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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:teal'>No</span></b><b><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>June 3, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>2010<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>“By ignoring the increased costs to future generations for managing radioactive waste, governments are subsidizing nuclear power today, undermining green power and preventing the development of cleaner and cheaper green energy” -<i> Shawn-Patrick Stensil, Greenpeace</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";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:#4F81BD;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#4F81BD;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Let </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Green </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#4F81BD;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#4F81BD;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Power Grow: Stop New Reactors at Darlington</span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#4F81BD;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#4F81BD;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#4F81BD;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#4F81BD;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>When</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>: Sunday, June 13<sup>th</sup> – 12 – 4. Meeting begins at 1. Lunch served at noon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>What:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> Information and Organizing meeting to stop approval of the new Darlington reactors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Where:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> Toronto Free Space Gallery, 1277 Bloor St West (Landsdown Subway)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Why</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>: Learn about environmental impacts of new reactors at Darlington and find ways to stop them.<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"'>This is to invite you or a representative from your organization to attend an information and organizing meeting on the federal review now underway of the McGuinty government’s proposal to build new reactors at the Darlington site east of Toronto. These proposed new reactors are the biggest threat to building a renewable and sustainable energy system in Ontario. While the McGuinty government has taken some steps to develop green energy, its plan to build new reactors at Darlington will effectively stop the growth of green energy. To build an Ontario built on 100% green power, we must stop the approval of the Darlington reactors. <b><i>This is why we need your help.</i></b> <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"'>An alliance of environmental organizations, including Northwatch, Greenpeace, Safe and Green Energy (SAGE), has been working to stop Harper government’s free pass for Dalton McGuinty’s reactors. Join us. The session will present the environmental threats posed by new reactors at Darlington and allow for a discussion on how groups can get involved and help stop the approval of the Darlington reactors. <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"'>If you plan to attend, please RSVP by Thursday June 10 at: <a href="mailto:shawn.patrick.stensil@greenpeace.org">shawn.patrick.stensil@greenpeace.org</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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>New nuclear plants could be more dangerous; Report also questions waste disposal<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p><span class=apple-style-span>The latest generation of proposed multibillion dollar Canadian nuclear plants could be up to 158 times more hazardous than their predecessors, opening the door to massive cost overruns and possibly forcing taxpayers to pick up the tab, warns a report released today. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span class=apple-style-span>The report, The Hazards of Generation III Reactor Fuel Wastes, says the risk is primarily due to uncertainty about what will happen to radioactive uranium fuel after it is used. <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'><a href="http://www.windsorstar.com/technology/nuclear+plants+could+more+dangerous/3091548/story.html">http://www.windsorstar.com/technology/nuclear+plants+could+more+dangerous/3091548/story.html</a></span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>--- <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Impacts of dangerous new radioactive waste unassessed: Greenpeace report<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The isolation period for waste from new generation reactors will increase to <b>2.3 million years</b> from one million years before radioactivity approaches that of natural uranium;<o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/recent/Impacts-of-dangerous-new-radioactive-waste-unassessed-Greenpeace-report/">http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/recent/Impacts-of-dangerous-new-radioactive-waste-unassessed-Greenpeace-report/</a><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Iran on the brink of a nuclear bomb<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p>In the last few months, Iran has advanced to the brink of having a nuclear weapon. It has accumulated at least two tons of enriched uranium - enough to make two nuclear bombs, according to a U.N. report released Monday. Though the uranium is meant to be used for power generation and a medical reactor, it's a short step from there to bomb-grade fuel.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20100601_Iran_on_the_brink_of_a_nuclear_bomb.html#axzz0piwrjXJ2">http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20100601_Iran_on_the_brink_of_a_nuclear_bomb.html#axzz0piwrjXJ2</a> <br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Chris Huhne warns of £4bn </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>black </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>hole in nuclear power budget<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=stand-first-alone id=stand-first><b><span lang=EN>Energy secretary blames predecessors for avoiding tough decisions in 'classic example of short-termism'<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=stand-first-alone><span lang=EN>Britain is facing a £4bn black hole in unavoidable nuclear decommissioning and waste costs. The revelation will also hand further ammunition to those who say a new generation of nuclear power stations in Britain will end up being more expensive than the industry claims.