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Using confrontational words makes Canada’s government a bully.

“Unfortunately, there are environmental and other radical groups that would seek to block this opportunity {B.C.’s pipeline} to diversify our trade. Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources

“To judge from Oliver's nasty little letter, those vast pits of bitumen across Alberta aren't just dirtying the sky, they're starting to do some damage to the country's soul.”Bill McKibbon 350.org green…

Cracking the Myths of the Methane Industry: Come out and see “Gasland”

“Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is a means of natural gas extraction employed in deep natural gas well drilling. Once a well is drilled, millions of gallons of water, sand and proprietary chemicals are injected, under high pressure, into a well. The pressure fractures the shale and props open fissures that enable natural gas to flow more freely out of the well.” Josh Fox, Film maker of the documentary, Gasland…

“We know that the Canadian Government's domestic and international climate policy has been bought by the fossil fuel regime.” Cameron Fenton, Director of Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, writing from Durban, South Africa’s U.N. Climate Summit

The 1999 movie, “The Matrix”, starts off with it coming to light that humans have trashed the planet and the computers, who now run Earth, believe the planet is better off with the subjugation of humans. The computers run the planet like our…

George Monbiot: The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen



Our common treasury in the last 30 years has been captured by industrial psychopaths. That's why we're nearly bankrupt



guardian.co. Monday 7 November 2011



If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. The claims that the ultra-rich 1% make for themselves – that they are possessed of unique intelligence or…

Georgian Triangle’s first Review of Great Vegetarian Restaurants

“Eating low on the food chain (i.e - vegan foods) ensures we are eating the least amount of toxins. Pollution carried around in the air and water gets concentrated 30 times in each animal that eats up the food chain. Even Organic meats are highly polluted because pollution is all around us. It is also a misconception that the vegan diet is more deficient than an animal foods diet. In fact, the fresh fruits, vegetables,…

On May 18, 2011 we lost our dear Around the Sound Local Food Market to extensive damage from a fire caused by one wayward cigarette from one of the apartments above.  The repercussions of such a disaster are enormous.  This campaign initiated by a group of Around the Sound customers, is to raise funds for Anne…

Thank you for the opportunity to speak before the court. When I first met Mr. Manross, the sentencing officer who prepared the pre-sentence report, he explained that it was essentially his job to “get to know me.” He said he had to get to know who I really was and why I did what I did in order to decide what kind of sentence was appropriate. I was struck by the fact that he was the first person in this courthouse to call me by my first name, or even really look me in the eye. I appreciate…

In recent months, much discussion has arisen about eliminating the local municipalities and councils in Grey and Bruce and moving to a single tier municipal government.  The services provided by our towns and townships, from filling potholes to local land use planning, would become the responsibility of the county.  Proponents claim that such backward measures are required to address rising costs and encourage more cooperation across current municipal boundaries. …

“There is no such thing as a green pepper… All peppers start out some shade of green (either dark, light or yellowish) and gradually turn red, yellow, orange or even purple as they mature and sweeten. A green pepper, like a green tomato, is simply unripe.” Patrick Lima and John Scanlan’s “The Organic Home Gardener”

“Nature loves man, beetles, and birds with the same love.” John Muir

“We have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling…

Canada on Secret Oil Offensive: Documents Foreign ministry's tar sands team rebranding Alberta oil in Europe by Martin Lukacs MONTREAL

-The Canadian government has been carrying out a secret plan in Europe to boost investment and keep world markets open for the Alberta tar sands, collaborating with major oil companies and aggressively undermining European environmental measures, documents obtained by The Dominion reveal. In 2009 the federal government launched a strategy to "protect…

I'm sure many of you have heard the unfortunate news about the fire in the Around the Sound Local Food Market building in Owen Sound.

Anne, the owner, has asked for some help tomorrow, Thursday May 19 from 3-6 pm.

Hands are needed to take the inventory off the premises.  Some of it can be kept, some of it needs a temporary storage spot, and some of it needs to be taken to waste disposal. People can come with boxes or bags, and especially…

As I sat through the Provincial budget presentation at Queen’s Park last week, I couldn’t help but scoff under my breath as Finance Minister Dwight Duncan droned on endlessly about protecting education. This, while we’re going through two school accommodation reviews in our region, one in Chesley/Hanover, and the other in Kincardine.

The term “accommodation review” is bureaucrat-speak for “enrolment is down and we need to cut costs, so something has to…

Click here to listen to "Rebooting Civilization"

If your internet connection permits it, check out this link to an interesting radio episode. CBC Radio's The Current presents approx. 25 minutes addressing what our civilization could look like if we started from scratch.

Energy is addressed at 12:20 minutes. It includes reference to oil, the electrical grid and a shift to…