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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#BE0119"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6">Greenspirational News</font></font></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#BE0119"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">"In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a mixture of good and bad, darkness and light, love and hate."</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">- Jean Vanier</span></font></div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); min-height: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); min-height: 13px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#D4850F"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000303">For a great laugh, check out the</font> </span></font></font><a href="http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/correspondents/daily-show-jason-jones/#clip13255"><font style=""><u><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#D4850F"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">Daily Show’s skewering</span></font></font></u></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#D4850F"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"> of those opposing renewable energy – <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000303">it’s a must watch.</font></span></font></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">-a</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></font><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">So prepare yourselves, ladies and gentlemen, for the worst scam of all. It's another reward for failure, but this one offers no prospect of rescuing the economy. Thanks to its cunning disguise as an environmental measure, we seem willing to be conned.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">Every pound we spend on driving is a pound withheld from the alternatives, many of which (such as buses and trains) employ far more people for the same amount of money. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">This leaves only the value of preserving the industry for its own sake. It is hard to think of a less deserving cause. The motor companies have repeatedly failed to anticipate trends in demand. They have carried on producing thunderous gas guzzlers long after the market collapsed. Every so often the bosses wring their hands about jobs, put out the begging bowl, get the money, then shaft their workers anyway. Like the bankers, they have wrecked their own industry. And like the bankers, they want the rest of us to pay.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#002fd7" style="font: 13.0px Verdana; color: #002fd7"><a href="http://www.monbiot.com/"><u>www.monbiot.com</u></a></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></font><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); min-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div></div></div></span></div></span></font></div></span></font></div></div></div></span></span></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); min-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 72, 88); font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#D4850F"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">Canadians on Climate Change</span></font></font></strong><div><font size="1"> </font><br></div><div styleclass="style_ArticleSubHead" align="left" style="color: rgb(87, 130, 120); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><font color="#578278" size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color: rgb(87, 130, 120); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><font size="5"><font size="4"><div>POLL: CANADIANS CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT</div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><div> </div><div><div>"Canadians won't quit on the environment" despite the crisis and recession, says a recent poll by Ipsos Reid.</div><div> <a track="on" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102495878563&e=001Leq_UwW8uhIyqpRBzevH9QPv1GtE5lRxeNn1jUIR_L5J8WM6QQGCQv1TK6Y82IqEFdJdt3HkJIe1gl6ulNDV0NhfgkDdJVREKcbKfK95xfCS3jDrMdFkmbHHDtAFZd0cJS8bLh8yoeawD_XDnJOCQ-Z_ouxZPSP_R8e-0gWNYnO_xkTpWyNKQqMaJ0O5o2SPTRRhnEiMNoBJdEKd40A-_g==" linktype="link" target="_blank">More></a></div><div><br></div></div></font></font></div></font></font></font></div></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); min-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></font><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); min-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><ul> </ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="7" style="font: 32.0px Times New Roman"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#10D4A2">Sand Storm</font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" style="font: 24.0px Times New Roman"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#10D4A2">The U.S. government is changing its environmental policy. Now Canada may have to rethink its policy as well.</font></b></font></div></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 50, 230); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; "><u><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123620661145533445.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123620661145533445.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</a></u></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0032E6" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></font><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); min-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div></div></div></span></span></font></div></div></div></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Helvetica" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#16C4EF"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">Resounding Victory for Public Water</span></font></font></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#16C4EF">Bottled water’s time is up and the tap is back!</font></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Helvetica">The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), representing more than 1700 municipal members from across the country, passed a resolution encouraging municipalities to phase out bottled water on municipal property. Municipalities across the country are expected to shortly take action on bottled water. </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#0032e6" style="font: 15.0px Helvetica; color: #0032e6"><a href="http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2009/03/07/8666801.html"><u>http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2009/03/07/8666801.html</u><u></u></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#0032e6" style="font: 15.0px Helvetica; color: #0032e6"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/03/07/bc-fcm-bottle-water-ban.html"><u>http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/03/07/bc-fcm-bottle-water-ban.html</u><u></u></a></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; ">Canadian Statistics:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Helvetica">-28 Municipalities from 6 provinces have voted to restrict bottled water.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Helvetica">-The Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) recently encouraged their 410 municipal members to take action on bottled water.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Helvetica">-21 Universities and Colleges have established bottled water free zones.