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jun/01/chris-huhne-black-hole-nuclear-power-budget">http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jun/01/chris-huhne-black-hole-nuclear-power-budget</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Nuclear Power Remains the biggest white elephant in the world<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The outcome of this horrendous expense is likely to be the final death knell for any plans for new nuclear power stations, which the coalition has agreed can only go ahead if they are built with no public subsidy and clear plans for their full costs over their whole lifetime. It is simply not possible for any private company to provide such guarantees, even the French government-subsidised EDF, which is the main outfit proposing this at the moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://andycrick.blogspot.com/2010/06/nuclear-power-remains-biggest-white.html">http://andycrick.blogspot.com/2010/06/nuclear-power-remains-biggest-white.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";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:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'>Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Releases Second Annual Greenhouse Gas Progress Report<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Ontario government will need to expand its climate change policy agenda if it hopes to have any chance of reaching its short- and medium-term GHG reduction targets. <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"'>Recognizing that the transportation sector is the largest single producer of GHG emissions in Ontario, the report calls for a serious and comprehensive assessment of how road pricing can assist in reducing GHGs and making public transit a more attractive option. <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 style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Further, the ECO stresses the need to put a clear and transparent price on carbon to influence the energy choices consumers make in the marketplace. By putting a price on carbon, consumers become more aware of the significant costs to society, and the broader environment, of carbon-based pollution. The ECO supports the government's current efforts to develop a cap-and-trade system as one method to bring about this price discovery. The report recommends, however, that the government "keep all its policy options open" by engaging in a dialogue with the public on other mechanisms that could be used. These may include, for example, a revenue neutral carbon tax or levy. <span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The report documents the environmental, social and economic benefits that other jurisdictions around the world have gained through road pricing. The report notes that the transportation sector is responsible for fully one-third of Ontario's GHGs and a similar portion of the province's fossil fuel use. Road pricing options could lead the way in not only reducing gridlock, congestion and GHG pollution but in also providing a much-needed revenue stream to fund increased public transit.<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";color:black'><a href="http://www.eco.on.ca/eng/">http://www.eco.on.ca/eng/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'>Shut down Ontario coal plants now, says Clean Air Alliance<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Angela Bischoff says the province doesn’t need to be burning coal. “We have so much excess electrical capacity online that we don’t need to be burning coal any more,” says Bischoff, Outreach Director, </span><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#3F3F3F'><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/knockout_coal"><span style='font-weight:normal'>Ontario</span></a><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/knockout_coal"><span style='font-weight:normal'> Clean Air </span></a><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/"><span style='font-weight:normal'>Alliance</span></a>.</span></strong><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:navy'> </span></strong><strong><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#3F3F3F'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#3F3F3F'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#3F3F3F;font-weight:normal'>7 minute audio recording<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/john-bonnar-audio-blog/2010/05/shut-down-ontario-coal-plants-now-says-clean-air-allia">http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/john-bonnar-audio-blog/2010/05/shut-down-ontario-coal-plants-now-says-clean-air-allia</a></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=intro3><span class=apple-style-span><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'>How to Rid Reactors of Uranium Risk</span></b></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=intro3><b><i><span lang=EN style='color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'>Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty talks grapple with legacy of highly enriched uranium (HEU)</span></i></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'>What's happening with medical reactors?</span></b></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Less progress has been made in converting the targets used for medical radioisotope production to LEU (low enriched uranium), although South Africa is converting one. Other countries, including Argentina and Australia, are already using LEU<span class=apple-style-span> </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#010000'>for this purpose. I think that the companies who produce radioisotopes are inclined to convert, but they are </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#FF0D0D'>concerned about costs</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#010000'> and the effect on the price of their products. A 2009 report by the US National Academies, however, found that there was </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#FF0D0D'>no technical obstacle to converting</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#010000'>, and that it would cause at most a 10% increase in the cost of medical imaging.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#010000'>What should happen next?