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Response to the baffle-gab. If you look at the project for what it is - a boxy office building inspired by Lego and a pedestrian bridge that might or might not have a mesh covering you realize that a lot of money is being spent to achieve almost nothing that was described here. One thing...

The Pickering Bridge is not what it seems. As happy as many seem about the Pickering Bridge, it's not nearly the project it could have been and to be happy about getting the bridge is like being overjoyed about receiving a set of roller skates for your birthday when you could have had a Lear...

When Bush was elected, I decided I'd try and keep track of the number of ecological disasters Bush caused or assisted. A sort of personal Bush-meter. By the time he was re-elected, Bush had had a hand in so many anti-environmental initiatives, I began to lose track. By the end of the first...

Stimulating It seems to be fairly stimulating here. Maybe it's in there for that exact reason - a distraction to divert attention from a more important and more vunerable issue.

Why clean water cannot be a right in Canada. Clean water should be a right and that right should be world-wide without exclusion. No species has the innate right to deprive other species or nations of water either now or in the future. The problem is that most nations could not begin to...

Chemical Winter Conclusion When harmful chemicals accumulate in our bodies, they are now quaintly termed “Body Burdens†as though we were each handed a little parcel to carry with us as we live our lives. Nothing could be further from the truth. These burdens are in no way benign. They are...

Chemical Winter Part 2 The first thing you need to realize is that neither Climate Change nor Global Warming are the big issues. Chemical Winter is the big issue. Certainly many of the same chemicals are at the root of the problem. But the immediacy and scope of the certain damage from...

It's a nice sentiment but it didn't work for me when I ran for Mayor of Pickering. When your issues threaten entrenched factions, the established players take steps to ensure that their interests are protected. When I ran for Mayor of Pickering, there was lots of media bellyaching about green...