"Stephen Harper’s Illusions
I think –and I do not intend to offend anyone- that this is how the Prime
Minister of Canada is called. I deduced it from a statement published on
“Holy Wednesday” by a spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry of that
country. " -Fidel Castro

"a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving." -i know, promises,promises,but, one can dream!

"While tensions continue to grow between the federal government and the First Nations community of Attawapiskat, National Chief for the Assembly of First Nations Shawn Atleo says civil disobedience is one form of action that could be used to draw attention to the current crisis."

"The federal department responsible for First Nations has known about the worsening living conditions at Attawapiskat for years, says former Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl.
In an interview with CBC Radio's The House, Strahl tells host Evan Solomon the crisis at Attawapiskat "has been a slow moving train-wreck for a long time."
However, the current Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development John Duncan said this week that officials in his department were unaware of Attawapiskat's housing problems until Oct. 28, despite having visited the community several times in the past year."

"New documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act directly contradict published claims by Stephen Harper's chief spokesman that bureaucrats have not been directed to replace the words Government of Canada with "Harper Government" in departmental news releases and backgrounders."

"A lot of discretion is left in the hands of police officers, and as you well know, on the West Coast there's a fair degree of sympathy for low visibility, quiet, domestic producers of slightly mind-altering substances for family consumption,"

"The New York Times did what I was not allowed to do - tell you there has been a second diagnosis of Infectious Salmon Anemia virus in wild BC salmon, this time in the Fraser River itself, the biggest wild salmon river in the world."-A.Morton

"Insite saves lives. Its benefits have been proven. There has been no discernable negative impact on the public safety and health objectives of Canada during its eight years of operation," the ruling said, written by chief justice Beverly McLachlin.

"Erstikaitis was once a self-professed admirer of Paul Bernardo and even stalked the convicted schoolgirl killer.In 1999, her obsession drove her to call -- and threaten to kill -- Debbie Mahaffy, the mother of Leslie Mahaffy, who was brutally murdered by Bernardo almost a decade earlier"

-"he makes Mulroney a buffoonish yet tragic figure" -always thought Mulroney was a buffoon - buffoons with power have always scared me!!

"A Toronto police officer has been charged with assault in relation to the arrest and alleged beating of a G20 protester."

"How can you keep a straight face while describing the raw panic that gripped our fair town to someone from, say, Calgary, where last weekend they sold out an outdoor football game in minus-25 weather? Or Edmonton, which had the (unconfirmed) distinction of being the second coldest place on the planet, after the South Pole?"

"“If the bubble touches me, you're going to be arrested for assault,” he tells her sternly."-uh, they're soap bubbles!

Terminal Man wrote: "I eagerly await the creation of the BC Rhinoceros party. I want my next vote to at least count as a joke if nothing else. No matter what "real" party I have voted for in the past the result has always been that the province is run by liars and thieves"-agreed!.

"It's not like "demand" is an external problem for B.C., either. This province has the highest rate of drug-related arrests in Canada -- and 60 per cent of these are for cannabis.Eighty per cent of all drug arrests are for personal possession; that is, not trafficking or intent to distribute, but for personal use."


Read more: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Legalize+marijuana+crime+rate/3684141/story.html#ixzz12cotOF4i

"Judge Binnie said that expecting a defence lawyer to effectively advise a client who is shut away in an interrogation room is the equivalent of playing him a phone message that states: “You have reached counsel. Keep your mouth shut. Press one to repeat this message.” -no shit!

“I find a lot of junk in the river, too, the last few years,” added Thacker, four years older than his vessel and a resident of “Fort Chip” since birth. “Pipes, timbers. Last weekend, I was at the dock [at Fort McKay], watching an oil slick go by like someone was sitting up-current with a pail of oil, just dumping it slowly. An hour we watched it. With all these new oil plants along the river, obviously it’s coming from their places.” But even these are not the most distressing changes he has witnessed the past few years."

"He said he didn't talk to environmentalists or aboriginal people who live downstream from the oilsands"-nice to hear that he spoke to all involved not just the business interests so that he could form a well-rounded opinion!-;)

-my guess is if there is one there are probably more

"Police in southeastern B.C. have raided a marijuana grow operation that was apparently guarded by black bears."

"Manning’s motivations for whistle-blowing matter not. What does matter is he revealed to the public the brutal nature of the colonial war in Afghanistan and the bodyguard of lies protecting it from public scrutiny. If Americans and Canadians really knew the truth of this resource-driven war, and its carefully concealed cost, they would end it very quickly."

"“Most British Columbians would be as sickened as I am by this so-called ‘sport,’ added Joe Foy, of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee. “That article was some kind of sick eco-porn for those that like to hurt living creatures for the fun of it.”

"Vancouver city council, scientists, oil-tanker experts, and NGOs meet today (July 5) at city hall to discuss oil tankers in Burrard Inlet in light of the BP oil spill catastrophe. In Vancouver, the clearest first step is to stop any further expansion of oil travelling through Burrard Inlet, and then take the steps necessary to reduce and eliminate the more than 100 oil tankers that navigate these waters annually. "

"A journalist covering the G20 for British newspaper The Guardian was brutally assaulted and arrested when police executed a mass arrest on a peaceful protest near Yonge and Front last night."

