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It is not hard to be concerned that Vale’s attack on its unionized employees will be followed up by an assault on retirees.

Let’s give some credit to the BBC for “killing two birds with one stone.” Simultaneously, they have labeled the previous decade and its investment portfolio performance. The word “noughties” is derived from the English word “nought,” meaning zero.

I was reflecting on our national anthem and the pledge we once were taught about protecting “our home and native land — and about how I feel we have been over taken by foreign interests.

Like the recent record-setting price of gold and the stock market recovery, the general mood at the annual Canadian Mining Hall of Fame dinner at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel a few weeks ago in Toronto, was upbeat, bright and a turnout.

In terms of physical fitness, a wise person observed that anything is better than nothing, and something is better than anything. This is true about Haiti relief efforts.

By Chris Blomme As an avid member of the executive for the Sudbury Ornithological Society and a life-long bird watcher, I get asked many questions pertaining to the avian life of our local birds.

Premier Dalton McGuinty has shuffled the chairs at his cabinet table once again, scrambling to fill the empty seats left by a growing number of senior cabinet ministers who have jumped ship or been forced out.

If you build it, they will come. The saying works easily with roads and housing. If you build a road, people will put houses on it. The same happened on Grandview Boulevard, where Diane Lang owns a house. But this house isn’t typical.

My 11-year-old granddaughter downloaded, and printed off, a list of 30 things you can do to avoid cancer. It was surprising that she would still be worrying, especially since I’ve been cancer-free for six years now.

Our community has certainly faced its share of challenges in 2009 – not least of which are the ongoing labour dispute between Vale Inco and Steelworkers Local 6500 and the worldwide economic downturn.