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	<title>New Brunswick Beacon</title>
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		<title>Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It all started over 100 years ago.
In 1909, women marched on the streets of New York on regular basis, hoisting banners calling for shorter work hours, better pay and voting rights.
Women around the world have stopped running away from past struggles and are now looking ahead to all the opportunities that await them.
March 8 is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newbrunswickbeacon.ca/2010/03/equal-rights-equal-opportunities-progress-for-all/4855</link>
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		<title>Student debt causes trouble for graduates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As graduation draws near students need to start thinking about how they will pay their student loans.
According to Statistics Canada, in 2007, two years after completing bachelor or doctorate degrees, students owe an average of $20,000.
Some students have a large amount of debt, and that can bring a lot of stress and pressure on them. Students need to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newbrunswickbeacon.ca/2010/03/student-debt-and-student-loans/4820</link>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s our duty&#8221; transcript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[VO] Several hundred troops gathered on January 1st to pay their respects and offer a farewell salute for four Canadian soldiers and a journalist killed in Afghanistan just two days before.
[Clip: Carol Grantly] “Unfortunately now, we’re one of the towns, we’re not just somebody mourning, it’s our own, it’s here now.”
[Clip: Joe Bishara] “I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newbrunswickbeacon.ca/2010/02/its-our-duty-transcript/4798</link>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s our duty&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the small town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, there&#8217;s a group of junior high and high school students called the Memorial Club. This club has been around for 25 years now and has been honouring Canadian veterans and war dead since they started. In 2006, this group of students started giving out a silver cross [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newbrunswickbeacon.ca/2010/02/its-our-duty/4794</link>
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		<title>Hockey&#8230; It&#8217;s all we&#8217;ve got</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all seen it, and most of us have done it. We put on our Team Canada jerseys, paint our faces, wave Canadian flags and banners with beer in hand and a moose elegantly seated in our laps. A full-size live one, none of those pansy stuffed things. Hockey fever sets in at every world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newbrunswickbeacon.ca/2010/02/hockey-its-all-weve-got/4783</link>
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		<title>Subtlety and screaming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Luke Rogerson sits in his dim basement, balled up in an armchair.  He&#8217;s explaining last night, when the sound guy stomped on the smoke machine half-way through the show because he&#8217;d forgotten about it earlier.  The make-up smoke plumed up onto the stage, then out into the 200-strong mass of bodies pulsing to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newbrunswickbeacon.ca/2010/02/subtlety-and-screaming/4760</link>
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		<title>Transcript: Beating the odds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NugentBeatingtheodds
In:  Becky Bourgese mother
Out:  Becky couldn&#8217;t be happier
Song Intro    (00:39)
Intro:  (00:13) Becky Bourgese, mother of two, found out her son had a very dangerous condition called cystic fibrosis when he was three years old. Bourgese noticed a couple of signs that lead her to the diagnosis of her son Todd.
Bourgese: (01:63) the first sign is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newbrunswickbeacon.ca/2010/02/transcript-beating-the-odds/4674</link>
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		<title>Beating the odds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Becky Bourgese was told her son Todd would die at the age of 14 or 15. Todd is now 33, and starting his own family.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newbrunswickbeacon.ca/2010/02/beating-the-odds/4617</link>
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		<title>Canadian musician encourages Fredericton youth to make responsible choices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mitch Dorge, drummer for the Canadian band Crash Test Dummies, was at Bliss Carman Middle School in Fredericton Thursday night giving a presentation on making responsible choices with drugs and alcohol.
After the Crash Test Dummies went on hiatus in 2001, Dorge started building a program aimed at inspiring people to go out and pursue something they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newbrunswickbeacon.ca/2010/02/canadian-musician-encourages-fredericton-youth-to-make-responsible-choices/4707</link>
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		<title>Meredith O&#8217;Hara</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a year and a half since I graduated; I’m the producer for a morning show on the #1 radio station in Calgary and I love it. It’s not the job I thought I would have at this point but it’s a great job in a great city. But my road to this job [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newbrunswickbeacon.ca/2010/02/from-the-field-meredith-ohara/4708</link>
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