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Exxon has been consistently criticized for its environmental record. Exxon was a long-term primary supporter of the anti-Kyoto Protocol, Global Climate Coalition from 1989 until its deactivation in 2001. The Global Climate Coalition was a group of mainly United States businesses opposing...

What is the media's response when a soldier dies in Afghanistan? "They are heroes". Why do they do this? Would it be because they don't want to turn Canadians against the war? No, we must support our troops! Whatever that means. Let me say this. You are not a hero if you go to a war and get...

Finally! They're getting my vote. I always felt I was getting ripped off. Banks make huge profits at the working class expense. http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/01/25/ndp-atm.html

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/01/24/boomers-work.html When will we be able to move into those cushy jobs? Damn baby boomers won’t let the generation behind them get a shot at a decent life! When the "me generation" finished high school, they could move right into a cushy job, like a...

This is my theory as to why people turn to religion. From what I've observed, allot of people turn to Christianity because they've hit rock bottom in their lives. My Dad used to try to take me to church and most people I saw there were ex drug users, or out of work. This seems so phony to me...

In Alberta, the strip mining form of oil extraction destroys the boreal forests, the bogs, the rivers as well as the natural landscape. The mining industry believes that the boreal forest will eventually colonize the reclaimed lands, yet 30 years after the opening of the first open pit mine near...

There are two parties to choose from, one more then China. Who will win? The right wing party (Democrats) or the extreme right wing (Republicans)? And if the Democrats get more votes the the Republicans, will the Republicans win again anyway? Not much of a democracy, but it's all they have...

The Conservative cabinet minister in charge of helping the world's poor spent more then $4,000 for a fill in chaufeur while her regular driver was off for 11 days. Four thousand for eleven days!! For a driver! Josee Verner is the minister of international development. And I thought the...

When I first joined this forum there where a few people that are not here anymore. Some that I remember where Rev Blair and Peepod. What happened to them? Did they get kicked off? Anybody know?

LONDON, England (AP) -- A resurgent El Nino and persistently high levels of greenhouse gases are likely to make 2007 the world's hottest year ever recorded, British climate scientists said Thursday. Britain's Meteorological Office said there was a 60 percent probability that 2007 would break the...

Saddam with Donald Rumsfeld in 1983. The United States backed Saddam Hussein during the Iran, Iraq war. Most Arab nations and the United States supported him with artillery and medical supplies during this time. It wasn't until Saddam pushed oil-exporting countries to raise oil prices by cutting...

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/12/28/tech-ellesmereiceshelfcollapse-20061228.html I hope it does some damage as it drifts south. Steven Harper wants a northern shipping lane, but if global warming starts to cause some economic damage now, maybe governments, and people, change.

Racism is a belief that biological differences among human races determine cultural or individual achievement, believing that ones own race is superior and has the right to rule others. So where are the most racist regions on earth? It's common to believe that white people are the most racist...

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/12/11/arctic-greenhouse.html This is why I vote Green. This is also why right wing politics and feet dragging will destroy the planet. Isn't it weird that Harper's "Hot Air", I mean, Clean Air plan will meet it's weak targets by 2050, and yet this...

this is all good stuff. i should learn to cook. i can make chicken in the oven with BBQ sauce. Actually, any meat i prepare i add bbq sauce.

I wish I could cook. My girlfriend is an excellent cook though. I survive on K-D and chicken. Thank God for my girlfriend. I do the dishes, she cooks. It's win, win.

The other day I went to Sport Mart and bought some sunglasses. When I went to pay, they asked for my telephone number. Why do they want my number? I told them I wouldn’t give it to them. Is this how telemarketers get your number? My girlfriend is trying to get internet from Rogers now. They...

Why are they posting on this site?

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/09/29/soldier-afghanistan.html What a waste. He was out there west of Kandahar not defending our freedom and spreading the Bush doctrine to Afghanistan. Lets bring our troops home. More will die. And it's not to protect us. That soldier did not die for...

If your country is going to war to fight a cause you don’t agree with do you support the troops anyway? Do you support the troops because you love your country or because you believe in the cause? Do you support them blindly? I don’t want our soldiers to get killed in a cause that I don’t...