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Where would you suggest? http://www.grandriver.ca/index/document.cf...=55&Sub2=24

My understanding is that development was proposed to go on top of the gravel moraine in north Waterloo. However, citizen action has delayed the process due to the concern that the moraine filters and cleans over 25% of the water in the Grand River, affecting water quality downstream. It appears to me in cases like this that local builders and governments propose and approve developments without any attention to the environmental impacts, beyond the rudimentary, development-friendly provincial environment assessment. Is it the case that citizens must always be on the alert for such threats to the environment? Is that our responsibility? In example: http://www.waterlooians.ca/ The Region of Waterloo is in a tough place. As a result of provincial mandates in the Places to Grow Act, Waterloo Region is being forced to allow urban sprawl that is destroying important groundwater recharge and natural heritage areas. These areas are need to ensure the success of future generations in the Grand River Watershed ... [and] ... to protect sensitive source water (surface and subsurface) areas, natural heritage areas, threatened species habitats, and agricultural lands for future generations.

Allies split with US over torture AT the height of the American-led war on terror, George W Bush began to encounter an unexpected problem. The use of harsh interrogation techniques on captured Al-Qaeda terrorists caused a damaging rift with leading US allies, among them Britain and Israel, according to a former State Department official. Philip Zelikow, a senior adviser to Condoleezza Rice, then secretary of state, revealed last week that “some of Europe’s best allies found it increasingly difficult to assist us in counterterrorism, because they feared becoming complicit in a programme their governments abhorred”. A member of Barack Obama’s presidential transition team also disclosed yesterday that during a series of secret briefings late last year at the CIA, aides to the then president-elect were told that several foreign intelligence services had refused to share information about the location of terrorism suspects for fear of becoming implicated in the use of torture during interrogations. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle6169041.ece

Don't you think mining has to be done sustainably too? If the information is public, there will be more public pressure on them to clean up their act.

So whadya think ... is Fantino right about that character McHale? Is he just stirring things up, creating mischief? Does he have any really good reason to cost the taxpayers $500,000 for policing McHale's rallies in Caledonia? Half a million smackers ... and we all pay through the nose! How is that helping anybody? But of course, he's banned from Caledonia now anyway, so it's moot.

The focus is ... it is long overdue in Canada. http://www.miningwatch.ca/index.php?/Canada_en Canada: 16 lakes to be turned into toxic mine dumps http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/16/...9961411679& "In northern B.C., Imperial Metals plans to enclose a remote watershed valley to hold tailings from a gold and copper mine. The valley lies in what the native Tahltan people call the "Sacred Headwaters" of three major salmon rivers. It also serves as spawning grounds for the rainbow trout of Kluela Lake, which is downstream from the dump site."

POLITICAL ECONOMY The life and death of a fiscal theory Apr 25, 2009 04:30 AM Comments on this story (21) Thomas Walkom Monetarism is finally dead. It's been ailing for a while, but this week Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney drove a stake through the heart of the economic theory that has dominated Canadian government thinking since 1980. Put simply, monetarism was a reaction to government activism. Purists, such as the late U.S. economist Milton Friedman, argued that governments should focus on balancing their budgets and cutting taxes. Indeed, state efforts to regulate or stimulate the economy (which the Friedmanites usually called government interference) could only make matters worse. In the monetarist world, the only legitimate government actors were central banks. Their role was to be strictly limited to issuing just enough money to keep the economy rolling without causing inflation. By the lat e '70s, as inflation wracked the Western world, monetarism held great appeal. Business liked its low-tax message as well as its resistance to anything, such as welfare or unemployment insurance, that might keep wages up. Governments, disillusioned by their often clumsy attempts to foster growth and worried about their own finances, were happy to leave the economy in the hands of inflation-fighting central bankers. Which is what they did. Before 1980, the Bank of Canada – while always conservative – had been more accommodating to activist government. Indeed, by literally printing money and giving it to the federal government in exchange for government bonds, it helped to finance these actions. more...

No it doesn't, Canadien. It only explains who the tests were developed by and for. 'Tested' IQ by race has never been done validly. It depends what you choose to assess.

