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Miscellaneous – General News (2016-2020)

 

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2020-12-07

ScienceAlert.com

China Just Switched on Its 'Artificial Sun' Nuclear Fusion Reactor

 

AO News - China

 

2020-12-02

TheGuardian.com

No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time

 

 

2020-11-18

Metro.co.uk

You can now eat human steak, scientists insist it’s not cannibalism

 

Alex Wilkins

2020-06-09

TheGuardian.com

Canada doubles weapons sales to Saudi Arabia despite moratorium

 

Leyland Cecco

2020-04-06

Youtube Double Down News

The Worst Possible People are in Charge at the Worst Possible Time – George Monbiot on Coronavirus

 

George Monbiot

2020-02-27

New York Post

Does this 3D printed ‘steak’ taste like the real thing?

 

 

2020-02-26

Global News

Canada needs new policies to end ‘snow washing,’ B.C. money laundering inquiry hears

 

Laura Kane, The Canadian Press

2019-12-18

Toronto Life

The Ford Fallout: “I’m dreading the day my grandchildren look at me and ask, ‘Why did you let this happen to us?’”

 

- Dianne Saxe, former Environmental Commissioner

2019-12-06

Collective Evolution

Prime Minister Of Iceland Calls For Prioritizing “Well-Being” Of Citizens Over GDP

 

Alanna Ketler

2019-09-27

CP24.com

Ontario's former environment watchdog slams Doug Ford's government

 

The Canadian Press

2019-09-19

CBC News

Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cause, study suggests

Luc Chartrand, Martin Movilla, Lisa Ellenwood

- Pesticides

2019-09-17

Youtube / DW Documentary

Rubber tires — a dirty business | DW Documentary

 

30 mins

[now we know]

2019-07-18

Vice.com

Low-Income Workers Can’t Afford Rent in 91% of Canadian Cities

 

Anne Gaviola

2019-05-10

CBC News

A Green New Deal for Canada: What it means

 

 

2019-05-08

Business Insider

Levi's found a way to make hemp feel like cotton, and it could have big implications for your wardrobe

 

Richard Feloni

2019-04-14

CBC News

Ontario PCs want to make it next to impossible to sue the government

 

Lucas Powers

2019-02-28

Bnnbloomberg.ca

Foreign investment in Canada hits 3-year high despite oil woes

 

Theophilos Argitis, Erik Hertzberg

2018-12-18

NBCNews.com (USA)

United States added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists for first time

 

Reuters

2018-12-06

Huffingtonpost.ca

Ontario PC Amendments To Bill 57 Strip More Powers From Environmental Commissioner

 

Emma Paling

#ECO

2018-11-24

TheGuardian.com (Brazil)

Brazil records worst annual deforestation for a decade

 

Dom Phillips

2018-11-15

CBC News

Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli delivers the fall economic statement

 

Mike Crawley

2018-11-15

Huffington Post

Ontario PCs Do Away With Environmental Watchdog

 

Emma Paling

#ECO

2018-11-15

Provincialadvocate.on.ca

Statement from Ontario Child Advocate

 

 

2018-11-15

National Observer

Doug Ford slashes Ontario watchdogs

Fatima Syed

#ECO

2018-11-06

CTV News

Mysterious cigar-shaped interstellar object may be alien spacecraft: Harvard researchers

 

Jackie Dunham

2018-11-06

ScienceDaily.com

Drug pollution concentrates in stream bugs, passes to predators in water and on land

 

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

2018-07-17

CBC News

CRA loses court challenge to its political-activity audits of charities

 

Dean Beeby

2018-05-31

NewAtlas.com

Controversial antibacterial ingredient now linked to inflammation and cancer

 

Rich Haridy

- triclosan

2018-04-29

CBC News

Gun group clashing with Ottawa over effort to eliminate lead from ammunition

 

Dean Beeby

2018-03-24

TheFreeThoughtProject.com

Entrepreneurs Invent City Bench that Absorbs More Air Pollution Than a Small Forest

 

Matt Agorist

2018-03-16

National Observer

Gatineau police arrest Radio-Canada journalist after he requested an interview

 

 

2018-03-13

Huffington Post

Canadian CEOs Are Taking An Ever Larger Share Of The Pie, Analysis Finds

 

Albert Van Santvoort

2018-03-13

Financial Post

RBC chief Dave McKay tops big banks pay at $12.4 million as CEO wages rise 7%

 

The Canadian Press

2018-03-08

CBC News

Spike in opioid deaths prompts Ontario government to offer free naloxone spray

 

Kaitie Fraser

2018-02-09

CBC News

Controversial proposal for GTA West Highway cancelled by province

 

Ieva Lucs

2018-01-22

National Post

How Canada's addiction to road salt is ruining everything

 

Tristan Hopper

2018-01-17

Wellington Advertiser

LTE: Highways 6, 401

Dave Rodgers, Green Party candidate

2018-01-17

TVO.org

Oversalted: Why Ontario needs a new approach to snow removal

 

