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Ottawa Journal
For the week of October 16 - 20, 2006
     Representing Canada at the Council of Europe (Part One)
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Town of Mono Community Policing
Road Watch Neighborhood Watch Citizens on Patrol 911 Emergencies
     Now that we are into fall and our meetings are starting again, on my desk are the reports from O.P.P. Dufferin and I see that, as usual, road crashes are up during the summer months but there has been a marked drop in the number of incidents on Airport road which we hope has been helped by our effor
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Unleashed Thoughts
An election ramble . .
     Ah, the joy of a municipal election! The promises, the bashing, the lies, the sleazy
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National Affairs
Is that Tory applause we hear?
     P erhaps it's because he has spent most of his adult life working outside of Canada -
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Queen's Park
Deputy premiers seldom make it to top
     O ntario's most pugnacious politician has pummeled his way to deputy premier, but
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Heart to Heart
What did you do Friday night?
     F or ten minutes I was alone and quiet with my life-long partner, letting my hand
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Gordon Kirkland At Large
Homing In On The Search Of Home Ideas
     M y wife and I decided to visit a home and interior decorating show recently.We've
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Angles 'n' Attitudes
Above politics
     A drienne Clarkson and I have never spoken together. We have never even, as Voltaire said he occasionally did to God, nodded. However, over the years we have found ourselves in the same places at the same time - Trinity College, Toronto; St Mary Magdalene Church in the same city; the C.B.C.'s old J
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Dipping Into the Past
Queen's Hotel fight leads to settlement, payment of $20
     100 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 18, 1906  The ORANGEVILLE SUN reports that on Friday night of last week another fight took place at the Queen's Hotel "and for a time it was a genuine rough-house. Harry Tyler, a carpenter employed at Matthew's Planing Mill, and Alex Watson, porter at the Queen's
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Old rock 'n roll never dies
     Fans of music from the 1970s should check out the Orangeville Town Hall Opera House tomorrow night (Oct. 20).
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Follow the Yellow Fish Road
     Yellow Fish might be spotted in your neighbourhood! The Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority is pleased to offer the Yellow Fish Road Program (YFR), delivered in partnership with Trout Unlimited Canada. It is a community-based program designed to reduce hazardous wastes entering our waters.
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Christian Perspectives
Reproducing healthy fruit
     Even though it was raining, I decided to take my boys and go camping for the Labour Day weekend, to take some time away from my busy schedule, and to rest and reflect on
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Royal Canadian Legion News
     Forty-four Branches, including Branch 233 attended the District E Convention in Orillia last weekend. After a three days of meetings and camaraderie, our four delegates returned with some interesting information for our members.
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