ENVIRONMENT Court ruling forces mining pollution to be revealed MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT April 25, 2009 ENVIRONMENT REPORTER Mining companies have long had a loophole in federal environmental right-to-know law that no other industry enjoys. Environment Canada has exempted them from having to track the full extent of the pollution their operations cause. But a Federal Court ruling issued on Thursday will force Environment Canada to collect from the industry and divulge to the public the amount of toxic compounds in tailings and waste rocks found around every mine in the country. It is a major victory for environmental organizations that have been pressing Ottawa for more than 16 years to have this information disclosed. Environmentalists believe that when Ottawa releases the information, it will show that mining waste is the single largest source of industrial pollution in the country. The material is often laced with such hazardous compounds as arsenic and mercury, and if the rocks contain sulphur, is capable of creating sulphuric acid. "The amount of pollution reporting by these mines is just going to be astronomical," predicted Justin Duncan, lawyer with Ecojustice, a public interest legal group that brought the case against the government on behalf of Great Lakes United and Mining Watch Canada, two environmental organizations. U.S. mines have had to reveal this information for the past decade, and while they account for less than 1 per cent of industrial facilities, the sector is the source of nearly a quarter of all pollution in the United States, Mr. Duncan said. more... I'm glad to see this, not that it will stop them from evading the cleanup.

Correct me if I'm wrong Bill, but I believe a man living nearby did go a bit postal, yelling at people last weekend. And then there's the two firebombings ... a semi trailer and a cabin both set on fire on the site, presumably someone 'just passing by'. The cops have real work top do, and we should not be paying $500,000 for them to police McHale's silly 'rallies'.

http://media.www.thespartandaily.com/media...s-3717179.shtml "John, himself, is very scholarly and thorough in studying traditional Islam," Lindh said. "When he heard bin Laden speak, he recognized almost immediately that he was not a scholar. So John found him boring and he actually reported that he fell asleep while bin Laden was speaking at the camp one night." Lindh said his son explained in his sentencing statement to the court in 2002 that he joined the Afghan army to help defend innocent civilians who were being victimized by the Northern Alliance warlords. John Lindh knew that bin Laden was funding the military camp where he was training, his father said, but did not know bin Laden was funding terrorist operations as well. A major point that Lindh emphasized was that John was immediately labeled guilty of terrorism by the government, and the media was biased and unconstitutional. "Even the president said that he was an al-Qaida warrior, which is wrong," said Richard Gonzales, a sophomore mechanical engineering student. "We have no evidence to prove that's right, so how can we really say that he's guilty of all these crimes?"

That's the whole point of the law - It is the same for everyone. I'm glad the courts stepped in. If the politicians can violate the rights of one Canadian, they can violate yours and mine too. In fact, it is clear that our politicians and government do violate the laws and people's rights unless constrained by the courts. http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Khadr+must+come+home/1532848/story.html But the court said that when Canadian officials interrogated Khadr, thereby participating in a process that was illegal under U.S. and international law, they became bound by the Charter's requirement to respect the principles of fundamental justice. So what are those principles? Well, Canada has signed its name to conventions against torture and against the involvement of children in armed conflict. Once Canada has recognized these norms, the judge ruled, it can't back away from its obligations. Still, Harper seems determined to try. The Executive branch of government is not the defender of the Charter of Rights. The judicial branch exercises that responsibility.

If you were talking about Omar's father I might agree, but Omar was still only 15 after all of his alleged crimes, too soon to be written off as a "scumbag". The US soldiers who came to his defense at their own risk said he was "salvageable". The court can deal with all of that appropriately.

No getting around it. He belongs to us.

Back where?

A U.S. soldier reported that he accidentally stepped on Omar Khadr following a firefight in Afghanistan because Khadr was covered in rubble, casting doubt on whether the 15-year-old Canadian could have thrown the grenade that fatally wounded Delta Force soldier Christopher Speer. ... Friday's revelation is the latest evidence that has trickled out during the past two years of pre-trial hearings, chipping away at the prosecution's assertion that Khadr threw a grenade at the end of a firefight on July 27, 2002. The report that Khadr may have been covered under rubble at the time the grenade was thrown conflicts with testimony of other soldiers who are expected to state that Khadr was sitting on top of the rubble facing away from them when he was shot twice in the back and captured. Yet another theory offered by the defence suggests that Speer may have been fatally wounded by a "friendly grenade" — meaning one thrown by a member of his own forces. Khadr's military-appointed lawyer, Rebecca Snyder, told the military commission that there was evidence the grenade wounds suffered by Speer were those from a U.S. military M67 grenade — not from a Russian F1 grenade, as the prosecution has asserted. http://www.thestar.com/article/553022 This evidence was not presented in court, because the trial was halted at that exact time. Seems the US realized it was not going to look good for imprisoning and torturing a child for 6 years for a friendly fire incident.

