Tag: canada
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Video: Bogus Drug War – Inside Canada’s Weed Business
from brasschecktv.com: $20 billion a year (at least) in tax free cash. A bigger market for Canada than wheat and produces more exports than fishing. It employs more people that mining and forestry combined. Canadians are discovering their “green thumbs.” In one town in British Columbia, Grand Forks, it’s believed one house in ten is…
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Has “Come-to-Jesus Moment”, Vows to Quit Drinking
from mirror.co.uk: The crack-smoking mayor of Toronto vowed to stop drinking just hours after knocking over a fellow councillor during a heated debate. Rob Ford has refused to step down after a video of him smoking the class A drug surfaced last year. The 44-year-old blamed booze for his drug-taking and declared he is “finished”…
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Pooping Canada geese may have helped spread GM wheat seeds
from Ottawacitizen.com: Canada geese may have spread viable seeds of genetically modified wheat grown at the Central Experimental Farm, documents from Agriculture Canada show. The odds aren’t high, the department says. But the geese ate the experimental wheat last summer at the Experimental Farm. Geese are voracious eaters and leave droppings every few minutes. The…
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What’s killing Canadian honeybees?
from cbc.ca: Beekeeper John Van Blyderveen is troubled by the silence in his laneway in Ontario’s Oxford County. The familiar summertime buzz of bees hovering over the lush cherry blossom trees is noticeably absent. The flowers sit untouched. “This is extremely unusual for this being a bee farm, there are no bees here,” Van Blyderveen…
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Neonicotinoids Destroy 600 Hives, 37 Million Bees in Canada
from naturalsociety.com: A bee here or a hive there may be chalked up to chance of a landscaping company with heavy-handed pesticide applications, like the case where an estimated 25,000 bees were killed in a small Oregon town. But when millions of bees are dying at once, in locales across Canada, there may be something more serious…
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Canadian Scientists Charged With Smuggling Dangerous Pathogens From China
Canadian federal police on Wednesday charged two former government scientists with allegedly trafficking in dangerous and highly contagious germs.
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Windsor votes to remove fluoride from drinking water
from windsorstar.com: Windsor on Monday joined the growing number of municipalities which have voted to end the decades-old practice of adding fluoride to the water supply in the fight against tooth decay. “A lot has changed in the last 60 years … fluoride is not the be-all and end-all to prevent tooth decay,” said Mayor…