</span></b></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#FF0D0D'>We need to move on from debating whether it is economically or technically viable to convert HEU reactors and targets, and push ahead with doing it. The non-proliferation stakes are too high to do otherwise</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#010000'>. </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN style='color:#010000'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=formatpublished4 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:0in'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100525/full/465408a.html?s=news_rss">http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100525/full/465408a.html?s=news_rss</a></span></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=formatpublished4 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:0in'><span class=apple-style-span><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'>Background:</span></i></b></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=formatpublished4 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:0in'><i><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'> </span><span style='color:black'>Canada's production of medical isotopes depends on the use highly-enriched, weapons-grade uranium (HEU) -- the same material</span></i><span style='color:black'> <span class=apple-style-span><i>that was used as a nuclear explosive in the Hiroshima bomb.</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=formatpublished4 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:0in'><i><span style='color:black'> Anyone obtaining the necessary amount of HEU (a few kilograms) can make a very powerful atomic bomb using surprisingly simple technology. Thus the availability of this material is a matter of international concern (that's why the grave concern over Iran's uranium enrichment program, for example).<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=formatpublished4 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:0in'><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='color:black'> Other countries -- Australia, Argentina, and South Africa --</span></i></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=apple-style-span><i>are using low-enriched, non-weapons-usable uranium (LEU) for</i></span> <span class=apple-style-span><i>isotope production. Canada must be pressured to follow suit.</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=formatpublished4 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:0in'><i><span style='color:black'> In April 2010, President Obama convened a nuclear security summit in Washington DC to "lock down" all weapons-grade uranium (HEU) around the world, and to prevent the further use of this material in future. At that summit, Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper pledged to return to the US some of the highly-enriched uranium currently</span></i><span style='color:black'> <i>stored at Chalk River. </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=formatpublished4 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:0in'><i><span style='color:black'> But what Canada intends to return is only the </span></i><span style='color:black'>used<i> HEU -- the </i>irradiated<i> targets, which are intensely radioactive -- not the</i> <i>"fresh" HEU targets, which are a much greater proliferation risk</i> <i>than the used targets (because they are much less radioactive,</i> <i>and therefore much easier to steal, handle and transport).</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=formatpublished4 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:0in'><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='color:black'> You can write to Prime Minister Steven Harper, Office of the Prime Minister, 80 Wellington Street, Ottawa, K1A 0A2, expressing your views on this subject.</span></i></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=formatpublished4 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:0in'><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='color:black'>It is time for Canada to completely eliminate the use of HEU, thereby setting an example to the rest of the world.</span></i></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=formatpublished4 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='color:black'>Gordon Edwards.</span></i></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";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:red'>Stephen Colbert's Nuclear Attack<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";color:black'>1 minute video - <a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/53f727b716/stephen-colbert-s-nuclear-attack">http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/53f727b716/stephen-colbert-s-nuclear-attack</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";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:red;letter-spacing:-.75pt'>Nuclear Power Plant Demolition<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#164B83;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:black'>After spending nearly a $100 Million and three years to build this 450 foot tall Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Tower, it only took 10 seconds to demolish.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#164B83;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"'>1 minute video - <span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.break.com/index/nuclear-power-plant-demolition.html">http://www.break.com/index/nuclear-power-plant-demolition.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><span style='color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Canada<span style='color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>'s tar sands: a dangerous solution to offshore oil</span></span></span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:9.65pt;line-height:13.6pt'><span style='color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'><span style='color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>The Gulf of Mexico disaster could trigger a wider environmental catastrophe if the US's search for new petrol sources points it back in the direction of Alberta.<span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:125%'><span style='color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/11/alberta-california-tar-sands-oil" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/11/alberta-california-tar-sands-oil</a> </span><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#4BACC6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#4BACC6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Nigeria's agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Deepwater Horizon disaster caused headlines around the world, yet the people who live in the Niger delta have had to live with environmental catastrophes for decades<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";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:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>G8/G20 Poll<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>A new Nanos Research poll finds that Canadians think that global warming should be the top priority (both first and second choices) at the G8/G20. The poll also finds that Canadians think that Canada’s place in the world is weaker on climate change than any other issue covered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.nanosresearch.com/library/polls/POLNAT-W10-T423.pdf">http://www.nanosresearch.com/library/polls/POLNAT-W10-T423.