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Friday Free for All – February 7, 2014

Friday, February 7, 2014 @ 12:00 AM

First week of February is under our belts,  and regardless of what the groundhogs have been predicting,  there is no sign of an early spring.

It is time for you to speak up on the issues that matter to  you.

It is time for the Friday Free For All, when  you get to  pick the topic, but please, lets be respectful  to each other.  

The rules are  simple:

Keep it clean

Keep it legal

No Bullying

 

L E T   'E R   R I P  !!!

Comments

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During the Natural Resource Summit held here in PG a few days back, I had the opportunity to research the Canadian mining industry. Learned a few “facts and truths” and shared a bit on this news blog, which I will summarize

1. I had no idea that 70%to 75% of the world’s mining companies are based out of Canada.

2.I had no idea of the extent of human rights violations these Canadian mining companies are involved in abroad.

The murder and gang rape of indigenous men and women who oppose Canadian Mining Company projects, in their own country, is something we as Canadians should not allow!!!

I urge the 250news community to write or call their MPs and MLAs to demand Canadian Mining Companies stop these despicable human rights violations!

I’m thinking the way Loungo has played recently Team Canada will at least have a hot goalie going into the Olympics in Russia.

The Canucks have been going 100 minutes between a goal, and yet they’ve been held in every game by Loungo, so add some guys that can score in front of him and I’m betting on another gold medal for Canada in Sochie.

I heard once about ten years ago 85% of global mining companies were based in Canada producing 60% of the mining revenue globally. I read it in a PG Citizen article.

Something on a related issue to that I find interesting. On the Northern Health charts I noticed the region with the second highest population in Northern BC, according to Northern Health charts, is the area encompassing the Telegraph Creek area between highway 37 and the Alaska border, but not including Dease Lake. They have it at something like 45,000 people… more than the Quesnel region, South Peace (Fort St John), or even the North Coast with Terrace and Prince Rupert… It must be a typo, otherwise sure is a lot of natives living off the land in those parts. Being a hot bed for future mining, it leaves one wondering about the infrastructure discrepancy.

I figure the true number is more like 45 or 450… one would think they fact check before publishing posters like that and putting them up in the hospital?

The latest police state tactic coming out of the Harper regime is that they had the RCMP and CSIS spying on law abiding Canadians that oppose Northern Gateway, and then sharing this information through Joe Oliver with Enbridge.

This undermines our democracy and is dangerous to have our public security institutions used by private industry to undermine the peaceful opposition to what amounts to insider collusion against the public interest. The evidence is mounting daily of institutional abuse of our spy networks for the benefit of a corpocracy.

The first rule in a democracy is that when the people give up on voting and participating, then the democracy dies. If the public views government as an alien force that we can’t change, and that is working for an alien interest… then democracy dies.

When the process is rigged, and when the security apparatus of the nation is used to put a chill on opposition to the powers that be, then we cease to be a democracy. We no longer have an impartial arbitrator under the law of due process, and in Harper parlance we all become Palestinians where picking sides is an all or nothing for the side in power.

I think this is a serious enough issue that it should be reviewed by an all party committee in Parliament to get to the bottom of it. An inquiry no less important than the Gomery inquiry that exposed the federal liberals in their sponsorship scandals… but in this case it cuts right down to the very freedom of political thought and the base of our democracy.

APPROXIMATELY 65 Canadian iron workers were unexpectantly and suddenly laid off thei jobs by Esso in Ft. McMurry’s oil patch……on their way out of the work place, they met their replacements…..65 FOREIGN WORKERS from Croatia, newly hired at 18.00 per hour….half the wages that the Canadians were paid. When Esso was challenged on this, they were not concerned. The Harper govt needs to cancel the Foreign Worker program immediately. Their cosmetic tweaks to this program are redundant. We have seen constant job loos for Canadian citizens. The Harper govt has attacked the Canadian middle class. Jobs are going to foreigners who dont spend their paycheques in Canada. Royal Bank has laid off 100’s of Canadians who then ended up on UIC / welfare; then we have 200 Chinese muners hired in Tumbler Ridge because Canadian citizens were turned down in the applications. We have local restaurants and trucking firms hiring foreign workers at the expense of Canadians. It an interesting phenomenon that middle class voters stupudly vote for govts that have policies that harm the voters.

Brrrrr COLD out today..

