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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";color:teal'>No</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <span
style='color:blue'>Nukes</span> <span style='color:red'>News</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>April
16, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“I
think one of the concerns is that, by definition, as you have expansion of
nuclear programs, peaceful programs, there is going to be an increase in the nuclear
by products that come out of those facilities, as well as the expertise that is
available to run them.” John Brennan, Obama’s chief
counterterrorism adviser<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#E36C0A'>Loophole in nuclear summit:
spread of nuclear power? <o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
<p>President Obama's nuclear summit aims to keep terrorists from procuring
nuclear weapons. But the US is encouraging countries to develop civilian
nuclear power. But what are the proliferation risks?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2010/0413/Loophole-in-nuclear-summit-spread-of-nuclear-power">http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2010/0413/Loophole-in-nuclear-summit-spread-of-nuclear-power</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#0070C0'>Risks outweigh potential benefits of nuclear power<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
Nuclear Research Service reports that "in comparison to renewable energy,
nuclear power releases four to five times more carbon dioxide per unit of
energy produced taking into account the whole fuel cycle."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
risk of a horrific accident, no safe long term repository for million-year
radiation of spent fuel, the risk of nuclear proliferation that would make not
only nuclear war more likely but also a terrorist use of a nuclear bomb, and
the astronomical cost of nuclear power compared to efficiency and renewables
leads many to question the wisdom of new nuclear power - especially when the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory and other research endeavors seem well on
the way to resolving the intermittency problem for renewables that is used as
the reason for the need for new nuclear power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.winonadailynews.com/news/opinion/article_2c469bfe-4815-11df-8b8d-001cc4c03286.html">http://www.winonadailynews.com/news/opinion/article_2c469bfe-4815-11df-8b8d-001cc4c03286.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#7030A0'>Nuclear Power: the proliferation problem <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#7030A0'>Canada must truly become an honest broker and stop its deceit
about nuclear power<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>By
Paul McKay, author of Atomic Accomplice <a href="http://paulmckay.com/">http://paulmckay.com/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Despite belated, growing alarm about
world stockpiles of fissile fuels, Ottawa continues to sell uranium as a
commodity no less benign than wheat, wood or potash, and to pitch reactors
which are also plutonium production machines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Yet physics tells us uranium and
plutonium are as innately conjoined as fire and smoke, or the twisted double
helix of DNA. By promoting a nuclear export policy which gives primacy to
closing current sales while assuming future world security is irrelevant,
Ottawa is compelling Canadian diplomats and consular officials to practice a
brand of deep denial which is pathological, and promote a commerce without any
conscience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://paulmckay.com/AA%20in%20D&IC.pdf">http://paulmckay.com/AA%20in%20D&IC.pdf</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red'>Q+A: Obama's big summit on preventing
nuclear terrorism<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span class=articlelocation1><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>WASHINGTON </span></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Nearly 50 world
leaders meet in Washington next week for a summit aimed at preventing nuclear
terrorism. It will be one of the largest such gatherings on U.S. soil since
World War Two.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6370MZ20100408">http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6370MZ20100408</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#00B050'>Rid the World of Nuclear Weapons<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Please
join me in writing to Prime Minister Harper, urging him to work for a world
free of nuclear weapons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.ceasefire.ca/?p=4471">http://www.ceasefire.ca/?p=4471</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=RO style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#984806'>Sign the petition against CANDU 6 nuclear reactors</span></b><b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#984806'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
lang=RO style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Romania
has currently one nuclear power plant with two functional reactors in Cernavoda
(South-East of Romania). Cernavoda is situated in an area with high earthquake
risk. The Romanian Government plans to build two more nuclear reactors
(Cernavoda 3 and 4 ). These reactors are of an outdated Canadian design, the
CANDU 6.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><b><span
lang=RO style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#333333'>The design of CANDU 6 is under critique because of several key
flaws:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#333333'>- It has a positive reactivity coefficient – one of the
design factors leading to the Chernobyl catastrophe. Because of this, CANDU
reactors are not allowed inthe USA, Germany or France;</span><span lang=RO
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#333333'>- Because it uses heavy water, it leaks more of the
radioactive substance tritium into the environment than other designs. This
could be dangerous for vulnerable people like pregnant women and children under
four years old living in the nearby town of Cernavoda;</span><span lang=RO
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#333333'>- It is relatively easy to divert spent fuel from the reactor.
India used a similar design to obtain plutonium for its nuclear bomb in 1974.
