What SHOULD be in Canada's Next Federal Budget

As is its usual practice, The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a progressive "think-tank," has prepared an "alternative" budget for the federal government to consider.

To download the whole budget document, click the headline and follow the links. l.p.

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Coal-Fired Power on the Way Out?

Analysis by Lester R. Brown - (IPS) Inter Press Service

WASHINGTON, 24 Feb (IPS) - The past two years have witnessed…

Pro-CWB farmers to Appeal Voters' List Ruling

Manitoba Co-Operator - Staff - 2/26/2010

A Prairie farmers' group says it has filed...

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Coral Reefs in Danger of Being Destroyed

The Independent 24 February 2010

Rising acidity of the oceans is threat to...

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FCC Rolls Out Loans for On-Farm Renewable Energy

Manitoba Co-Operator - Staff - 2/23/2010

Farmers and agribusinesses eyeing ways to use renewable ...

the Overgaard farm

Democratic Sell-out Dianne Feinstein Attempts End-Run to Hand California Water to Billionaire Farmers

AlterNet/By Yasha Levine - Feb 13 -2010

Feinstein is trying to ram through a massive transfer of public water into the private...

Warming Climate May Devastate Major U.S. Crops

Study Suggests Tipping Points for Corn, Soybeans, Cotton

posted: 2009-09-11 Earth Institute - Columbia University

Sierra Club Files Complaint Over Unlabelled Canwest Oilsands Ad Features

The Canadian Press - ONLINE EDITION - By: Bob Weber - 11/02/2010 An environmental group has filed an official….

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Covering Climate Change

by Ben Block - This article appears in the March/April 2010 issue of World Watch magazine.

News coverage of global climate change is on the rise worldwide, but more in-depth international reporting is needed...

Yemen's Water Crisis Eclipses al Qaeda Threat

Feb 17-2-10 - by Ulf Laessing

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni water trader…

(REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)

Endangered Species on the Grill: The Black Market in Illegal Meat Flourishes in the US

AlterNet / By Anneli Rufus

Millions of fork-twirling gourmands -- many of them in the U.S. -- are eating...