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Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity: Suzuki

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October 30, 2009 - the Green Pages Wind turbines, southwest SK. l.p. photo Ottawa - Canada can succeed economically while meeting targets to reduce global...

Canada Sets Aside its Boreal Forest as Giant Carbon Vault

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Suzanne Goldenberg , guardian.co.uk , 29 Oc'09 By banning logging, mining and oil drilling in an area twice the size of California, Canada is ensuring its boreal forests continue to soak up carbon... Artist: Mary Jane Eichler

Organic Farming Yields Tougher Crops

by Max Ajl - Solve Climate - Sep 22nd, 2009 The future is now. What used to be scientific predictions of climate change are now upon us. This makes a major switch to organics even more urgent...

Who’s Investigating the CAFO-Swine Flu Link?

Oc 29'09 - by Tom Philpott - Grist 6 months after the outbreak, is anyone?

Who Contaminated Canada's crops?

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Martin Mittelstaedt, Globe and Mail- Wed. Oct. 28, 2009 Prairie whodunit has flax farmers baffled . A prairie flax crop, itself contaminated with GM canola "weeds!" What a tangled web have GMOs woven! l.p. photo

Climate Change Could Push up Insurance Premiums: Exec

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Winnipeg Free Press - By: Andy Blatchford - 27/10/2009 (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Harsh weather whipped up by climate change has caused insurance claims to...

Palestinians Denied Water - Amnesty Int'l.

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Tu. Oc, 27, '09 by BBC News - Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of... (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

Protesters Disrupt Question Period

October 26, 2009 - CBC News A loud protest in the visitors gallery of the House of.... ===== "Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." JFK

Can Your Diet Make You Happy?

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Eco Salon - Oct. 26th - '09 Farmers' Market - Regina SK. l.p. photo Wanna be happy and kick Prozac to the curb? Start eating your...

Manitoba Pork Producers To Benefit From $70 Million More...

Editor's note: If this is "sustainable agriculture," what, pray tell, is not? l.p. ======= Manitoba News Release ............................................................ October 26, 2009 In response to increased challenges facing Manitoba's pork industry, pork producers will now be able to access 75 per cent of their estimated 2009 AgriStability payment. This increase to the targeted advance payment will make an additional $70 million available in cash flow assistance to the industry. "This Government is always willing to adjust programs to make sure they hit the farmgate and that's why we're announcing targeted advances to Manitoba pork producers," said federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. "We're working side-by-side with the Government of Manitoba to help pork producers weather the current storm and get back to profitability." "The challenges facing our pork producers have neither decreased nor stabilized since June when

Forests Count in Our Fight Against Climate Change

Science Matters - October 23'09 By David Suzuki with Faisal Moola. In 1992, I attended an event that filled me with hope. Canada and the rest of the world had just signed a climate change treaty...