Renegotiating Great Lakes Treaty
Ian @ June 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet
For 100 years the treaty has existed. Now it is to be renegotiated, under the guise of updating it, of making it meet today’s standars. Funny don’t you think? After all, are they really telling us that the Great Lakes Treaty hasn’t been updated since its inception one hundred years ago? Or are they simply trying to hide the fact, that once more the Harper Government is about to sell us out to the Americans? After all, they are his true saviors, and he would much rather do them a favor, than protect Canadian Interests. He can always come up with some attack ad, to deflect the truth, can’t he? Then too, maybe he is just trying to get an extra dollar or two, before he sells off Niagra Falls? I mean who needs such a leaky faucet, and now with the borders being more rigid in who can, or can’t get across, maybe we should sell it to the Americans. After all, it might lower the fifty billion dollar deficit to forty nine point nine billion. And that is good for the economy, because well, other countries do much worse.
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Mining Companies & Harper
Ian @ May 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Harper & his cronies, made a big deal about how dumping toxic mine waste into the pristine lakes & rivers in British Columbia was not going to be harmful, but would insure a failing mining industry would survive, in tough economic times. Yet these same troubled companies, posted record profits, while the supposed world is in an economic recession, without the benefit of these free dumpings. Makes you wonder what other bull needs to be uncovered, from a government bought & paid for by big business.
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No More Plastic Bags
Ian @ April 22, 2009 # No Comment Yet
You would think that there would be something on the front page about the local provincial election, or at least discussing the differences in each parties environmental platform, given today is earth day. But not here, nope, we got treated to a huge announcement of a local grocery chain, going green. It will phase out plastic bags, and you know, it is to simply sell us their cloth bags. Also to save them money, by not having to buy millions of plastic ones. It isn’t about going green but about raping our wallets some more. Guess they aren’t big enough to qualify for a government bailout like GM or IAG.
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Hidden in the Budget
Ian @ March 14, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Typical of the Harper Conservatives, is to put in secret or hidden little gems, to get them past public scrutiny. LIke making a change to age old laws, under the guise of modernization, but in fact, that give unlimited power to a minister to change our landscape. Once more the Harper Conservatives show their lack of concern, care, for our environment, and that only corporate profits matter, as they try to remove public input, remove the need for determing any environmental impacts. In short, they push for the uncontested rape of our country, by hiding the truth. So much for Harper’s pledge of an accountable, and transparent government, as he tries to push our country into a toxic dump.
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Playing Tag
Ian @ February 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Someone needs to tell Mr. Harper and his Cabinet that they are responsive to the needs of Canada, and not to be a rubber stamp for USA interests. Our Minister of Environment, who has yet to have a clue, thinks it is good that there is a new administration in Washington, so we can now mirror US Policy on the Environment. I mean aren’t we already doing that? We reneged on Kyoto because Bush didn’t want it, and we gutted our own environmental plans, because it wasn’t approved by Washington, and once more, Mr. Harper wants us to play follow the leader, with one of the biggest polluters in the world, barring China. I mean when does Mr. Harper understand, he wasn’t elected Governor or Vice President, but Prime Minister? When will he stop following the USA Lead, and start providing Canadian Leadership for Canadian Problems? Or is it simply that Mr. Harper has no original plans, so he has to play follow the leader with whoever is in charge, in Washington D.C.?
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Santa Harper?
Ian @ December 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Santa Harper & Elf McGuinty are giving the auto industry 4 billion, while Scrooge Bush doles out 18 billion, and we should all breathe a sigh of relief, as the auto industry staves off bankruptcy, or do they? What details exist to insure that in a year from now, two years from now, that we won’t be right back where we started? More credit available to buy a new car, and more credit to extend to auto makers is nice, but how does it solve the underlying problem? How many new cars can we buy, before we all have two or three sitting in the driveway, rusting away? Is the solution more credit to people already maxed out, or should we be looking for ways to once more make credit something earned, not given at random? Should we not be insuring that jobs are protected, not made redundent? What guarantees were given, that protect the jobs, that keeps the plants open? Are we guaranteed that jobs won’t be shipped elsewhere, that plants won’t be moved to other countries? In short, we are giving away billions, but what do we get, the one’s paying for it all?