We don't want Cernavoda to become a model for other countries who may be
interested in nuclear weapon production.</span><span lang=RO style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Sign
the petition here: <a
href="http://www.greenpeace.org/romania/campaigns/nucleare/signthepetition">http://www.greenpeace.org/romania/campaigns/nucleare/signthepetition</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#8064A2'>A World Without Nuclear Weapons – Sign the Declaration<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0cm'><span style='color:black'>On Wednesday, President Obama signed
a historic treaty with Russian President Medvedev to cut nuclear arsenals by a
third and get serious about preventing other countries from moving forward with
their nuclear programs.<sup>2</sup><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>And
next week, world leaders will come together for a historic summit to tackle
this very challenge.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0cm'><span style='color:black'>But the right-wing hawks are up in
arms. They're trying to scare the country into thinking that having more
nuclear weapons makes us safer.<sup>3</sup><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>President
Obama needs to know we have his back as he takes a bold stand on this issue.<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>Can you sign this petition from our
friends at Global Zero to support eliminating these dangerous weapons from the
face of the earth?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;overflow-x: hidden;overflow-y: hidden'><span style='color:black'><a
href="http://www.moveon.org/r?r=87797&id=19773-3624164-dpr2A4x&t=3">http://www.moveon.org/r?r=87797&id=19773-3624164-dpr2A4x&t=3</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#C00000'>Fantastic letter to the editor<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>While
it is bad economics to distort the market by subsidizing green energy, it is
equally unfair to ignore the hidden health-care and climate-change costs of
coal-fired electricity and the externalized costs of nuclear power. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br>
It should be acknowledged that subsidies to dirty electricity are hidden while
green energy subsidies are fully costed, giving green energy an unjustified bad
rap as uneconomical. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br>
If consumers paid the true cost of coal-fired electricity, as reflected by a
carbon tax, and if the accurately costed nuclear power included the hidden
liabilities of limited insurance liability, reactor decommissioning costs,
stranded debt charges and opportunity costs, then conservation and renewables
like wind would become economically viable without subsidies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br>
<i>Frank de Jong, past leader, Green Party of Ontario<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#E36C0A'>Leaders Gather for Nuclear Talks as New Threat Is Seen<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
New York Times:</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>
<span style='color:black'>Three months ago, American intelligence officials
examining satellite photographs of Pakistani nuclear facilities saw the first
wisps of steam from the cooling towers of a new nuclear reactor. It was one of
three plants being constructed to make fuel for a second generation of nuclear
arms.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/world/12nuke.html?pagewanted=1">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/world/12nuke.html?pagewanted=1</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#00B0F0'>Glow-in-the-Dark Exit Signs Made with Toxic Tritium<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Find
out everything you wanted to know about the dangers of tritium. </span><strong><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#993366;letter-spacing:-.6pt'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#993366;letter-spacing:-.6pt'>Tritium Primer: <a
href="http://www.tapcanada.org/tritium-primer/"><span style='font-weight:normal'>http://www.tapcanada.org/tritium-primer/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#555555'>One-page fact sheets produced by the Tritium Awareness Project: <a
href="http://www.tapcanada.org/key-tritium-resources/"><span style='font-weight:
normal'>http://www.tapcanada.org/key-tritium-resources/</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
Tritium Awareness Project is gathering signatures on the following <b>petition</b>
which requests that the federal government phase out the use of tritium exit
signs in Canada:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.tapcanada.org/petition/">http://www.tapcanada.org/petition/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#31849B;letter-spacing:-.75pt'>When Ontarians conserve power, wind farms
will be first to shut down<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#333333'>Despite its recent investment in wind energy, Ontario will
periodically ask wind operators to turn off their turbines, leaving gas and
nuclear operating.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://this.org/blog/2010/04/13/exclusive-when-ontarians-conserve-power-wind-farms-will-be-first-to-shut-down/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+this_blog+%28This.org%29">http://this.org/blog/2010/04/13/exclusive-when-ontarians-conserve-power-wind-farms-will-be-first-to-shut-down/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+this_blog+%28This.org%29</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3 style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#E36C0A'>Let’s give our grandkids a powerful legacy <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Hydro in Niagara: A
century ago, naysayers said renewable energy was too expensive for Ontario </span><span
class=credit2><span style='color:black'>AP</span></span><span style='color:
black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=wimg style='background:white' id=deck><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>A century ago, naysayers
said renewable energy was too expensive for Ontario. But Niagara Falls is still
paying dividends.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=wimg style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>If there is a lesson worth
