The Food Crisis is Not About a Shortage of Food
September 17, 2010 by Jim Goodman - CommonDreams.org The food… Grain stockpile by l.p.
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Deformed Fish Found in Lake Downstream From Alberta Tarsands
Bob Weber The Canadian Press Se 17 '10 EDMONTON—The fish are hard to look at. This white fish is too red. Photo by: Ed Kaiser, edmontonjournal.com
Arctic Warms, Sea Ice Shrinks, Extinction Risk Grows
Environment News Service SAN FRANCISCO, California, September 14, 2010 (ENS) - From foxes to... (photo by Flickr user Drew Avery)
Wyoming Fracking Rules Would Disclose Drilling Chemicals
by: Nicholas Kusnetz ProPublica - 15 September 2010 New rules going into.... (Photo: Ari Moore / Flickr)
Good Food Emerges as a Real Alternative to the Dominance of Corporate Agriculture
AlterNet / By Grace Lee Boggs - Oct. 13-2010 This good food evolution has…. l.p. photo
The Organic Sector Has Declared October 9th-16th Organic Week in Canada
Organic Food Council - Se. 15-'10 This event, which starts... Organic tomatoes. l.p. photo
Frost in Forecasts, Canola Swathing Pondered
Staff - Manitoba Co-Operator - 9/13/2010 Prairie canola growers are...
BP Report on Oil Spill Disaster Met with Skepticism
10 September 2010 - by: Amanda Bransford | Inter Press Service New York - The report...
Food of Little Interest to Winnipeg Municipal Candidates
by Laura Rance - WPG Free Press A small group of Winnipeggers is trying to spice up this autumn's civic election campaign with an issue that is dear to us all, but seemingly bland fodder for duelling politicians. Food. The Winnipeg Food Policy Working Group has released an election toolkit designed to help the electorate engage municipal leaders on food policy, an issue they've tended to ignore or simply dismiss. For example, an effort by some Winnipeg residents to gain bylaw changes that would allow backyard poultry earlier this year was permanently put on hold. A request a few years ago for permission to grow vegetables on boulevards was written off as a potential law enforcement problem (people might steal potatoes). The Food Policy Working Group wants to get sustainable food permanently on the planning agenda at city hall by establishing an advisory body similar to what already exists in other major Canadian cities. Toronto was first to step up to the plate with its food po
Clean-Air Crusaders Suffer Setback in "The Battle in the Boreal"
by Larry Powell ROBLIN, MB Se 10-2010 Environmentalists and citizens battling to protect air quality in parts of the Swan valley of western Manitoba have suffered a setback. “Paths Less Travelled” has just learned, Manitoba’s Clean Environment Commission is recommending that Louisiana Pacific Canada Limited’s wood products plant near Minitonas, be allowed to continue to operate without the use of pollution control devices. For complete report, go to http://www.cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/index.cfm?hearingid=1#4 and click on "results," then "PDF." Opponents of LP’s application to keep those controls (known as regenerative thermal oxidizers) shut down permanently, have yet to comment on the recommendations, which were just made public today. Groups such as “Concerned Citizens of the Valley” had been strongly opposing the shutdown, claiming it would lead to sharply increased releases of toxic substances from the plant, into the air. Manitoba’s Minister of th