, Phoenix, Afghanistan, Airborne Rangers, Canada, U S Marine Corps

  After the rifles sounded and taps were played and more than 100 mourners were driven away from Arlington National Cemetery yesterday, Sgt. John K. Daggett's father, who had stayed behind, stepped across the grass at Section 60 and rested his face against the dark wooden casket.

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