remembering, it is that the investments being made today in modern forms of
renewable energy can be for this century what the turbines at Niagara Falls
were for the last: the foundation of our future prosperity and a source of
pride.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=wimg style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a
href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/lets-give-our-grandkids-a-powerful-legacy/article1533429/">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/lets-give-our-grandkids-a-powerful-legacy/article1533429/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#7030A0'>The ECO wants to hear about your energy conservation experiences<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ontario's
Environment Commissioner, Gord Miller, wants to learn about barriers and
incentives you've experienced in conserving energy. Report your pleasure
or frustration:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.ontarioenergyconservation.ca/">http://www.ontarioenergyconservation.ca/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#009800'>~~ EARTH DAY EVENT ~~
Toronto</span><span style='color:#009800'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#009900'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#009800'>WHAT IS IN THE AIR YOU ARE
BREATHING?</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#009900'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:#180097'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#180097'>Thursday, April 22, 7 pm</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#180097'>Koffler House, U of T, <a
href="http://bit.ly/crFjRR">569 Spadina Ave</a></span></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>, <span
class=apple-style-span><span style='color:#180097'>Room 108 (North of College),
Toronto</span></span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='color:#180097'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#180097'>Free!</span></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#180097'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#180097'>Speakers:</span></i></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#180097'>Dr. Pieter Jugovic</span></b></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#180097'>, </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://communityair.org/"><span style='color:#180097;text-decoration:
none'>CommunityAIR</span></a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#180097'>Angela Bischoff,</span></b></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#180097'> </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org"><span style='color:#180097;text-decoration:
none'>Ontario Clean Air Alliance</span></a></span></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#180097'>Lin Grist</span></b></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#180097'>, </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.cleantrain.ca/"><span style='color:#180097;text-decoration:
none'>Clean Trains Coalition</span></a></span></span><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#180097'>Toronto Island Airport,
Metroxlinx diesel trains, coal power plants—how do these affect the air
we breath? Join the <b>Toronto Climate Campaign</b> on Earth Day as we hear
from climate campaigners on the safety of Toronto air and what we can do to
improve it!</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>For
more info: Toronto Climate Campaign<span class=apple-style-span><span
style='color:#180097'>: </span></span><a
href="http://www.torontoclimatecampaign.org/">http://www.torontoclimatecampaign.org/</a>,
<a href="mailto:info@torontoclimatecampaign.org" target="_blank"><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='color:#180097;text-decoration:none'>info@torontoclimatecampaign.org</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span lang=EN style='color:red'>~~ Earth Day Eve Event in Toronto ~~ </span></b><span
style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red'>Finding Hope:
Confronting Climate Wars<i> </i> - with Gwynne Dyer & Elizabeth May </span></b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang=EN>Wednesday, April 21<sup>st</sup> at 7:30 pm </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN>Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church , </span>427 Bloor St.
W. (1 block west of Spadina Rd. ), Toronto <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN>Join us the night before the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day for
an amazing event. Two of the strongest voices on the planet speaking to
the climate crisis will join forces to demand action. Gwynne Dyer, award
winning author, journalist and Elizabeth May, author, environmental lawyer, and
leader of the Green Party of Canada, collaborate to rebuild energy toward
global climate action through the theme <i>Finding Hope: Confronting Climate
Wars. </i>Ralph Benmergui broadcaster, performer and host of Jazz FM in Toronto
will be master of ceremonies. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Gwynne Dyer’s most recent book <i>Climate Wars</i> warns of the
security threat posed by the climate crisis. The Pentagon and British
intelligence service understand the threat; Canada 's government does
not. Elizabeth May whose book, co-authored with Zoe Caron, <i>Global
Warming for Dummies </i>explains the science, the threat and outlines hopeful
solutions, will lead us through the politics and find hope to avert that
threat. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Book signing will follow. <span lang=EN>Tickets are $15 each. Order your
tickets online or call 1.866.868.3447 x 239 <a
href="http://greenparty.ca/node/14247">http://greenparty.ca/node/14247</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Angela
Bischoff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Outreach
Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ontario
Clean Air Alliance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Tel:
416 926 1907 x 246<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>625
Church Street, #402<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Toronto,
ON M4Y 2G1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org"><span lang=EN-US>angela@cleanairalliance.org</span></a></span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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