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Helvetica">http://</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; ">InsidetheBottle.org </span></div></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></font><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; 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margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; ">March 14, 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"><b>by JACK GIBBONS</b></font></div></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://therecord.metrolandwest.com/Opinions/article/503156">http://therecord.metrolandwest.com/Opinions/article/503156</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; "><font face="Times New Roman" style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8410FF">George Bush is coming to Calgary! Join us in saying NO to war criminals in Canada!</font></span></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(83, 130, 178); min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#5382b2" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #5382b2">On the sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, former US President George W. Bush is coming to Calgary. To coincide with his visit, a series of events culminating in a rally have been organized. The events are centred around the idea that George Bush must be arrested and put on trial for his war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan, his crimes against humanity and his disregard for the rule of law.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(83, 130, 178); min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#5382b2" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #5382b2">For more information:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#5382b2" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #5382b2"> Webpage: <a href="http://www.peoplevbush.ca/"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>www.peoplevbush.ca</u></font></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#5382b2" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #5382b2">Email: <font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u><a href="mailto:info@peoplevbush.ca">info@peoplevbush.ca</a></u></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(83, 130, 178); min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(83, 130, 178); min-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8410FF"><b>Public Forum</b></font></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#5382B2" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#5382B2" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#5382b2" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(83, 130, 178); ">When: Monday, March 16, 2009 - 7:00pm and 9:00pm</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#5382b2" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(83, 130, 178); ">Where: Parkdale Nifty Fifies Meeting Room, 3512 5 Ave N.W. (adjacent to Parkdale Community Association Building), Calgary, AB</font></div><div><br></div></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#5382b2" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(83, 130, 178); ">A public forum will look at the issues being brought forward in the trial. Speakers will discuss the illegal invasion of Iraq, the use of torture and the treatment of American soldiers.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(83, 130, 178); min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#5382b2" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(83, 130, 178); ">Anthony Hall, Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge, will speak on Bush's war crimes, in particular about torture and Guantanamo Bay. Julie Hrdlicka, former executive director of CANDIL, who will speak on breeches of international law that directly affect Iraqi citizens and her personal experiences in Iraq. Chuck Wiley, a US war resister will speak on his experience in the US navy and why he felt he had to could not continue fighting in Iraq.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#5382B2" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8410FF"><b>George Bush Go Home Rally!!</b></font></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#5382B2" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#5382B2" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#5382b2" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(83, 130, 178); ">When: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 11:30 A.M until 2:00 P.M.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#5382b2" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(83, 130, 178); ">Where: East of 1 St. S.E. on Stephen Avenue (Between Teatro's and Epcor Centre), Calgary, AB</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#5382B2" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div></span></span></font></div></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#5382b2" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #5382b2">While Bush is giving his speech, we will be outside of the Telus Convention Centre letting him know that we don't want him in Canada and that he must be held accountable for his war crimes.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(83, 130, 178); min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#5382b2" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #5382b2">Confirmed speakers to date are Chuck Wiley, a US war resister, Dijla Al-Rekabi, a local anti-war activist, Peggy Askin, member of the ad hoc committee <i>People vs Bush</i> and past president of the Calgary and District Labour Council, Derrick O'Keefe of Stopwar.ca Vancouver, and Peggy Morton of ECAWAR (Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism). Collette Lemieux, co-chair of the Canadian Peace Alliance, is the MC and is making opening remarks. The Raging Grannies are performing "Hang down your head Bush Jr." and "Bush as a War Criminal".</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(83, 130, 178); min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#5382b2" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #5382b2">As an act of solidarity with this event, people are sending in shoes from across Canada that will be displayed as a symbolic gesture. You can also donate a pair of shoes to the pile. After the rally, some shoes will be sent to PM Harper and other MPs. The rest will be donated to charity.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(83, 130, 178); min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#5382b2" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #5382b2">Bring shoes, banners, drums, placards, yourselves and friends.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(83, 130, 178); min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#5382b2" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #5382b2">The rally is a family friendly event.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">Despite icy weather and light rain some 15,000 Germans demonstrated against nuclear power generation on Thursday evening with a chain of light 52 kilometres long.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">Although most protesters were from the region, people travelled from all over Germany to the demo, called by trade unions, churches, advocacy groups, local governments, neighbourhood associations, firms, farmers with their tractors, to protest against irresponsible handling of nuclear waste. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF15CB">Protesting plan to build new reactors</font></span></font></b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial">Greenpeace is blockading the Pickering nuclear plant to protest the Ontario government's plan to build new reactors.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial">"We don't think they need to build new reactors," spokesman Brian Blomme said.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial">"It's our view that nuclear energy minister (George) Smitherman's massive nuclear building plan, which he has done nothing but promote, actually undermines his Green Energy Act and will undermine the development of green energy."