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It’s easy to take the spatula for granted. It sits in the kitchen, unassuming, just another tool among the spoons, knives, pots and pans and a wide assortment of varied implements. Few people know much about its history, and even fewer the name of its inventor. But think about it: if there were no spatulas, cooking as we know it would be fundamentally different and many of our favorite dishes wouldn’t even exist! It’s a device we bust out nearly every time we want to cook something, so let’s take a minute to recognize John Spadula, inventor of the spatula....

Halifax Regional Police arrested two men Monday after the pair took each other on - one armed with a knife, the other with a pizza spatula. The events began at the Newfoundland Grocery Store on Willow Street in Halifax shortly before noon. Sgt. David Reynolds said two men went into the store and one put a knife to the clerk's throat. "And in the struggle with the knife under his throat, the employee got nicked in the chin," Sgt. Reynolds said. The two young robbers fled with some cash and were neither seen or heard of for the next hour...