A comprehensive article (below), excellent info. ASIDE: Biotech stocks have been plummeting. Wall Street Journal. The biotech ETF has dropped 23% since peaking in late February. Attributed to being “oversold”. http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/04/15/biotech-stocks-take-out-key-technical-level-as-plummet-continues/ The next March Against Monsanto (MAM) is May 24, 2014. Is there one in your community? I have added a couple of new Canadian […]
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/HEALTH/CALL+CURB+TESTS+SCANS+WISE/9747503/STORY.HTML CMA call to curb tests, scans wise By Mark Lemstra, Health Issues What is going on with the Canadian Medical Association? It used to be an advocacy group that simply demanded spending more money on health care, but now the CMA is promoting evidencebased practices. On April 3, the association began a campaign, called […]
With many organizations now putting out lengthy lists of “good news stories” I have the impression of a rapidly mobilizing, empowered citizenry. It’s like spring has arrived; there is new life shooting up everywhere around us! I selected just a few examples. Can’t celebrate if we don’t know about them! 1. 2014-04-17 Monsanto and Big Food […]
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/14-6 Guardian and Washington Post each honored with Pulitzer for Public Service Lauren McCauley, staff writer Ewen MacAskill, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in Hong Kong to meet NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden on June 10, 2013. (Photo by Laura Poitras) The Washington Post and the Guardian/US were both awarded one of journalism’s top honors […]
Note: To work backward click on: 2014-04-05 Next step, six-year effort to get Govt of Sask to abide by court rulings on Election Deposits Scroll to bottom to see communication to other Provincial Green Parties about the same issue. From: Colin, Jennifer OCEO Sent: April-14-14 1:15 PM To: Sandra Finley Cc: PeterCEN2 Rosenthal; VictorGRN […]
From: Bennett Sent: March-24-14 To: Sandy Finley Subject: Snowden, et al I am a great admirer of Snowden amd will listen to his presentation, likely tomorrow if all goes well (and it may not go well at all) I have been harping on this privacy issue for a long time but people don;t seem […]
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canada-revenue-agency-shuts-online-services-over-security-concerns/article17892916/ BILL CURRY and TU THANH HA OTTAWA and TORONTO — The Globe and Mail A major cybersecurity flaw that exposes encrypted information to hackers has forced the Canada Revenue Agency to shut down its filing system and push back the deadline for online returns. The flaw, which is known as Heartbleed and affects […]
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/potashcorp-ceo-bill-doyle-to-make-millions-after-retiring-1.2602969 Bill Doyle steadily converted stock options into shares Rocanville PotashCorp underground production supervisor Dave Esslinger walks toward his work vehicle 1,000 metres below the surface at the potash mine in Saskatchewan. (David Stobbe/Reuters) Bill Doyle may not need to walk away from PotashCorp when he retires as its president and CEO in July. It’s […]
Robert F Kennedy Jr is a “warrior” in the public interest. We have followed some of his work. Now this: Lois writes: Robert Kennedy frames some of the problems we are facing here in Canada: The environment and democracy are interlinked You can’t have corporations running our country as they do not want the same things […]
Note: to work backward through the details of the six-year effort, click on http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=9927. From: Sandra Finley Sent: April-05-14 1:10 PM To: ‘info@elections.sk.ca’ Cc: Brent Nadon OCEO; Peter Rosenthal; Victor Lau GPS; Robert Cosbey GPS Subject: Question re Election Deposits. TO: Michael Boda, D.Phil., Ph.D. Chief Electoral Officer Province of Saskatchewan Dear Michael […]