A tiny community called out to world. And the world answered. Foreign aid arrived in Canada courtesy environmental organizations which, if you’ll remember, dear Reader, are “radical groups” with “radical agendas” trying to “derail” the Northern Gateway Pipeline project. Our radical agenda, backed by independent science, demands acknowledgement that the
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Things Are Good: Help Santa Keep His Home This Christmas
The David Suzuki Foundation has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the lack of ice coverage at the North Pole. Where Will Santa Live? is a fun spin on a serious issue and looks like a good way to talk about ice coverage while keeping the conversation entertaining. “We’re
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: The twisted logic, and ethics, of nature’s opponents
David Suzuki.png By David Suzuki (originally published on the David Suzuki Foundation website) Who is influencing Canada's resource priorities? In a puzzling appeal to anti-American sentiment, some industry supporters claim that U.S. foundations are threatening Canadian policy by donating money to environmental groups here. These arguments have appeared in publications such as
Continue readingDavid Suzuki Speaks to Occupy Vancouver, Distills Message for Naysayers
To all those naysayers who complain that the Occupy Canada movement has no clear message, give this a listen. David Suzuki lucidly distills all the issues that the occupy movement has brought to the surface and aims directly at the heart of all these p…
Continue reading350 or bust: David Suzuki On Occupy Movement: The Future Of Young People Is Being Sacrificed To Corporate Agenda
David Suzuki was interviewed at the Occupy Montreal event last Saturday: “We’ve got to take back our country, and take back our democracy..Stop serving the corporate agenda. It seems that money is everything that determines what our priorit…
Continue reading350 or bust: Mercer And Holmes On Solar Panels
Just in time for the Ontario election, where Tory leader Tim Hudak is promising to kill the innovative Green Energy Act if elected, here’s Rick Mercer and Mike Holmes, two Canadian icons,in a great clip from last week’s Mercer Report: For…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gerry Nicholls: Full Metal Wingnut?
All that matters [to David Suzuki] is his almost mystical need to stop climate change, even if that’s an impossible task. And this perhaps is why Suzuki is endorsing McGuinty. It actually has nothing to do with those giant wind-turbines ( McGuin…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun Smears Suzuki
When you read this story about the “controversy” David Suzuki and his foundation have found themselves in for endorsing Dalton McGuinty’s Green Energy initiatives, you have to read between the lines. What’s between the lines can be found in…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: David Suzuki Confirms That NDP Is No Longer The Party Of Environmentalists
Dear NDPers,When I was young and growing up in B.C. I used to vote for you people. Then, Mike Harcourt sold out over Clayoquot Sound, went from being a Green to a hippy kicker as soon as he came into power and had to choose between the unionistas…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Green Energy Proposals Part II: Party Positions
In Part I, I sketched an overview of the consequences of various green energy proposals. Because it is election season in Ontario, let me note the following party observations with respect to these various green energy proposals.
Firstly, Conservative…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Thich Nhat Hanh and David Suzuki on How Individual Frame of Mind Has Everything To Do With Saving the Planet
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Getting people to believe that they really can make a difference in the struggle to the save the planet from human folly can be just as important as encouraging them to take action, ac…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: This Week in Ontario – And They’re Off!
Political excitement at the federal level may have evaporated faster than water in downtown Toronto, but the provincial scene is still very much alive this summer across Ontario.Among this week’s highlights:1. The Liberals scored a big endorsement from…
Continue readingGreenpeace uncloaks phony anti-climate change scientist
Dr. Willie Soon has been the go-to scientist favoured by climate change deniers for years. Used by the Fraser Institute and Koch Industries, Soon has proven invaluable in giving ammunition to the right to ‘prove’ global warming doesn’t exist.
Turns out it’s as we expected – nothing more than a scam. It seems . . . → Read More: Greenpeace uncloaks phony anti-climate change scientist
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Scientists and Activists Issue A Call To Action To Stop Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
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A group of eleven veteran U.S. and Canadian scientists and environmentalists today jointly issued a call to action for non-violent civil disobedience in front of the Wh…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Vivian Krause On Sea-Lice
Once a consultant for the salmon farming industry, these days Vivian Krause refers to herself as a “researcher”, and spends a fair bit of time attacking groups like the David Suzuki Foundation for their criticism of industry practi…
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: Oil Spills: The beavers do it better.
Media scan: David Suzuki – Alberta’s biggest oil spill in 30 years is a call to action for Canadians BBC – Oil spill in Canada’s Alberta ‘biggest in 35 years’ Sun – Spill making kids sick Market Wire – Lubicon Lake Nati…
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