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Chebucto News June 10
Michèle Raymond

After a challenging but productive session of the House, it’s good to look back and see that there was real progress made in matters provincial and local, despite a budget which has had to incorporate a variety of measures to keep the provincial debt from growing into a chronic, incurable “structural” deficit.

10 June 2010
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Doctors Nova Scotia
Michèle Raymond

A message from Doctors Nova Scotia

The beginning of the school year is an opportunity to start new healthy habits. The combination of a balanced diet and exercise is the best way to stay healthy through all stages of life. Below is Doctors Nova Scotia’s top ten ways you can help your child to have a healthy and fun school year.

1 October 2009
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OPENHANDED SPENDING NEEDS TO COME WITH OPEN BOOKS
Michèle Raymond

I write this on a bright spring morning on the day the Nova Scotia Legislature is finally about to return to session.

It has been a difficult, even a devastating winter for people across North America as financial crisis has brought some of its giant industries to their knees.

30 April 2009
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Schools are the heart of the community
Michèle Raymond

This is a difficult month for the people served by the
Halifax Regional School Board, as the board begins consultations on the future shape of schooling in some of the outlying areas of HRM, including the Chebucto peninsula, with the JL Ilsley and Sir John A MacDonald family of schools, and the Eastern Shore…

25 February 2009
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NS TRANSPORTATION LINKS ERODING - RAYMOND
Michèle Raymond

Nova Scotia, as the first mainland point of North American landfall from Europe, has a long history as a trading economy. The province is nearly an island, and has offered harbour to sailing ships from around the world, as well as being famed in its own right as a cradle of shipping and shipbuilding…

1 September 2008
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SUBSIDIZING FRONTIER FANTASIES WON’T MAKE A HEALTHY PROVINCE
Michèle Raymond

June brings the end of school and dreams of summer fun for many students, but for others, sports and structured recreation are a distant dream, far beyond the immediate needs for food, housing, heat and tested, clean water.

1 July 2008
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MANY LIGHTS BEING LIT TO CELEBRATE DEMOCRACY
Michèle Raymond

Nova Scotia’s Year of Democracy is well underway, and since I wrote in November of last year about Halifax Atlantic’s special reasons to celebrate the 250th anniversary of representative government in Canada, the people of Halifax Atlantic have jumped in with will and imagination.

1 June 2008
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TOURISM IS AN EXPORT INDUSTRY
Michèle Raymond

Spring is coming, and visions of the summer tourist season have sprung in the minds of many Nova Scotians, both as visitors and as visited. Last month I had the chance to travel to the southern end of the province in my role as official Opposition critic for tourism, culture and heritage.

1 April 2008
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Poverty and the Lack of Health Care Related
Michèle Raymond

Thirty-five years ago, I was waiting for the train in a small New England town. Two well-dressed women were sitting near me in the station cafe, talking. One asked after the other’s grandson.

“He’s all right,” said the grandmother. “But he’ll never walk. We can’t afford the surgery.”

I’ve never forgotten that overheard moment. Even in this prosperous world, people knew that money alone would make the difference between a life fully lived, and one deeply compromised.

25 February 2008
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Variety is more than the spice of life
Michèle Raymond

Like people all over Canada, I’ve been following with fascination the saga of HRM’s urban chickens, following closely on the story of its cats and its rats.

We may be the butt of fowl humour and catty commments from all over the country, but it’s no joke; these initiatives are only symptoms of a larger phenomenon that threatens the physical and even emotional health of all of us.

28 January 2008
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