The book "the Bell Curve" has been debunked by every professional in the field, because differences are accounted for by factors other than race, and because IQ tests are culturally loaded. Those who believe this bunk are those who know nothing about the development and validation of assessments. Here's the organization behind it: Nearly all the research that Murray and Herrnstein relied on for their central claims about race and IQ was funded by the Pioneer Fund, described by the London Sunday Telegraph (3/12/89) as a "neo-Nazi organization closely integrated with the far right in American politics." The fund's mission is to promote eugenics, a philosophy that maintains that "genetically unfit" individuals or races are a threat to society. The Pioneer Fund was set up in 1937 by Wickliffe Draper, a millionaire who advocated sending blacks back to Africa. The foundation's charter set forth the group's missions as "racial betterment" and aid for people "deemed to be descended primarily from white persons who settled in the original 13 states prior to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States." (In 1985, after Pioneer Fund grant recipients began receiving political heat, the charter was slightly amended to play down the race angle--GQ, 11/94.) The fund's first president, Harry Laughlin, was an influential advocate of sterilization for those he considered genetically unfit. In successfully advocating laws that would restrict immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, Laughlin testified before Congress that 83 percent of Jewish immigrants were innately feeble-minded (Rolling Stone, 10/20/94). Another founder, Frederick Osborn, described Nazi Germany's sterilization law as "a most exciting experiment" (Discovery Journal, 7/9/94). The fund's current president, Harry Weyher, denounces the Supreme Court decision that desegregated schools, saying, "All Brown did was wreck the school system" (GQ, 11/94). The fund's treasurer, John Trevor, formerly served as treasurer for the crypto-fascist Coalition of Patriotic Societies, when it called in 1962 for the release of Nazi war criminals and praised South Africa's "well-reasoned racial policies" (Rolling Stone, 10/20/94). One of the Pioneer Fund's largest current grantees is Roger Pearson, an activist and publisher who has been associated with international fascist currents. Pearson has written: "If a nation with a more advanced, more specialized or in any way superior set of genes mingles with, instead of exterminating, an inferior tribe, then it commits racial suicide" (Russ Bellant, Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party). Nice racist fascists you hang with. It's bunk, lictor, and you look stupid if you fall for it and promote it.

Only on tests designed by and for white/Euro people - ie, most to all of them. Valid cross-cultural comparisons of 'IQ' have never been done, because we do not have the proper, equated assessments. On achievement tests, factors like parental education, income, etc account for more than race, and explain any differences. Sorry to burst your bubble, but your conclusion has no valid foundation.

Has Israel recognized Palestine's right to exist? It cuts both ways.

You wanna arm wrestle ...

Can you give us some sources and legal opinions that would justify any of what you said or is the truth and the law irrelevant to you?

This is some story! ... private health care crusader Jacques Chaoulli. He left him sitting in the chair, and told the nurse to phone 911 to report the death. But the 911 operator pleaded with the nurse to try to revive Mr. Sauvageau. Dr. Chaoulli got on the phone and tried to argue the patient was dead; however, the 911 operator insisted. [Mr. Sauvageau] had been alive just a few minutes earlier. Suddenly, he loses consciousness and his pulse stops. You have to throw yourself on him and get everything going again, and that wasn't done," Ms. Rudel-Tessier said in an interview. "[Dr. Chaoulli] should have done so." ouch. I'd say he's in big trouble.

Nobody has denied that Omar's father was Al Quaeda, a financier in fact, and little doubt that he took his sons with him, likely from early ages. http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/khadr/ This issue has never been about the whole Khadr family, who answer for their own crimes, but about Omar. Omar was 10 in the camps, and 15 when arrested, still too young to legally make his own choices. The family facts are pretty well known, but tell us nothing about whether a wounded 15 year old Omar Khadr threw a grenade ... a US grenade at that.

Independent from you. You raise a good question about who. I don't know. Not my problem.

Canadien said: Because you are under the delusion that intellectual capacities are determined by race, you are under another illusion... that we all know it but just will like about it. Nope. What we know is that the idea is horse m*nure. What we know is education in ... education out ... and if we don't adequately support child development and education, we undermine growth in our human capacity, and we support dependency instead. Differences among groups of human beings on say international achievement by country or otherwise, are mostly explainable and amenable to change. Not to say genetics doesn't play a role, but the physical environment of the child begins before conception, and includes quality of education too, and can have a huge influence. And lictor is not well schooled.