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"We should have electric cars by now, come on" - Mark Madriga, weather man for Global TV. And we should. And we DID.... The ones featured in "Who Killed the Electric Car" were using old technology, and they were CHERISHED by the drivers before Ford and GM took them away to be crushed...

Renewable energy took a great leap forwards today with the sale of a wind farm to a French corporation. The initial investment was $29Million, it sold for $124Million. The owners raked in a huge profit in just a few years. The "leap" is that renewable energy is proving to be a great...

ya ya, I see the three threads here about denial of any problem. Go live in your bliss, meanwhile... --------- Storage of the 'exess energy' from renewable electrical generation is allready being used in England. Clever little plan it is too - during peak production times when the...

"Military lobby trumps civilian needs" http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=375 ------- The 2nd item is that Harper's vgovernment announced a $200 million payment for a 'military college' in Quebec. I fear that a change in our youth could come of that spending: "Gee, I...

http://www.mountaincaribou.ca/ - read about it there! K - In recent months, 12,000 British Columbians have sent emails to the premier to demand habitat protection for these endangered herd of rare Mtn Caribou in BCs interior. Will the government be democratic and listen to these demands, or...

http://tinyurl.com/ynmkuq Ok, so thats one more item we can cross off in the long list of distractions from reality from the global warming denial crowd. I see we have several of them in this forum - get bent eh!! The deniers refuse to consider the TRIPLE-reason for reducing our fossil...

This just in - Black found guilty on 4 of 13 charges. CBC news has been broadcasting steadily on the jury verdict being read this morning. Conrad faces 35 years in jail, or as little as 4 or 5, they speculate. He showed no emotion throughout. ---------here is my opinion on it: The End of...

Nuclear reactors that generate electricity for Canadians are owned and operated by government, the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. If we have to have nuclear generaters in Canada, we feel better about government running them... but now they may be sold off to private corporations under the Harper...

K - the push to privatise everything, including medicine, is another capitalist tactic to concentrate wealth into just a few hands, and at a huge cost to ordinary people. It is another glaring example of where capitalism defeats the ideals of democracy and goes against the good of the...

Over 6000 Canadians are acutely poisoned by pesticides each year, according to a new report by the David Suzuki Foundation. Almost 3000 of those poisoned are children. The authors are calling for a national ban on all lawn and garden pesticides. Read Northern Exposure, Acute Pesticide...

The anti-bacterial products that consumers are snatching up off the shelves is a bogus deal, my friends. One of the two ingredients, often not listed, that makes it confrom to industry standards as an anti-bacterial: "Triclosan", the other being plain old alcohol. Is this really what you want...

Maybe the glaucoma doctors are all comatose - why else would they ignore the only treatment that actually works to lower intra-ocular pressure [IOP]? Cannibus does. It has been un-equivocably measured, it is now documented too. The only problem is that the IOP is lowered for 3 hours after...

Due to the rise in the value of the Canadian dollar [aka "looney"], the cost to consumers in Canada for goods from the USA should be going down. Prices are NOT going down for those goods, the retailers are keeping the new-found profits for themselves. Maybe if we asked every store manager to...

Al Queda showed film of trainees that were destined for the four nations occupying Afghanistan now - Germany, Britian, the USA, and Canada. When Al Queda bombed that train in Italy, it was said to be a direct protest about italy's troops being in Afghanistan. That led to the changing of...

Can PM Harper and Pres Bush be any more cynical that to talk about emissions reductions by 2050? And at that, only cutting by HALF by 2050 - it would be so long "after the horse left the barn" that we might as well not do anything about emission reductions that cause global warming. In...

Canada can be a world leader by making our electrical production "carbon neutral" within 10 without breaking the bank. . Its not hard to do, it is within reach simply by spending government surpluses on renewable energy projects. Canada's electrical untilites are producing a lot of GHGs...

Perhaps one of nature's most intriguing dramas, wild salmon feed everything from fishermen to Kermode bears and even the forests of BC. Salmon are a vital link in the complex and beautiful ecology of BC and other coastal areas. With the added stresses of global warming and deforestation, sea...

The cost of gasoline is 20% higher than it was last year at this time. The cost of crude oil is 30% lower than it was last yar at this time. Ya, sure, there is a lot more to it of course. It is just interesting to see these figures and ponder things. Oil corporations are making their...

"Pesticide residues" are now something that is a BENEFIT to Canadians, in the mind of PM Harper. Than you Mr PM, now our next apple or pear can give us ALL THE BENEFITS OF NEUROTOXINS. Making insects "twitch until dead", these chemicals build up in our tissues, and there are over 500 of...

PM Harper announced more money for educating students in the field of commercial research and development today. While University tuitions continue to rise, there is now new money and lots of it for Canada's students who would sell out to 'the commercial world of new plastic kids toys and...