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Online Grows in Canada While Traditional Enrollments Stagnate
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With climate change knocking on our door, governments, insurance companies, town planners, homeowners and wide swath of other interest groups are all grappling with planning for extremes.
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The Nipissing University Student Union has had to “scale back” on some of the services it offers because of a provincial decision to let students opt out of paying for some services that had in the past been mandatory.
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