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Ottawa Journal
For the week of April 10-14, 2006
     The Conservative Government Cracks Down on Crime In early April, Prime Minister Harper addressed the Canadian Professional Police Association. During his speech, Prime Minister Harper raised the increasing problem of crime across Canada. Drug and gun crimes, in particular, have risen, as well as th
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Wines have many levels, perceptions
Aprr ii ll Nottess ff rrom tthe Wiine Knott
     The wine Knot is the area at the top of the grape vine trunk where each season the new shoots that will bear grapes emergeand normally where these shoots are pruned back each season - the start of the process of wine making
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A hopeless task?
     They keep trying, but city and town councils just about everywhere have
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Apologies, cheques for ancient sins
     H istory has shown that human beings, while certainly capable of great good
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Kennedy, Rae may face similar problem
     Politicians closely identified with a province find it difficult to get to the top in federal
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Mad Hot Ballroom
     I just rented a heart warming and amusing documentary which followed a bunch of New York City students, mostly 11 years old, as they prepared for a ballroom dancing competition.
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Laughing at life
     As an antidote to the solemnities of Passover and Easter, one turns to humour and calls to the defence the old aphorism that "a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men". I have thoroughly enjoyed the 650 pages of delightful nonsense in "The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker". It
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Fame is Going to the Dogs
     I 'm losing my anonymity. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that the Canadian edition of
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Dipping Into the Past
Spring millinery featured at four Shelburne stores
     100 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 12, 1906  The spring millinery openings of the four dry goods stores in Shelburne, Messrs. N. Fisher & Co., E. Berwick & Co., R. H. Benson & Co. and Chalmers & Puckering,was the most elaborate and interesting display ever made in the town. More attention appears to ha
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Royal Canadian Legion News
     Branch 233 will be closed April 14th to observe Good Friday. Please note that our Sunday Breakfast this month will be held Sunday, April 23rd.
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Holy Week and Easter
     We have come to those days that are at the very heart of our Christian faith. On these days, in heart and mind, we walk with Jesus from his triumphal
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