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Nov 8th, 2012
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Foreign investors to receive better treatment than First Peoples Letter to PM Harper from Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy November 5 2012 RE: Financial Investment Protection Agreement (FIPA) between Canada and ChinaThe draft FIPA violates First Nation Treaty rights and international law. Therefore...
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Nov 5th, 2012
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Wilmer Nadjiwon’s many battlesBy Stephen Bede Scharper Toronto Star November 4 2012“They were trees like these,” Wilmer Nadjiwon suddenly remembered one summer day several years ago, quietly carving a wood sculpture in his outdoor studio in Tobermory....
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Nov 2nd, 2012
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By Denna Berg Northumberland View Nov 01, 2012The proposed bill to support the usage of more locally produced and processed foods was one of the many legislations that were killed after Premier McGuinty’s announcement of stepping down on October 15th, 2012 (Ontario Farmer, 2012). The Local Food Act w...
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Oct 31st, 2012
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Almost one third contained in Ontario cottage country ridings held by Tories Clement and DevolinBy GLEN MCGREGOR, Ottawa Citizen October 29, 2012OTTAWA — The vast majority of lakes that retain federal protection under the government’s proposed changes to waterway rules lap up against ridings held by ...
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Oct 31st, 2012
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By Teri Pecoskie Hamilton Spectator Nov 01 2012 St Marys Cement is capitalizing on a parliamentary loophole to subpoena Premier Dalton McGuinty and other senior cabinet members over their decision to kill the controversial Carlisle quarry project — a decision the company suggests was made to “save th...
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Oct 31st, 2012
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A Call to ActionFrom Dowling Pictures October 25 2012 Soupstock was a one-day celebration on October 21st 2012 featuring delicious soup creations by more than 200 of Canada’s top chefs. ...
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Oct 31st, 2012
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 By Robin Mathews Vive Le Canada October 15 2012 The Council of Canadians – whatever else it may be – is a living and breathing declaration of the failure of the parliamentary system in Canada, and, especially, the failure of Canadian political parties in that system.  Let us say at the beginning tha...
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Oct 30th, 2012
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By Agence France-Presse October 21, 2012Massive extraction of groundwater helped unleash an earthquake in southeastern Spain last year that killed nine people, injured at least 100 and left thousands homeless, geologists said on Sunday....
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Oct 30th, 2012
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King Weekly Sentinel October 17 2012  Ontario taxpayers and consumers will be paying significantly more, up to 15% more in some cases, for roads, sewers, water systems, public transit and other infrastructure because of the rising costs associated with the disposal of excavated soil.According to a ne...
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Oct 30th, 2012
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By Mark Pavilions King Weekly Sentinel October 17 2012There’s a Chinese saying that notes every grain of rice was the result of the hard work of farmers, so they shouldn’t be wasted....