Most political news in Vancouver has been swirling around the $100 million loan that is reportedly been authorized as a bailout cushion to either Millennium Development Corp (the company building the Olympic...
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The NPA may be in deep over the Olympic Village. A Global News story implicates the former president of Ladner's NPA party, Paul Barbeau, with Armeco, the group who owns the Millenium Development Corp - developers...
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In the second mayoral debate of the Vancouver civic election, NPA candidate Peter Ladner let's a key part of his platform slip.....that if elected he'd start his term of office on vacation. Leadership in action..... Read more at votevision.ca.
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The past week saw one of the most impressive and unexpected stops on the tour so far - the Otjitotongwe Cheetah Park in Namibia.Until
then I hadn't caught so much of a glimpse of the world's fastest land
animal, and as I said to a travel mate, I might as well pack up and...
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In recognition of "their efforts to build up and disseminate knowledge about man-made climate change", Al Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been announced as co-winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.In awarding the honour, the...
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Ever wonder why the media ceaselessly singles out the airline industry as a global warming pariah when it accounts for just 2% of worldwide emissions?Far and away the single largest source of greenhouse gases is...
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At the APEC conference leaders of the Pacific Rim nations are huddled up in a well fortified section of Sydney where they have announced a sweeping new plan to address global warming in the form of ...
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Here's a good rebuttal for anyone still running into the C02 - They Call It Pollution, We Call It Life crowd.A favorite argument of global warming deniers is that the carbon dioxide causing global warming is...
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For as long as global warming has been at the forefront of the media, there has been climate change deniers muddying the public discourse and slowing progress towards solutions.The truth is nobody would spend a decade debating bed time with a 5 year old. It's now long...
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This week's cover story in Newsweek is leveled squarely at global warming deniers, outlining the concerted and well funded plan by certain industries to mislead the public and derail efforts to fight global...
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In the face of inaction by the federal Conservatives, Canada's provinces and territories wrapped up discussions on climate change policy today during the annual premier's conference being held in Moncton, New Brunswick.Some moderate actions were agreed to, but no...
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Heather Stillwell gained national attention this past May by proposing that The Great Global Warming Swindle be made available in Surrey high schools alongside An Inconvenient Truth in order to ensure students are offered a "balanced perspective" on the issue of...
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In an almost unbelievable effort to get leaders to take action on global warming endurance British explorer and endurance athlete Lewis Gordon Pugh has done the unthinkable - swim in the open waters at the North Pole.
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A California company that counts Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin among their investors is building a pair of manufacturing plants to build paper thin solar panels that could literally blanket our cities and drive a new era of renewable energy. Here's a TV clip.
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Loan Reveals Two Spins on Democracy