Tim Alamenciak

2017-12-30

Toronto Star

Homeowner’s shed caught in the middle of a land dispute in Vaughan

Noor Javed

- SLAPP

- Vaughan, ON

2017-10-16

Toronto Star

The truth about hydro in Ontario: an updated fact check

 

Kristin Rushowy, Rob Ferguson, Robert Benzie

2017-10-02

Collective Evolution

Apollo 15 Pilot Joins the Long List of Astronauts to Tell the World About ‘Alien’ Visitation

 

Arjun Walia

2017-10-02

Reuters.com

Canada defends refugee system as Somali immigrant charged in attack

 

Ethan Lou

2017-10-02

Natural News

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: Official story of Las Vegas shooting unravels; physical impossibility of lone gunman senior citizen makes narrative ludicrous

 

Mike Adams

2017-09-30

CTV News

Ontario town entices new residents with 90 per cent off land

Michelle McQuigge

- problem with being a one industry town

2017-09-11

CBC Sudbury

Questions around unknown opioid found in Sault drug bust

 

- cyclopropyl fentanyl (used in forensics)

2017-09-08

TheGuardian.com

Sea salt around the world is contaminated by plastic, studies show

 

 

2017-08

Federation of Ontario Cottagers’ Associations

Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) changes

 

2017-08-09

Theguardian.com

GM salmon hits shelves in Canada – but people may not know they're buying it

 

Ashifa Kassam

2017-08-05

Edmonton Journal

Industry still chafed five years after end of Canadian Wheat Board monopoly

 

Gordon Kent

2017-07-04

Law Times

OMB changes mean restrictions on appeals

 

Shannon Kari

2017-05-16

Globe and Mail

Ontario Municipal Board reforms will stifle new housing: developers

 

Jeff Gray and Justin Giovannetti

2017-05-16

Toronto Star

Province plans to overhaul OMB and give more power to cities and citizens

 

Jennifer Pagliaro

2017-03-17

Youtube / That is Impossible

Disturbing Message To All Americans From Ex Defense Minister Of Canada

 

Paul T. Hellyer

- The Money Mafia

2017-02-24

NPR.org

Environmental Groups Say California’s Climate Program Has Not Helped Them

 

Emily Guerin

- cap and trade

2017-02-22

Environmental Defence

Ontario Municipal Board Review:  Hearings de novo Reasonable or Trojan Horse?

 

David Donnelly

2017-02-02

Youtube / The Agenda

Reforming the OMB / Do We Need the OMB? (35 mins)

 

Steve Paikin

- Jane Pepino

2017-01-26

National Geographic

Human-Pig Hybrid Created in the Lab—Here Are the Facts

 

Erin Blakemore

2017-01-25

CBC News

Toronto police can't stop you from filming them, nor seize your phone, lawyer says

 

John Rieti

2017-01-15

Daily Mail (UK)

'Green guzzler' power plant is blamed after 1,000 fish die at one of Britain's best-loved salmon and trout rivers

 

Nic North

- anaerobic digester

2017-01-02

TheBigWobble.org

Tens of thousands of dead starfish wash up along the Dutch coast! "Dead starfish as far as the eye can see!

 

Gary Walton, Martin Kool

Dutch News link

2016-12-29

CTV News Barrie

Ontario's cap-and-trade program comes into effect Sunday

 

 

2016-12-27

CBC News (NS)

Why are dead lobsters, crabs and herring washing up along this Nova Scotia shore?

 

Michael Gorman

2016-12-17

New Indian Express

Nine dead of fentanyl opiod abuse in one day in Vancouver

 

AFP

- fentanyl, carfentanil

2016-12-13

UnpublishedOttawa.com

This What Happens When Ontario Is More Accessible

 

Shan Simpson

2016-12-07

CBC News

Deadly elephant tranquilizer carfentanil found in Toronto street drugs for 1st time

 

Laura Fraser

- fentanyl, carfentanil

2016-11-11

EcoWatch / Dan Zukowski

70 Giant Freshwater Stingrays Found Dead in Thailand River

 

Dan Zukowski

2016-11-10

EcoWatch / Dan Zukowski

'We've Never Seen Anything Like This': Hundreds of Dead Puffins Wash Ashore in the North Pacific

 

Dan Zukowski

2016-11-04

EcoWatch / Dan Zukowski

Bizarre Two-Headed Sharks Showing Up in Many Parts of the World

 

Dan Zukowski

2016-10-13

Wgem.com

Dead fish pile up near Canton, Mo.

