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How Ethical Are Ethical Funds? (Opinion)

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"Conscientious" investments and the tar sands connection   by Larry Powell Beautiful Destruction  photo. I doubt that many investors with a social conscience would assume that the ethical funds they hold would be helping pay for such projects as the Alberta oil sands. I certainly didn't - turns out, I was wrong! All five of Canada's major banks lend money to tar sands operators. And all five are actually included in the portfolios of the many ethical investment funds in this country. As if that isn't enough, so too is at least one major corporation, Suncor Energy, which actually extracts the tar from the sands! Ethical Funds lists Scotiabank, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and Suncor Energy among its top ten holdings. The investment company adds, RBC, for one, "provides significant capital to the oil and gas and other smokestack industries." Suncor describes itself as a "pioneer" and one of the biggest player

Manitoba Will Likely Fail to Reach Greenhouse Gas Targets

Wpg Free Press - Dec 7'10 Manitoba's auditor general cast doubt Monday... Editor's note: Is Anyone Surprised? l.p.

U.S. to Regulate Big Polluters, Leaving no Excuses for Canada’s Inaction

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P.J. Partington — The Pembina Institute - Dec. 2'10 It would be hard to count…..  Reuters photo

WikiLeaks Cables: Shell's Grip on Nigerian State Revealed

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David Smith - guardian.co.uk - 8 De 2010 US embassy cables reveal top executive's claims that company 'knows everything' about key decisions in government ministries .

May You Shop 'til You Drop This Christmas! (NOT!) Video

Buy Nothing This Holiday Season

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Worldwatch Institute- 2010-12-02 Super News! In 2010, more Americans went shopping the weekend after... Satellite images of parking lots, like this one, show more and more shoppers as Black Fri. nears. Courtesy of Gizmodo.

Impervious to Learning

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By George Monbiot, published on the Guardian’s website, 8th December 2010. David Rose appears to have learnt nothing from his catastrophic mistakes before the Iraq war.