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Friday May 25 | Canada NewsWire

Media Advisory - HMCS Halifax's Run for the Wish Across the Province - June 2nd - 8th 2012

The finale will be in Sydney, NS on Each year a wish child is selected to be honoured who has received a most heartfelt wish.

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Thu May 24, 2012

AVHerald

Virgin Australia B738 near Sydney on Jan 25th 2012, turbulence injures 3 flight attendants

The Australian Transportation Safety Board released their bulletin reporting the captain had briefed the cabin crew about forecast heavy rain and low cloud conditions in Sydney prior to departure from Brisbane.

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Related Topix: Canada, Australia, World News, Weather, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 737, Aircraft

CTV

Seasonal workers to be hardest hit by EI changes

The federal government announced today that changes will be made to the way Employment Insurance is handed out, and the changes are expected to hit seasonal workers the hardest.

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Tue May 22, 2012

Vancouver Sun

Sea Shepherd's Paul Watson suspects Japan behind arrest

Paul Watson, head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, stands on a dock near his vessel the Farley Mowat in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in this April 14, 2008, file photo.

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Related Topix: Canada, Costa Rica, World News, Central America

Fri May 18, 2012

Cape Breton Post

Governance issues at heart of Cape Breton non-profit troubles

Catherine Leviten-Reid is an assistant professor in the Shannon School of Business at Cape Breton University.

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Thu May 17, 2012

CBC News

CBRM successful bidder for greenfield site

The Cape Breton Regional Municipality is the successful bidder for what's known as the greenfield site on the Sydney waterfront.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News

Wed May 16, 2012

Lehigh Acres Gazette

USS Mohawk arrives In Lee County

In just a few hours the USS Mohawk will arrive in Fort Myers Beach after a two day journey from Key West.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Coast Guard, Cape May, NJ, Canada

Tue May 15, 2012

Canada.com

Sea Shepherd calls on German officials to halt Paul Watson extradition case

Read Wednesday's Vancouver Sun for an extensive collection of grilling tips and recipes, just in time for the long weekend.

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Related Topix: Weather, Canada, World News, Germany

Mon May 14, 2012

CTV

Crisis team called in as N.S. school mourns crash victims

The joy of the Mother's Day weekend turned to grief in Cape Breton with the deaths of two high school students, who went joyriding in a stolen vehicle that crashed early Saturday.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Canada,

Sat May 12, 2012

CBC News

Two teens killed in Cape Breton car crash

The Cape Breton Regional Police say two teens in a Dodge Journey were killed when their vehicle struck a pole in Sydney early Saturday morning on Kings Road.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News

Fri May 11, 2012

The Recorder & Times

'All I ever wanted to be was a nurse'

"When I was growing up, there was a hospital close to us, and I'd see the nurses with the white starched uniforms and the blue capes," she said.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Nursing, Canada

Thu May 10, 2012

Cape Breton Post

Judge reserves decision in insurance fraud case

Defence lawyers for three Sydney men urged a provincial court judge Thursday to impose conditional discharges on their clients who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an insurance fraud.

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Related Topix: Canada,

The Gauntlet

Opinions - Editorial: Saying one thing, doing another

However, the timing of some of the cuts seems to ignore the impending needs of a new generation of citizen-soldiers. Cuts to the budget of Veterans Affairs Canada affect one-to-one care that veterans are receiving.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, Veteran Affairs, Opinion

Wed May 09, 2012

AVHerald

Qantas B744 over Australia on May 3rd 2012, failure of cabin lighting

A Qantas Boeing 747-400, registration VH-OJI performing flight QF-5 from Sydney,NS to Singapore , was enroute at FL340 about 90 minutes into the flight about 450nm north of Adelaide,SA when all cabin lighting failed prompting the crew to return to Sydney for a safe routine landing on runway 16R about 3 hours after departure.

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Related Topix: Boeing 747, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Aircraft, Canada

AVHerald

Jetstar A332 near Nadi on May 4th 2012, engine oil leak

A Jetstar Airbus A330-200, registration VH-EBE performing flight JQ-4 from Honolulu,HI to Sydney,NS , was enroute near Nadi when the crew decided to divert to Nadi due to an engine oil leak.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A330, Canada, Honolulu, HI, Oceania, World News, Fiji, Civil Aircraft, Airbus A321

The Winnipeg Free Press

Charley Pride says Canadian promoters were less discriminatory than in U.S.

Country music legend Charley Pride poses in Toronto on Tuesday, May 8, 2012. When Pride was first starting out in the 1960s, he recalls many promoters were hesitant to book a black country artist for fear of hostility from predominantly white audiences.

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Mon May 07, 2012

TheDay.Com

Maritime homeland security training Tuesday on the Thames

New London Coast Guard boat and helicopter crews will be out Tuesday afternoon near the mouth of the Thames River as part of a joint training exercise with Navy and Canadian forces.

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Related Topix: Canada, Groton, CT, New London, CT

CBC News

Music Monday unites students across Canada in song

Students in schools stretching across the country - from Walnut Park Elementary in Smithers, B.C., to Whitbourne Elementary in Colinet, N.L. - sang to the same tune on Monday.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Symphony, Arts,

Fri May 04, 2012

Cape Breton Post

Steel plant built diverse neighbourhood of Whitney Pier

St. George's Ukrainian parishioners posed for this formal photo during the early years of the Second World War, only a few years after the former "Russian Orthodox" church was reopened.

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Related Topix: Canada, Newfoundland, NJ

AVHerald

REX SF34 near Sydney on Nov 25th 2011, smartphone battery runaway

The Australian Transportation Safety Board released their final report concluding the probable causes of the incident were: - During repair work at an unauthorised maintenance facility, a screw was misplaced in the mobile telephone battery bay.

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Related Topix: Canada, Fire, iPhone

 

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