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Yesterday | The Victoria Star

School in northeastern N.S. shuts down, students sent home after shop wing fire

Students at a school in northeastern Nova Scotia got an early start to the weekend after a fire broke out.

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Related Topix: Fire, Canada,

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Cape Breton Post

Parishioners responding to counselling offered by Antigonish diocese

A spokesperson for the diocese of Antigonish says parishioners are responding positively to an offer of counselling, as they continue to deal with the fallout of child pornography allegations against Bishop Raymond Lahey.

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Related Topix: Canada,

Dose

Maclean's rankings just one way to rate schools, say university officials

Jon Driver was pleased Thursday when he heard Simon Fraser University had ranked first in the comprehensive category of the annual Maclean's magazine university rankings, but he still took the news with a grain of salt.

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Telegram

Lawyer for Bishop Raymond Lahey asks for more disclosure of evidence in child-porn case

A judge has put off the case of a Roman Catholic bishop facing child-pornography charges.

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, Religion,

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Telegram

Former Archbishop Penney returns from holiday, but says not well enough to speak to media

Archbishop Alphonsus L. Penney, the former Archbishop of St. John's, returned to the province on Oct.

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Related Topix: Canada, Roman Catholic Church, Religion

Sat Oct 31, 2009

CBC News

N.S. appeals for patience in H1N1 rollout

Public health officials in Nova Scotia are urging people to be patient for the H1N1 shot, as the second wave of the illness brings dozens of new cases.

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Related Topix: Canada, Science / Technology

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Market Wire

"Welcome Aboard Toxic Airlines" - Must-See Film on Airline Safety

The Airline Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees is inviting air travellers and concerned citizens to the Nova Scotia premiere of "Welcome Aboard Toxic Airlines," a ground-breaking documentary on air contamination aboard airplanes.

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Related Topix: Canada, Xavier University

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Cape Breton Post

Health officials urge public to take shot

Health officials say it's your best shot to protect against a worldwide pandemic of H1N1 flu.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Canada, Medicine, Nursing, Long Term Care

Journal-Pioneer

CBC's Linden MacIntyre says there's little real-life inspiration for his fiction

Linden MacIntyre is better known for his decades of investigative work with the CBC rather than his more recent foray into book writing, so he fully expected that readers would ask him about the real-life inspirations for "The Bishop's Man," which is one of five novels shortlisted for this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Canada, Inventions, Science / Technology

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Amherst Daily News

N.S. Conservatives to hold leadership convention in a year

HALIFAX Nova Scotia Conservatives will have a new leader in just more than a year.

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Related Topix: Canada,

The Chronicle Herald

Antigonish scandal: when millions aren't enough

MAYBE SOME, "a few, a few of them, many of them, most of them - who knows? - had some kind of inkling that this was wrong and could have said: 'No, thank you very much.'" Those words were uttered by the man who preceded Raymond Lahey as Bishop of Antigonish, quoted in a book on the Church scandal by author Leon Podles.

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Related Topix: Canada, Opinion

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Cape Breton Post

Inverness remains true blue

In a nail-biting finish, voters in the riding of Inverness resisted any urge to defect to the government side and remained Tory blue following Tuesday's byelection.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Canada,

Fri Oct 23, 2009

680News

Former PM Joe Clark calls for renewal of broader foreign policy goals

Former prime minister Joe Clark says Canada needs to renew a Foreign Affairs tradition that once had broader goals.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Stephen Harper,

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Truro Daily News

Counsellors to help N.S. Roman Catholics deal with bishop scandal

Counsellors have been hired to help Roman Catholics in Nova Scotia deal with the emotional fallout from Bishop Raymond Lahey's child porn allegations.

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Related Topix: Canada,

Tue Oct 20, 2009

CBC

NDP, Tories win 1 each in N.S. byelections

New Democrat Maurice Smith greets his supporters in Antigonish on Tuesday night.

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Related Topix: Canada, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election,

CBC

Cape Breton police find missing teen

A Halifax man faces a charge of attempted murder in connection with a shooting in Dartmouth last June.

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Related Topix: Canada

Sun Oct 18, 2009

Cape Breton Post

Credibility tested on all sides

Questions about credibility and proof often come up when people discuss the roiling controversy over the sexual misdeeds of priests in the Antigonish diocese.

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Related Topix: Canada,

Fri Oct 16, 2009

680News

Police found hundreds of videos, photos of young males on bishop's laptop

Search warrants says Ottawa police discovered hundreds of pictures and videos on Bishop Raymond Lahey's laptop computer, with many showing young males involved in sexual acts.

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Related Topix: Canada,

Cape Breton Post

New CBU centre a great project

Rebukes in the spring turned to accolades in the fall as federal and provincial governments came through last week with funding for the latest addition to the Cape Breton University campus, a Centre for Sustainability in Energy and Environment.

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Related Topix: Canada,

Wed Oct 14, 2009

Truro Daily News

RCMP Conducts Searches at Former Bishop's Residence and Office

Early this morning, members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Provincial Internet Child Exploitation Unit executed a search warrant at a residence of former Bishop Raymond Lahey.

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Related Topix: Canada,

 

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