http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=eb5b2b4d-77d3-41d1-b060-18c6c9ca9c44 Premier Brad Wall said Thursday he envisions an ambitious project involving the federal government, SaskPower and one of the uranium companies located in the province that would see Saskatchewan playing a lead role in the research and development of nuclear power. By The Leader-Post (Regina) March 28, 2008 Speaking to reporters, Wall said he […]
(Link no longer valid, 2019-01) Electricity, heat touted for use in northern industry Gordon Jaremko, The Edmonton Journal Published: Saturday, March 29 2008 A research partnership between the Alberta and U.S. governments will investigate the possibility of using atomic power to fuel oilsands development. The Alberta Research Council and the U.S. Energy Department’s main nuclear […]
Brad Wall spells out “small reactors” for tar sands. The industry spells out “small reactors” for tar sands”. The article is in relation to Alberta. Edmonton Journal: 2008-03-29 Alberta with Idaho National Laboratory to study nuclear role in oilsands A couple of excerpts: “A recent study by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers predicted technical […]
Regarding THE NEWS ARTICLE: 2012-06-28 Mental illness claims continue to rise in federal public service. (Health insurers – financial interests – employee work days lost to depression.) If insurers can see the link between mercury fillings and depression (plus other mental health), they will bring a financial interest to the efforts to stop the use. […]
Claire Provost and Felicity Lawrence Three huge agribusinesses dominate $1bn US food aid policy, Guardian study reveals, with lobby groups ensuring agricultural surpluses are exported despite cost to developing countries • Get the data • Interactive: The business of US food aid Sacks of American wheat destined for Afghanistan being unloaded in Peshawar, Pakistan. […]
A large part of “mental illness” is depression (see article below). Mercury is a neuro-toxin, it causes depression. (Dentists have the highest suicide rate among the professions.) Health insurers, employers and workers are alarmed by COSTS of mental illness. From June 28 article below: “The steady rise of disability claims related to mental illness in […]
Crash just ONE F-35 = more than $600 million dollars down the toilet. . . . – – it passes for SANITY!! . . I am laughing out loud! ” . . . The program’s projected “life cycle cost” — including development since 1994, production of 2,443 jets and 55 years of support — increased to $1.51 […]
(I am sorry, I don’t know why I didn’t record the URL’s from which the following was assembled. Arendt’s ideas about the relationship between freedom and action appear nearer the bottom.) Arendt’s essay On Violence distinguishes between the concepts of violence and power. Arendt maintains that although theorists of both the left and right […]
This took place in 2009. I didn’t get it posted earlier. It is an important part of the historical record. It is why Canadians should refuse to pay for Lockheed Martin and Stephen Harper’s F-35 stealth bombers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6hp8HMstkE&feature=related Powerful testimony Number of views, July 5, 2012: 958,238
http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/LegislativeSummaries/bills_ls.asp?lang=E&ls=c60&Parl=40&Ses=2&source=library_prb Contents Background A. “Shiprider” Agreement Description and Analysis A. Definitions, Purpose and General Provisions (Clauses 2 to 4) B. General Implementing Provisions (Clauses 5 to 15) C. Public Complaints Commission Provisions (Clauses 16 to 25) D. Consequential Amendments to Statutes (Clauses 26 to 32) E. Coming into Force (Clause 33) Endnotes Background Bill C-60, […]