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Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony Reminds World That Climate Change is Very Real

Nation of Change The Opening Ceremony at the Rio 2016 Olympics Games may have opened up with a dance party, but it was a video on climate change watched by roughly 3.3 billion that made people stop what they were doing and focus on human-made pollution. Story here.

Honey Bee Population Drop by 12% Worldwide

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Aussie Network News                                                                                                                           PinP photo. Experts around the world have warned that bee population is declining. Now, a study reveals that the number of honey bee colonies dropped by almost 12 percent last winter. Story here.

The Town That Reveals How Russia Spills Two Deepwater Horizons of Oil Each Year

  the guardian Oil spills caused by old pipelines are relatively small in Russia and rarely garner widespread attention - but added up they threaten fish stocks and pasture for cattle. Story here.

We Were Promised The Greenest Olympics Ever. We Got An Ecological Disaster.

climate progress On a cool December night in Paris, at an awards ceremony in the city’s 3rd arrondissement, Eduardo Paes, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, took the stage to thunderous applause from an audience full of his fellow mayors from around the world. Paes’ voiced boomed as he stressed the importance of cities leading the fight against climate change — Story here.

The Front Lines of Climate Disruption: Alaskans Witness Collapsing Mountains, Shattered Lives

Moyers & company Climate denial is having a real impact on the lives of those living in the Arctic.  Story here.

Winnipeg Home to New ‘Bacon Centre of Excellence’

Manitoba Co-Operator More of the bacon people bring home will soon come from an expanded Maple Leaf plant in Winnipeg. Story here.

North Saskatchewan River Flunks Five Water Quality Tests After Husky Oil Spill

NATIONAL PBSERVER The early results are in and they confirm a catastrophic oil spill from a Husky Energy pipeline has contaminated the North Saskatchewan River, says a new report on the incident released by the Calgary-based company on Wednesday. Story here.

TTIP: The Most Dangerous Weapon in the Hands of the Fossil Fuel Industry

bilaterals.org The TTIP would put in place a parallel judicial system that allows companies to bypass national courts altogether. Story here.

Saskatchewan Government "Unlikely" to Clean All of Husky Oil Spill

NATIONAL  OBSERVER The reality of the disastrous Husky oil spill in Saskatchewan is finally starting to sink in — quite literally. Story here.

Once-in-a-Millenium Rainfall Descends on Maryland, Killing 2

CommonDreams 'It looks like a war zone.’ Story here.

Stephen Harper Transforms Canada (and not in a good way). (Editorial)

(I wrote the following at least two years ago, while Stephen Harper was still Prime Minister of Canada. Due to technical limitations, I can't seem to keep it in its chronological place on the blog. So I'm leaving it where it is. Just know Harper is (mercifully) long gone from his post.) by Larry Powell Sad, isn’t it?  Canada’s days as an honest broker and a respected, neutral middle power, are over. Prime Minister Harper has transformed my country from a kinder, gentler peacekeeping nation, which strives to mediate disputes and stay out of despicably unjust wars like Iraq, into a would-be petrostate that takes sides, “smites” our enemies, intimidates those whose views differ from his own and sows seeds of hatred based on culture, religion or gender. He actually declared jihadi terrorists (as brutal and evil as they clearly are) as “the most dangerous enemy our world has ever seen.” Has he already forgotten the millions of allied troops who died fighting far bigger ene