Fear for harness racing industry tinges raceway’s open house

Source: Guelph Mercury

ELORA — Anthony MacDonald gets very passionate when he starts talking about harness racing. The 35-year-old Guelph resident, one of the famous MacDonald harness family from Prince Edward Island, was merrily conducting a seminar for interested ...
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A record of achievement

Source: Albany Democrat-Herald

Gary Boldizsar caps law enforcement career with nine years as Corvallis police chief Gary Boldizsar went to college to study accounting but quickly decided it wasn’t for him. After one semester at Cal State-Fullerton he enr ...
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Dragon boat race set for June 16

Source: Buffalo News

U.S. and Canadian teams will face off June 16 in the fastest-growing team water sport worldwide: dragon boating. The Hope Chest Buffalo Niagara Dragon Boat Festival will involve 20 teams of 21 paddlers squaring off ...
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Latest travel guides hit road for summer

Source: Arkansas Online

LITTLE ROCK Yes, it makes your suitcase heavier. Yes, it takes up more space. But all the travel e-books and mobile app guides in the world put together are still less handy than a sturdy little guidebook you can h ...
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Cafe Society: Diners charting course to waterside Rhumb Line in Ventura

Source: Ventura County Star

Named for a navigational term used by sailors and pilots (and that I'll skip defining for now, lest your eyes glaze over), Rhumb Line — The Sunset Restaurant opened last week at what used to be Scotch ...
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East-West Highway: savior or albatross?

Source: The Portland Maine Press Herald

Mainers are often described as being risk averse, conditioned by thin soils, frigid winters, Colonial-era Indian wars, and a century and a half of economic privation to work hard and stretch what little we'v ...
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The Conservatives tamper with a way of life

Source: Globe and Mail

Employment insurance, or what more properly used to be called unemployment insurance, is only partly about insuring people against temporary loss of work. In certain parts of Canada and in certain industries, the progra ...
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As provinces balk at EI changes, Flaherty says let's talk

Source: Globe and Mail

The Conservative government says it’s open to changes on Employment Insurance as some provinces warn Ottawa’s reforms fail to consider factors such as aging populations. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty acknowledged Friday that EI is “a very sensitive subje ...
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A decades-long journey to protect the natural jewel of the GTA

Source: Globe and Mail

ANNE McILROY From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published Friday, May. 25, 2012 7:52PM EDT Last updated Friday, May. 25, 2012 7:54PM EDT The human history of Canada’s first national urban park dates back 10,000 years, to the nomadic tribes that trave ...
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