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from Parliament Hill reporter David Akin
View Article  Canada's Atomic Veterans press for more

On Tuesday morning, Canada’s Atomic Veterans will announce that they are suing the federal government.

Canada’s Atomic Veterans is a group of Second World War veterans that “played war games less than 1,000 yards away from detonated test [atomic] bombs.”

Below is the press release from this veteran group but, before ...   more »

View Article  Gryphons, Bills, Packers -- and whether to go for it on fourth down

I was in my second year at the University of Guelph when the Guelph Gryphon football team won its one and only national title, taking the 1984 Vanier Cup in a thriller on the turf at old Varsity Stadium in Toronto against the Mount Allison Huskies. After that, though, the ...   more »

View Article  Morrissey in for McGuire

The federal Conservatives thought that they had a chance to win one of the four seats on PEI in the 2006 federal election but each Liberal incumbents was able to hold his own. There's a good chance the Liberals sweep the island again if an election were held in the next six months.

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