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Child rapist to get less time than pot grower | The Province
09/21/11—Prime Minister Stephen Harper is getting tougher on pot growers than he is on rapists of children. Under the Tories’ omnibus crime legislation tabled Tuesday, a person growing 201 pot plants in a rental unit would receive a longer mandatory sentence than someone who rapes a toddler or forces a five-year-old
I don’t think anyone saw this one coming……but His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is the latest high profile critic of the Keystone Pipeline.
He is one of a group of nine Nobel Peace Laureates (including Archbishop Desmond Tutu) who have written a letter to President Obama, urging him to honour the environmental pledges he made back in 2008 and reject the Keystone extension.
Keystone goes mainstream. PBS Newshour airs a “debate” over the Keystone XL Pipeline between environmentalist Bill McKibben and capitalist Robert Bryce.
The proposed pipeline would carry oil from Canadian tar sands fields to Texas refineries, but the project has sparked high-profile protests. Jeffrey Brown discusses the controversial Keystone XL pipeline proposal with the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research’s Robert Bryce and environmentalist Bill McKibben.
Source: PBS NewsHour
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Grandmother strip-searched and jailed for 12 days in Canada after a jar of motor oil in her car was mistaken for heroin | Daily Mail
July 29, 2011—Bound for Sprague, Manitoba, the 66-year-old couldn’t believe it when the jar of brownish liquid in her car tested positive for drugs.
‘They came over and said that the substance in the jar tested positive for — well, she said some chemical term and I didn’t understand.’
‘So I asked her to repeat it and she said it tested positive for traces of heroin,’ she said.
She told the authorities that it was actually oil that her son-in-law had used when he had recently done some work on her vehicle.
Nevertheless, she was handcuffed, interrogated and strip searched twice.
[…] After 12 days in custody, further tests by the RCMP lab found the oil was not heroin. +](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpczmwCiGP1qc1ca1o1_500.jpg)
July 29, 2011—Bound for Sprague, Manitoba, the 66-year-old couldn’t believe it when the jar of brownish liquid in her car tested positive for drugs.
‘They came over and said that the substance in the jar tested positive for — well, she said some chemical term and I didn’t understand.’
‘So I asked her to repeat it and she said it tested positive for traces of heroin,’ she said.
She told the authorities that it was actually oil that her son-in-law had used when he had recently done some work on her vehicle.
Nevertheless, she was handcuffed, interrogated and strip searched twice.
[…] After 12 days in custody, further tests by the RCMP lab found the oil was not heroin. +
From CBC:
Canada is set to include the polar bear on its list of species at risk, but not as a threatened or endangered species.
The federal government gave notice this month that it intends to list the Arctic animal as a species of special concern — one level below threatened and two levels below endangered — under the Species at Risk Act.
The move would require a plan to be devised within three years to prevent the species from becoming endangered or threatened.
Environment Minister Peter Kent’s office did not a return a call for comment. The proposal to list polar bears under the act was announced on July 2, and interested parties have 30 days to weigh in.
Ottawa’s move comes almost three years after the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC), an arm’s-length scientific advisory body, recommended the special-concern listing for the polar bear.
The United States listed the polar bear as a threatened species in 2008, citing shrinking sea ice due to climate change.
Canada’s Species at Risk Act came into force in 2003 to provide legal protection for wildlife in danger of becoming extinct.
Check out the rest of the article here.
This photo of Barb Tarbox didn’t make the cut for the FDA’s new cigarette warning labels, but she wanted people to see the truth.
Photo: Tarbox on May 13, 2003. View more photos at the gallery. Credit: Greg Southam, Edmonton Journal
May 22, 2011: Six Nations youth and supporters reclaim the old Police Station in “Ohsweken” (on the Six Nations Grand River Territory in Ontario) following a march. A banner which reads “Welcome to the Onkwehonwe Youth Centre” now covers the former “Police” logo on the front of the building.
Black bears found guarding 1,000 marijuana plants in British Columbia
A group of black bears have been found acting as guards over a marijuana plantation in British Columbia.
The ten bears were found last August when police conducted a raid of a pot plantation at Christina Lake in south-eastern British Columbia, Canada.
The property’s owner, Allen Wayne Piche, was allegedly paying the bears in dog food to guard some 1,000 marijuana plants. +
BBC has a dramatic report on the latest Wikileaks cables involving Hilary Clinton, Stephen Harper, and NATO. Northern nations are scrambling to stake claims in fresh batches of unclaimed natural resources such as oil, aluminum, and rubies. The resources are being exposed by melting ice in the Arctic, which is expected to be ice free within a “two years.”
Hilary Clinton (click above for video), pays lip service to climate change then pivots to promote development, mining, and trade in the Arctic.
The cables also show that Canadian Prime Minister Harper siding with Russia to object to a NATO presence in the area. Harper is quoted as saying, that, “some European countries without Arctic territories were trying to use Nato to give them “influence in an area ‘where they don’t belong’”.”
British oil company Cairn Energy are in the vanguard of the Arctic oil rush. The company’s commercial director Simon Thomson told (BBC’s) Newsnight “we’re leading the charge”.
Instead of seeing the melting of the Arctic ice cap as a spur to action on climate change, oil companies like Cairn are rushing in to extract the very fossil fuels that caused the melting in the first place
Source: BBC
Aurora Reflection
Credit: Yuichi Takasaka
Site: Northwest Territories - Canada
Rotating Sky and Moving Aurora
By: Yuichi Takasaka
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