bikes, lakes, meds, Kyoto, tasers, wind, coal protest
angela bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Fri Jun 20 18:15:13 EDT 2008
Greenspiration News
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it. Begin it now.
Goethe
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17 Reasons Why Bicycles Are the Most Popular Vehicle in the World Today
Bicycling it isn’t always easy. Busy streets, honking horns, and
inadequate city funding for bike lanes and paths can make bicycling an
uphill battle. However, with green in the news, the economy in a slump,
and summer on its way, it’s getting easier to find reasons why there are
some 1.4 billion bicycles and only about 400 million cars in the world
today.
http://ecoworldly.com/2008/06/16/17-reasons-why-bicycles-are-the-most-popular-vehicle-in-the-world-today/?utm_source=streamsend&utm_medium=email&utm_content=814561&utm_campaign=Don%27t%20Let%20High%20Gas%20Prices%20Get%20You%20Down
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Lakes across Canada face being turned into mine dump sites
Lakes are in B.C., Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest
Territories and Nunavut
Monday, June 16, 2008
CBC News has learned that 16 Canadian lakes are slated to be officially
but quietly "reclassified" as toxic dump sites for mines. The lakes
include prime wilderness fishing lakes from B.C. to Newfoundland.
Environmentalists say the process amounts to a "hidden subsidy" to mining
companies, allowing them to get around laws against the destruction of
fish habitat.
Under the Fisheries Act, it's illegal to put harmful substances into
fish-bearing waters. But, under a little-known subsection known as
Schedule Two of the mining effluent regulations, federal bureaucrats can
redefine lakes as "tailings impoundment areas."
That means mining companies don't need to build containment ponds for
toxic mine tailings.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/16/condemned-lakes.html
Tailing waste produced by mining companies is best stored in water, the
federal fisheries minister said Tuesday, defending a planned move by
bureaucrats to reclassify 16 Canadian lakes as toxic dump sites.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/17/lakes-mining.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourview/2008/06/have_you_been_to_any_of_these.html
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Clement relents on natural medicines in new bill
Canwest, June 13, 2008
OTTAWA -- In a surprising about-face, Health Minister Tony Clement has
agreed to key demands of the natural health products industry after it
launched a campaign against restrictions on homeopathic medicines and
herbal remedies in new legislation.
When Mr. Clement proposed amendments to the Food and Drugs Act in April,
natural medicines were lumped in with pharmaceutical drugs, raising
concerns they would be subject to the same type of oversight. He now
admits it was a mistake not to create a separate category under the law.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=586144
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Sign the petition against Bill C-51
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/StopC51
Also, on Thur. June 26 there will be a public forum on Bill C-51 in
Toronto at OISE, 7 p.m. which will be streamed live. If you can't attend,
catch it here: http://www.cnhc.ca
For more on Bill C-51 see:
http://stopc51.com/
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Feds under fire over Kyoto Protocol in court and at UN
Canwest News Service, June 17
OTTAWA - The Harper government is fighting off challenges in court and at
the United Nations for allegedly not meeting its obligations under the
international Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
After facing a hearing at the UN last weekend, the government will be in a
Federal Court Wednesday to argue that it is not violating a Canadian law
that requires it to meet its Kyoto target to reduce Canada's greenhouse
gas emissions by an average of six per cent below 1990 levels between 2008
and 2012.
<http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=b290c889-cee3-4487-80a7-865eb2df3cdb>http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=b290c889-cee3-4487-80a7-865eb2df3cdb
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Conservatives go to court for ignoring Kyoto law
Lawyers for Friends of the Earth Canada appear at a hearing in Toronto
today asking a Federal Court judge to compel the Conservatives to follow
the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act. The act, passed in Parliament in
June 2007, requires Canada to meet its Kyoto targets. Canada is the only
one of 38 industrial countries with binding Kyoto targets that has
announced it would ignore the reduction requirements.
