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Archive for May 1st, 2008

What If Everyone Actually DID Switch to Seventh Generation?

Amazon LogoIt’s a cool thing to think about.

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The tops in green homes

From the outside, Canada’s greenest house is unremarkable – just another dwelling in a massive subdivision in Guelph, Ont. In fact, it’s extraordinary, and putting it together was a challenge that…

The ABCs of building a green school

John Perpich grabs his hard hat and steel-toed boots and starts trudging through the mud to Vancouver’s first green school. He’s not exactly enthused. ”It’s been a pain in the butt,” he shrugs….

Tories get $5M in Q1 fundraising

The Conservatives kicked off the year by blowing away the
opposition parties with $5 million in fundraising from 44,345
individual donors in the first quarter of 2008, new Elections Canada
figures…

More birds die after landing in toxic oilsands

EDMONTON – Canadians expect better environmental protection
to prevent incidents such as the death of 500 ducks earlier this
week in an oilsands tailings pond, Prime Minister Stephen Harper
said…

Students help send bikes to Africa

Pupils at Ridgeview elementary are helping a B.C. high-tech
mogul send thousands of used bikes to Africa.

The carbon tax will be a cash cow

When Finance Minister Carole Taylor introduced the provincial
budget in February, I questioned how the government could call it
balanced when it clearly showed spending in excess of revenue.

The computer conundrum

Turn it off or leave it on?

Ducks’ deaths not doing ‘anybody’s image any good’: PM

Canadians expect better environmental protection to prevent incidents such as the death of 500 ducks earlier this week in an oilsands tailings pond, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday

Dead ducks hurting Alberta’s image: PM

Canadians expect better environmental protection to prevent incidents such as the death of 500 ducks earlier this week in an oilsands tailings pond, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday