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'Sleep with an AK, ride with a .45'


Look up Alex Lindsay on the Internet and you’ll find glimpses into the life of a young man preoccupied with guns and survivalism.

Mr. Lindsay’s Facebook page says he has “very conservative” political views. He lists one of his favourite quotes as, “These are the days of our lives, sleep with an AK, ride with a .45.”

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Disturbing find

Masks, maps, pepper spray, book on learning to kill seized along with small cache of powerful weapons



POLICE FOUND more than just smuggled firearms when they raided two Halifax addresses Wednesday.

In addition to machine-guns and assault rifles, the officers found masks, maps of the Halifax area and a book on learning to kill, The Chronicle Herald has learned.


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Jailers cite asbestos fears, refuse to work



SYDNEY — The Justice Department could start poaching management staff from jails across the province for emergency coverage at the Cape Breton Correctional Facility after nine employees refused to work Thursday night upon learning the facility contains asbestos.

And the department says any new inmates could be sent to Nova Scotia’s four other jails, where some prisoners have already complained of overcrowding.


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DFO: Crab quotas are set, won’t change

C.B. fishermen intend to continue blockade



INVERNESS — Nova Scotia fishing boats were allowed through a blockade inside the narrows of Inverness Harbour on Friday to unload their crab trapped off western Cape Breton, but none of their New Brunswick counterparts licensed to ply the same waters were so lucky.

More than a dozen brightly coloured Cape Islanders cluttered the channel leading from the sheltered Inverness wharf to the sea and blocked four New Brunswick boats for a second day from leaving the wharf to set their traps.


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There’s big profit in poop

HRM stands to make $350,000 a year selling treated sewage sludge



It’s flushed down your toilet, flows to a sewage treatment plant, is trucked out to a plant near Halifax Stanfield International Airport, and as of Thursday, it’s being shipped out to farmers’ fields across the province.

The mayor of Halifax Regional Municipality says the city’s sewage will eventually be worth $350,000 a year.


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Who said ‘take the bus,’ anyway?

IN THE 1980 election campaign, Pierre Trudeau breezed into the Sydney area and told a rapt audience that jobs are not “all THAT’S important.” One Ottawa newspaper reported, wrongly, that Trudeau said jobs are not “all THAT important.”

Imagine the dustup that followed. Trudeau was castigated as an effete snob insensitive to the plight of the jobless people of Cape Breton Island.



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