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No Go Kyoto
Palestine, North Korea and the Kyoto Accord, all in Today's Big Story.
Rival Palestinian factions reached a tenuous détente in Islam's holiest city Thursday. The agreement between Hamas and Fatah should slow the weeks of violence that have wracked the region. But according to the New York Times, it may not be enough to persuade Israel and other donor nations, including Canada, to lift crippling sanctions imposed last year.
Meanwhile, in Beijing, North Korea "agreed in principle to take initial steps toward its eventual nuclear disarmament." In a gesture of goodwill, the United States announced they were testing new ways to prevent nuclear terror in New York.
Back on the home front, Canada's New Environment Minister (I'm capitalizing everything Tory just to be safe) told a Commons Committee to forget about Kyoto. And the city of Ottawa picked up a $73 million tab for a light-rail project he helped kill.
Finally, the Breast Cancer Society of Canada has rejected thousands of dollars raised by a group of women who wanted to commemorate the death of a colleague. The women in question happen to be exotic dancers. It takes a lot to make people who raise money for breast cancer research look petty. Congratulations Breast Cancer Society of Canada, you managed it.
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rebel
5 years ago
I pray the Palestinian
I pray the Palestinian people get some relief and peace from this move. I totally disagree with the position Harper took in our name! and with no consulting with the Canadian people either. We are neither a Jewish or Palestinian country although we have people of both types living here and should have kept our traditional neutral stance so that we could have an unbiased way to attempt the help towards peaceful solutions in the middle east.
Grumpy
5 years ago
Dead LRT in Ottawa
It seems the Ottawa LRT project in Ottawa was killed by Harper because it was a "liberal" project. The "conservatives" backed the Diesel LRT line now in operation and did not want a more comprehensive "Liberal" transit scheme to steal the show!
Again, in Canada, politics dictates how public transit is built and operated. Though the Ottawa LRT project wasn't a cure-all (no transit project is) it was reasonably cheap to build by BC standard's; given the planned Evergreen line hybrid light metro project was over $90 million/km. and RAV/Canada Line is nearing $150 million/km. to build!
I guess Canada is not mature enough to understand the benefits of LRT and we will cannibalized out education and health care systems to fund politically prestigious metro style projects that in general please no one except the politicians and bureaucrats!
Frank
5 years ago
Breast cancer
Exotic dancers do more with their breasts in a day than the Cancer Society does with theirs all week and yet the Society turned down their money? On the basis that corporate donors would be embarrassed? Oh please, I'd like to know who the other donors are, chances are it should be the exotic dancers who should be offended. I can't believe I live in a world where girls with slim waists and surgically enhanced breasts have to worry that their money might offend the likes of corporate Canada. God is truly dead.
c_attila
5 years ago
Dancers completely misunderstood
I would not say that I have a great deal of experience with exotic dancers but probably more than most people have, and on a personal, not a professional level. My father has been the manager at a strip bar for 20 years, in that time I have met dozens of exotic dancers and almost all of them are decent hard working people. They strip because the money is good. It is not their fault that our economy values certain people more for their physical appearance than for their brains or hard work. Anyone who thinks that exotic dancers are not doing the right thing should also be someone who supports free tuition, a minimum wage at least double what it is now, free medical and dental insurance, etc. etc. These women dance because it provides them, and their families with a much better income than they would otherwise be able to acquire should they work in another field. Education is too expensive for many people. They have no choice but to work. Society highly values sex, so if people want to showcase their bodies and get paid well to do it, good for them.
The Breast Cancer Society of Canada should be truly ashamed for refusing to take these donations from hardworking women who are trying to do a very noble thing by honouring the memory of their colleague. We should celebrate these women, not demean them.
rebel
5 years ago
Palestine
If Hamas and Fatah have reached an agreement to end the violence you can be sure the Israeli's will find a way to destablize it in no time. Israel does not want peace - they want to keep Palestine divided and fighting. In a free and fair election, Israel, Bush and Harper did not like who won so they set out to punish the Palestinians by cruel sanctions designed to force Hamas to yield or to collapse its government. Amazing how the demands are for Palestine to concede to everything completely but Israel makes no concessions at all. It's outragious and Canadians are so brainwashed and such sheep they don't even object.
alive
5 years ago
Kyoto
Your "big Story" as usual is all over the map and will get various responses accordingly.
Kyoto and the environment is the only real big story as I see it! It has simmered for ages, but the media has done its best to keep it on line with UFO sigthings so far.
Now suddenly the opinion polls have made it a must for certain politicians, and they fall over each other to claim their share of that new market.
Many indicate that industry should be allowed to make its own adjustments, claiming that in the past Industry has proven how it adapts itself to the times.
The fact is that Industry only adapted to legislated demands about car pollution, but did nothing at all about any other small engine machinery.
Your chainsaw, outboard motor, lawnmower etc, for the better part still operate on technology from the fifties!
Garden tractors have become expensive, for instance, but still feature "fluid drive" lifted directly form your forties "De Soto" car and its first attempt at an automatic transmission.
Slow and ineffecient, but obviously good enough, since nobody has demanded better!
We need laws with teeth, because Industry does not develop new products to accomodate KYOTO, but instead spend their research monies on how to restyle last years model to look new and different.
skeptikool
5 years ago
Sir Richard Brannon of
Sir Richard Brannon of Virgin Airlines, is much in the news, today, with huge monitory rewards tor those offering certain environmental solutions:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/09/branson-greenhouse.ht...
Noting in commentary elsewhere a tendency toward cynicism, I must say that he’s, at least, not in denial regarding this major environmental problem facing all life on this planet - barring, perhaps, that of the mutant clam and the house flea.
I favor a positive response.
I'm not looking for millions, but I have a few ideas that Mr. Branson is welcome to. If he would like to forward $50.00, that would be quite acceptable.
Regardless of schedules, I don't believe passenger aircraft on major routes should take off unless 3/4 of the fully loaded capacity, or more, is filled.
I believe electric high-speed rail as used, or is being constructed, in Asia and Europe, would compete with many routes covered in N. America by airlines.
I'd like to see a return to the airship travel that was killed by the Hindenberg disaster. This would be safer today using helium. This gravity-assisted method of travel would result in huge fuel savings. Not all are into Concorde speeds, as evidenced by those who still sail the Atlantic.
I would kill all planned coal-fired electricity-generating projects (plans are being discussed for two in B.C.) and phase out those currently operating. This would accompany fast-tracking of tidal, wave-produced, river-run, wind, and solar power to produce power. B,C, Hydro should be constructing and managing such projects.
There's much more but others may wish to add.
alive
5 years ago
Skepticool,I agree with your
Skepticool,I agree with your ideas, but on this one:
I want to once again remind the people of the world that the Germans were well aware of the dangers, but that the USA in it wisdom had banned them from getting helium!
Maybe much like the USA's attempt at stiffling the Concord? Or going back to our own Arrow?
And they wonder why people hate the States?
froufroufracas
5 years ago
Picky about donations
How stupid can the Breast Cancer Society of Canada be? (Apparently, quite!) What kind of right wing zealot turns down a donation that can help someone else? Perhaps the Breast Cancer Society can "afford" to be picky now but I highly doubt other charitable organizations would have turned down a few thousand bucks.
What are we going to do now? Ask individuals how they got their money before they donate it?
If I win some moula while gambling at the Casino and decide to dontate half to the Breast Cancer Society, is that a no no now too?