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Category Archives: Mud and Water
Day of action planned on GMO Alfalfa
Every year, Manitoba farmers grow over 2 million acres of alfalfa. It is a major staple for Manitoba’s beef, livestock and dairy industries worth over $300 million each year. It is also an essential crop in organic crop rotation. Listen … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Canada, environment, farmers, food, Manitoba, protest
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Environmental Activism in Manitoba
In 2012, a challenging year for environmentalists across Canada, Manitoba activists mobilized on federal, provincial and local environmental issues. A federal decision to close the Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario raised new concerns about the suppression of science for … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Canada, climate change, environment, Manitoba
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Harper’s War on Nature
The past six years of federal Conservative government have transformed Canada in profound ways. Our social safety net, the rights of workers and the very institutions of our democracy have all come under attack by Stephen Harper. In all these … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, climate change, environment, Stephen Harper, tar sands, water
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Cosmetic pesticide ban campaign (includes new video)
Mud and Water has been extensively covering the campaign to ban cosmetic pesticides in Manitoba for several months. On September 10, we interviewed Anne Lindsey from Cosmetic Pesticide Ban Manitoba. In July, we also interviewed Cathy Hellsten on this topic. … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, health, Manitoba, pesticides
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Comments on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline
The following were my comments to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel, submitted August 31, 2012: Dear members of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel, I am a Canadian citizen living in Manitoba. I grew up … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Enbridge, environment, government of Canada, NEB, oil and gas, tar sands
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Tories’ reformed environmental assessments would see, hear and speak no evil
A group of environmental activists greeted federal Natural Resources Minister, Joe Oliver, as he spoke in Winnipeg today. Three activists dressed as the proverbial three wise monkeys trained to see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. A … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Canada, climate change, government of Canada, Joe Oliver, Winnipeg
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Why should workers care about the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline?
Stephen Harper is trying to paint the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline as a conflict between the environment and First Nations on one side, and the economy and workers on the other. Everyone knows the Enbridge pipeline spells disaster for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, climate change, government of Canada, media, tar sands, wage labour, Winnipeg
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When We’re 66: Stephen Harper’s attack on Canadian seniors
In the 2011 federal election campaign, Stephen Harper didn’t talk about cuts to Old Age Security (OAS) and the Guaranteed Income Supplement, basic income supports for older Canadians. But on Thursday, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Harper … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Davos, labour, low income, Old Age Security, pensions, seniors, Stephen Harper
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Fracking causes oil spill in Alberta
Midway Energy is being blamed for rupturing an oil well on a separate property, almost one kilometre away, while using hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil. This happened west of Innisfail in southern Alberta on January 13. A neighbour saw … Continue reading