Sooo Movie being made in PG ??? Probably heard about our Council and wanted to do a series on them and how they are milking the citizens :)

Got to checking fuel prices in a couple of random places in the States.

Average retail price per litre in Great Falls Montana for diesel — 90.6 cents a litre.

Average retail for a litre of gasoline in Spokane, Washington — 79.1 cents a litre.

Average price of diesel in good old Prince George — about $1.50 a litre !!

Ever need proof we’re taking it right up the tailpipe every day from the fuel suppliers around here? Look it up yourself on the net. The evidence is everywhere.

While Canadian eyes are glued to televisions watching the athletic events in Russia and absorbing the advertising that is the reason for the whole performance, we are watching the erosion of democracy and citizen rights here at home.
Some questions:
Why do we have “temporary foreign workers”? If these people are good enough to come here and work why can they not come as landed immigrants?
Why are we complacent while our own government spies on us in the name of “security”? Are they afraid of us? Who is in charge in Ottawa? Is it our elected representatives or are they following the dictates of our all-powerful Prime Minister?

Too bad that tv series won’t show the quality of snow removal we have here.
What would be funny though, would be a tv series showing the workings of management and city council!

Have a good safe weekend everyone.

Been keeping up on the state of Sochi as the athletes arrive.. Absolutely disgusting.. Just shows that money gets you the Olympics. Not the ability to host

One Way to fix high Gas Prices and Heating Cost is Voting with your Feet, even Victoria
only wants 113.9 a Liter and they have no Oil Pipeline or a Refinery, all Fuel comes in by Barge or Truck!

Vote with my feet ?
You want me to walk everywhere or kick Osama the gas station owner ?

Re: gas prices, Diving by the Esso and the Chevron at the intersection of Domano and O’Grady I still see people filling up at the more expensive station (Esso) when across the street you could have saved 7 cents a litre.

Do those points programs really make you that loyal? Guaranteed they’re not paying you anywhere near 7 cents a litre in rewards.

As for as mining goes, as long as people (local and abroad) demand the resources we have from mining, it will continue to happen, despite the wishes of some.

A buck fifty for diesel and another 25 bucks for diesel-911 to get rid of all the water after you fill up. Have a truck in the driveway frozen solid and I see a few others limping around town with their hazards on. Last week I was limping around until we warmed up to -10 and the diesel started to flow again, yesterday when I filled up got home and she froze solid in the tank, changing the filter allows it to run just under a minute before she stalls from lack of fuel. Time to get a bulk card and maybe with the higher volume they deal with the underground tank doesn’t develop so much water to freeze up the in tank fuel pump.

Re: gas prices

I too see the foolish filling up at the Esso and Chevron on Domano at 129.9 when they could be filling up at Costco for 116.9

At that rate it wouldn’t take long to cover the cost of the card would it.

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

No we don’t!!!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/oilsands-jobs-being-taken-by-temp-foreign-workers-union-says-1.2526496?cmp=rss

How do they even get a permit to do that? I was under the impression the ONLY time foreign workers are to be brought into a job is if their are no available or skilled workers in Canada that can do the job. So how did it get this far even?

Notice countries don’t “declare war” anymore. Notice how many countries across the globe suffer from internal strife? based on anything ya want. Race, religion, colour, economic differences within, ethnicities. Africa has their droughts, lack of leadership, and terrible famine. Northern Africa has their religions to fight and die for. Nobel prize winning lady stated, “You never see a drought in a democracy”. Whenever I see on TV those charities panhandling to feed the sad children in Africa I remind myself that it is a stopgap measure to feed the little ones until they have enough strength to pick up a rifle or machete. It’s the cynicism built up over the years We got Quebec. A minor irritant. Spain has their Basques. Russia has their Chechens. The Balkans have their Serbs, Muslims, and the Croats. China has their Urgers. Indonesia and their woes. Based on religion. Mooslims overtaking Europe. Arnold Toynbee the historian said that “Nationalism will be all our world’s nations downfall”. In closing, don’t think about some of these things until our swell Olympic games are over. Just whine incessantly about our snow removal shortcomings and our upcoming Canada games circus. My answer? Put Timmy’s in every one of these countries cities, and get people talking and hanging out. Tim’s in both Northern and Southern Sudan? Maybe get our best franchise salesman parachuted in. I Glad I’m old.

