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“Westvleteren 12', 'Orval', 'Chimay', 'Duvel”

We asked you where you think the best beer in the world comes from. Here's what you had to say. via The Toronto Star

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“If you require care, want it in your home and that care costs less than sending you to a hospital or nursing home, we will make sure you get it”

In 1970, John Robarts became the first provincial premier to make it a publicly funded program. via The Toronto Star

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WATERLOO, ON, May 12 /CNW/ - The Canadian Federation of Podiatric Medicine has selected Vancouver, BC as the Best Walking City in Canada for 2008. via Canada NewsWire

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“It's so bright and optimistic, I can't believe it's not celebrated more.”

Brantford Expositor May 8, 2008 Thursday Armenian refugee story takes stage by Elizabeth Yates, expositor staff Seeing his dad's story in print was a huge thrill for Brantford's Carl Georgian. via Groong Armenian News Network

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Vancouver police have sent another Ontario criminal back home today. Thirty-one-year-old Andrew Tage Haines Dove, placed on a WestJet flight this morning, is the 11th person returned home in the police ... via Vancouver Television

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“There is a lot of concern for protecting groundwater sources, but we don't pay as much attention to surface water as we should”

In the 1970s there was a standing joke in Cambridge: "Flush twice, Brantford needs the water". Today that joke isn't so funny. via Cambridge Times

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“I can always rebut this kind of abuse, by shouting to the heckler: 'I get paid to dress funny, what's your excuse?'”

David McKee, looking like a Revolutionary-era Santa Claus in his well-made costume and graying beard, clanged his handbell yesterday afternoon and quickly got the attention of the crowd gathered before him: ... via The Baltimore Sun

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“We too have a number of concerns about this project”

Today: H 7 /L 0 Officials with the Grand River Conservation Authority will be teaming up to compare notes concerning Ministry of Transportation plans for Highway 24. via Cambridge Times

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“In my Grade 3 class ... if there were 20 boys, every single one of them ... would have experienced what I experienced”

An aboriginal judge who has talked openly of his own struggles with racism will lead a long-awaited commission to hear "horrendous" accounts of abuse in native residential schools. via Orleans Star / Weekly Journal

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“The Offeri... Grimsby Secondary School's Sears production, "The Offering”

Unknown Grimsby Secondary School's Sears production, "The Offering," competes for the regional crown in Brantford this week. via Niagara This Week

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