* Globe and Mail: Canada faces lawsuit over plan that doesn’t meet
Kyoto Protocol obligations
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080619.KYOTO19/TPStory/National>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080619.KYOTO19/TPStory/National
* DeSmogBlog: Kyoto in court:
<http://www.desmogblog.com/kyoto-in-court>http://www.desmogblog.com/kyoto-in-court
* Media Release: Friends of the Earth Takes Federal Government to
Court Over Kyoto Protocol:
<http://www.foecanada.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=364&Itemid=2>http://www.foecanada.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=364&Itemid=2
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An excellent and damning 5 minute news clip on Fox TV on the dangers of
antidepressants...
Data on Antidepressants Suppressed for Years Giving Distorted View of
Safety Effectiveness
By Douglas Kennedy
Jun 17, 2008
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_27163.shtml
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One-third of people shot by Taser need medical attention:
About one in three people shot with a Taser by the RCMP receive injuries
that require medical attention, according to a joint investigation by CBC
News/Radio-Canada and the Canadian Press.
The media outlets, which analyzed the Taser-use forms RCMP officers are
required to fill out if they draw a stun gun, examined reports from 2002
to 2007. According to the data, 28 per cent, or 910 of the 3,226 people
who were shot, had to go to a medical facility.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/080617/canada/canada_taser_injuries
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Wind power has huge potential as a clean energy source in Ontario.
Carefully planned wind development, combined with other renewable sources
like hydro, solar and biomass, can help Ontario go a long way toward
replacing dirty coal power and nuclear power. A coalition of wind power
developers in Ontario has developed a new website to demonstrate that
people across Ontario are keen to tap into the power blowing in the wind.
If you think wind power should be a significant part of Ontario’s energy
mix, we encourage you to visit the site and register your support.
http://isupportwindpower.com/
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Letter to the editor, Globe and Mail
We're told that Calgary Police seized a "bottle of pills" from Joshua
Lall's home. (June 17, Pills, knife among items seized from victims' home)
I suspected drugs played a major role in the tragic multiple homicide. The
case was too bizarre and uncharacteristic of the genteel fellow.
But suicidal and homicidal thoughts are not unusual for people taking most
antidepressants according to Health Canada, especially in the first weeks
of the medication or when dosages are changed. The violent actions stem
from increased agitation.
If only a fraction of the 50 million people worldwide on antidepressants
have hostile reactions, that's tens of thousands of suicides, attempted
suicides, homicides, and other forms of violence.
I wonder if Joshua was warned about the serious side effects of his
medications. I wonder if Joshua's family was informed. I wonder if the
police and the media will let us in on just what pills Joshua was on. I,
for one, want to know.
Angela Bischoff, Toronto
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Pills, knife among items seized from victims' home
Wed. June 17, 2008 Globe and Mail
CALGARY — Police seized a “bottle of pills” and a “kitchen knife” from the
ransacked Calgary home where Joshua Lall killed his wife, two daughters
and a tenant before committing suicide last month, court documents say.
The documents are vague. They do not specify what kind of medication was
recovered, whether it was a prescription or over the counter, to whom it
belonged or whether the pills played a role in the tragedy. <snip>
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080617.wlall18/BNStory/Front/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080617.wlall18
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The jig is up for Paxil. How many have died and suffered needlessly?
-a
Drug researchers under fire for Paxil study
SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2008
In March of this year, Australian researchers published an article in the
International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine on study 329,
concluding that Paxil was no more effective than a sugar pill or placebo
on all eight of the study’s pre-specified clinical outcome measures. Yet
after the study blind was broken, the researchers added a number of new
outcome measures in order to show a statistically significant difference
between Paxil and placebo. In other words, as the IJRSM paper concludes,
they manipulated the data.
http://alison-bass.blogspot.com/
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Glaxo Attracts Questions Over Data in Paxil Studies
The Wall Street Journal
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121339980355773595.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121339980355773595.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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Climate change protesters stop coal train
Forty climate change campaigners stopped a train carrying coal to
Britain's biggest power station, located in North Yorkshire, on June 13.
Carrying a banner with the message “Leave it in the ground”, the
protesters jumped atop one the train cars and shoveled the coal it was
carrying out onto the tracks.
Read the story:
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4130440.ece>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4130440.ece
Watch the video:
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/jun/13/train.coal.protest>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/jun/13/train.coal.protest
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