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Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 4:32am | By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD The New York Times

In the winter of 1962, the United States needed a hero.
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Plan to improve math just doesn’t add up

Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 4:32am | By GAIL LETHBRIDGE | First Word

Watching the Grammy Music Awards the other night, I saw a commercial showing a Nova Scotia brimming with young productive workers thriving in a high-tech, innovative economy of knowledge and resources.
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Argentines want islands back

Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 4:32am | By MICHAEL WARREN The Associated Press

LONDON’S TABLOIDS and British leaders are depicting Argentina as dangerous and belligerent 30 years after its invasion of the Falkland Islands. Argentines say Britain should consider its own history of waging war around the globe, and...
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The rapper, the priest and rise of exorcists

Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 4:32am | By MAUREEN DOWD

WASHINGTON — As though Bill Donohue didn’t have enough to be cranky about.
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Muskrat Falls needs better sales pitch

Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 4:32am | By GREG LOCKE | Newfoundland Diary

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Kathy Dunderdale and her Conservative government successfully short-circuited the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project as an issue in the provincial election campaign last fall.
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Adjust education for native students

Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 4:32am | By CRAIG & MARC KIELBURGER | GLOBAL VOICES

Robert Genaille was not a big fan of teachers.
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Harper driving Quebecers to the Liberals

Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 4:32am | By CHANTAL HEBERT

My neighbourhood drugstore was dealing with an acute stamp shortage last week. It had not run out of supplies altogether but some customers did not want to buy the few stamps it still had on offer. When presented with the Diamond Jubilee issue, many...
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Immigration turnaround

Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 4:33am | By MICHAEL MACDONALD The Canadian Press

AFTER DECADES of losing its young people to the lure of high-paying work in Ontario and Western Canada, the Atlantic region is showing signs of having turned things around, the latest census figures show.
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No second chances for NDP to get leadership right

Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 4:33am | CHANTAL HEBERT

With only a bit more than a month to go to the March 24 leadership vote, and with the first official Quebec debate set for the weekend, the NDP campaign has not even begun to jell. According to the rough estimates of NDP strategists, as many as half...
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Uprisings combine noble, sinister motives

Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 4:33am | THOMAS FRIEDMAN

MOSCOW — To observe the democratic awakenings happening in places like Egypt, Syria and Russia is to travel with a glow in your heart and a pit in your stomach.
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Garden of earthly delights

Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 4:33am | By JODI DeLONG

Those of us who are happily besotted with plants know that we have what amounts to a love affair with them.
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Dear Future Mayor: Here’s a cheat sheet

Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 4:33am | By Gail Lethbridge

It’s on. With Mike Savage now in, the contest for mayor of Halifax Regional Municipality is a real race. Peter Kelly, the current mayor, has yet to declare but given his fundraising activities we can assume he will.
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Eastern Shore salmon farms too much of a risk

Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 4:33am | By MARIKE FINLAY-DE MONCHY, KARIN COPE and ELISABETH BIGRAS

The Chronicle Herald has published several articles about the proposal for salmon aquaculture in Spry Bay, Shoal Bay and Beaver Harbour on the Eastern Shore. These have discussed the potential destruction of the local lobster fishery and recovering...
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Healing power of home

Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 4:33am | CRAIG & MARC KIELBURGER GLOBAL VOICES

The two girls were just standing there staring at the shower room wall, confused and afraid. It was 1982, and Cindy Blackstock was a university student working at a group home in Prince George, B.C., when the aboriginal girls were brought in. They...
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The woman behind the story

Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 4:34am | By RONALD CAPLAN

FOR A WOMAN who died in 1965, the past two years have been a busy time for Viola Desmond.
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