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		<title>Peter Darling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DARLING, Peter Duncan, QC, LLM
The family is saddened to announce that Peter died on Sunday, November 2, 2008, in Halifax, following a courageous battle with cancer. The son of Barbara (MacPherson) and the late Frank Darling, Peter was born in Vancouver, B.C., and grew up in Calgary, Winnipeg and Montreal. He studied law at Dalhousie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jvangurp.com/wp/archives/206</link>
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		<title>Where are the little tiny bandages?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A hot topic in the news this week was the firing of former Conservative candidate Rosamond Luke from  her position as as executive director of the All Women’s Empowerment and Development Association in Halifax.
According to new reports the association was awarded a $142,700 federal government grant and a $40,000 grant from the IWK Health [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jvangurp.com/wp/archives/195</link>
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		<title>Men are tough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Men are tough, right? We cut ourselves - no big deal. We get insulted at work - laugh and ignore the bozo. A pal tries to pick a fight while out a little too late some night - who cares - it was the beer talking and you&#8217;re still pals. We don&#8217;t go looking for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jvangurp.com/wp/archives/174</link>
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		<title>Chebucto Road widening update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you seen what&#8217;s taking place on Chebucto Road now that the headlines have stopped and the protests are a memory? It must be a pure horror-show for anyone living in that stretch across from St. Agnes Church. I just can&#8217;t imagine what it muct be like. Crews are digging with heavy machinery more or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jvangurp.com/wp/archives/168</link>
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		<title>Calgary club owner ordered to stop scanning patrons&#8217; driver&#8217;s licences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Could this be tested in Halifax at the Liquor Dome?
Calgary club owner ordered to stop scanning patrons&#8217; driver&#8217;s licences
Sean Myers
 Calgary Herald
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
CALGARY - A Calgary night club owner is vowing to appeal a decision to stop the practice of scanning the driver&#8217;s licences of patrons as they walk in the door.
Alberta privacy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jvangurp.com/wp/archives/156</link>
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		<title>In Case of Poetic Emergency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On my slither to work a couple of weeks ago I saw a small Ziploc baggie duct taped around the dangling cable of a broken down old payphone&#8230; Can you guess where it is?The message visible through the plastic was
&#8220;In case of poetic emergency break seal - write / draw / express&#8221; 

&#8230;and there was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jvangurp.com/wp/archives/155</link>
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		<title>Halifax Harbour is Clean!</title>
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A few months ago this was a cesspool of green sludge. Look at it now!
I was out walking in the balmy 6 degree and sunny weather at lunch today (balmy for the beginning of January in Halifax anyway), and was astounded at the condition of Halifax Harbour. It&#8217;s amazingly clear.
Never before have I seen such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jvangurp.com/wp/archives/152</link>
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		<title>CCTV and Police Surveillance in Bars in Halifax, Nova Scotia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.&#8221;
The current buzz is that the Owners of The Dome, a nightclub in Halifax recently shut down for a few days by regulators after a large brawl in which 38 people were arrested, and where a week earlier [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jvangurp.com/wp/archives/151</link>
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		<title>Dear Bar Owner - Please Kill the TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Bar Owner,
Cut the TV already wouldya please?
I came to your bar to sit with friends and have a meal and a couple of drinks. I&#8217;m spending a fair bit of coin in your establishment so I can enjoy their company. We want to talk and laugh and joke around. We want to catch up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jvangurp.com/wp/archives/150</link>
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		<title>An athiest goes to church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well that was interesting.
Last night I attended the Celebration of  New Ministry with The People of the Diocese and Susan Elizabeth Moxley Fifteenth Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Wait did I say &#8220;attended&#8221;? Aw heck, I participated in it as an actual performer.  It was quite neato and very interesting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jvangurp.com/wp/archives/148</link>
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