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BIRTHDAY FRIDAY: How you come across to people in positions of authority is going to be of major importance over the coming 12 months.

BIRTHDAY THURSDAY: The most important thing on your birthday is that you have a crystal clear vision held in your mind of what it is you hope to achieve.

BIRTHDAY WEDNESDAY: You can and you must turn your back on the past and create a brand new future for yourself. Yes, it will mean leaving people and places behind but if you don't do that you may never be happy. You're at a crossroads.

BIRTHDAY TUESDAY: A Venus-Mercury link in your sign on your birthday means you have the gift of persuasion and you must use it to the full. What you say must be meaningful, of course, but your delivery must be perfect too 鈥� and it will be.

BIRTHDAY MONDAY: The time has come to admit that your destiny is in your own hands and that any problems you have are largely of your own making.

In 1948, in the midst of negotiating the North Atlantic Treaty, external affairs minister Lester Pearson and deputy minister Escott Reid had a crazy idea.

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Confident, competitive and assertive are words that are commonly cited as positive traits of men, but when used to describe a woman, they aren鈥檛 necessarily considered positive.

Is the CNIB鈥檚 centennial this year really something to celebrate? The Canadian National Institute for the Blind came about directly because of the high profile of gas-blinded heroes of the First World War and survivors of the 1917 Halifax explosion.

In my last column, I described gazing with horror upon a clearcut.