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style='background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Energy answer: Blowing in the wind?<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>MIT researchers say wind power can make sense for utility companies, starting now<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'>A key insight of the study is that wind’s apparent drawbacks as a power source — it only blows intermittently, and in many places blows harder at night than during the day — could actually be used to the advantage of power companies, with one condition. If power grids were equipped with large storage batteries that are commercially available right now, placed near urban areas, they could accumulate energy via wind power during off-peak night hours, then discharge the saved power during peak afternoon hours (when people have their air-conditioning on during the summer, for instance).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/wind-economics-0525.html">http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/wind-economics-0525.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#C00000'>City of Ottawa Profiting from the Arms Industry</span></strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C00000'><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"'>The City of Ottawa overturned a 20-year ban on arms shows at city-owned facilities. Now it has been revealed that the city is pocketing nearly $113,000 from CANSEC, Canada's largest arms show. Urge Ottawa mayoral candidates to reject CANSEC, and to stop profiting from the arms industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br>Join with residents of Ottawa in <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=46574161&msgid=619272&act=S0CQ&c=306146&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ceasefire.ca%2F%3Fp%3D4782">sending letters of protest to the Mayor of Ottawa and the other two leading candidates</a> in this year’s mayoral election. Urge them to reject any future application by CANSEC, ensuring that their arms show will not be held on city property ever again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.5pt'><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Nuclear Cycle</span></b></span><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'> </span></b></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#8064A2'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'><br><span class=apple-style-span><b>Sat. June 5 is a global day of action to ABOLISH Nuclear weapons! Join our Cycling Tour of Consulates of Nuclear Weapons States!</b></span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'><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:black'>Meet at: 1pm - St. George and Bloor (n/e corner), Toronto</span></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><br><span class=apple-style-span>Enjoy a lovely 5k bike tour through downtown city streets! See which countries have nukes, threatening every itty-bitty speck of life on Earth! Bring your signs and flags! Take pictures of your favourite consulate building! Most of all, join the call to abolish nukes!</span><br><br><span class=apple-style-span>For more information write us at <a href="mailto:info@worldwithoutwars.ca">info@worldwithoutwars.ca</a> or visit us at <a href="http://www.worldwithoutwars.ca/">www.worldwithoutwars.ca</a>.</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=104448689601877&ref=ts">http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=104448689601877&ref=ts</a>,</span><o:p></o:p></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";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'>Toronto vs. the G20</span></span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'>Community action for global justice</span></span><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b> </b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Saturday, June 5, 10:30am - 6pm<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:63.75pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>It’s a good impulse to feel contempt for the G20. It’s a better impulse to want to talk about it. Join student and community activists to learn about the G20 and current social and environmental justice campaigns in Toronto, and get involved. Free citywide teach-in. Lunch included!<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Full program here: <a href="http://g20.torontomobilize.org/torontoVSG20">http://g20.torontomobilize.org/torontoVSG20</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";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:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'>G8/G20 happenings in Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'>The 2010 People’s Summit: Building a Movement for a Just World</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br>June 18th-20th, 2010<br>Ryerson University, The University of Toronto, and other locations around Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>The 2010 People’s Summit is civil society’s alternative “counter Summit” to the G8 and G20 Summits. Together we will create a space where diverse local and international movements can democratically organize to advocate and educate for global justice. Over 100 groups, organizers, and activists from around Canada and the world will offer workshops, skillshares, panels, plenaries, strategy sessions, art, performance, and plenty more. We’ll tackle major social and environmental justice issues in five thematic streams – Global Justice; the Environment and Climate Change; Human Rights and Civil Liberties; Economic Justice; and Building the Movement. There will also be engaging child and youth programming and childcare available, so bring your kids!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Registration, program, accommodations, billeting, posters and more can be found here<b>: </b><a href="http://peoplessummit2010.ca/section/2">http://peoplessummit2010.ca/section/2</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><b>.....<br><span style='color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'>Week of Action</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>June 21-27<b> </b><br>And after the People’s Summit, the Toronto Community Mobilization Network is coordinating a Week of Action from June 21st to 27th. 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