Did these workers belong to a Union?I guess this is why unions came about.We may all have to stick together to get the diesel prices down unless Costco put in a diesel pump.

Thanks Dragonmaster, the operations of that mine should be halted immediately and the contractor responsible for the lay off should have a cease order.

Those Canadian workers would have their jobs back in no time.

Been watching CBC tv and the opening ceremonies–Ron Maclean had an “open mike” during a couple of breaks–interesting comments from the man references to politics, the crowd reaction to Putin, and sections of the upper stands being empty and blacked out. Veery interesting!

A majority of mail undeliverable in most destroyed cities in Syria being re-directed to Turkish refugee camps? What a scenario, eh? Horrors for Syrian postal workers, I bet. And we are whining that 1/3 of the rest of Canadian folks aren’t going to get door to door delivery anymore down the road? Everything in perspective. Right, folks?

Hey are we ever fired u8p this am. We as Canadians have been to complacent over the decades. And its time we woke up. What you have for Municipal government is an example of the crisis in our society. Like the business community owns the Mayor so does big business in our Federal and Provincial governments.

We stand around and cheer for every industrial project that’s developed in our community and our country. In the mean time the profits in the billions from these projects leave our country and we are left with some jobs with a pay scale that we have to fight for and with a never ending chose and deprivation.

The only power we have is at the ballot box and people have become so discouraged that they don’t bother to cast their ballot. Unless we change our ways and start filling the ballot box we will continue to loose our rights.

There has to be a change. When I first saw Seoul Korea in 1950 it was just a pile of rubble. Today the City has 12 million people and most of the rice paddies are gone in the country. It is a truly modern society. They have a rapid transit system from Busan to Seoul that travels at 380 Km’s per hour. They’re Highways don’t go over mountains they are all tunneled.

I bad better leave it there so you don’t start to cry if you bothered to read.
Cheers

Hey Harbinger you got it. Speaking of Timmies. This is also part of democracy its not just the vote its about community and talking up our political thoughts. But it appears people are afraid to talk about their beleifs.
Thank God I’m old.
Cheers

Vote with my Feet means : as soon the House is sold we move ,37 Years is plenty.

New Flash.

**Prime Minister Harper announces billions to retool First Nations education**

Ottawa to provide core funding of $1.25 billion over three years starting in 2016, with a 4.5 per cent annual increase. Another $500 Million over seven years is to go toward infrastructure and $160 Million over four years is set aside for implementation.

I’m sure the Lefties can turn this announcement into some sort of conspiracy.

Why do politicians think that throwing money around can solve the education problems First Nation communities are experiencing? Yes, everybody loves a brand new building, but if there aren’t dedicated, highly competent teachers and parents who pay attention to their children’s activities, it will all be for naught.

RCMP started surveillance on Tommy Douglas in 1935. A large portion of their files have still not been made public.

Although Harper was not yet born when this file was started, there seems to be some who feel that he was responsible in absentia.

The First Nations education plan calls for

1. Minimum education standards consistent with Provincial standards off-reserve.

2. Students will have to meet minimum attendance requirements, and

3. Teachers will have to be properly certified.

But Pal thats an old trick is to throw money around what we need is good honest government. Its all our money as you have told us many times.

In the end most of the money will go to his friends who are standing in the wings like you are doing and clapping their hands and in the mean time health care and our eduction system is in tatters.
Cheers

And we are only second to the good old USA when it comes to child poverty.
Cheers

ohhh I’m sure more than half will go to administering the program by the Gov’t before any of it gets to to Natives

Outwest, see ya. Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out.

Retired 02. I think that we all know where the money for Health Care and Education goes, and it certainly is not for Health Care and Education.

Most of it goes to Salaries and Benefits, and Administration of the programs.

Palopu, those three standards you mention are already in place. This is nothing new.
These kids need SUPERIOR teachers, not just “certified.” And the parents have to start getting involved – how do you do that?

Posted by: Palopu on February 7 2014 10:58 AM
New Flash.

**Prime Minister Harper announces billions to retool First Nations education**

Ottawa to provide core funding of $1.25 billion over three years starting in 2016, with a 4.5 per cent annual increase. Another $500 Million over seven years is to go toward infrastructure and $160 Million over four years is set aside for implementation.

