Filtered, not treated: they wouldn’t have it any other way CTV News February 28 2012 The municipality of Greenwood, known as Canada’s smallest city for its population of just over 700, has been honoured for having the tastiest tap water in the world. Read more...
Agency undertaking review of financial incentives Daily News Feb 27 2012 Waste Diversion Ontario has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking professional consulting services to undertake a comprehensive review of the development and implementation of financial incentives paid to service provi...
By Steve Mertl Daily Brew February 26 2012 Canada’s record of dealing with aboriginal people has come under more criticism, this time from a United Nations panel. Read more UN rights panel disparages Canada BY LEE BERTHIAUME Montreal Gazette FEBRUARY 23, 2012 Canada’s international reput...
CBC News Feb 17, 2012 Canadian government scientists are still being hampered from talking to the media about their taxpayer-funded research and that’s bad news for the public, say groups representing both journalists and federal scientists. Read more ...
CBC Television February 23 2012 Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the March 11 nuclear disaster at Fukushima, scientist and broadcaster David Suzuki travels to Japan. He finds a people re-thinking their nation’s approach to nuclear energy – and the entire idea of a high-consumption lifestyle. Wat...
No doubt that radioisotopes in concert with industrial chemicals have caused epidemic increase in cancer ratesby Janette Sherman and Joseph J. ManganoSan Francisco Bay View February 25 2012There is good news and bad news: The good news is that 11 months after the Fukushima meltdown, thousands of Japa...
Grey Matters holds fundraiser March 11 to help pay OMB costs By Kristen Smith Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin February 23 2012 A local environmental conservation group is asking the community to strap on a set of snowshoes and help cover costs of an Ontario Municipal Board hearing for a proposed quar...
It was the two-headed baby trout that got everyone’s attention By Leslie Kaufman, The New York Times 25 February 2012 Photographs of variously mutated brown trout were relegated to an appendix of a scientific study commissioned by the J. R. Simplot Company, whose mining operations have polluted nearb...
kids for Turtles: Many challenges face local turtles of most species By Matt Thomson, Special to The Packet & Times February 25 2012 Most of us have our stories about where we have seen a turtle, but do we really know how we got to see these mysterious creatures? Read more ...
From NoMegaQuarry February 24 2012 Journalists, filmmakers and musicians get golden potato head for work in telling the mega-quarry story. Read more ...
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