NOTE: I have not watched the video (link at bottom) – – am trusting that it’s a balanced presentation. I know the story well because I could not believe it happened in Canada. It was an outrageous injustice to First Nations people. The matter dragged out over 50 years during which an abundance of government […]
Feb 3, 2020 TO: Bernadette Jordan South Shore—St. Margarets Minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard FROM: Sandra Finley (contact info) Dear Minister Jordan, RE: Herring Fishery, BC I lived in Nova Scotia from 1974 to 1990. During that time the cod fishery collapsed. I now live on Vancouver Island. […]
Canadian Press (CP) Report on first step in the extradition hearings against Julian Assange, appears below. A few comments first. The case has the potential to become a broader argument about the extraterritorial reach of the US. Citizens in the FVEY “developed” countries are equally in the extraterritorial reach of the US, along with nations […]
What are you? Are you a Reason a Season or a Lifetime? Pay attention to what you read. After you read this, you will know the reason it was sent to you! People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it […]
2018-11-05 REMINDER: A tally, Canadians are on the hook for . . . Add the following to the TALLY: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/houston-oil-gas-orphaned-wells_ca_5dc32adde4b03ddc02ee7ba9?utm_hp_ref=ca-homepage It will cost more than $80 million to clean this up. Dan Healing, Canadian Press EXCERPT: The Alberta Energy Regulator suspended all of Houston’s licences for wells producing natural gas containing toxic hydrogen sulphide on Aug. […]
NOTE: Carney is a Canadian who went to Wall Street (an investment banker with Goldman Sachs Group). Then was appointed Governor of the Bank of Canada; followed by Governor of the Bank of England. He will now take over as UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance. Postings related to Carney are at bottom. […]
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney’s speech given at the Conference on Inclusive Capitalism, London on Tuesday 27 May 2014. (Carney – Canadian, went to Wall Street, then Governor of Bank of Canada, then Governor of Bank of England, and December 2019 to UN Special Envoy on Climate Change and finance.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ZFZGWNw7U Full […]
Australia joins the list of countries where legal action is being pursued against Bayer-Monsanto over Roundup. Other Countries: . . . some local governments have stopped using it altogether. Germany has banned it from 2023 – a date that environment minister Svenja Schulze said was “as early as European law allows”. . . . Austria […]
Clive James passed away Nov 24, 2019. An internet search throws up numerous tributes. James penned: Stop worrying. Nobody gets out of this life alive! The 2014 interview of Clive James by Michael Enright (CBC The Sunday Edition), was re-broadcast on December 1st, 2019. Humour and insight: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-57-the-sunday-edition/clip/15749253-remembering-clive-james-and-jonathan-miller Wikipedia overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_James James read this poem […]
At 3pm on 3 December, Brian Enos will pull the sheets off an oversized digital Christmas card (pictured) outside the Home Office’s Westminster premises, featuring a snap of white-haired WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and emblazoned with the cheery message: “This Christmas journalism is on trial.” . . . At the event, Joe Public will […]