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		<title>Are the Conservatives making Northern Gateway pipeline hearings irrelevant? &#8211; by Tim Harper (Toronto Star &#8211; January 18, 2012)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Toronto Star, has the largest circulation in Canada. The paper has an enormous impact on federal and Ontario politics as well as shaping public opinion. OTTAWA—Provincial premier or pipeline protester, you had a common plight Tuesday. You both found yourself in British Columbia, pushing back against that immovable object, Stephen Harper. At their waterfront hotel in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stan Sudol/RepublicOfMining.com profile in Fortunes Found – by Michael Barnes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Barnes is the author of more than fifty books about characters, communities, mining, and police work. He is a Member of the Order of Canada and makes his home in Haliburton, Ontario, Canada. While living in Northern Ontario most of his life, he has come to know and admire those who make their living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in Kirkland Lake during World War II &#8211; by Michael Barnes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an excerpt from Michael Barnes’ new book: Gold in Kirkland Lake, published by General Store Publishing House, and available for $29.95. Contact the author at www.barnes4books.com. After the war in Europe commenced, the bright spot in Ontario’s Kirkland Lake gold camp area was the Kerr Addison mine in Virginiatown, which by 1941 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Barnes Keeps Northern Ontario&#8217;s Mining Heritage Alive &#8211; by Adelle Larmour</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Established in 1980, Northern Ontario Business  provides Canadians and international investors with relevant, current and insightful editorial content and business news information about Ontario’s vibrant and resource-rich North. This article is from the November, 2010 issue. Chronicled the North&#8217;s Facinating History and Folklore Humility and hard work has kept one Ontario author’s pen to the parchment.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ontario’s Ring of Fire Mineral Discovery (1 of 6) – Excerpt from Fortunes Found Canadian Mining Success – by Michael Barnes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Sault Ste. Marie’s Chicora Incident – An American/Canadian Border Incident– by Michael Barnes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most  people know all about  the locks between the Canadian and American twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie. The waterways are good for trade. But at one time the Soo locks were all on the American side. This ended with the opening of a lock to the north in 1895. Although not openly discussed, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ontario Gold is Where You Find It – by Michael Barnes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Famed prospector Don McKinnon, co-disoverer of the Hemlo gold fields north of Lake Superior is fond of an old axiom in the mining business. He says simply that you look for gold where gold is said to be. This sounds like double talk to the uninitiated but actually the seemingly obvious statement makes a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghost from Haileybury – by Michael Barnes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most popular series of books sold in Canada was the Hardy Boys. Most people recall Franklin W. Dixon as the author. But that was just a pen name given to ghost writer Leslie McFarlane from Haileybury. Leslie McFarlane was 23 in 1926 when he answered an ad for a fiction writer.The young cub reporter, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Forgotten Northern Ontario Workers During the Great Depression – Michael Barnes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy isn’t exactly bouncing along these days but not much more than sixty years ago,it was down right flat. This was the time of the Great Depression, the lost years, when production in many industries in Canada and around the world came almost to a standstill. There were few social umbrellas then. Help for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing Came with the Job in Northern Ontario Mining Communites – Michael Barnes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In earlier years in the teaching game in Ontario, school boards were able to secure teachers because they were offered accommodation at either free or a cheap rate as part of the deal. One young teacher had a house in an isolated community in 1956 for $30 a month. Now mind you it was not [...]]]></description>
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