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- Vancouver Olympics security cameras raise privacy concerns
  Posted by Shemuses from CBC
  The RCMP plans to install hundreds of closed-circuit television cameras for security during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, CBC News has learned. Under the plan, cameras would be placed at approximately 100 Olympic sites, including both athletic and public celebration venues.
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- Green Party staple opts for new Vision
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  For years, Andrea Reimer and the civic Green Party were inextricably linked in Vancouver politics. Not anymore. The 36-year-old activist left the party in March to co-chair NDP MLA Gregor Robertson's Vision Vancouver mayoral nomination campaign.
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- Wild salmon could disappear from Vancouver menus
  Posted by Shemuses from CBC
  One of Vancouver's top restaurants says it would consider taking wild salmon off its its menu if it proves to be unsustainable. Robert Clark, the executive chef of C restaurant, which overlooks Vancouver's False Creek, said the restaurant has made no decision yet, but wants to do its part to help protect dwindling salmon stocks. "At C, being a leader in the selling of sustainably harvested seafood, we are always considering and reconsidering and analyzing what's on our menu and should be there," Clarke told CBC Radio on Thursday morning.
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- The rich, poor, and chasm between
  Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
  The earnings gap between the rich and the poor is widening in Canada, with incomes among recent immigrants showing especially dramatic declines in recent years, according to sweeping new census data. Earnings among the richest fifth of Canadians grew 16.4 per cent between 1980 and 2005 while the poorest fifth of the population saw earnings tumble 20.6 per cent over the 25-year time period, Statistics Canada said in its 2006 census release on income and earnings. Earnings among people in the middle didn't budge.
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- The high cost to Alberta of 500 dead ducks
  Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
  Five hundred dead ducks in the toxic sludge of a Syncrude Canada Ltd. tailings pond have dealt a major blow to Alberta's $25-million campaign to sell the booming oilsands as eco-friendly. Company and government officials confirmed Wednesday that only five ducks were saved after a flock of mallards landed Monday morning on the partially frozen pond filled with oilsands wastes.
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- Operators go to court to protect injection site
  Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
  With just two months to go before its doors may be closed by the Conservative government, operators of North America's only supervised injection site for users of illegal drugs have gone to court to stay open. The facility saves lives, reduces harm to drug addicts and increases their motivation to seek treatment, lawyers argued in B.C. Supreme Court yesterday. As a result, they said, federal drug laws against possession of heroin and cocaine should not apply there. "The criminal approach leads to death. Harm reduction leads to life," said John Conroy, representing the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.
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- Safe-injection site mounts constitutional challenge
  Posted by Shemuses from CBC
  The operators of Canada's only supervised safe-injection site are launching a constitutional challenge they hope will bolster their ability to continue operating the controversial facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and the Portland Hotel Society, which operate the site, are scheduled to appear in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver on Monday morning.
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Shemuses comments on:
Barenaked Ladies singer faces drug charge in N.Y.

wow. the police look into the house, see them using drugs and arrest them. them there is hard core drug enforcement policy. i feel a lot safer knowing that Steven is locked up and in the criminal justice system.

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10:15 pm 7/15/08
j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:
The Culture of Meat

A humanity that would domesticate is not healthy. Exploitation and slavery come to mind, as well as torture. Given all the information available about the harms of animal products on the human body I am flabbergasted that people accept this ‘meat washing’.

incorrect overdose of simple proteins

no animal that eats meat naturally has to cook it

intestine inflammation

reduced energy and fatigue

Maybe because I have never eaten it and observed the effects on others that I take this no intentional harm abuse or consumption of life stance. good book: Eternal Treblinka

Maybe because i have never eaten it and observed the effects on others that i take this no intentioal harm abuse or consumption of life stance. good book: Eternal Triblinka

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9:44 am 7/09/08
Shemuses comments on:
Outrage brews as Ottawa set to honour Morgentaler

there are several differences between a medical doctor who has not broken the law and a convicted pedophile serial killer. suggesting said convicted felon be freed?
many canadians, the majority in fact are proud that our country enables women access to essential healthcare. these services save lives, often lives of the most vulnerable women in our society. there is a viable and empathetic middle way that combines health care, education, abstinence, birth control, and abortion. we need to look beyond our idealogy and meet the real needs of families in our communities.

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10:52 pm 7/06/08
Dmegivern comments on:
Harper's apology to First Nations puts pressure on Bush

About time!

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11:53 am 7/02/08
frankson comments on:
Outrage brews as Ottawa set to honour Morgentaler

....... a sad day for Canada.
why don’t we free Cliff Olson and add him to the list !?
No difference.

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7:11 am 7/02/08
mozellagi2000 comments on:
Will Canada Last?

Sorry.. FOURTH

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9:29 am 6/30/08
mozellagi2000 comments on:
Will Canada Last?

Jeff, Jeff, Jeff,
First of all have you ever been to Madrid or London. Al Qaida will kill any Jew, Christian or Hindu they run across and then reload. A border is not a good defense system for terrorism. Second, the war and the value of the dollar have weakened us. It is just peculiar that it wasn’t Jimmy Carter who did it to us this time. Third of all the US owns the Stanley Cup (ever been to Detroit ?). Forth where is Robert Rubin when we need him most !

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8:58 am 6/30/08

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Jodie lives, plays, and blogs in Vancouver, BC. Her day job at ONE/Northwest puts her talents to work supporting social change strategies for greening our world.
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