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Miscellaneous – General News (2015 and earlier)

Date yyyy-mm-dd	Posted By	Article Link	Comment
2015-12-02	CBC News	Parliament starts accepting e-petitions this week
2015-11-25	Globe and Mail	TPP would let foreign investors bypass the Canadian public interest	Lisa Sachs and Lise Johnson - Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
2015-11-13	Globe and Mail	Document outlines Ontario Liberals’ plan for cap-and-trade-system	Keith Leslie
2015-11-04	CBC	Full list of Justin Trudeau's cabinet
2015-10-28	Bennett Jones	Everything You Need to Know About Ontario's New Anti-SLAPP Law	Derek J. Bell - SLAPP
2015-10-28	Environmental Defence	Victory! Ontario citizens freed from the risk of being SLAPPed when speaking out to protect their communities	Tim Gray
2015-10-26	ZMEScience.com	Oil execs attending secret meeting are schooled on how to handle ‘green radicals’: play dirty or lose	- Richard Berman - discrediting movement
2015-10-24	Youtube / King Kab	Lockheed Martin senior scientist tells all, before he dies. Incredible!	Boyd Bushman - Area 51
2015-10-15	Reuters.com	Oslo aims to make city center car-free within four years	Gwladys Fouche, Terje Solsvik; Gareth Jones
2015-09-29	Independent.co.uk	If you're worried about TTIP, then you need to know about CETA	Nick Dearden
2015-09-22	VancityBuzz.com	CBC to sell all of its buildings and properties across Canada	Kenneth Chan
2015-09-15	National Post	Naomi Klein’s ambitious new manifesto is backed by star activists, but does it have a chance?	Joseph Brean - #TheLeap Manifesto
2015-08-25	TheGuardian.com	Sea Shepherd anti-whaling ship Bob Barker refused entry to Faroe Islands	Agence France-Presse
2015-07-23	DurhamRegion.com	Wild parsnip, cow parsnip, giant hogweed: can you identify them and which is most toxic?	Hogweed
2015-07-20	Financial Post	With twice the debt of California, Ontario is now the world’s most indebted sub-sovereign borrower	Katia Dmitrieva and Cecile Gutscher, Bloomberg News
2015-06-16	EcoWatch / Irma Omerhodzic	Thousands of Sea Lion Pups Are Washing Ashore and Dying Along the California Coast	Irma Omerhodzic
2015-05-29	NY Times	Death on the Steppes: Mystery Disease Kills Saigas	Carl Zimmer
2015-05-26	CTV News	NDP present petition seeking plastic microbeads ban	Kendra Mangione
2015-04-30	MetroNews.ca	Opposition mounts against Conservative government’s ‘wasteful’ ad blitz	Torstar News Service
2015-04-13	Globe and Mail	Cap and trade explained: What Ontario’s shift on emissions will mean	Adrian Morrow
2015-04-09	ExposingTruth.com	New UN report finds almost no industry profitable if environmental costs were included	Michael Thomas - Report (2013) .pdf
2015-04-08	International Fund for Animal Welfare	IFAW: Canada’s commercial seal hunt is a cruel, unnecessary waste	- sealing industry subsidized annually
2015-04-07	TheGuardian.com	Captain deliberately sank illegal fishing vessel, claim Sea Shepherd rescuers	Oliver Milman
2015-03-24	Democracy Now	Judge Praises Seneca Lake Gas Storage Protesters, Drops Charges	Judge Raymond Berry "in the interests of justice"
2015-03-03	CNBC	Public Health Officials Know: Recently Vaccinated Individuals Spread Disease	Globe Newswire
2015-02-26	Ring of Fire Radio	Big Pharma Corporations Avoid Billions in U.S. Taxes Each Year
2015-02-24	Express.co.uk	Dozen more mysterious GIANT craters in Russia spark fears of looming natural disaster	Will Stewart
2015-02-12	Ring of Fire Radio	CDC Scientist Still Maintains Agency Forced Researchers To Lie About Safety Of Mercury Based Vaccines	Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
2015-02-12	Yes Magazine	Deep in the Amazon, a Tiny Tribe Is Beating Big Oil	David Goodman - sumak kawsay - codifying the rights of nature - AO Oil & Gas News
2015-02-06	CTV News	More travellers returning with painful new mosquito virus	Marilynn Marchione
