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There are certain expectations when a name is used to describe an item or a person. Take Tiny for instance. You would expect that the person or item would be small, petite even.

I find myself battling my conscience every year debating whether or not to receive the flu shot. So far I have declined, and this year especially I am glad that I did not get vaccinated.

Most ghost towns earn the title after emptying out and dying when the boom times end. But Jumbo Mountain Resort Municipality is starting out as a ghost town and stands a chance of staying that way.

To the person who thought it was their right to take a bag of money out of my daughter's swim bag at the P.G. Aquatic Centre Monday, Nov. 19 at around 7 p.m. Thank you for ruining my daughter 's night.

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A month before Christmas and finally the National Hockey League season gets interesting. Not the one on the ice, of course, since the owners locked out the players.

Congratulations to Professor De Leeuw regarding her eight years of guaranteed funding to research the role of arts and humanities in northern healthcare. A great feel good story for page one of Friday's newspaper.

In 2010, an Enbridge pipeline carrying diluted bitumen from the Alberta tar sands ruptured and spilled more than three million litres into the Kalamazoo River.

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