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Are there too many stores?

It seems every time I open the newspaper, a new store is opening its doors. How many stores can you count that are making a lot of money, or even breaking even?

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  • Harper wins another international prize

    November 1, 2010 - 14 h 14

    Richard Cléroux

    But just like a year ago at the big international conference on the environment in Copenhagen, Stephen Harper wasn’t around to accept it on behalf of Canada.

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  • The Ideas of our Councillor Candidates – Bob Monette

    September 22, 2010 - 11 h 25

    David McGruer

    On August 22nd I sent four questions to all 2010 Municipal Candidates in Orleans and Cumberland. Since my column offers opinion from the perspective of objective thought and individual rights, my questions were naturally about the candidates’...

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  • The Ideas of our Councillor Candidates

    August 31, 2010 - 14 h 46

    David McGruer

    When you visit the web site or read the brochures of municipal candidates, their platform almost always consists of purely tactical or pragmatic statements of what it would be nice to do or how to improve something government already does.

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  • Force And Power In Our Schools

    August 31, 2010 - 14 h 43

    David McGruer

    The Ottawa Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) recently entered into agreements under the Ontario Power Authority’s (OPA) renewable energy feed-in tariff program.

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  • WHY SUMMER CAMP ROCKS

    July 23, 2010 - 14 h 12

    Brynna Leslie

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  • Roundabout in Orléans?

    July 21, 2010 - 8 h 44

    Walter Robinson

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  • Hot Times Down on the Farm

    July 9, 2010 - 12 h 30

    Patrick Langston

    While others are wondering if it’s a harbinger of climate change, Eastern Ontario farmers are doing the only thing they can do in a summer that thundered in weeks ahead of schedule: cutting and baling hay earlier than they ever have before.

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  • Mediocre mothers should be proud

    July 2, 2010 - 0 h 01

    Brynna Leslie

    My children make me laugh. They also make me scream and cry, and – although it’s been just five years -- I’m pretty sure they are the source of the permanent furrowed-brow lines on my forehead.

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  • Mediocre mothers should be proud

    July 2, 2010 - 0 h 00

    Brynna Leslie

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  • Focus on local transportation

    June 25, 2010 - 11 h 34

    Walter Robinson

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