2015-02-03	Socred.org	The Case to “Reinstate” the Bank of Canada	M. Oliver Heydorn Committee for monetary and economic reform (“COMER”) William Krehm, and Ann Emmett (Dec. 12, 2011) - Rocco Galati
2015-02-03	Ring of Fire Radio	Attorney General Discovers Extensive Fraud with Major Retail Supplements
2015-01-15	CTV News	Target pulling out of Canada after failed expansion	Angela Mulholland
2015-01-13	Toronto Star	Canada being sued for billions under NAFTA investor protections	Les Whittington
2015-01-08	Ring of Fire Radio	Thousands of Pacific Seabirds are Washing Ashore Dead, and No One Knows Why	Amy Eddings
2015-01-06	Ring of Fire Radio	Papantonio: The Corporate Death Grip on America	Papantonio
2014-12-19	Toronto Sun	Ontario’s credit rating downgraded	Antonella Artso
2014-12-11	Ring of Fire Radio (USA)	The Koch Machine is Now Creating Study Curriculum for Schools. Focus is Gov’t is Bad.	Joshua De Leon
2014-12-11	Council of Canadians	Harper seeking new voter suppression powers	Bill C-50
2014-12-11	Huffington Post	Canada Hasn’t Blocked Global Trade in 76 Endangered Species: Docs	Bob Weber, The Canadian Press
2014-12-10	Commonsense Canadian	Latest Harper Omnibus bill guts regulations for coal, LNG ports	Andrew Gage and Anna Johnston
2014-12-10	Ring of Fire Radio	Study: For every $1 Corporations Spend on Elections, They Get $760 from Government	Amy Eddings
2014-12-09	Toronto Star	The Beer Store’s secret sweetheart deal with LCBO revealed: Cohn	Martin Regg Cohn
2014-12-08	National Post	Conservative MP’s private member’s bill could be used against pipeline protesters, critics say	Justin Ling
2014-11-17	Ring of Fire Radio	DuPont Leak Adds To the Company’s Harmful and Deadly Past	Joshua De Leon
2014-10-18	Global News	VIDEO: Russian container ship adrift off coast of Haida Gwaii being towed away from land	Amy Judd, Peter Meizner and Yuliya Talmazan
2014-10-10	Toronto Star	In Leamington, the future’s first harvest	Vanessa Lu - former Heinz plant in Leamington
2014-09-24	David Suzki Foundation	Today is the Day we Decide (7 mins)	Canadians do not have the right to a healthy environment - the blue dot tour
2014-09-16	EcoWatch / Anastasia Pantsios	Top 10 Countries With the Worst Air Quality	Anastasia Pantsios - NOT China
2014-09-14	Globe and Mail	Environmental extremism a rising threat to energy sector, RCMP warns	Shawn McCarthy
2014-09-12	Toronto Star	EU trade pact could weaken Ottawa’s power to regulate banks	Les Whittington
2014-08-30	EcoWatch / Stefanie Spear	California Bans Plastic Bags	Stefanie Spear
2014-08-27	New York Times	The Poisoning of Africa’s Vultures	Darcy L. Ogada
2014-08-22	EcoWatch / Anastasia Pantsios	Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver Warns U.S. Food Not Safe for Britain	Anastasia Pantsios TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
2014-07-14	EcoWatch / Brandon Baker	Watch a Phony Petitioner Lie to Residents of Texas Town That Could Soon Ban Fracking	Brandon Baker / Sharon Wilson
2014-06-14	Calendon Enterprise	Emails show Mayor and CAO tried to secure Ministerial Zoning Order in 2011	Matthew Strader *- Kathleen Wynne skirting rules?*
2014-05-17	Zerohedge.com	Where the World’s Unsold Cars Go To Die	Tyler Durden
2014-05-19	Toronto Star	Opinion: Ontario needs its own immigration program	Viresh Fernando Tim Leahy Link to AO Ring of Fire info
2014-05-07	PolicyMic	Harvard Scientists May Have Just Solved One of the Biggest Environmental Issues of Our Time	Eileen Shim
2014-05-05	Youtube / SciShow	The Deepest Hole in the World, And What We’ve Learned …	Russia’s Kola superdeep Borehole “there’s water down there” (1:44 mins)
2014-05-02	EcoWatch / Earth Policy Institute	The Global Downfall of the Plastic Bag	Janet Larsen and Savina Venkova
2014-05-01	EcoWatch / Karl Grossman	Power of Motherly Love: From Fracking to Toxic Chemicals, Grassroots Groups Mobilize for Children	Karl Grossman
