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• Nova Scotia Town Rallies After Council Rejects Rainbow Flag

  Published: August 7, 2007, 1:50 pm

  Tags: Canada, Gay Pride, News, Nova Scotia

  a town of about 45,000 in Nova Scotia, held its first-ever gay pride celebrations, and its first-ever LGBT protest. The city refused to fly the rainbow flag in recognition of gay pride week, prompting an irate rally of about 100 people: "Only one of seven Truro councillors voted to allow the flag to fly. She showed up at the protest. 'It's a

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• Students Stand Up in Pink Solidarity for Bullied Classmate

  Published: September 13, 2007, 5:45 pm

  Tags: Bullying, Canada, Fashion Men, News, Nova Scotia

  High School in Cambridge, Nova Scotia wearing a pink shirt, he was set upon by a group of up to 10 students who called him gay and threatened to assault him. The next day the bullies didn't have a chance to repeat their actions. David Shepherd and Travis Price (above), two seniors who had witnessed the incident, showed up to school with 75

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• Danny Williams--union hall mentality--

  Published: October 11, 2007, 9:35 am

  Tags: Oil Revenue, Ottawa, Nfld, Nova Scotia Premier, Saskatchewan, Danny Williams

  on the weak. He sees the Nova Scotia government as a minority government and a government that's obviously in difficulty, and he's basically talked him into taking this. Mr. Williams added: It just shows the pettiness of the man. It shows what he's all about. We can't trust him. We'll fight him all the way. This Newfoundland

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• Harper's authority challenge by Nova Scotians over Bill Casey

  Published: October 17, 2007, 11:51 pm

  Tags: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ottawa, Saskatchewan, Agreement, Allowed, Announced, Armstrong, Association, Bill, Booted, Brush, Budget, Candidate, Casey, Caucus, Choice, Conservative, Cumberland Colchester Musquodoboit, Decision, Defies, Democratic, Earlier, Election, Equalization

  "N.S. riding association defies PM, supports Casey read more

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• Autism Gold Standard Intervention - Nova Scotia ABA/IEBI Autism Program Produces Positive Reslts

  Published: October 30, 2007, 8:43 pm

  Tags: Nova Scotia, Gold Standard, Autism Disorders, Aba, Iebi, Autism Awareness, Applied Behavior Analysis

  by the results from a Nova Scotia IEBI/ABA study showing positive results. It's enough to give anti-ABA crusaders a real headache.Autism Treatment Program Getting Positive Results Department of HealthOctober 30, 2007 12:00 A program designed to enhance social and communication skills for young children with autism spectrum disorder is

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• Autism's Gold Standard Intervention - A Note to Dr. R mi Quirion

  Published: October 31, 2007, 4:25 am

  Tags: Cihr, Autism Interventions, Nova Scotia, Dr Barbara Beckett, Autism Disorders, Aba, Applied Behavior Analysis, Dr R Mi Quirion, American Academy Of Pediatrics

  but the Province of New Scotia also release a report, Autism Treatment Program Getting Positive Results, this week on its ABA based EIBI program :The interim results of an independent program evaluation conducted by IWK Health Centre Research Services and Dalhousie University indicates that after one year of Early Intensive Behavioural

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• Submerged camera holds functional memory card two years after accident

  Published: November 17, 2007, 9:17 am

  Tags: Canon, Frozen, Kejimkujik National Park, Kejimkujiknationalpark, Lost, Nova Scotia, Novascotia, Powershot

  Filed under: Digital Cameras After capsizing in the partially frozen waters at Kejimkujik National Park, the Collins family was far too busy being alive to worry over a silly sunken camera. As fate would have it, the ole Canon Powershot that was lost eventually turned up, as a park maintenance worker managed to spot the device sitting aimlessly

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• Man Dies in Nova Scotia Jail After Taser Hit