I’m sure the Lefties can turn this announcement into some sort of conspiracy.
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Yes, old saying: NEVER trust gift with strings attached!
I’m sure the natives want self-determination. This isn’t conducive to that end.

There is no doubt and I have to agree Pal that all our govrment programs are top heavy. Didnt the expansion of 13 miillion at the prince george hospital go for a larger admin area?

And dont forget that thoase slaries say in the community not like our out big corporations mthat get tax breaks and the profit goes off shore.
Cheers

Like everywhere else the teachers will have to come out of our Universities and I don’t see that as a problem. In fact I suspect the majority if not all of the teachers would be First Nations. They certainly do not need to be **superior teachers** anymore that the teachers were superior in the 40’s 50’s 60’s 70’s. Its only recently that teachers have created this **mystic** around the basic’s of reading, writing, arithmetic, etc;

Schooling from K-12 is pretty basic, and with the right teachers and a will to teach and learn, I’m sure that it will (over time) be successful. What’s the alternative??

Getting the parents involved in schools on a reserve or a First Nations School might be a lot easier than getting them involved in the present system.

With this announcement the Government says it recognizes aboriginal control over schooling. I see that as a brand new ball game.

It’s not a new ball game. Government says it recognised First Nations right to control over schooling for decades. Government treats all peoples like magpies – give them a shiny new object to play with and they go away. Government then carries on doing what it wants to preserve its power for self preservation.

The only way to fix this system is to stop sending our dollars to the government and to stop allowing someone else to make decisions for the rest of us.

All of this is just another magic show. But of course, that’s politics for you.

Palopu

That announcement indicates funding won’t start until after the next election. That means Harper will never spend that money as his chances for reelection look slim. More importantly, what has he done in the last 8 years? His record is pathetic, his promises, empty.

On the subject of gas prices how is that carbon tax working? Based on a science with no data to back it up. I wonder if those responsible for giving false information resulting in this tax will be held accountable someday?

Here is a link to how its working in Australia, check the headline.

http://joannenova.com.au/2014/02/7b-paid-in-carbon-tax-to-reduce-co2-by-0-3-and-cool-us-by-zero-degrees/

Was that the same Tommy Douglas that David Suzuki listed in a TV interview onetime as one of his great ‘heroes’? The one that was calling for the forced castration of every male Canadian of Japanese ancestry who wouldn’t agree to be repatriated to Japan after the war?

In Europe and in places elsewhere including the US, the green agenda has led to harmful increases in the cost of energy or energy shortages, as winters have trended colder and snowier. This has falsified the climate models and assessments which had accelerated warming and snowless winters.

The following would be a good read for the Citizen’s science columnist but not sure if he knows what the scientific method is.

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/political-climate

Socredible

How easy is it to slur people? Very easy!

Is that the same Steven Harper that associates with an accused pedophile?

See how easy that is?

Wasn’t Australia talking about going back to coal power generation over natural gas due to cost?

Found a link to the Prime Minister of Australia changing the targets of renewable energy which includes a note on the switch from gas to coal as well

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2013/s3939181.htm

Palopu: “I’m sure the Lefties can turn this announcement into some sort of conspiracy.”

And as usual, they didn’t disappoint.

Socredible

How easy is it to slur people? Very easy!

Is that the same Steven Harper that associates with an accused pedophile?

See how easy that is?

Coal may be a viable alternative with the progress done to treat the emissions.

“For the second time in six months, a community leader known for his strong opposition to a Canadian gold and silver mining project in El Salvador’s Cabañas Department has been killed. Ramiro Rivera, vice-president of the Environmental Committee of Cabañas, was gunned down on Sunday, December 20, in the town of Ilobasco. His wife Felícita Echeverría, next to him, died as well, and a 13-year-old girl was wounded.”

“According to witnesses, several gunmen ambushed their vehicle and shot them with assault rifles, despite the presence of two police bodyguards. This follows the late June kidnapping, torture and assassination of Marcelo Rivera (no relation) in the municipality of San Isidro. Both men had been vocal critics of Vancouver, B.C. mining company Pacific Rim’s proposed El Dorado gold mine.”

http://www.miningwatch.ca/es/second-anti-mining-activist-killed-el-salvador
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/will-canadian-companies-be-held-responsible-for-their-actions-abroad/article13524877/
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2013/05/06/canadian-diplomats-backed-scandal-ridden-mining-firm-in-mexico-report/

Time to wake up sheeple, these are examples of Canada’s changing international role from aiding the world’s needy to reaping its riches… over the dead bodies and violent sexual assaults of their people.

