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In support of Donna Dillman, the Steelworker’s Union has organized a March on  the last day that the Legislature will be open.  Please join us.

Also please read on about what else you can do.  The situation is urgent, with Donna’s safety now very much at immediate risk.  I have gone on a juice fast myself in her support and will be in the Legislature with her today, tomorrow and Thursday after the march.  Our nominated candidate, Sharon Howarth, will be joining us as well.

March  against uranium mining
Thursday, 2007 December 13, 9:30 AM
Toronto CPT  Office
(Steelworkers’ Hall, 25 Cecil Street, Unit 307)     Read more »

The Toronto-Danforth Federal Green Party Association held their annual AGM  last night and the following executive was selected:

• Mary Ann Grainger, CEO
• Patricia Harris, Financial Agent

Executive members,  specific responsibilities to be determined:

• Ron Chambers
• Ed Chin
• Barbora Grochalova
• Charlie  Halpern-Hamu
• Lies Lambermont
• Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu
• Raymond  Scholz
• Ken Shepard
• Doug Wright     Read more »

I’ve been relentlessly negative about the Harper Conservative government.  So I feel a responsibility, when they get something right, to offer some praise.  Today, the Harper government announced $80 million in funding for de-mining Afghanistan.      Read more »

In yet another indication that climate scientists got it wrong and the problem is worse than anticipated, National Geographic reports on a study from yesterday’s journal Nature Geoscience, that the tropics are visibly expanding faster than anticipated.  So it’s not just near the poles that things are worse than expected.

Over the past 25 years, the tropics have expanded by as much as 300 miles (500 kilometers) north and south—evidence of climate change in action, a new study says.

This not only means that rain-drenched regions near the Equator are growing, experts say, but also that global warming may be pushing deserts poleward in places such as the American Southwest, Mexico, Australia, South Africa, South America, and the Mediterranean.

Recently, I’ve received both posted and emailed messages from Jack Layton attacking Stephane Dion for abstaining from the vote on the Throne Speech.  These attack are disingenuous and dangerous.     Read more »