  Published: November 22, 2007, 12:23 pm

  Tags: Cecil, Centre, Justice, Man, Nova Scotia, Police, Vancouver, Briefed, Clarke, Dies, Hours, Jail, Minister, Rcmp, Reporters, Review, Stun, Taser, Technology, Weapons

  Just as the international uproar over the polish man who was videotaped being tasered and then dying at a Vancouver Airport is reaching its peak, another story comes out about someone dying after being hit by a...read more

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• Celine Dion: a little picky

  Published: November 22, 2007, 2:38 pm

  Tags: Halifax Nova Scotia, Rene Angelli, Celine Dion

  Celine 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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• Nova Scotia Imitates Alberta 2

  Published: November 23, 2007, 4:53 am

  Tags: Nova Scotia, Infrastructure, Public Private Partnerships

  ideal is not dead yet, Nova Scotia like Alberta is once again looking at P3's as a solution to long term funding of infrastructure. Despite its failure in that province previously. And like Alberta, which has a labour boom while Nova Scotia has a labour deficit, the costs will rise because of scarcity of labour. Those costs will be passed

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• Nova Scota Imitates Alberta

  Published: November 23, 2007, 4:49 am

  Tags: Janitors, Doctors, Nurses, Nova Scotia, Ed Stelmach, Laundry Workers, Cleaners, Medicare, Healthcare, Custodians, Hospitals

  TRANSCONTINENTAL MEDIAThe Nova Scotia Business JournalHealth workers, the NDP and the Liberals are lined up against the government's highest-profile bill as the Nova Scotia legislature ends a seven-month summer break. Premier Rodney MacDonald said he's pushing ahead with the doomed anti-strike legislation because Nova Scotians deserve to hear

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• All I got for Christmas is... a pink Taser?

  Published: November 23, 2007, 11:56 am

  Tags: Canada, Nova Scotia, Santa, Christmas Gift, Culture, Enforcement, Guns, Launches, Manufacturer, Metallic Pink, Probe, Rcmp, Stocking Stuffer, Stun, Taser, Taser Related, Technology, Weapon

  There's been so much press about Tasers lately--looks like the company that makes them is deciding to capitalize.  I wonder if the metallic pink Taser would match my pink iPod. "As the RCMP launches a fresh probe into another Taser-related death, the U.S. manufacturer of...read more

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• MY UFO EXPERIENCE: We Opened a UFO Museum in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia

  Published: January 1, 2008, 12:41 pm

  Tags: Ufo, Nova Scotia, Chris Styles, Uso, Don Ledger, Shag Harbour Incident Society, Cindy Nickerson, Shag Harbour

  UFO museum in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. We are closed at this time of year due to the weather, but we will be open in the spring again. We had a very good season with people visiting from all over the

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• News: Sean Penn, Nova Scotia, Parrots, Channing Tatum, HIV

  Published: May 16, 2008, 1:15 pm

  Tags: Aids Hiv, Channing Tatum, Gay Marriage, Great Britain, James Mcgreevey, John Hagee, Minnesota, News, Nova Scotia, Sean Penn, Spain, Toronto

  march on county offices in Nova Scotia: "The group will raise the gay pride flag during a 7 p.m. ceremony at the town's Water Street gazebo to mark the International Day Against Homophobia. The gazebo is a couple of blocks from the Municipality of Pictou County's administrative building, where the gay pride flag will not fly. A February

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• Sense of Fairness Affects Outlook, Decisions

  Published: June 9, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Sense, Fairness, Affects, Outlook, Decisions, Christina Maslach, Michael Leiter, Joseph Henrich, Acadia University, Bolivia, Ecuador, Fiji, Ghana, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, University Of British Columbia, University Of California Berkeley, Nova Scotia, Siberia

  American workers are hurting. The country is in an economic slump, thousands of people are being laid off, and hundreds of companies are retrenching. With house values falling in many parts of the country and with gas prices soaring, many people are struggling from paycheck to paycheck.

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