HUMOUR:MISSING THE POINT:Another great cartoon from the pen of Stephanie McMillan.
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Art Threat: Painting the world’s lungs blue – Recent works by Konstantin Dimopoulos
Bright blue trees in Port Moody, West Vancouver, and Richmond have been making some passersby stop in their tracks. The Blue Trees, a recent work by international artist Konstantin Dimopoulos is part of a larger discussion on forests worldwide. The inspiration? Each year, an area at least the size of Belgium of native forests is […]
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Ottawa’s Green Bin Program – Time for City Council to Lead
An Open Letter to Ottawa City Council and Residents RE: Residential Solid Waste Service Level Review RecommendationsThis open letter is being posted on my blog, The Fifth Column ( http://the5thc.blogspot.com/ ) and being sent via email to the the follo…
Continue readingJohn Laforet - President - Wind Concerns Ontario: The Chronicle Journal: It’s Not Over Yet In Thunder Bay
Brandon Walker Tuesday, April 5, 2011 – 08:00 “Houses in South Neebing — going cheap,” Anna Marchese said Monday evening while leaving city hall moments after Thunder Bay council approved an agreement with Horizon Wind to avoid a $126-million lawsuit. Marchese was one of several people who confronted councillors after the meeting to express their […]
Continue readingJohn Laforet - President - Wind Concerns Ontario: Thunder Bay NewsWatch: Compromise with Horizon Wind Inc. Approved
By Jamie Smith, tbnewswatch.com By a majority decision, councillors Monday night avoided a multimillion dollar lawsuit by voting for a compromise with a wind developer. Councillors voted 8-4 in favour of a compromise with Horizon Wind Inc., effectively ending the $126 million lawsuit the company levied against the city. The vote followed seven deputations during […]
Continue readingJohn Laforet - President - Wind Concerns Ontario: The Giant CKTG 105.3 Thunder Bay: WCO Pays Visit to Council
The leader of an anti-wind farm group wants City Council to change some of the clauses found in the proposed settlement with Horizon Wind. John Laforet is the President of Wind Concerns Ontario and says council should hold off on voting on the settlement that would kill the 126 million dollar lawsuit. Laforet thinks council needs to maintain control of the Loch […]
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Map of The Kanata Lakes 40% Travesty
click on map for full size imageThis map, released by the City of Ottawa, makes it abundantly clear just how much of a travesty the so-called Kanata Lakes 40% agreement is. Indeed it was clearly a public relations exercise that the City of Kanata and R…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Tenno speaks
It must be getting really bad when Emperor Akihito of Japan goes on TV to address his subjects about the multiple disasters that have hit that country. Let’s just pray that nuclear reactor doesn’t actually become another Chernobyl although it’s get…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Japan tsunami
No politics, entertainment, business or whatever, and for the obvious reasons …
Certainly this is a sad day with the news about one of the biggest earthquakes (8.9, off Honshu, although some reports say as much as 9.2) and tsunamis ever recorded ca…
Continue readingDemocratic Progress: "Not One Dime": A Proposal
In this country, we subsidize dirty energy. There are tax breaks, there are handouts, there are “investments”.
Liberals should be out there saying “not one dime” of public money will ever go to this type of energy again. I don’t think this is even i…
Continue readingApril Reign: Climate Change Threatens Amazon
While some debate if it even exists the devastating effects of climate change are plainly seen; Billions of trees died in the record drought that struck the Amazon in 2010, raising fears that the vast forest is on the verge of a tipping point, where it will stop absorbing greenhouse gas emissions and instead increase […]
April Reign – In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Hudak slammed over his non-plan for Ontario Energy
From The Star:http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/926787–hudak-show-us-yoursProgressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak…claiming that provincial investments in green energy will actually cost jobs… this conclusion is based on a flawed …
Continue readingLate Friday Night Ode To … Right Wingers And Climate Change
Item 1 (emphasis added):Climate change: Rising waters threaten North Carolina
The sea that sculpted North Carolina’s coast, from its arc of barrier islands to the vast, nurturing sounds, is reshaping it once again.
Water is rising three times faster …
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: BC Liberal Leadership: Order of preference 2
[UPDATED Jan 20, 10:00 a.m.] My three top issues that will guide my decision remain as before: Democratic reform. Support for greater independence and return of powers to local governments. This is the key issue for me. We work, play, live and die in communities. Local elected officials are the
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: BC Liberal Leadership: Order of preference 2
[UPDATED Jan 20, 10:00 a.m.] My three top issues that will guide my decision remain as before: Democratic reform. Support for greater independence and return of powers to local governments. This is the key issue for me. We work, play, live and die in communities. Local elected officials are the
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: BC Liberal Leadership: Order of preference 2
[UPDATED Jan 20, 10:00 a.m.]
My three top issues that will guide my decision remain as before:
Democratic reform. Support for greater independence and return of powers to local governments. This is the key issue for me. We work, play, live and die in…
Continue readingUPDATED…Guess What Folks? Our Oil is Ethical!
No, I don’t believe the malarkey that our oil is ethical. The only thing this argument does is compare our bad practices to the worse practices of other nations. Our oil is good because we aren’t Sudanese and killing our own people, or our oil is g…
Continue readingPollution/Environment: Harper & Co. Talking The Talk …
… but still not walking the walk. Nothing new here, eh?
Well folks – here’s one more note added in proof (emphasis added):
Canada oil sands: Pollution monitoring is censured
A scientific panel has found Canada has "no system" for monitoring how Alberta’s oil sands projects may be polluting local waterways.
Academic reports found that extraction plants were sending toxins such as mercury a…
Continue readingezrawinton.com: Tar on the Tusks – The Walrus sells out to Big Oil
Canada’s preeminent culture magazine has let Big Oil lie about the tar sands on its pages.
Continue readingFive of Five: Calgary Herald Opposes Basic Democracy
To no one’s surprise the Calgary Herald wrote an op-ed wholly justifying the Senate’s vote down of Bill C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act. It seems so twisted, to me I can only summarise it in point form:The bill would cause irreparable econ…
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