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Harper Keeps Bush’s Failures Happening
Ian @ December 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Canada used to be a leader among the nations of the World, until the election of Stephen Harper & his Conservatives. Then we began to simply follow the insane policies of George W. Bush, and ignore our obligation to our neighbours. Instead of being a voice of reason, we became merely a parrot to the failed policies of egomaniac named George. We sold our souls, for the price of a few bobbles and beads, that have long since been thrown out. We need to address the environmental issues, like others are trying to do, instead of being the one holding things up, instead of being the one harpooning the world’s desire to try and solve the problems. We have become an obstacle, because Mr. Harper wants to please his mentor George Bush, & his corporate masters.
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Saving Money
Ian @ December 12, 2008 # Comments Off
Mr. Harper and his government continue to meddle into affairs they shouldn’t. They continue to try and rewrite science, by ignoring the real problems that exist, just as Mr. Harper’s hero George Bush has done in the United States. Now he says it wasn’t his choice, but someone elses to not send our top scientist, but also in an effort to save money. So instead of our top boffon going, he sends 22 underlings. I don’t know, maybe one of them could have stayed home, and the point man and most recognized scientist we have on the issue, take his place? Course then, maybe the 22 who went were all hand picked for insuring they wouldn’t say anything bad about Stevie Boy?
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Canada wants Climate Agreement
Ian @ November 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The idea of battling green house gases, of curtailing pollution, is to stop the erosion of our climate, of our world. Yet Harper sees nothing wrong in the trading of credits, which is about profits, and about escaping the penalties for being a polluter. It does little to reduce the pollution, but does a lot to ensure it continues. His so called push for the new administration to act, is politics, not about climate control. He is trying to show he is a leader, but as usual, he falls flat on that. He has no plan, other than the one devised by big business, so they could make profits, without paying for the cost of their pollution. He has no green plan, just a lot of smoke and mirrors, like George Bush.
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Turning Clocks Back
Ian @ November 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
You have to wonder, given the technology we now possess, if daylight savings really works. I mean does rolling the clocks back in fall, ahead in spring, really save energy, or is it just an urban myth? Could be an interesting study, to see if energy use does go down, or up. I kind of think it doesn’t really make any difference, but then I also think Stephen Harper is nothing but a puppet for the Oil Industry and George Bush. So who knows, maybe it does help, but then again…
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Tip of Iceberg
Ian @ August 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I don’t just want to get used to it. I want to know what the morons called Conservatives, are going to do about Global Warming. I don’t want to hear about rebates for cars that are energy efficient, but have no source of fuel available. I don’t want to hear about tax credits for riding mass transit. I want to know what the Conservatives under Stephen Harper are planning to do, to ease the effects of Global Warming on Canada. Not some stupid attack ads, not some threats, but some substance. A reach given how Harper is like Bush, but hey, one can hope.
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A Drilling We Will Go, A Drilling We Will Go, He Ho a Drilling We Will Go
Ian @ July 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Oil Industry is no friend of the people, or of nations. It is driven by greed, and while Bush panders to these special interest groups, he is putting future generations at risk. Offshore drilling is not a solution to high gas prices, not now and not for tomorrow. The issue is to reduce consumption, reduce dependency on petroleum fuels. Seeking alternative energy is the solution, not endangering the environment even more.
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Safe to Pollute Lakes
Ian @ June 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
There is no doubt that for some, the profits are far more important than the environment. One would hope that a balance could be struck, but to sell out totally is the sign of an irresponsible government. The Federal Fisheries Minister now claims it is responsible to dump mine waste into our lakes, giving a huge savings to those same Companies. Makes you wonder, just how much money is being given to the Harper Re Election Fund by these Corporate Interests? Or is this a favor to them, at the request of George Bush, Stephen Harper’s puppet master?
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Why Go Green?
Ian @ June 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
When are we going to start taking the environment seriously? Floods happen, but they don’t leave behind toxic dumps, unless the places they flood are already contaminated. Now it is spread across a State, and who knows, maybe it’ll start to show its effects in 20 or 30 years from now, like that matters to the old geezers in charge? To the George Bush’s, the John McCain’s, the Stephen Harper’s? Maybe it should, they do have children.
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Harper Tories Green Light Lake Pollution
Ian @ June 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Stephen Harper and George Bush, two leaders who should never have attained their lofty position. Neither care about their countries, about the people in them, or about doing anything short of adding to their own personal wealth. Neither care about the environment, and neither care about protecting wild life, people, or Democracy. Both care only about power, about money, about their own well being. Harper and Bush, two who would make Hitler look like a saint if they could, and are doing their best to do just that.
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