Time to get tough on polluting summertime tools and toys: A 70-horsepower outboard engine in one hour emits same pollution as a new car driving 8,000 km
PARLIAMENT HILL–Our environment receives a surprising measure of pollution from our summertime tools and toyslawnmowers, chainsaws, outboard motors and jet-skis powered by two-stroke gasoline engines. The federal government is well aware of the toll. Environment Canada several years ago estimated that a single 70- horsepower two-stroke outboard engine in one hour emits the same hydrocarbon […]
Federal leadership on alternate fuels: fighting poisonous air with hot air: Twice as many North Americans die every year from air pollution than by traffic accidents
PARLIAMENT HILL–North American deaths caused by air pollution each year now equal deaths resulting from breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. We Canadians, of course, are justifiably terrified of breast and prostate cancer. We don’t seem to be nearly as terrified of pollution. If we were, Canada’s politicians would be paying a lot more attention […]
Cutting GHG ‘most important challenge facing the world’: Environment Minister David Anderson pushes for a 50-year plan in Canada
Environment Minister David Anderson says cutting greenhouse gas emissions is “the most important challenge facing the world today,” and that the 2003 budget represents “the cornerstone of this government’s commitment to making a global contribution to addressing climate change.” But Mr. Anderson (Victoria, B.C.), who considers his No. 1 accomplishment in all his years as […]
Canada must act now in the Congo: It remains to be seen what Canada will do to take lead to help bring order, avoid genocide
Canada must act and act now in the Congo. For all its talk of wanting to be there when it counts, the time is now for Canada to take the lead and muster an international response to the daily killings and impending genocide in the Congo. Prime Minister Jean Chretien seemed to realize the urgency […]
Court judge as editor
TORONTO–Author Stephen Williams has written two books already about the infamous murderers/rapists Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. I haven’t read either one, and have no interest in reading a book about those monsters. That having been said, however, Williams has every right to publish as many books as he wants to on Bernardo and Homolka, […]
Policy on the Internal Disclosure of Information Concerning Wrongdoing in the Workplace
Effective: Nov. 30, 2001 Definition of wrongdoing in the Internal Disclosure Policy is defined as an act concerning: *a violation of any law or regulation, *misuse of public funds or assets, *gross mismanagement, or *a substantial and specific danger to the life, health and safety of Canadians or the environment. The policy provides employees with […]
Silly season has come, mother
Countdown to summer…We’re just back from a week off and already the talk is turning to when the next break will beand for how long. We are now into the final stretch of the spring session, during which the Commons is scheduled to sit for five weeks until June 20, when it is scheduled to […]
Bloc wants environmental assessment mechanisms: But things fall apart when government proposes creating a federal coordinator
PARLIAMENT HILL–I would like to remind the House that for Quebec, environmental assessment is a very important matter. Why? It is of course because Quebec adopted its own legislation back in the early 1990s. You must realize that it is perfectly legitimate for the Bloc Quebecois and the various successive governments of Quebec to ensure […]
The Long Goodbye…
Alberta Premier Ralph Klein is under growing pressure to announce his future plans. Some of his longest and most ardent backroom supporters are privately saying King Ralph should be preparing for abdication and should make up his mind this summer. Some of the talk is not so private. Art Smith, the former long-time head of […]
It’s time to take action on air pollution: NDP MP Comartin: Government needs to enact a Clean Air Act, standards for air pollutants and emissions
In less than one month, summer officially begins and with it the prospect of increased “smog days.” In Canada 16,000 people will die prematurely as a result of air pollution and 5,000 of those directly from smog. Last year, there were record number of smog days throughout Canada with the bulk of those days occurring […]
