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  1. Karlin

    "FEEBATE" - Canada's automakers and government deb

    What to do about those gas guzzlers that produce such a huge cloud of greenhouse gases? People won't seem to stop buying them, and industry refuses to stop making them or even modify them to meet the 5.2million tonnes CO2 reduction in the industry [voluntary] plan set out to meet Kyoto goals...
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    Gas Guzzlers and Fossil Fools

    The government wants to put out ads to disuade Canadians from buying large vehicles with large emissions of greenhouse gases, but the automakers are crying that such an advertising campaign would "hurt auto sales of large trucks and SUVs". Well DUH, Thats the point!! Consumers won't stop...
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    Better way to spend our Kyoto dollars

    The Canadian govt. has set aside billions to deal with greenhouse gases and our Kyoto obligations. There are two major approaches to this spending. The re-fitting of industry for the way it burns fossil fuels is one way to address Kyoto obligations, and another is setting up new facilites...
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    B.C. parks - secret plans for hotels

    A report on the morning news today {Feb 22, 2005]said BC govt has been negotiating with foreigners to invest in condos and hotels in BC parks. A wilderness protection group said that Japanese and American investors will build "80-room hotels and condos in the wilderness"... and that...
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    Kyoto issues: Oil and Coal welfare = $1.2Billion

    CBC reporters used the figure of $1.2Billion as the amount of Canadian government dollars spent on just one very specific type of welfare - "corporate welfare for oil and coal". Of course it is not called that. It is Canadian government money in the form of cheap loans, royalty holidays...
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    Hockey talk - Player ownership? what about the Cup?

    The Stanley Cup won't be awarded for the first time in a lotta years if we don't get going NOW - or is it too late? 30 games in two months, and away we go for playoffs eh? Maybe some other hockey league could battle it out for the honour of holding Stanley'sCup for one year, like the CHL ...
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    BioTech crops produce drugs - secret locations revealed.

    Bio-Tech crops are food crops to be engineered to produce chemicals or drugs. There is no way to ensure that these open air labs do not contaminate our food supply. Perhaps the pharmaceutical corporations HOPE THEY DO. Until today, these special crops locations were kept secret. This news...
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    WalMart - Store closing over unionising, Boycott called

    Is the WalMart store in Quebec being closed in order to make the store profitable, or is it union busting? Most of us think it is union busting, bullying, domination tactics.So do other unions, and they have called for a boycott of all WalMart stores in Canada. More details here...
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    Sponsorship Program - Will of the People paid for?

    Improper Spending of federal funds, and improper influence over a democratic vote? Those are the big questions, not the actual theft of cash from the sponsorship program, but we will see the focus on the thefts, Chretien is trying to shift it there and the Gomery inquiry will likely let it...
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    Winter Smog health hazard - climate change suspected

    Winter Smog is new - this is the very first time in Toronto a smog alert has been issued in February, one of the few in winter ever issued. And in Chicago : "Soot pollution trapped over much of the urban Midwest led Illinois officials Wednesday to issue their first-ever wintertime alert for...
  11. Karlin

    Pharmaceutical GMO crops contaminating food supply

    Beyond the GMO [gentically modified] crops that are Round Up ready - modified so "Round Up" herbicide can be sprayed on them - some GMO crops are grown to produce drugs for the pharmaceutical industry, actual drugs growing in the plants. These include protiens, vaccines, and...
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    Canada safe haven for disgruntled U.S.A. military forces?

    http://www.albasrah.net/maqalat_mukhtara/arabic/0804/canada_270804.htm -------- Article pasted from link: DID YOU KNOW ???? ALL MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY CAN NOW BECOME CANADIAN CITIZENS - AS EASILY AS GETTING UP IN THE MORNING! FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE...
  13. Karlin

    Telus is not allowed to disconnect your phone

    Telus dispute leads to CRTC ruling - disconnect not allowed Telus threatened to disconnect my phone line, a basic 'land line' phone, due to unpaid charges for a high-speed modem that was not returned. The short story is this ruling from the CRTC - Telus cannot disconnect your phone line due...
  14. Karlin

    Prion Rogue Proteins Found In Unexpected Organs

    Mad Cow - food selections may become more limited to avoid Mad Cow prions. Here is a story about Mad Cow in other organs than the brain and spine, which are now kept out of animal rendering. All rendering should maybe stop? All organ meants are likely questionable now. Whole story pasted...
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    P.M. Martin - letting big polluters off Kyoto obligations

    Canadians are willing to reduce personal emissions by "5 megatones" as the promo TV spot,with funnyman Rick Mercer, says. So we would expect the really big polluters to do something too. Our leader Paul Martin shows his siding with big industry instead of ordinary Canadainas though - he...
  16. Karlin

    Did erroneous POLLS influence Canadian Election?

    What impression did YOU get from the pre-election coverage? When I watched the pre-election TV coverage, I saw the CPC [conservatives, Harper] gaining ground. The polls showed this too, that the CPC had risen to being TIED with the Liberals. Do you remember those? The actuall...