</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial">Blomme said Ontario has a chance to forego replacing Pickering when it reaches the end of its operational life and instead develop renewable energy.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial">The province has introduced the Green Energy Act intended to promote solar, wind and biomass electrical generation but is still committed to replacing its aging nuclear fleet with new reactors – at an estimated cost of $26 billion.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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Levine, Mar. 3, 2009, Alternet</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">At this point, the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly is basically a public menace.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Eli Lilly & Company's rap sheet as a public menace is so long that for Lilly</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">watchers to overcome the "banality-of-Lilly-sleaziness" phenomenon, the drug</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">company must break some type of record measuring egregiousness. Lilly</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">obliged earlier this year, receiving the largest criminal fine ever imposed</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">on a corporation.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If Americans are ever going to revoke the publicly granted charters of</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">reckless, giant corporations -- well within our rights -- we might want to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">get the ball rolling with Lilly, whose recent actions appalled even the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">mainstream media. And with Lilly's chums, the Bush family, out of power, now</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">might be the right time.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/129709/eli_lilly_and_the_case_for_a_c">http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/129709/eli_lilly_and_the_case_for_a_c</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">orporate_death_penalty/?page=entire</div><div><br></div></div></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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Bring a candle to show your support.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">To find out how renewable is doable visit <a href="http://www.renewableisdoable.com/"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7">www.renewableisdoable.com</font></a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">The six reactors that remain operating at the Pickering Nuclear Station are the oldest and most dangerous reactors in the country. In the coming months, the McGuinty government will decide on whether to rebuild or replace the four 30-year-old Pickering “B” reactors when they reach the end of their operational life in 2013. Join us to urge the McGuinty government to shut down these old, dirty, dangerous reactors, and replace them with cheaper, cleaner, safer green power.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">The candlelight vigil will take place at the entranceway to the Public Information Centre at the Pickering Generating Station. For further information please contact: <a href="mailto:energyvisionptbo@gmail.com?subject=Pickering%20Earth%20Hour%20Candlelight%20Vigil"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7">Safe And Green Energy</font></a> .</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station is located on Montgomery Park Road. Take HWY 401 to the Brock Road exit (#399) in Pickering.<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0475"> </font>Take Brock Road south 2.7 km to Montgomery Park Road; turn right onto Montgomery Park Road and proceed to the gate on your left.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Hope to see you there,</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#002fd7" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #002fd7"><a href="mailto:brackett@nexicom.net?subject=Pickering%20Candlelight%20Vigil">Jeff Brackett</a><a href="http://www.gosage.net/"></a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#002fd7" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #002fd7"><a href="http://www.gosage.net/">SAGE</a></font></p></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></font><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); min-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0CA7A1">Prentice to weaken Canadian Environmental Assessment Act</font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The Globe and Mail reports this morning that, "A leaked government document</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">outlining the proposed changes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">indicates Environment Minister Jim Prentice has asked for a bill</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">'overhauling' the legislation as soon as possible."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">CHANGES WOULD MEAN 95% DROP IN FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"Under the new system, the government should 'expect to capture 200-300</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">projects per year,' the document states. That would represent a more than 95</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">per cent drop from the roughly 6,000 federal environmental assessments that</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">currently take place each year."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">THIS FOLLOWS CHANGES TO THE NAVIGABLE WATERS PROTECTION ACT</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"The changes would come on the heels of a similar change included in the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">budget legislation that passed this week, which reduced the ability to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">trigger environmental assessments through the Navigable Waters Protection Act."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PRENTICE SAYS RULES DELAY STIMULUS SPENDING</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Environment Minister Jim Prentice "said the proposed changes are in response</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to the provinces, who recently told Prime Minister Stephen Harper that</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">overlapping environmental rules will delay public stimulus spending from</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">creating jobs."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NDP FOUND THAT CONSERVATIVES MAY DO AWAY WITH ASSESSMENTS FOR PROJECTS</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">UNDER $10 MILLION</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"The issue surfaced in January when the NDP released an internal government</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">e-mail indicating Ottawa wanted to do away with environmental assessments</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">for projects that cost less than $10-million."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SIERRA CLUB OF CANADA</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The leaked government document outlining the proposed changes to the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Canadian Environmental Assessment Act was released to the media by the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sierra Club of Canada.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; 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