You know, I watch a lot of Canadian TV and spend more time at my computer than I should. You'd think I would have heard or read about The Highland Company's 2400-acre Melancthon Township Limestone Quarry, the fact that all that land is prime farmland at the heads of two major river systems, and that it wasn't supposed to be subject to an environmental review. Considering this has been going on for over a year now.
Nope. Just found out a couple weeks ago. Weeeeeak.
Does this kind of policy direction have anything to do with the rising cost of food and the disappearance of clean water?
Nope. Just found out a couple weeks ago. Weeeeeak.
Does this kind of policy direction have anything to do with the rising cost of food and the disappearance of clean water?
It's is starting to get under my skin. Canada's approach to the Alberta Tar Sands has already pissed off the rest of the civilized world. We somehow justify selling asbestos to developing countries. The fiasco surrounding security for the Toronto G20 Summit (and the way the subsequent investigation was handled) made us an international laughing-stock. Now our newly-elected majority Conservative government is about to push through a bunch of previously-failed legislation employing anti-crime measures that are statistically proven to be ineffective. Even Texas is warning us that this crime bill is going to weaken our country.
TEXAS.
To our credit, we've got Occupy movements in Canada (which at least indicates that we're not all completely apathetic, despite what voter turnout tells you). But our Occupy protestors seem devoid of concern for what's happening in our own country. Events in the US definitely have an impact on our lives here, and it's good to show solidarity with the oppressed in other countries, and call our biggest trade partner on its bullshit.
We have our own heap of bullshit though. And it could fertilize the Mojave Desert. Let's turn our attention to that for a minute.
I support the Occupy movement in the USA on principle, and in practice. I support the Canadian Occupy movement on principle. I'd like to be able to support it in other ways too.
TEXAS.
To our credit, we've got Occupy movements in Canada (which at least indicates that we're not all completely apathetic, despite what voter turnout tells you). But our Occupy protestors seem devoid of concern for what's happening in our own country. Events in the US definitely have an impact on our lives here, and it's good to show solidarity with the oppressed in other countries, and call our biggest trade partner on its bullshit.
We have our own heap of bullshit though. And it could fertilize the Mojave Desert. Let's turn our attention to that for a minute.
I support the Occupy movement in the USA on principle, and in practice. I support the Canadian Occupy movement on principle. I'd like to be able to support it in other ways too.
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