Preface to the article, MY EXCITEMENT: From: Sandra Finley Sent: September 7 To: Ruth.Bender (The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) journalist who wrote the article below) Subject: RE: Bayer’s Roundup Woes Deepen as Germany Bans Key Chemical Enormous thanks to you, Ruth, and to the WSJ for publishing this article. I am from the farmlands of […]
May 25, 2019 FROM: Sandra Finley TO: Govt of Canada, Impact Assessment Regulations, Consultation on the proposed Project List Bill C-69 will exempt Small Modular Reactors and other nuclear/uranium reactors from impact assessment. The elephant in the room is CORRUPTION. You have to deal with it. It did not make sense that […]
Proposal? (Incomplete) Two pasted together. WHAT: A series of 15 minute videos, themed around Justice system, Rule of Law. GENERAL MOTIVATION: We don’t have the Rule of Law. It isn’t well understood. IMMEDIATE MOTIVATION: NAFTA Re-negotiation. INTERNATIONAL LAWS (TRADE DEALS) TO OVER-RIDE NATIONAL AND PROVINCIAL LAWS. Can the series be done with this at beginning? […]
Canadians for Tax Fairness does important work. As you’ll see in this weekly report, the problem of tax fairness is international. People from around the world are working shoulder-to-shoulder – – we shall overcome. I shake my head when I see progress in other countries; Canada is lagging. BUT! forward the Tax Fairness Weekly […]
I put myself into a sleepless nite with the following. High levels of corruption do not bode well for Canadians. Your fault, sending the Mt Polley, B.C. reminder my way! I had not known that Murray Edwards, principal of CNRL (Canadian Natural Resources Ltd (tarsands) is also the principal shareholder of Imperial Metals, owner of […]
RELATED: Democracy: Significance of the Rule of Law The lengthy article below, “Eclipse and Enlightenment” by Bruce Clark, speaks to an understanding of “The Rule of Law“. (Note to self: put a referral on the above posting.) Clark’s work is in support of First Nations’ rights, and therefore related to: The recent move of First Nations […]
Years ago, when I wanted some little grasp of living in a world of addiction, one that I couldn’t fathom from reading, I deliberately pursued a two-year relationship with a late-stage alcoholic. Among other lessons was the role of abuse of the child, in its various forms. Subsequently I came across the book “Addicted: Notes […]
Feel free to copy, paste and edit, for whatever use it might serve. Subject: April 12, re changes to governance of Dental & Medical professions Dear (Host of Program), The interviewee said: There is a shortage of health care workers across Canada. The accurate statement is: There is an over-supply of sick and damaged […]
by Christopher Reynolds SNC-Lavalin CEO Neil Bruce is photographed in Toronto on March 20, 2019. Only a handful of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.§s rivals have received deferred prosecution agreements in the past five years, a Canadian Press analysis reveals. The low count appears to contradict remarks by CEO Neil Bruce The Canadian Press last month […]
In all the press coverage of the “the SNC-Lavalin affair,” not enough attention has been paid to the company’s involvement in Site C – the contentious $11 billion dam being constructed in B.C.’s Peace River valley. The Liberals say that any pressure they put on Jody Wilson-Raybould to rubber-stamp a “deferred prosecution agreement” for SNC-Lavalin […]