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Nova Scotia ponders light-bulb switch

“We’re certainly moving towards that, but we’re not going to make them mandatory just now. We have to be very sensitive to a whole bunch of things that surround that - wholesalers, retailers,” Dooks said Tuesday.

He expects it could be four or five years before a ban is in place.

Dooks [...]

Teacher cuts pupil’s tongue with scissors

The teacher, a support tutor on a temporary contract, risks being fired from the elementary school.

“She is a young teacher but the episode is so serious that inexperience has nothing to do with it,” Dominici added.

Now THIS is class. I’d expect behavior like this from some old teacher who’s [...]

mlive.com: NewsFlash - Flint voters OK legalizing medical marijuana

Detroit, Ann Arbor and Ferndale have approved similar measures. Voters in Traverse City in 2005 approved a measure that, while not legalizing the drug, declared possession, use or delivery by a medical patient the “lowest law enforcement priority of the city.”

Opponents in Flint had said the [...]

Patenting Life - New York Times

Humans share mostly the same genes. The same genes are found in other animals as well. Our genetic makeup represents the common heritage of all life on earth. You can%u2019t patent snow, eagles or gravity, and you shouldn%u2019t be able to patent genes, either. Yet by now one-fifth of [...]

NDP pushes $250,000 ‘Buy Nova Scotia’ campaign

The province needs a “Buy Nova Scotia” campaign to help struggling farmers, the NDP says.

NDP Leader Darrell Dexter proposes spending $250,000 on an ad campaign to encourage Nova Scotians to buy local produce and meat.

Dexter said the governing Tories have promised a similar campaign four times in the [...]

FT.com / Companies / IT - Norway declares Apple’s iTunes illegal
“We are satisfied the Federation of German Consumer Organisations and the French UFC Que Choisir are addressing this important issue. It means that iTunes is now being told by more than 100m European consumers to offer them a fair deal,” he said.Apple signalled that [...]

Buying bottled water is wrong, says Suzuki
“I don’t believe for a minute that French water is better than Canadian water. I think that we’ve got to drink the water that comes out of our taps, and if we don’t trust it, we ought to be raising hell about that.”
I think David Suzuki’s right. Canadian [...]