2014-04-06	Global News	Is there Atrazine in your drinking water?	Allison Vuchnich and Gil Shochat
2014-04-03	Globe and Mail	Canada’s 86 wealthiest have as much as the 11.4 million poorest, report finds	Julian Beltrame
2014-04-01	CTV News Barrie	Controversial Newmarket development plan set for second OMB hearing	- Glenway Estates - greenspace
2014-03-29	EcoWatch / Earth Island Journal	Eco Euphemisms That Confuse Our Understanding of Environmental Destruction	Jason Mark
2014-03-28	CBC	“Sunshine list” 2014: Ontario’s top public earners list released
2014-03-28	Inhabitat	White House Announces Plans to Fight Global Warming by Targeting Methane Emissions	Josh Marks
2014-03-21	Post Independent (USA)	Prenatal defects investigated in Garfield County [Colorado]	- Glenwood Springs
2014-03-16	Daily Mail (UK)	The bonfire of insanity: Woodland is shipped 3,800 miles and burned in Drax power station. It belches out more CO2 than coal at a huge cost YOU pay for... and all for a cleaner, greener Britain!	David Rose - burning wood pellets: sustainable? green? Not so sure
2014-03-13	Fire Engineering	Explosion a reminder of NYC’s aging infrastructure	David Crary
2014-02-11	EcoWatch / Brandon Baker	Subway to Remove Chemical Found in Shoe Soles and Yoga Mats From Its Bread	Brandon Baker - azodicarbonamide
2013-12-24	Grist.org	First oil shale mine in U.S. is coming to Utah	John Upton *kerogen*
2013-12-10	Canadian Business	The province is partly to blame for Kellogg’s plant closure in London, Ont.: Mike Moffatt	Mike Moffatt
2013-12-09	National Geographic	1,500 Poisoned Vultures Since May, Vultures Now Targeted for Their Heads	Darcy Ogada
2013-11-20	DeSmog Canada	The Day I Found Out the Canadian Government Was Spying on Me	Emma Gilchrist
2013-11-18	Globe and Mail	Canada dead last in ranking for environmental protection	Paul Waldie
2013-11-15	Ring of Fire Radio	Expose the Trans-Pacific Partnership	Alisah Mims - USA viewpoint - TPP
2013-11-14	Canadian Business	Ketchup-maker Heinz closing Ontario plant in 2014, cutting more than 700 jobs	Canadian Press
2013-11-01	ABC News	Top Hospital Suspends Black Lung Program After ABC News Report	Brian Ross, Matthew Mosk, Chris Hamby
2013-10-25	Gizmodo	Haunting Aerial Photographs of Drowned Villages in Canada	Photographer Louis Helbig - villages drowned by the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway
2013-10-20	Toronto Star	How corporate Ontario gets its way at Queen’s Park: Cohn	Martin Regg Cohn
2013-10-18	David Suzuki Foundation	False allegations pollute the well of public discourse	Peter Robinson - Addressing comments made by Ezra Levant, Sun News
2013-10-14	Toronto Sun	Liberals defend the indefensible	Jerry Agar
2013-10-10	Globe & Mail	Ontario Liberals quietly loosened environmental rules, watchdog warns	Adrian Morrow
2013-10-10	Global News	Ontario’s environmental commissioner warns of ecological risks as province guts environmental protections	Maria Babbage, Canadian Press
2013-10-08	National Post	Auditor-General report puts total cost of Liberal gas plant cancellations as high as $1.1-billion	Canadian Press
2013-09-25	Truth-Out.org	What Then Can I Do? Ten Ways to Democratize the Economy	Gar Alperovitz & Keane Bhatt
2013-09	EcoWatch / Dr. David Suzuki	How Greed and Disregard for Humanity Feed Industry Attacks on Climate Change	Dr. David Suzuki
2013-09-23	Bloomberg	At 77 He Prepares Burgers Earning in Week His Former Hourly Wage	Carol Hymowitz
2013-09-21	New York Times	Silencing Scientists	Verlyn Klinkenborg
2013-09-10	Collective Evolution	Thousands of Genetically Modified Insects Are Set For Release	Arjun Walia
2013-09-07	Commonsense Canadian	David Suzuki on Chemtrails	Ian Hanington
2013-08-29	National Geographic	Elephant Poachers Poison Hundreds of Vultures to Evade Authorities	Darcy Ogada
2013-08-28	Toronto Sun	Ontario debt clock a ticking time bomb	Sue-Ann Levy Ontario’s Debt Clock Canada’s Debt Clock
