2018-05-20 For your selection

2018-05-19    Summary, NO, Health Canada DID NOT decide to de-register one of the chemicals linked to death of bees and song birds (the neonic “imidacloprid”)

The PMRA (Health Canada) received 46,000 communications about the need to stop the use of the “neonics”.  Through the petitioning, I emailed my MP on April 30, 2018 re the neonic.   He replied with information.   I responded with a 2nd email to him:

• The PMRA quote provided in your reply is from March 7, 2017.
• Your email to me is dated May 16, 2018, more than a year later.

My response documents what happened AFTER the March 7, 2017  statement by the PMRA (Health Canada) that a decision HAD been made to withdraw imidacloprid.  (You can imagine what happened!)

There will be no bees to sting you, if we can’t quickly get letters, phone calls, emails, LOTS of them,  to MP’s!

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2018-03   Federal Government, Report, “What we heard – Transforming Canada’s criminal justice system”

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2018-02-27   Canada’s largest integrated energy company has filed an application for a massive new oilsands project defying expectations of slowing growth in the oilsands, Financial Post     (In the context of the KinderMorgan Pipeline)

NOTE:   I “post”.  The number of hits is “0”.   Within minutes there are 2 hits.  Always.  Then there are 6 or 12.   . . .  25  . . .  I send notice of the posting to you – – that’s when the  number of hits starts rolling.

For this posting,  the number of hits is at 516 and I haven’t yet sent notice of it to you.    ? ?

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2018-05-01   David Orchard. The Kinger Morgan kowtow. Vancouver Sun.

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2018-04-30   Mueller Has Dozens of Inquiries for Trump in Broad Quest on Russia Ties and Obstruction, New York Times

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2018-04-30   Weedkiller found in granola and crackers, internal FDA emails show, The Guardian, by Carey Gillam

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018-04-29   Re pipeline, the Spill Regulations, my input to public consultations

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2018-04-27   Maybe this can be of assistance re the pipeline?

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2018-04-27   For your selection

I am very sorry.  I did not get these circulated to you earlier:

1.    2018-04-23  Nuclear: In support of Grand Chief Patrick Madahbee, email to CBC, The Current.   Base for Letter to Government officials.

I hope that the posting makes clear the enormity of the COSTS that Canadians will be required to cover, if we don’t get the information spread far and wide.   We will be further hosed by the uranium/nuclear industry.   It’s not too hard to figure out,  if you have the information.

Our network has information that was missing from the interview.  Chief Madahbee did a great job.  The additional documentation should be helpful to him,  and to the CBC.   And to whoever else you can add, including your MP.

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2.   2018-04-21   Poisons in Water, cholera, norovirus: Out In The Open, CBC Radio, Letter to host Piya Chattopadhyay.

In 2005 when I received a phone call requesting me to report to TB Control (after being very sick),  I almost said,  “The test results must have been mixed up.   I’m white, middle-class”.   I also thought that TB had been eradicated from Canada, by aggressive programs in the 1950’s.   I remember the TB van that came to every small town;  it was foreign and a bit scary when I was young.

I learned in 2005 that there is TB in Canada,  we just don’t hear about it – – it’s encountered in drug treatment programmes, in First Nations communities, and in many of the places that provide over-night shelter for those who don’t have homes.   Some choose not to use the shelters for that reason.

Conclude:  it doesn’t make sense NOT to look after the people in our communities, if only for one reason – –  you are dreaming if you think dis-ease can be confined, any more than   . . .  the example in this posting,  WATER can be confined.   I, white, middle class, healthy, don’t do risky behaviours (as long as the propagandists – and some politicians – are unsuccessful in their efforts to make “activists” into “terrorists” or, heaven forbid, “environmentalists”!  (reminds me of the Nazi success in making “Polish” synonymous with “vermin” and the long-lasting effects of that).

Dawn Martin-Hill, a First Nations professor, was interviewed about the water situation on the Six Nations Reserve not far from Hamilton.   How long do you think we can hear about water issues in First Nations communities before we start hearing about serious water issues in “our” water?

I think it’s damn serious when there’s cholera in Canadian waters and norovirus – – a stones’ throw from me, white, middle-class to boot.   There are not only the effects on people who eat food grown in that water:  lots of people swim in the same water.   I can’t swim without getting water in my eyes, ears, and mouth.   The “most plausible” cause of the cholera and the norovirus offshore Vancouver Island, BC, is “human sewage in the marine environment”.   . . .   see  Poisons in Water, cholera, norovirus:  Out In The Open, CBC Radio, Letter to host Piya Chattopadhyay.

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3.   New book, “Moving Beyond: Neo-liberalism in Saskatchewan”, by Jim Harding. 58 pages, available as a free download.

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4.   2018-04-14  What’s really criminal in Canada’s Kinder Morgan pipeline debacle, by Martyn Brown, in the “straight”

 5.   2018-04-09   Killer robots: pressure builds for ban as governments meet, the Guardian