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This is a great idea.. i am away for the shorewalkers
right-of-passage conf.... until Sun so can 't help.. but it is just
what the media pay attention to. Good luck.. Norah <br>
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On 21/05/2012 11:29 AM, Lori Strothard wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial">Holy smoke- that's a lot of shocking
tombstones - if we do this and the press is notified ahead of
time to be there, it could possibly be a good visual photo-op
-if its Peter Kent, I don't think he cares, as he seems to
have been taken over by the body- (+ brain +heart) snatchers
and is a robot these days- just spews the party line. Lori S.</font></div>
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black"><b>From:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
title="gcmichalenko@uwaterloo.ca"
href="mailto:gcmichalenko@uwaterloo.ca">Gregory C.
Michalenko</a> </div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a
moz-do-not-send="true" title="gordanddaph@sympatico.ca"
href="mailto:gordanddaph@sympatico.ca">Daphne NICHOLLS</a> ;
<a moz-do-not-send="true" title="all@gren.ca"
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 21, 2012
11:21 AM</div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [All] concern</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; DIRECTION: ltr; COLOR: #000000;
FONT-SIZE: 10pt">One opportunity to express our concern would
be on May 24 when the Minister of the Environment is visiting
the University of Waterloo. Universities are supposed to be
places for the free expression of opinions and ideas. How
about a graveyard with styrofoam tombstones for the following
casualties: Kyoto Agreement, Round Table on the Environment
and the Economy, Statistics Canada (long form census), Long
Gun Registry, Whistleblowers, Environmental Assessment Act,
Northern Lakes Research Program (and several others), National
Parks, CBC, Public Participation, Endangered Species Act,
Fisheries Act...and many more. We could put on lab coats and
gags over our mouths to be muzzled gov't scientists.
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<div>I went bird watching at Pt. Peleee National Park last
week. The Park Biologist has been laid off and a fromer
student os mine who is thriving as an interpreter and
working with the public has been put on a 10 month contract
(ie, a wage cut of 17% - it's hard to build a career and
start into your independent professional life (and pay off
those student loans after graduating) when you're treated
like that.</div>
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<div>- Greg<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:all-bounces@gren.ca">all-bounces@gren.ca</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:all-bounces@gren.ca">all-bounces@gren.ca</a>] on behalf of
Daphne NICHOLLS [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gordanddaph@sympatico.ca">gordanddaph@sympatico.ca</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 21, 2012 9:55 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> GREN<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [All] concern<br>
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Several academic friends are espressing serious
concerns about the Harper Government. Here are
suggestiosn from a young scientist, forwarded by 2 of
our friends. Daphne<br>
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FYI ........ written by a young scientist who
experienced first hand what has been going on in the
Harper government. Not only will our own health, but
that of the entire ecosystem be affected. There will
be serious economic repercussions which this
government seems too short sighted to see. <br>
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<div>Anne and Alan
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<div><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px;
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Everyone,</span></div>
<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Sans
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<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
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MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">My
name is Naomi. I am Canadian. I worked
for Environment Canada, our federal
environmental department, for several
years before our current Conservative
leadership (under Stephen Harper) began
decimating environmentalism in Canada.
