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11 Votes
Being a family man
http://www.ottawacitizen.com —
British Prime Minister's David Cameron's decision to spend a couple of weeks with his newborn daughter is big news -- and that shows just how antediluvian attitudes about fatherhood still are, particularly in political life.
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11 Votes
Teeter-totter approach to fitness
http://www.calgaryherald.com —
F or all of its studies, commissions, focus groups and countless efforts to combat childhood obesity, the province has miles to go in delivering a consistent and effective message. New elementary schools opened this week, but without playgrounds an obvious, easy and inexpensive way to increase exercise among schoolchildren disappears as well. Seven years after the Alberta Commission on Learning c
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12 Votes
Funding programs to help stop smoking is a good investment
http://feeds.canada.com —
In the last few decades, governments across Canada have developed numerous programs and advertisements directed at helping Canadians to stop smoking. Those programs and advertisements, along with the changes in social values that accompany them, have helped to decrease substantially the percentage of Canadians who smoke.
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14 Votes
Sept. 4: Letters to the editor
http://www.theglobeandmail.com —
Today's topics: Stephen Hawking and God, 'liberation' therapy and MS, New Brunswick and Hurricane Earl, oil tankers and the Arctic, Canada and Iraq, Tony Blair and Iraq ... and more
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6 Votes
Blair stripped of Blairism
http://www.theglobeandmail.com —
All that’s left is a barren philosophy that suits him alone
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10 Votes
All work and no play …
http://www.theglobeandmail.com —
Canada's statutory vacation time is relatively stingy, and a lot of us don’t even bother to use it up
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13 Votes
Sometimes it's only hard men who can make peace
http://www.theglobeandmail.com —
We can be certain that if a deal is ever reached between an Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority, there will be those on both sides who will try to destroy it
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7 Votes
Marois right on gas
http://www.montrealgazette.com —
Here's something we don't say very often: Pauline Marois is right.
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