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"Justin's Disaster." Blog attaches a name to Canada's flooding tragedy.

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Bill Would Set Manitoba's Animal Protections Back by a Decade

Huffington Post There's a sick feeling of déjà vu for those of us in Manitoba these days. Here's why. Story here.

Climate Change - Global Warming Warning - 1981 (Video)

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The dam at the heart of Canada's flooding emergency

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NATIONAL OBSERVER The Moses-Saunders dam which regulates flows from  Lake Ontario  into the St. Lawrence River.  High water levels threatening flood damage to hundreds of homes in Ontario and Quebec will continue to rise, warns the federal environmental engineer in charge of reporting this data to international authorities. Story here.

Drought predicted for Alberta this summer

The Western Producer Farmers in central and northern Alberta should brace for drought this summer, according to AccuWeather. Story here.

Malaysian energy company accused of building unauthorized dams in B.C.

VANCOUVER SUN Progress Energy, owned by Malaysian state-controlled Petronas, has built a number of earth dams without regulatory approval in northeast B.C. to capture water for fracking operations, says a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. STORY HERE.

Have crop shelter belts outlived their usefulness? Modern agriculture has spoken - they have.

Are trees now passé in our modern agricultural landscape? Please check out my brief video, below on the era of crop "shelter belts," now disappearing from the scene. As always, you are urged to add your own two-bits worth in the comments section, below.