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By: Bruce Penton When Team Canada announced last summer its six locked-in player selections for this country’s entry in the Olympic Games, one of the choices today stands out as a pretty big mistake.
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By: Jordan Twiss The Christmas season is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year. But with high grocery prices continuing to stretch household budgets to their limits, it’s also, for some, a time of great stress, worry, and guilt.
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By: Jordan Twiss And just like that, we’ve somehow completed another orbit around the sun, bringing about the beginning of a brand-new year.
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By: Calvin Daniels What should be included on food labels tends to be a topic which can be a hotly contested one, depending on who one asks about it.
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By: Bruce Penton The best of 2025’s notes, quotes and anecdotes (Part 2 — July through December):
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