Listening to: A dishwasher on my end, a train roaring by on his...

Since coming to power, Stephen Harperʼs Conservative government has:

1. Cut funding to Status of Women groups and required changes to their mandates - removing its important advocacy role
2. Eliminated funding for literacy programs - $17.7m for adult literacy
3. Cancelled the proposed National ( Read more... )

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Reposted from an email from the David Suzuki Foundation (June 26, 2008)

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Dear Friend:

Here's your weekly Science Matters column by David Suzuki with Faisal Moola.

"What a difference 50 years makes"

Last month, I attended the 50th anniversary of my college graduation. A week later, I celebrated my grandson’s ( Read more... )

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Noticed while logging out of a generic email account... I wonder if this will help the late adopters in our society WTFU?

Below the cut, for the convenience of your friends list...

MYTH
The science of global warming is too uncertain to act on.

FACT
There is no debate among scientists about the basic facts of global warming.

The ( Read more... )

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Reposted from: http://www.ndp.ca/page/6493?refer=subtext

Thu 5 Jun 2008

Concerns remain on tar sands impact on health and environment

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jack Layton today called on the Prime Minster Harper to stop the fast-tracking of Imperial Oil’s $8 billion tar sands development until outstanding concerns are ( Read more... )

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_fuel_cell

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Reposted from euro|topics: newsletter 15/05/2008

Times of Malta - Malta
Leo Brincat joins the debate about the future role of the USA initiated by the Americans Richard Haass and Fareed Zakaria: "The world that both these personalities envisage is one in which the US will no longer dominate the global economy, ( Read more... )

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The true enough need for an economic benefit to everything. Now, to motivate the reduction of consumption!

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Reposted from euro|topics: newsletter 16/05/2008

I Kathimerini - Greece
The Greek daily comments on a surge in enthusiasm for recycling rubbish among Greek citizens. "It is true! People are queuing up at ( Read more... )

Listening to: Not much, but I've got The Knife in my head

Reposted from: David Suzuki's Science Matters

The water that comes out of most city taps in Canada is pretty clean. Yet many people prefer to spend money on bottled water, believing that it is somehow safer. Now we’re learning that the stuff in plastic water bottles may be more harmful ( Read more... )

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Reposted from: http://artthreat.net/2008/05/six-million-dolla-slapp

The Six Million Dollar SLAPP by Tim McSorley (Updated May 5)

Looks like Barrick Gold is following up on a previous threat:

On April 30th, Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold announced it is making good on threat of legal action against a small, non-profit ( Read more... )

Listening to: the furnace blowing, but that's about it...

Hi everyone! I just found out, via an email from a friend, that Parliament will be called to vote on Bill C-517, for mandatory labeling of Genetically Engineered foods, this Wednesday (May 7) at 6:30 p.m. (EST).

"It is critical that we be able to count on a majority of MPs to vote in favour ( Read more... )