"Ottawa – The Canadian government announced that it is putting the alternative rock band The Pixies on its list of “terrorist organizations” after the group cancelled its upcoming trip to Israel in the wake of the Gaza Flotilla affair."-this is just so totally stupid!

"the federal government says it will protect a 3,500-square-kilometre area covering the waters and seabed surrounding the archipelago formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands."

"Our message is crystal clear and simple," said Don Staniford of the Pure Salmon Campaign, an international group dedicated to improving fish-farming practices. "We want to the government to get the open-net cages out of the water, on to land, into closed-containment systems and save wild salmon stocks."

"Opposition to the tax, which combines the five per cent GST with the seven per cent PST, centres on the fact the HST will be applied to everything the GST covered, including many items previously exempt from the provincial tax."

"There is now evidence Asian carp may have slipped into Lake Michigan, a development that could dramatically transform all of the Great Lakes because the large fish are known for dominating the waters they inhabit."

"Environmental groups say Ottawa is failing to stimulate the development and adoption of the technologies that are needed if Canada is to meet its emission targets."

-of course she is!

-long live Colbert!!
-too bad he can't do the shows live!

"An extremely rare mushroom that looks as if it's wearing yellow rubber boots has been found on Observatory Hill in Saanich."

"What does it take in Toronto to capture a deer that is sitting still?
Start with a dozen police constables. Add another dozen police from the Emergency Task Force in grey jumpsuits and bulletproof vests -- armed with dart guns, Tasers and a big sort of fishing net -- plus two vans from Animal Services and a senior veterinarian from the Toronto Zoo. Give them four hours: they will get the job done."

-and i am one of them!!

-my god, he was selling seeds and even paying income taxes on the money he made!

"Marijuana plants that would make at least three million joints have been hacked down on Vancouver Island in the RCMP's annual seek and destroy mission.Yesterday, the summer assault on illegal outdoor grow ops continued on the outskirts of Cumberland when a further 287 pot plants were located and killed by RCMP officers.
"-sigh,what a waste!

CNN screwed up? I am shocked! Shocked i say!! ;)

"By approving this pipeline, we are committing to another generation of dependence not only on fossil fuels but on the dirtiest, most greenhouse-gas-emitting fossil fuels," said Sarah Burt, an attorney for Earthjustice. "We thought that the Obama administration would walk the walk on this, but it appears that that's not happening."

RIP

-free Leonard Peltier!!

"The interest in the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission hearing may have caught the regulator off-guard (the webcast traffic was, by a wide margin, its most ever for a hearing), but it was the testimony itself that was the greatest source of surprise."

-just maybe,maybe it's time to stop these races!!

"How internet providers manipulate and manage the speed of the internet for different types of data will be examined by Canada's telecommunications regulator during six days of hearings in Gatineau, Que., starting Monday."

"Larivière's goal is to teach the public about the sprawling boreal forests that exist in Canada, their carbon-neutralizing effect on the environment, their beauty, the people that live within them and the paramount need to preserve them. Canada has 290 million of the world's 1.7 billion hectares of boreal forest, which accounts for a quarter of the world's closed-canopy forest."

"VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canadian police were on the search on Monday for a brazen thief who snatched a take-away meal while making a naked run past a fast food restaurant's drive-though window."

"The Finding Coral Expedition is the first of its kind in B.C.: an expedition specifically designed to study deep water corals and document threats to their well being."

"Delicate forests of deep-sea corals under Hecate Strait and the Queen Charlotte Basin are virtually unprotected from destructive fishing methods such as bottom-trawling for groundfish, says the executive director of a marine environmental group"

"OBAMA PHOTOGRAPHED WITH NOTORIOUS SEAL BUTCHER"-;)

-boycotting maple syrup is just one thing! -Stupid!!!

"She said Health Canada is aware thousands of medical marijuana users are obtaining the drug through "compassion clubs" that have proliferated over the years.But she and Mr. Nash said those organizations must obtain their marijuana, which is not regulated for quality or safety, from the black market."

-the parents are sick!-luckily they didn't actually brand the child!

"So in Canada they have this thing called the "Governor General," which is some sort of viceroy or something appointed by the Queen of England, and her name is Michaelle Jean. Yesterday, Jean kicked off a tour of Canada's Arctic region by gutting a seal and eating its heart raw."

"The discovery of the new swine flu in pigs on an Alberta farm raises a spectre that worries influenza experts: the possibility of the virus moving back and forth between humans and pigs, giving it more chances to mutate along the way"

"The coastal waters of the Great Bear Rainforest in Northern British Columbia, home to hundreds of salmon spawning rivers, grey whale migratory routes, the feeding grounds for orca and humpback whales. It is an area teaming with life and steeped in the culture of BC's coastal First Nations. For over 35 years these waters have been protected from the threat of oil spills by a ban on oil tanker traffic. This ban on tankers is now under threat. Plans to build pipelines and a supertanker port in Kitimat by Enbridge are moving forward with support from the BC and Canadian governments. But there is still time to save our coast."

"Health Canada has issued a warning about Botox.Product labels have been changed to include the risk of the toxin spreading to other distant parts of the body." -really?!

well, if no one is coming forward to take responsibility then let's put some money on the table!!!