Larry Powell Powell is a veteran, award-winning journalist based in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. He specialize in stories about agriculture and the environment. For decades, he worked for broadcast outlets in all four provinces in western Canada. This included a 5 years stint as Senior Editor for CBC Radio News in Saskatchewan. He is authorized to receive embargoed news releases on important, global stories, through the Science Media Centre of Canada, the Royal Society, Nature Research and the World Weather Attribution Network. He's a member of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists and a past member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, Powell joined an international team of writers providing articles for the Swiss-based online journal, Focusing on Wildlife - celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. In June, 2014, he was a panelist at a world conference in Winnipeg entitled Holding
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There is no doubt that our waters in Lake Winnipeg (and other sources ) are poisoned with toxic algae that include cyanobacteria. Prof.Eva Pip ( U of Wpg.) sounded the alarm bells on this like matter a decade/ or more ago; she was ignored as an alarmist, being irresponsible and unprofessional.
She comments…quote "If we close our eyes, we can honestly swear we can't see any problem."unquote.
That's government for you.