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Escaped Kangaroo causes traffic chaos in Washington

Republicans demand deportation of illegal alien, Democrats concerned if marsupial has health insurance.

[Happy Canada Day.] Joe Canadian makes Citizen’s arrest of Stephen Harper for Destruction of the Environment

Harper Conservatives pass law expanding Citizen Arrest Powers. Harper Government’s gutting of environmental protection laws will cause serious harm to Canadian Environment

Bill Clinton: If I did not have sax, I never would have been elected President.

Clinton tells Arts Summit that music “taught him discipline and order and made him a good listener.”

Bad Fences make Bad Neighbours

US Republicans support Bill to build border fences through protected ecosystems and across key mammal migration routes.

Rio: +20, Earth: -20 [“Peter Can’t”]

Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent says the lack of solid commitments, timelines and numbers at Rio Earth Summit is a “good thing”.

Enbridge: “It’s a path to our Future”?

a “slick” 5-million-dollar  media campaign.

Del Mastro of Deception

Canadian Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro insists campaign expenditures showing payment of $1575 to Holinshed are “accurate and complete” despite records showing payments of $75,238.

Something Fishy?

Canadian Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield tells Parliament that municipalities support gutting of Fisheries Protection Act despite near-unanimous opposition.