Stephen Harper: Waiting for his ship to come in
“Those ships must be here someplace”. Canadian Prime Minister Harper’s Arctic Sovereignty Strategy seems entirely dependent on finding The lost ships of the Franklin Expedition.
Stephen Harper’s Northern “Exploits”
Canadian Prime Minister Harper, off on another photo-op-rich tour of the far north, stated in a speech: “The North is a great treasure-house and its resources must be, er, utilized.”
The “Ties” that bind
Though negotiations continue between CP Rail and the City of Vancouver over the sale of the Arbutus rail corridor, CP moved in with bulldozers to clear community gardens that have grown for years along the unused route.
Bench-pressed!
Some metro-Vancouver cities are considering banning “In Memorium” park benches after citizens complained that the proliferation of these memorials created a “cemetery-like” environment in parks.
Polley want a Christy
“The silt Polley aftermath: accusers head to head,
The blame game is all about what politicians said”
A Likely Story!
Imperial Mines CEO Bryan Kynoch downplayed the extent of the disaster after a mine tailings pond burst sending over 5 million meters of contaminated sludge into Hazeltine Creek and Quesnel Lake near Likely B.C.. He stated that the water was still safe to drink despite the fact that high levels of toxic chemicals such as arsenic cadmium and mercury triggered a total water-use ban, killed fish, threatened the salmon run and the entire ecosystem and resulted in a state of emergency being declared for the region.
Silt Happens!
B.C. Mines and Energy Minister Bill Bennett says that the Mount Polley Mine tailings breach should not have happened; though his government’s reduction of inspection, oversight and regulation is largely to blame.
Gas-hole: Coleman full of hot air
A leading expert in Hydralic Fracturing, [fracking], from Cornell University has called B.C. Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman’s statement that “BC gas wells don’t leak”, “Ignorant” and “Delusional”. [Studies have shown that 100s of BC wells leak and some are “super-emmitters” of methane.]
Poached Turtles? Delicious!
Ontario’s endangered spotted turtles are under threat from poachers supplying the international black-market trade.
The “Ursual” suspects
Could these be the thieves who broke into North Shore Search and Rescue’s caches in the woods and stole their equipment?
Hung, Drawn and Cultured 