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  • Dr. Thierry Vrain on What's Wrong with Genetically Engineered Foods
    GMO Food

    Dr. Thierry Vrain, formerly a head of research science at Agriculture Canada, shares his understanding of why the science behind genetic engineering is flawed -- the assumption that one gene makes one protein has been outdated since 2002 and the actions of foreign proteins in the genome are unpredictable and unknown.

  • Green Energy - Green Illusion
    Economy, green energy

    Here's a critical piece that is well worth a few minutes to read - a discussion of the current trend in environmentalism to boosting green energy and green tech as THE solution, instead of looking at the longer term implications and searching for real solutions to the human ecological problem.

    This interview by Steve Horn, Power Shift Away from Green Illusions, in truthout explores the paradigm.

    "Things aren’t as simple as they seem, and "there's actually no such thing as a free lunch" when it comes to energy

  • Elizabeth May Nails It in Her Discussion of Pipelines West, East, and South
    Energy, Pipelines, Tar sands

    Writing for Island Tides, Elizabeth May discusses the issues around all the pipeline proposals, eastern Canada's reliance on foreign oil, and comes to the only sensible solution -- slow down the expansion of the tar sands to a managable and steady 2 million barrels a day, which would cool inflation, and construct the refineries needed so that Alberta is shipping conventional oil and gas to eastern Canada instead of dilbert. May says this would be thinking like a country.

    Sounds like a plan to me.

  • Minister of International Cooperation's Response to Watershed Sentinel Miranda Holme's Column
    Mining, Water, Water

    Please find below a letter from Minister Fantino in response to the article published for the Watershed Sentinel by Miranda Holmes.

    Contrary to the disingenuous and misleading insinuations made by Miranda Holmes, let there be no doubt that bringing

  • Canada's New Foreign Aid Supports Mining
    Feature, Water

    by Miranda Holmes

    March 22 is World Water Day, established by the UN as a day to contemplate the importance of access to water for life on earth. Just like every other day of the year., on World Water Day, nearly 2000 children around the world will die from diarrhea caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation.

    It is almost impossible to overstate the difference access to clean water can make to an impoverished community.

  • War or Peace with Earth?
    Harper

    April 15 is the Global Day of Action on Military Spending. In 2012, the Canadian government spent $22.7 billion on National Defence but only $1.6 billion on Environment Canada.

    The federal government will spend $25 billion on new warships, $16 billion on new fighter jets and $1 billion on armed drones. However, the greatest human security challenges are climate change and poverty.

  • Election BC 2013 - Vote for the Environment
    BC, Mar-Apr-2013-Vol23-No2, NDP, Society

    by Lisa Matthaus

    Polling consistently shows that British Columbians have strong environmental values, some of the strongest in Canada: from protecting salmon to keeping our coast and streams free from oil spills, British Columbians across the political spectrum speak loudly and proudly to defend our natural legacies.

  • Support the Hupacaseth FN Against Canada-China FIPPA
    Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA/FIPA)

    This is one of the most serious attacks on Canada in history, perpetrated by our own government on behalf of Chinese business oligarchy, giving a handful of industrialists power over our choices about labour, ecology, and Canada's future. Please see this short video and support the Hupacasath First Nation case.

  • Coastal First Nations Ask: Have You Heard the Radio Call from the Exxon Valdez?
    Northern Gateway Pipeline; Enbridge, Tar sands

  • Corn on the Border - NAFTA & Food in Mexico
    Feature, Food, Mar-Apr-2013-Vol23-No2, Mexico, Mining, NAFTA, Food

    by Dawn Paley

    Even in the quiet of late afternoon, the market down the street from my apartment in Mexico City is a hive of activity. Dozens of butchers cut up all kinds of meat and make sausages. Women display whole chickens, and offer to prepare them according to what a passing customer desires. There’s homemade ice cream for sale across from a fish stand, and a tortilla stand that always seems to have a line-up. I buy my vegetables from a man who stands at the top of a pyramid of lettuces, tomatoes, avocados, carrots, potatoes, and whatever happens to be in season. While heweighs and bags the veggies I select, he often talks about how good Mexican food is, but how so many people don’t eat the healthy and tasty things he offers for sale. Before I started working on this story, I assumed he was just talking up his business.

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