(HALIFAX) Kate Greenaway is the Canadian director of Medical Students for Choice, a group of 7000 medical students across the United States and Canada working towards improving school curriculums to include reproductive health training, especially abortion training.

There has been a great deal of discussion since the last federal election about what steps the New Democratic Party can take to avoid becoming irrelevant. In an attempt to ensure their place in the process, the Dalhousie and Saint Mary's University Nova Scotia NDP Youth Wing clubs recently voted in favour of changing their names. The groups are now known as the New Party Youth Movement (NPYM). The motion for this change contained the phrase "Whereas the NDP has lost its connection with many in the broader left." It was passed unanimously.

Kentville, Nova Scotia. Sept 11, 2001.

For twenty minutes we’d been battling a busy signal. My roommate and I were desperately trying to get through to the Red Cross, dialling and re-dialing the 800 number we’d heard on the radio, right after hearing that thousands of stranded passengers were being billeted in Nova Scotia.

“We have a swingset, dammit!” I shouted into the beeping phone. “We live in the woods.