2013-08-16	Globe and Mail	BC First Nation renews battle to prevent open pit mining	Kim Nursall
2013-08-07	CBC News	Ottawa can’t claim cabinet secrecy in sage grouse fight	Government delays emergency species protection
2013-08-01	Hamilton Spectator	Former development battleground too pricey for eco-park builders	Matthew Van Dongen - asking $6.7 mln for 40ha First property ($800k/21ha)
2013-07-20	CBC News	Ex-minister Peter Kent looks forward to the backbench	Tina Pittaway
2013-07-16	CBC News	Taxpayers could pay for lost landfill revenue	Colin Butler
2013-06-26	Windsor Star	Editorial – Is there a worse place to build yet another big box store?	Coco Development Inc., Ojibway Park, Ojibway Prairie Provincial Nature Reserve
2013-06-21	Weatherpeace	Geoengineering Watch: Calgary, Alberta	chemtrails (blog)
2013-05-20	EcoWatch	ALEC Bill on Capitol Hill	American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) w/ video
2013-05-15	Huffington Post	Blog: Canada Pulls its Goalie on the Environment	Adam Scott
2013-04-24	Sarnia Observer	Parents rattled to learn of “extremely high” levels of lead at Centennial Park	Barbara Simpson
2013-04-17	Grist.org	None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use	David Roberts
2013-04-17	Toronto Star	By closing the Health Council of Canada, Stephen Harper is abandoning national medicare	Michael McBane
2013-04-09	Huffington Post	Blog: The Event that Started my Life in Politics	Excerpt from book “Unlikely Radicals: The Story of the Adams Mine War” by Charlie Angus, MP Timmins-James Bay
2013-03-28	Huffington Post	Sunshine List in Ontario for 2013: The Top Paid in the Public Sector Revealed	Maria Babbage
2013-03-17	Wikipedia	Define: Cloud Seeding	widely practiced in airports
2013-03-12	ScienceDump	Video: How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change	Allan Savory (22 mins)
2013-02-05	Vancouver Sun	Private property rights are precarious in Canada	Joseph Quesnel - Frontier Centre for Public Policy - Canadian Property Rights Index
2012-12-20	Toronto Star	Paralyzed sisters win court case against Oshawa, Scugog	Wendy Gillis & Alex Consiglio sets a precedent that could lead to more lawsuits against municipalities
2012-12-10	Council of Canadians Fundraiser	Take Robocalls to Court	Fundraiser website
2012-11-23	SFGate	Sandy Seen Boosting U.S. with as much as $240 billion rebuilding	Jeff Kearns, Susanna Pak and Noah Buhayar, Bloomberg News
2012-11-09	Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment	Green groups to Canadian PM: mine your own business!	Phillipines
2012-11-08	EBR	Stewardship – Leadership – Accountability. Managing Ontario’s Water Resources for Future Generations	EBR 010-6350 with links to other sources List of ON’s Contributing Water Management & Conservation Statutes, Programs & Policies (30-Jun-12 .pdf)
2012-11-07	Youtube / Rick Mercer	Video: RMR: Rick’s Rant – China Trade Agreement	Rick Mercer
2012-10-31	Huffington Post / Rick Mercer	Video: Experimental Lakes Area Cuts (1.5mins)	Rick Mercer
2012-07-09	Youtube / Daniel Altman	Video: Daniel Altman: Everything You Need to Know About Gold	Daniel Altman - should we return to the gold standard?
2012-05-08	CBC News	Canada’s four most expensive contaminated sites	- Port Hope, Ontario (AO – Nuclear News) - Faro Mine, Yukon - Giant Mine, Yellowknife, NWT (AO – Mining News)
2012-03-20	CBC News	Ontario builds first bridge for animals near Sudbury
2010-10-08	Globe and Mail	The hidden history of Bob Rae's government in Ontario	Gerald Caplan
2010-05-30	Toronto Star	Piles of poison PCBs remain across Ontario	Tyler Hamilton
2008-11-27	Toronto Star	Poorest areas also most polluted, report shows	Moira Welsh
2008-05-08	Youtube / TED	Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world	Paul Stamets
2003-09-15	Sullivan-County.com	Environmentalism as Religion by Michael Crichton	Michael Crichton

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