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Company Collects 80% of City's Recyclable Plastics and Turns It All into Lumber

More than 80% of the municipal plastic recyclables of Halifax are being processed by a brilliant local company that turns it all into lumber.

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Nova Scotia Becomes 1st Province to Ban Cat Declawing

The practice has already been banned in over 20 countries – and now, Nova Scotia has become the first Canadian province to take a stance.

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Tunisia Pilot Hailed Hero for Refusing to Fly President Ben Ali's Family

Hours before the ousted president of Tunisia fled, a pilot about to fly to Lyons from Tunisia refused to obey an order to hold the aircraft and take members of the president's family on board.

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Tunisians Forget Their Own Problems to Help Libyan Refugees (Video)

Having endured the tumult of their own revolution, Tunisians have traveled from far and wide to serve food and bring supplies to refugee camps along the Libyan border. Generosity and compassion, they say, are part of the spirit of their revolution.

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Army General Credited as the Hero of Tunisian Revolution Gets Promotion

A man credited as a hero of Tunisia's revolution, Gen. Rachid Ammar, has been promoted to chief of the nation's armed forces. Ammar is treated as a hero in this North African nation, credited by the press with refusing to obey orders of then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to shoot on crowds of demonstrators.

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Tunisia Kicks off First Election Campaign Since Uprising‎

Today marks the start of a landmark election campaign, the first in Tunisia since the revolt in January that toppled a dictator and inspired similar movements in Egypt and Libya.

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First Election After Arab Spring is Heartening for Tunisians and World

In Tunisia, following the first free election after the overthrow of the former dictatorship, the Islamist Ennahda Party that won 40 percent of the seats announced it would form a coalition government with one of the secular progressive parties and promised to recognize the rights of all citizens, women, men, religious and non-religious.

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Tunisia Basks in Praise Over its New Constitution

As recently as December, the outlook for Tunisia remained grim. However, on Friday, French President Francois Hollande and other world leaders attended a ceremony for the formal adoption of a document being praised as one of the most progressive constitutions in an Arab nation. What a turnaround, says an AP article.