Union of Federal Scientists, Professionals to Campaign Against Harper Tories

The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The union representing scientists and other professionals in the federal public service is abandoning its tradition of neutrality in elections to actively campaign against Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Details here.

Go Figger

The Next Steps for an Organic Planet Are Yours To Take

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Mark 'Coach' Smallwood - 

CommonDreams

 I walked 160 miles to promote regenerative organic agriculture that can save our soil and reverse global warming. Here's what comes next. Story here.

This Week in "The Fraser Institute is Embarrassing Itself" News

PRESSPROGRESS

Too busy to keep up to speed on the Fraser Institute's problems this week? Here's a review of everything that has gone wrong for Canada's "data driven"right-wing think tank -- all from just this past week. Story here.

Island of Maui Defies Monsanto, Passes Ban on GMO Farming

Bloomberg

The measure puts a temporary moratorium on the farming of genetically modified crops in Maui County. Story here.

Health Canada Has 100,000 New Reasons to Rethink Approval of Controversial Pesticides

Today at 8:43 AM

OTTAWA – More than 110,000 people have told Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) not to register flupyradifurone, Bayer's latest bee-killing pesticide. Over the past three weeks, Sierra Club Canada Foundation, David Suzuki Foundation and SumOfUs.org spearheaded a campaign to inform the public of the opportunity to submit formal comments to the PMRA. "We shared the facts about flupyradifurone, and the response has been incredible," said Paul Ferris, of SumOfUs.org. “Over 110,000 Canadians sent a clear message to PMRA: Protect the bees.” The PMRA proposed approving flupyradifurone in September, initiating a mandatory comment period that ended November 3, 2014. Flupyradifurone has the same “mode of action” as bee-killing neonicotinoids: both types of pesticides attack the nervous systems of insects.

On The Importance Of Appreciating Animals

Arianna Huffington - The Huffington Post

You can tell a lot about people from their screensavers. Mine is a picture of gazelles: Details here.

Pelican at Prince Albert Nat'l. Park, CA. P in P photo.