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Cigarillo ban unfair — importer
Nova Scotia should stop the sale of fruit-flavoured liquor if it goes ahead and bans small fla­voure...


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Hunters find human remains at dump site
Police in Glace Bay were waiting for an anthropologist and a med­ical examiner to show up to help th...

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Harper draws comparisons with 1929 crisis
LIMA, Peru — Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the current economic crisis could be as dangerous as...







Delay in street plowing angers homeowner



A Hatchet Lake woman thinks the province dropped the ball by not clearing her street quickly after Friday night’s snowfall.

“I think the people of Nova Scotia deserve better,” Linda Schimp said over the phone from her Northcliffe Drive home.


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Pension plans suffer losses



Nova Scotia’s major public pension plans keep taking hits from brutal markets just like pensions everywhere, but one of them is fending off the storm a little better than the others.

The latest bulletin updating the Nova Scotia Teachers Union plan doesn’t have quite as gloomy an outlook as the one for the Public Service Superannuation Plan.


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Australians try to save 11 stranded whales




HOBART, Australia — Rescuers moved 11 pilot whales more than 11 kilometres to a deep-water beach in the hope they would return to sea after the mammals became stranded in southeastern Australia.

Wildlife officials said Sunday that the 11 are the last of a pod of 64 whales found stranded on Anthony's Beach in the island state of Tasmania early Saturday. The pod is maternal, meaning it consists only of females and calves.


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