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Students wary of economic squeeze
Like many of his peers at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Chris MacDougall works while he goes to school. Granted, his job as president of the university’s student association may not be the usual work of university and college students. But from his special vantage point, he knows not even students will escape at least some of the effects of any economic meltdown.
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We're in debt again
AT AGE 51, Genny Killin finds herself owing money for the first time in a long time. "This is actually weird," she says of the decision she and her husband made to get a partial mortgage to help buy a second home.
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As economy tanks, it's all about jobs
THE Canadian dollar continues its slide, the stock market dives, gas and oil prices rise and fall and the economy teeters on the brink of recession. While politicians, business leaders and pundits weigh in on how to cope with the crisis, Nova Scotians — from tuition-paying students, to young families trying to get ahead, to baby boomers watching their nest eggs shrink — wonder what the turmoil will mean for them. For many, it’s all about jobs.
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He did it
WASHINGTON — BARACK OBAMA was swept to the White House on Tuesday by enraptured Americans who embraced his message of hope and turned their backs on centuries of racial division by electing their first black president. The Illinois senator, born to a white mother and an African father 47 years ago, was elected in a momentous day that many black Americans believed they would never see. It came some 232 years after the country was founded on the ideal that all men were created equal.
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McCain or Obama: Voters turn out in huge numbers
WASHINGTON — Voters braved long lineups, rain and headaches at polling stations Tuesday to cast their ballots in a momentous election that could see the first black man in U.S. history make it to the White House, propelled there by Americans evidently enraptured by his message of hope, change and promise.
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Halifax man in middle of Obama campaign in New Hampshire
Haligonian Jason Lawrence has been “really, really busy” helping the Obama campaign in Rochester, N.H., and the polls there will remain open a few more hours. That means breaks for the 36-year-old volunteer campaign worker are probably going to be few and far between.
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Obama, Palin cast ballots
CHICAGO — Democrat Barack Obama has joined the legions of early risers casting ballots in the U.S. election. Obama arrived at his precinct in Chicago shortly after 7:30 local time Tuesday.
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Two HRM incumbents ousted
They were big fish in a small pond for a while, but two Halifax regional councillors went belly up in Saturday’s municipal election. In Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank, electors spurned Krista Snow in favour of Barry Dalrymple, a community volunteer and former RCMP officer. Ms. Snow, first elected in a 2003 byelection, said she felt privileged to have served on regional council.
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Election day arrives in N.S. municipalities
Kevin and Stephanie McInnis never miss a chance to vote. The north-end Halifax residents were among a steady stream of voters coming out of a polling station at St. Joseph’s-Alexander McKay Elementary on Saturday morning.
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Bernier still popular despite Couillards revelations
SAINTE-MARIE, Que. — Some questioned his judgment and others his choice of lover, but residents in Maxime Bernier's home riding of Beauce seem to be steadfastly behind the embattled Conservative MP. Several of Bernier's constituents made it clear on Wednesday they are squarely behind the former cabinet minister as he seeks re-election as a Tory on Oct. 14, despite the publication of a tell-all book by his one-time girlfriend, Julie Couillard.
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