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Yesterday | Golden Star

The power of touch

Quantum-Touch is a powerful, yet easy to learn, energy healing modality. The Quantum-Touch techniques teach us how to focus and amplify life-force energy by combining various breathing and body awareness exercises.

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Related Topix: Canada

Tue Jul 07, 2009

Bike Magazine

21 Things To Do in July Without Lance

The six-day ultra-endurance race in Breckinridge, Colorado, gives riders plenty of time in the saddle each day, and just to make sure the roadies-cum-mountain bikers get their TdF fix, that other race will be broadcast every night; breckepic.com #2 July 9-12: Goat Style Bike Fest Dirt jumps, drops, goats.

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Related Topix: Canada, Fryeburg, ME

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Vancouver Sun

Column: One charge of polygamy against Winston Blackmore seems inadequate

Winston Blackmore, charged with practising polygamy. Photograph by: Ian Smith, Vancouver Sun files Nine child brides.

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Related Topix: Canada, Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), North America, World News, Wedding

Tue Jun 30, 2009

National Post

Accused polygamist had nine underage brides: affadavit

Four of the 25 wives of fundamentalist Mormon leader Winston Blackmore of Bountiful, B.C., were just 15 when they were bound to him in spiritual marriages, says an affidavit filed Tuesday in his polygamy case.

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Related Topix: Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), North America, Canada, World News, FLDS

Invermere Valley Echo

BC Chamber AGM and conference

In Prince Rupert on June 3, the BC Chamber of Commerce announced its Board of Directors for 2009/2010 at the Chambera s 57th Annual General Meeting and Conference.

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News

Thu Jun 11, 2009

Kootenay Advertiser

Presentation gives tips to avoid becoming a victim of scams, fraud

"If it looks too good to be true, it probably is," said Wally Eddy, regional director for the Investors Group This past Tuesday, local businesses and investors were given an opportunity to learn how to look for red flags and identify scams.

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Related Topix: Canada,

Mon May 25, 2009

Calgary Sun

Bank error accounts for $8M windfall

Take the money and run -- it was only a fleeting thought for an accidental multimillionaire formerly of Alberta.

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Related Topix: Canada,

Wed May 06, 2009

Kootenay Advertiser

Be prepared to show your passport when driving to the U.S.

Canadians wishing to travel to the United States after June 1, 2009 will need a passport or other document, even if they are driving.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News,

Mon Apr 27, 2009

Revelstoke Times Review

Revelstoke schoolchildren help with release of 4,000 sturgeon

Although warned that kissing a sturgeon would not make it turn into a prince, Mountain View student Emma Bellerose was still visibly excited to pick up one of the nine-month-old white sturgeons and giving him a quick peck before releasing him in the Columbia River.

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Related Topix: Canada,

Fri Apr 10, 2009

Squamish Chief

New electoral system peddled locally

The B.C. general election is scheduled for May 12, but for many across the province, a vote held in tandem will carry much more weight.

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Related Topix: Canada,

Thu Apr 02, 2009

Goldstream Gazette

The worship of all things big and gaudy

Did you see the news story about Serbia on CNN? - It was a feature report about how Serbians have taken to erecting huge, reverential statues of cultural heroes along roadsides, in parks and on public squares.

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News, Canada Travel, Travel, Opinion

Thu Mar 26, 2009

Kelowna Capital News

B.C.'s natural resources 'up for sale'

"I think the world has changed so radically that the old capitalist versus socialist paradigm is smashed and broken," says former NDP agriculture minister Corky Evans.

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Related Topix: Canada,

Thu Mar 12, 2009

Kootenay Advertiser

Last week

The Cities of Fernie and Creston will be receiving sizable infrastructure grants to upgrade their drinking water and wastewater treatment systems.

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News, Agriculture, Science

Sat Mar 07, 2009

Lake Cowichan Gazette

Agriculture is alive and well - for now

I am happy to report of an alive and busy agricultural community. As a member of the British Columbia Cattle Association, the Kootenay Livestock Association, and also the Windermere District Farmers Institute, ...

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Canada

Thu Feb 26, 2009

National Post

Chris Selley's Full Pundit: Question of the day: Who gives "a rat's ass" about the Pan Am Games?

So provincial An east-to-west journey through Canada's petty squabbles, financial disasters, sordid trials and Torontonian self-loathing. The National Post 's Don Martin sheds no tears over the cancellation of ...

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, The National, Entertainment, Television,

Mon Feb 23, 2009

Canada.com

B.C. may charge men of sect: A-G

The scenic Creston Valley is home to the town of Bountiful, B.C. Photograph by: Nick Procaylo/Canwest News Service, National Post The Attorney-General of British Columbia is leaning toward bringing in a special ...

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News,

Wed Feb 18, 2009

CBC

Trial of rival Bountiful religious leaders put off until April

Winston Blackmore, accused of having 20 wives, shares a laugh with six of his daughters and some of his grandchildren in April 2008.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News,

Sun Feb 15, 2009

Ridenbaugh Press

Cross-border polygamy

The Spokane Spokesman-Review has out today a solid piece - and evidently just one of several to come - on polygamy in the Bonners Ferry, Idaho/Creston, British Columbia area, bringing a lot more detail and ...

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Related Topix: Bonners Ferry, ID, Canada, Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), Jon Krakauer, Vocal, FLDS, Boundary County, ID

Fri Feb 06, 2009

Medincine Hat News

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As his family crowded the front row in Medicine Hat's Court of Queen's Bench, ginger-haired Kyle Decker stepped out of the wood-paneled prisoner's box and testified in his own defense Thursday.

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Related Topix: Canada, Train Disaster, Drugs

Fri Jan 30, 2009

Kootenay Advertiser

ROOM FOR MANY HATS! Michelle Gray is the new owner of Shopper's Drug Mart and customers can take advantage of her expertise as one of the province's few hormone consultants.

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Related Topix: Canada, Texas

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