I, along with thousands and thousands of
federal science employees lost any hope
of future work. Their attitude towards
the environment is ‘screw research that
contradicts the economic growth,
particularly of the oil sands’. They
have openly and officially denigrated
anyone that supports the environment and
opposes big-money oil profit as
‘radicals’ (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
style="COLOR: rgb(200,108,0);
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href="http://tinyurl.com/7wwf8dp"
rel="nofollow nofollow"
target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/7wwf8dp</a>).</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
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day in Canada, new information about
their vendetta on science and the
environment is leaked out. I have been
privy to information that is not
released to the public because I retain
friendships with my ex-colleagues
(though my blood pressure hates me for
it).</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
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MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">While
I was working there, scientists were
effectively muzzled from speaking to the
media without prior confirmation with
Harper’s media team (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" style="COLOR:
rgb(200,108,0); TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://tinyurl.com/7bnsqp4"
rel="nofollow nofollow"
target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/7bnsqp4</a>)
– usually denied, and when allowed,
totally controlled. Scientists were
threatened with job loss if they said
anything in an interview that was not
exactly what the media team had told
them to say. This happened in 2008. The
public didn’t find out for years.</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
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MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">During
one of my contracts, I was manager of a
large, public database set. Contact
information for all database managers
was available for anyone. I knew what
was going on with the information and
could answer questions immediately and
personally. During this time, I noticed
that a media team from Quebec started
asking me “What would I say” to certain
questions. I answered unwittingly. After
a certain period of time, I noticed that
all contact information had been removed
from the internet –eliminating the
possibility that any member of the
public could inquire directly about
supposedly public data. The
Conservatives effectively removed
another board from the bridge between
science and the public, and I had
inadvertently helped.</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
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then, the Conservative government has
been laying off thousands and thousands
of full-fledged scientists that have
been performing research for decades (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" style="COLOR:
rgb(200,108,0); TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://tinyurl.com/8xtkaro"
rel="nofollow nofollow"
target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/8xtkaro</a>),
shutting down entire divisions and
radically decimating environmental
protection and stewardship in a matter
of a couple years.</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
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am afraid for my country. Canada is the
second largest land mass in the world –
though our population is small, you can
be sure that when a country that
encompasses 7% of the world’s land mass,
and has the largest coastline in the
world says “screw it” to environmental
protection, there will be massive global
repercussions.</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
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Conservative leadership have admitted to
shutting down environmental research
groups on climate change because “they
didn’t like the results” (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" style="COLOR:
rgb(200,108,0); TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://tinyurl.com/7kpqk7d"
rel="nofollow nofollow"
target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/7kpqk7d</a>),
are decimating the Species at Risk Act
(our national equivalent of the IUCN Red
list), are decimating habitat protection
for fisheries, are getting rid of one of
the most important water research
facilities in the world (Experimental
Lakes Area – has been operational since
1968, and allows for long-term ecosystem
studies [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
style="COLOR: rgb(200,108,0);
TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://tinyurl.com/cdygbdk"
rel="nofollow nofollow"
target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/cdygbdk</a>]
), are getting rid of almost all
scientists that study contaminants in
the environment, have backed out of the
Kyoto protocol – and the list goes on
and on and on.</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
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MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Entire
divisions of scientific research are
being eliminated. Our land, our animals,
our plants, our environment are losing
all the protection that has been
building for decades – a contradictory
stance to the rest of the world. (Please
see their proposed omni-bill that
basically tells the environment to go
screw itself, while also being presented
in an undemocratic, borderline illegal
fashion that limits debate on any of the
70+ changes [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
style="COLOR: rgb(200,108,0);
TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://tinyurl.com/89ys2nf"
rel="nofollow nofollow"
target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/89ys2nf</a>]).</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
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MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">David
Schindler, a professor from the
University of Alberta (and founder of
ELA) quoted. “I think we have a
government that considers science an
inconvenience.”</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
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am writing this to implore every single
person to please – look into this
subject, and help us, help ourselves.
Contact your MP, the Fisheries minister,
Stephen Harper, anyone, everyone. I
can’t sit by and just post rants on my
Facebook page anymore. Share this
letter, discuss, anything. Canada is an
important nation environmentally, and
our leadership doesn’t give a fig for
science or the environment. But we do.
This Conservative minority leadership
was voted in on a thin string in the
lowest voter election turnout in recent
history, but thanks to our ridiculous
voting laws, have 100% full power to do
whatever they want. And in the name of
short-term monetary oil profit, they
have realized that science and the
environments is a threat to their goals,
and are doing everything possible to
eliminate both.</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
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are depressed, and frustrated, and mad,
and need all the help we can get to
protect the value of science and our
environment. In the age of
globalization, intentional stone-age
evilness is going to affect everyone. We
share our waters, air, and cycles with
all of you. Science IS a candle in the
dark, and we cannot let greed extinguish
that flame. What happens in Canada –
will happen everywhere.</p>
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you.</p>
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Canadian that cares about science and
the environment</p>
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