PLANET IN PERIL

23 Mar'11 - United Nations VIENTIANE – For the first time in Lao PDR, close to 1,000 primary school children will receive a healthy and balanced school lunch prepared from foods bought at their local market. Details here. A Canadian farmers'  market. l.p. photo

Mar 24'11 Manitoba Co-Operator The person believed to be Canada's second-ever case of the type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease transmitted by BSE-infected beef is seen as unlikely to have picked it up in this country. Details here.

Mar 22'11 By: Dwayne Klassen - Commodity News Service Canada  Producers in Western Canada who hope to get an early start to seeding will be disappointed, given that the weather is not expected to be very co-operative over the next couple of months . Details here. A soggy, unharvested canola field in  western Manitoba. Fall 2010. l.p. photo

United Nations - New York, 22 March 2011  The reservoir behind the Shellmouth Dam, western Manitoba, CA As the world charts a more sustainable future, the crucial interplay among water, food and energy is one of the most formidable challenges we face. Details here.

Mar 21'11 - By: Staff - MB Co-Operator   The Saskatchewan government has launched a website tying together flood and weather forecasts, runoff data and other information to get the public prepared for this spring. Details here.  The bridge over Lake of the Prairies,  on the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border.  l.p. photo

Feature story - March 21, 2011 Courtice, Ontario — Greenpeace activists today shut down environmental assessment hearings on a proposal to build new reactors at Darlington in response to the Joint Review Panel’s refusal to suspend the hearings until lessons are learned from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. (NOTE; Photos at very bottom are best.)