And we wonder why the United Nations Human Rights Council is constantly investigating us?

Maybe the Gretzky-wannabe can also give us a list of Countries where such incidents do not occur, in the interest of balanced reporting?

People one is just miffed because he’s being investigated for spiking the Kool-aid…

This blog needs an ignore function.

This site always needs one idiot who rises head & shoulders above the rest. All hail the new Mattyc.

What has me stumped is that we have a church going prime minister that knows about these murders and gang rapes, and does nothing!

In fact, Harper and his government has opposed and defeated a Liberal MP’s private members bill to try and stop these murders and gang rapes. Is this the kind of moral and ethical standards we want in our Country’s leadership and government?

should read; private members bill “that tries to” stop these murders and gang rapes.

I second weaksauce!! And we all know who the new Mattyc is, or is he the same person lol

Yeah, we defintely have another mattyc on our hands.

Here’s the skinny on Pacific Rim Mining Corp.

Pacific Rim Mining Corp is a Vancouver, Canada-based multinational mining company that works throughout the Americas. It merged with Dayton Mining Corporation in 2002. Its President and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas Shrake, is a United States citizen and a resident of Nevada. Pacific Rim’s principal corporate offices are in Reno Nevada,.

Pacific Rim Mining Corp. describes itself as **a gold exploration company with projects in El Salvador, and Nevada,. USA. The Company focuses its exploration efforts on epithermal gold deposits in the Americas because of their typically high gold and silver grades, low environmental risk and propensity to occur in veins that can be mined underground.

In 2013 Pacific Rim became a wholly owned subsidiary of OceanaGold, who’s head office is in Melbourne Australia.

So, there is nothing to indicate that this company has anything to do with Canada, or Canadian Mining, other than being based in Vancouver.

The fact of the matter is, most mining, and oil companies are multi national, they like to get Canada into their names, such a Shell Canada, which is a Dutch company, and Husky Oil Canada, which is owned by an individual in Hong Kong.

When it comes to owning any big companies, Canada is way down the list. We own very little. In fact we no longer own Tim Horton’s, Sear’s Canada, CN Rail, etc; etc; etc;.

So check out who owns these companies before you start knocking the Canadian Government.

I would guess that 90% of the stores in the Pine Centre Mall are American owned, and the same applies to Westgate.

Palopu, you should know by now that facts neednt get in the way of knocking the government according to some. Besides, after you’ve knocked the government for the umpteenth time, it just becomes pointless noise.

There are way to many incompetent people with spending authority that supervise employees that are truly clueless in their ability to judge fair pricing for goods and services supplied to the govt.

http://www.theprovince.com/news/bc/workers+scamming+taxpayers+according+documents+from+special/9378401/story.html

Thanks for your reply Palopu;

Vancouver based Pacific Rim was the owner of the mine, and was firmly in charge of that mine in El Salvador, at the time of Marcelo Rivera and then Ramiro Rivera and his wife’s murders. Just because another mining company bought them out later does not obfuscate the fact that a Canadian Mining Company has been accused of being behind those murders.

Mining Companies that are based on Canadian “soil” should be held to Canadian and International Human Rights Standards whether they operate at home or abroad. Liberal MP John McKay’s Bill C-300; The Corporate Accountability of Mining, Oil or Gas in Developing Countries Act, would have held Canadian mining companies accountable for human rights abuses and environmental destruction while operating abroad.

However, Harper made sure every one of his Conservative MPs showed up, when it was time to vote on Bill C-300, and they defeated that Bill. These are the undisputed facts on this matter Palopu.

Hey Drgon thats not big news,big corporations and our governments are always steeling from those of us who work for a living.
Cheers

THE Harper govt is ONLY making rhe Education funding announcement for First Nations because Harper wants their votes in the next election. Once they fall for the bait, he will bring in more FOREIGN WORKERS and start laying off First Nations along with the rest of the Canadian middle class that he is hell bent on destroying.

