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  Prisoner in her own house

  Febuary 9th, 2010 - 5 h 00

  A Westville mother has reached the breaking point over care for her autistic daughter. Angela Hanebury's daughter, Rebecca Falconer, was diagnosed with the disorder when she was about 2 1/2 years old. As a young girl, care for Rebecca was...

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  New Glasgow native special guest speaker for provincial Tories

  Febuary 1st, 2010 - 5 h 00

  NEW?GLASGOW?- A New Glasgow native who is now a Progressive Conservative member of Ontario Parliament is coming home to her roots to speak to Nova Scotia Conservatives. Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod will be the special guest speaker on Feb. 7...

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  Colbert: Canadas being very un-Canadian this time, they want to win

  Febuary 1st, 2010 - 5 h 00

  LOS ANGELES - With his trip north of the border fast approaching, Stephen Colbert was still poking fun at Canada after winning his first Grammy Award on Sunday. Backstage at the show, Colbert was asked why he'd given Canadians such a rough ride on...

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  Group of Canadian volunteers in Haiti struggles to save one life at a time

  January 27th, 2010 - 5 h 00

  LEOGANE, Haiti - Imagine trying to save the life of a seven-year-old boy. To do that, you need to amputate his mangled, infected leg. You explain to his parents that without this operation, the boy will almost certainly die. Now imagine pleading...

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  A place to share

  January 25th, 2010 - 5 h 00

  PICTOU - Nearly four months after it began, a support group formed to help individuals tackle grief has come into its own. Dawn Eckert, who helped develop Healing Hearts, said the group's open-door approach has made the difference. It has...

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  Duo captures living history

  January 22nd, 2010 - 5 h 00

  NEW?GLASGOW - More than 60 years ago, Corrine Day and her family posed for neighbour Don McGarva as he collected images of some of Pictou County's most notable people. This fall, she posed again, this time for a collection of photos taken by...

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  Tournament will honour lives of players, mother killed in accident in 1984

  January 20th, 2010 - 5 h 00

  PICTOU?COUNTY - Allyson Wheadon has a newspaper clipping from February 1984 she photocopies every year around this time. It tells of three boys and a mother killed in a car accident on the way home from a hockey tournament in Chatham, N.B. Donald...

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  Many locals anxiously watching...

  January 15th, 2010 - 5 h 00

  NEW GLASGOW - Among the many anxiously watching the fallout from an earthquake Tuesday in Haiti, an occupational therapist from Pictou County has a connection to the devastation. Melissa Grant is part of a group of rehabilitative specialists that...

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  Quake-weary people cram Cdn. compound in Port-au-Prince

  January 15th, 2010 - 5 h 00

  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Dozens of people have crammed into the Canadian compound in Port-au-Prince in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The Canadian military has already evacuated more than 100 people from the city where a massive humanitarian effort...

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  Canada rushing planes, ships, money and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Haiti

  January 14th, 2010 - 5 h 00

  OTTAWA - Canada is rushing to ease the chaos in earthquake-battered Haiti, sending helicopters, ships and a disaster response team to rescue those buried in the rubble and help thousands of homeless wandering without food, water or medical help....

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