- asian carp, along Mississippi River near Canton, Missouri

2016-09-26

Youtube / Era of Wisdom

These 13 Corporations Are "Big Pharma": Their History, Crimes, and Products (6 mins)

 

 

2016-09-08

EcoWatch / Lorraine Chow

13 Academics Who Are Shills for Corporate Giants

 

Lorraine Chow

2016-09-08

National Post

Ontario Liberals hope prorogation and Throne Speech will hit ‘reset’ button after bad-news summer

 

Allison Jones, The Canadian Press

2016-09-08

Globe and Mail

Wynne to prorogue Ontario Legislature to clear way for Throne Speech

 

Adrian Morrow

2016-09-08

CBC News

Kathleen Wynne prorogues Ontario legislature, throne speech to be delivered Monday

 

The Canadian Press

2016-07-23

Globe and Mail

It’s all connected

 

Mark MacKinnon

2016-07-17

CTV News Kitchener

Six rattlesnake bites so far this year in Ontario cottage country

 

Clare Clancy

2016-07-16

CBC

Hold Your Fire (44 mins)

To be aired on August 25, 2016 on CBC-TV

2016-07-07

Youtube / Pat Condell

EU:  We Saved Our Democracy

 

Pat Condell

2016-07-06

Vox.com

How one man repopulated a rare butterfly species in his backyard

 

Zachary Crockett

2016-06-30

Globe and Mail

Government of Canada labels microbeads ‘toxic substance’

 

The Canadian Press

2016-06-08

CBC News

Massive sinkhole closes Rideau Street in downtown Ottawa

 

 

2016-06-07

TheGuardian.com

The Great Barrier Reef: a catastrophe laid bare

 

Michael Slezak

2016-05-17

EcoWatch / Katie Pohlman

Paris Goes Car-Free First Sunday of Every Month

 

Katie Pohlman

2016-05-10

True Activist

Italian Town Switches To Silent Fireworks To Protect Animals

 

Amanda Froelich

2016-05-09

Millstonenews.com

Concerns remain about Wild Parsnip spraying

 

 

2016-05-02

CBC News

Ontario taxpayers gave $163M to Liberal Party's biggest corporate donor

 

Mike Crawley

2016-04-27

Globe and Mail

New Ontario agency will be given sweeping mandate to overhaul energy use

 

Adrian Morrow and Greg Keenan

2016-04-24

Globe and Mail

Prominent Canadian women on who they'd like to see on our bills

 

 

2016-04-10

True Activist

Controversial Photo Series Depicts The Lack Of Boundaries Females Feel Every Day

 

Amanda Froelich

- Allaire Bartel, photographer

2016-04-01

CBC News

Tourism fees rise at some Niagara Falls hotels, restaurants

 

Asha Tomlinson

2016-03-31

Toronto Sun

Niagara Falls tourism improvement fee angers visitors

 

John Law

2016-03-10

Notable.ca

This is How Much the CEOs of Canada’s Biggest Banks Made Last Year

 

 

2016-03-08

CBC News

Canada Revenue offered amnesty to wealthy KPMG clients in offshore tax 'sham'

Harvey Cashore, Dave Seglins, Frederic Zalac, Kimberly Ivany

Link to leadnow.ca petition

2016-03-03

CBC News

Ontario 'moving forward' with plans to extend Highway 427 to Vaughan: minister

 

 

2016-03-02

EcoWatch / Cole Mellino

Scientists Find Answer to Why Thousands of Sea Lion Pups Are Starving

 

Cole Mellino

2016-02-28

CBC News

Man imprisoned for being gay to get posthumous pardon from Trudeau

 

- Trudeau to march in Toronto’s Pride parade on July 3rd, 2016

2016-02-26

CNN.com

Hundreds of sea lions wash up dead in Chile

Rafael Romo

2016-02-15

TrueActivist.com

The Largest Air Purifier In The World Sucks Up Smog And Turns it Into Gemstones

 

Amanda Froelich

2016-01-22

Canada.com

Undoing the Tories: A complete guide to all the Harperisms that the Liberals might or have killed

 

Alexandra Heck

2016-02-11

Natural News / www.organicandhealthy.org

Staged Zika Pandemic Engineered by Globalist Governments as Cover-Up to Mass Population Poisoning

 

 

2016-01-18

Toronto Star

16 Ontario Goodwill stores shut down

Dale Brazao

2016-01-16

Health Perfection

50 Things Your Doctor Never Told You About Vaccination

 

 

2016-01-11

TheTyee.ca

You Thought We Canadians Controlled Our Fisheries? Think Again

Evelyn Pinkerton, Kim Olsen, Joy Thorkelson, Henry Clifton and Art Davidson

2016-01-10

CBC

Ontario's Nipigon River bridge fails, severing Trans-Canada Highway

 

Amy Husser

2016-01-09

Toronto Star

Ontario tire recycling fees fund boozy board dinners

 

Moira Welsh

2016-01-07

True Activist

Six Huge Stories The Mainstream Media Don’t Want You To Know About

 

Sophie McAdam

2016-01-01

True Activist

Germany Opens First Stretch Of A 60-Mile Bicycle Highway

 

Amanda Froelich

 

 

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