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Chebucto News January 2012 - Welcoming Place for Youth
Michèle Raymond

WELCOMING PLACE FOR YOUTH IN THE NEW YEAR….

The longest night of the year, coming just as the Old Year ends, is also the time of growing daylight, and around the world, as the beginning of a new season of hope….

9 January 2012
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Chebucto News December 2011 - Ships and the Future Start Here
Michèle Raymond

In the month since the jubilation that greeted the well-deserved announcement that Ships will Start in Halifax for the next 20 years, Nova Scotia has undergone other, equally profound changes, some positive, and others which must be greeted with imagination and determination…..

1 December 2011
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Chebucto News September 2011 - Garbage Legacy
Michèle Raymond

GARBAGE ISN’T BEST LEGACY— RAYMOND…..Summer brings Nova Scotians out of doors to enjoy the province’s beauty, but many communities have to start the outdoor season not just with barbecues, and gardening, but with the picking up of garbage accumulated over the winter……

9 September 2011
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Chebucto News June 2011 - What's in a Name?
Michèle Raymond

WHAT’S IN A NAME?
As often as we hear our own name, it serves to call us to attention; it’s one of the first things a baby learns, and one of the last we ever forget. It is remembered long after we ourselves are gone, and often our name alone is what remains…

1 June 2011
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Chebucto News March 2011 - NOVA SCOTIA - A GLOBAL INSPIRTATION
Michèle Raymond

It’s a chilly morning in February in Halifax, but violence is raging in the heat of North Africa, and the governments of nations are falling. The people of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen have been facing down brutal regimes of many years’ standing, and we hope that individual futures will now be better; at the same time, European and North American markets are shuddering at the prospect of, yet again, insecure supplies of the oil that powers them.

1 March 2011
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Chebucto News Feb 2011 - Local Government
Michèle Raymond

Anyone who looks for “local” food in the grocery store, or wonders if they should be part of a “community” event, knows how elusive the concepts are. I’ve written before about the challenges in defining these often-invoked words, but they have taken on a new urgency as the province wrangles with issues that may well be the purview of the “community”, and of “local government”, but have an impact on all of us, either directly, or in their impact on the provincial finances.

1 February 2011
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Chebucto News November 2010 CONSULTATION ISN'T AN END IN ITSELF
Michèle Raymond

Writing on the eve of a new legislative session, in a time of economic turmoil so great that it demands fundamental change in many of our habits, governmental and private, I am more than ever concerned that the decisions which emerge from government will be not only acceptable to citizens, but fair and sensible for a long time to come.

1 November 2010
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Chebucto News October 2010 - Hurricane Season
Michèle Raymond

I’m writing at the near end of hurricane season, about two weeks after we were visited by Hurricane Earl, and nearly 20% of households in Nova Scotia were without power at some point over the Labour Day weekend.

1 October 2010
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Chebucto News August 2010 LESSONS LARGE AND SMALL FROM THE OPPOSITE COASTS
Michèle Raymond

Writing in the cool hours before another torrid Nova Scotia summer day, it’s hard to imagine that only ten days ago I was waiting in an airport, bustling at 3 am and in heat barely slackened from the 47 degrees of an African midafternoon.

1 August 2010
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Chebucto News July 2010 HALIFAX ATLANTIC IS CRUCIAL PART OF NS COASTAL FRONTIER
Michèle Raymond

Summer has come, and with it, thousands of visitors to our shores, many, like Nova Scotians themselves, rejoicing in the chance to spend time literally at our beautiful coast, and in the historic communities clustered in its coves and bays.

1 July 2010
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