It’s a number of years old, but interesting reading nonetheless:

http://cips.uottawa.ca/eng/documents/CIPS_PolicyBrief_Drohan_Jan2010.pdf

And some more current reading of interest:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/will-canadian-companies-be-held-responsible-for-their-actions-abroad/article13524877/

Thanks for the information NMG. I noticed the conclusions in the Drohan Policy Brief state that while nothing is being done at our Federal level… “However, the work being done at an international
level by the special representative for the UN secretary general on business and human rights may provide workable options to break this impasse. The federal government should commit now to asking parliament to review the final report due in 2011 and report on how it might be implemented in Canada.”

Hmm… “special representative for the UN secretary general”, given how much Harper and the conservative crowd hate all things “UN”, I guess nothing will happen then!

taxpayerteacher.

How many Canadians are teaching abroad.

How many Canadians are working abroad, in the banking, mining, oil, and manufacturing business.

Thousands and thousands. Do you consider these people to be foreign workers in the Countries they work in, and should we cancel their passports and force them to return to Canada.

Orrrrr. Are you only concerned about foreign workers in Canada.?

Blah blah blah. The power of disinformation. People think social media is the answer. It makes them think their opinions are important. Put a cork in it people and lets hear from scientists engineers and the experts. Hopefully this will end this weeks free for all.
Good night Irene

I have no philosophical issue with bringing in foreign workers to fill jobs that we CAN’T fill in Canada, but to replace Canadian workers who WANT to work with temporary workers from other countries is completely and utterly asinine.

So people#1 in your innocent eyes the UN is on an alter and should be bowed to.

Anyone watching the Olympics, yawn.

Does anyone use a dash cam in their vehicles?
I have for a few years. It’s amazing some of the things they record.

@ BaldEagle; so you are describing; murder, torture, and gang rape as “blah, blah, blah”? That’s quite the “Liberal” attitude you have there!

Did anyone see the end of the CKPG 6:00 News Thursday. Apparently the female Anchor didn’t know she was still on air and had an f’bomb rant about having her work days and hours changed? Nothing on You Tube yet

Nice to see Peeps hasn’t stoped being the resident drama queen.

People#1 must be a paid lobbyist or a shill. Nobody posts the same thing over and over unless they’re getting paid to do so.

“Does anyone use a dash cam in their vehicles?”

Yes, have one for the last couple of years! Works in the daytime and at night!

Great gadget for gathering indisputable video evidence!

“Does anyone use a dash cam in their vehicles?”

Yes, have one for the last couple of years! Works in the daytime and at night!

Great gadget for gathering indisputable video evidence!

Also good if a celeb like Rob Ford jaywalks in front of you. Instant money.

I don’t have a dashcam. I see idiots driving all the time, but I don’t feel the need to record them.

Man, long day at work! So, what have I missed ;-)

Vikingnuck, any hints.

You work? What’s it like?

Jonnybelt he’s like one of my old coworkers. He’d just keep repeating himself and getting loader and loader hoping someone would finally be on his side. Never worked thou, just fell on def ears. Maybe cause he got so load people would tune him out the second a word came out

Hey Carpenter, if you learn to spell and form a sentence, maybe you can join the conversation with the adults sometime.

For those that keep posting here and running down PG all the time get over yourselves.

You can find something good about every place, and you can find something bad about every place. If you choose to look at the negatives of a certain place, or view a work site as just some shithole you have to tolerate to get where you want to be, you’re going to miss some of the best country and people on the planet.

Palopu,

I don’t think your comparison to the RCMP spying on Tommy Douglas in 1935 is valid.

In that case as far as anyone can tell it was the government spying for potential subversive reasons and keeping it internally. Still not an acceptable practice, and nothing that justifies the Harper government spying on Canadians for the benefit of a foreign owned corporation (Northern Gateway is communist Chinese owned).

When our own government is spying on Canadians for ideological reasons and then passing that information on to corporations it becomes a problem for the ability for a democracy to function… it becomes a problem for the rule of law and constitutional rights.

I don’t accept the argument that if it was right for the RCMP to spy on Tommy Douglas in 1935, that is now alright for Harper to use the spy agencies to collect information that his government then hands over to their corporate sponsors. Its too close to fascism for me.

Sorry big guy louder happy

I found yet another Vancouver based mining company; Fortuna Silver, accused of human rights violations at their Cuzcatian mine in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Two anti-mining activists have been killed and others have received death threats after participating in protests.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/making-waves/2012/11/international-human-rights-delegation-investigates-canadian-mine

Keep on trying Carpenter and stay in school, you’ll get there someday.

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