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Sunday, 30 August 2009 |
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Residents in Gadsby and Donalda are waiting to see if the government considers their villages worth preserving.
Alberta Municipal Affairs is undertaking a
dissolution study for Donalda to determine whether the village has the
economic oomph to stay afloat or whether it would be better off as a
hamlet in the County of Stettler. A similar study is being considered
for Gadsby, also in the county.
Donalda Mayor Terry Nordahl said they are baffled
as to why the minister ordered a dissolution study for their community
of 250, which is two years away from celebrating its centennial. A
group of disgruntled residents sent a petition asking for an audit of
village operations to the minister this past spring.
Municipal Affairs determined the community had
been audited a few years ago and it was running fine. But then the
minister ordered a dissolution study.
“It was a total shock to us,” she said. “We are a very sustainable village. We didn’t have a deficit or anything.”
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Sunday, 24 May 2009 |
Environmentalist Brad Komishke finds ways to improve environmental performance from within the walls of industry
By Joey Podlubny
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1989, Brad Komishke was working at Husky Energy’s asphalt refinery in
Llyodminster, Alberta, doing analytical support, when he volunteered on
a project with the focus to use moss to clean up asphalt spills at the
plant. There weren’t too many options for disposal at the time, and
Komishke wanted to find an effective method. So, he gave his time to
help come up with a way to get the natural bugs from moss to eat up a
spill.
Things went a little slower than expected. During the experiments,
the bugs were not producing at a fast enough rate. The system was
proven to work, but it lacked efficiency and speed. Studying the tanks
that housed the mixture of bugs and asphalt, Komishke considered ways
to speed up growth.
He remembered his fish tank at home. Taking
an aeration pump, he blasted oxygen into the tanks. They were in
business. It was efficient. They did it. No more asphalt in the
landfills, no more burning the stuff. There was positive impact on the
environment that came from within the walls of industry, not outside of
it. “That’s when I realized what kind of impact I could have working
from within an oil company,” says Komishke.
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Friday, 20 March 2009 |
Galloway: ‘This idiotic ban shames Canada’
WORLDPRESSNETWORK - 20 March 2009
Respect MP George Galloway today vowed to use “all means at my disposal” to challenge the decision by Canada’s pro-war, conservative immigration minister, Jason Kenny, to refuse him entry to the country to give a series of speeches.
Galloway is this afternoon exploring with organisers of his speaking tour and with legal advisors avenues to challenge the decision, which he brands “irrational, inexplicable and an affront to Canada’s good name”.
Galloway was not informed of the decision until after it had been given to journalists. The grounds provided by a spokesperson for Mr Kenny for the ban are that Galloway’s opposition to the deployment of Nato troops in Afghanistan make him “inadmissible” to Canada. Galloway says:
“This decision, gazetted in Rupert Murdoch’s Sun, is a very sad day for the Canada we have known and loved – a bastion of the freedoms that supporters of the occupation of Afghanistan claim to be defending.
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009 |
This statement was rejected by both the Toronto Star
and the Globe and Mail (as an op-ed). Please help this
important statement get into broad circulation - pass
it on to your networks (faculty, community, MPs,
university presidents, unions etc.). You may also
wish to write to the Star and Globe editorials and
express your dismay that they have chosen not to
publish it.
Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
James Deutsch, M.D., Ph.D.
Judith Deutsch, M.S.W., R.S.W.
Miriam Garfinkle, M.D.
Over 150 Jewish Canadians signed a statement expressing their concerns about
the campaign to suppress criticism of Israel that is being carried on within
Canada. The signatories include many prominent Canadians, including Ursula
Franklin O.C., Anton Kuerti O.C., Naomi Klein, Dr. Gabor Mate, and
professors Meyer Brownstone (recipient of Pearson Peace Medal), Natalie
Zemon Davis, Michael Neumann, and Judy Rebick.
The signatories are particularly concerned that unfounded accusations of
anti-Semitism deflect attention from Israel’s accountability for what many
have called war crimes in Gaza. They state that B’nai Brith and the
Canadian Jewish Congress have led campaigns to silence criticism of Israel
on university campuses, in labor unions and in other groups. Immigration
Minister Jason Kenney and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff unquestioningly
echo the views of these particular Jewish organizations.
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