<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Hi folks. Here's the latest info:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Local News:</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:
small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kudo's to Councillor Yvonne Fernandez</span> for her excellent coverage today in the Record speaking of the new conservation strategies being implemented to help protect and preserve Jefferson Salamanders in Doon South. Article is online here: </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/814660--doon-creek-subdivision-delayed-to-protect-rare-salamanders-habitat-in-kitchener">http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/814660--doon-creek-subdivision-delayed-to-protect-rare-salamanders-habitat-in-kitchener</a><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span>F</span><span>i</span>sh changing sex in the Grand River </span>at the discharge points of our sewer is now featured in a KW record article here: </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/814661--researchers-blame-fish-mutations-on-local-sewage-plants">http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/814661--researchers-blame-fish-mutations-on-local-sewage-plants</a><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:
transparent; "><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Lulu theory: This summer Syngenta agreed to pay $105 million to settle a class-action lawsuit with 2000 water utilities in the U.S. Midwest because Atrazine contaminated their municipal water supplies. 300 utilities with the highest Atrazine levels in their water will recover 100% of their costs. My advice: Check the Atrazine levels in the Grand. </span><span style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span><span><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span>With development encroaching farmlands, more farm run-off might be making it's way into the sewage treatment resulting in these issues. </span></font></span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal; "><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: small;"><span><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Power Shift Youth Rally:</span> </span></font></span><span style="background-color: transparent; "><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span>Huge Youth Rally being planned to take place in Ottawa. Details here: </span></font></span><a href="http://www.wearepowershift.ca/" style="background-color: transparent; ">http://www.wearepowershift.ca/</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-style: italic;">If folks are interested in Car Pooling from KW</span> contact Kalin Stacey
<krstacey@gmail.com> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; "><span style="font-style: normal; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; text-align: left; "><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Paris Event update</span>: Due to revised scheduling of events and time constraints I will not be speaking at in Paris this weekend during the pots and pan rally but I will be presenting to the community at a later date. Either way, it's great cause to support! Concerned Citizens of Brant official website here: </span><a href="http://ccob.ca/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;
font-size: 16px; ">http://ccob.ca/</a><br></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 13px; ">PROVINCIAL NEWS</span></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><font color="#333333"
face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-weight: bold;">Darlington Nuclear Plant Expansion fact sheet produced by Greenpeace</span>:</span></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/Energy/end-the-nuclear-threat/Resources/Fact-sheets/What-you-need-to-know-about-Darlingtons-reactors/">http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/Energy/end-the-nuclear-threat/Resources/Fact-sheets/What-you-need-to-know-about-Darlingtons-reactors/</a><br></span></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
small;"><br></span></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; "><span style="font-weight: bold;">Soupstock,</span> the sequel to last year’s </span><em style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; ">Foodstock</em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; ">, will be held on Sunday, Oct. 21 at Toronto’s Woodbine Park. Details here: </span></span></font></span><a href="http://www.soupstock.ca/">http://www.soupstock.ca/</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; "><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lake Erie: Legislative Changes recommended by IJC:</span> The International Joint Commission – the bilateral agency that manages the Great Lakes on behalf of Canada and the United States – is so concerned about the situation that it will recommend legislative and regulatory changes in a major report in 2013. </span><a href="http://www.delhinewsrecord.com/2012/10/01/authorities-worry-erie-is-ailing">http://www.delhinewsrecord.com/2012/10/01/authorities-worry-erie-is-ailing</a><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana,
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-weight: bold;">Food makes more money than cars in Ontario:</span> In Ontario 2010, the auto sector had $43.6 billion in revenue. Food processing, agriculture products and farming grossed nearly $50 billion. </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 13px; ">Direct employment in the automotive sector in 2010 was 31,500, while food processing hit 127,000 and farming adds 90,000 more jobs.</span><a
href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2012/10/03/wdr-auto-vs-food.html" style="font-size: 13px; ">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2012/10/03/wdr-auto-vs-food.html</a><br></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-weight: bold;">Invasive Stink Bug poses risks to farms in Hamilton</span> <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2012/10/10/hamilton-brown-marmorated-stinkbug.html">http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2012/10/10/hamilton-brown-marmorated-stinkbug.html</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span
style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Federal News</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; text-align: left; ">One of Canada’s most outspoken champions of the oil and gas industry has doubts whether Enbridge will ever build a pipeline to the B.C. coast — even if the $6-billion project gets federal approval.</span><span style="font-family:
arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; text-align: left; "><br><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Former+energy+minister+doubts+Enbridge+ability+Northern+Gateway+pipeline+built/7360165/story.html#ixzz28vf0w0AP" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-family: arial; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Former+energy+minister+doubts+Enbridge+ability+Northern+Gateway+pipeline+built/7360165/story.html#ixzz28vf0w0AP</a></span><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: transparent; ">Romney would approve KXL pipeline on first day of his presidency </strong><a href="http://canadians.org/blog/?p=17091#.UHSQEH-ca7g.twitter">http://canadians.org/blog/?p=17091#.UHSQEH-ca7g.twitter</a><br></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span
style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 13px; ">International News</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; ">Nature, the biggest bank of all could go bust says Prince Charles: </span><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; font-size: 13px; ">there are "96 months left" before it may be too late to reverse the impact of climate change.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><a
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5780271/Nature-the-biggest-bank-of-all-could-go-bust-warns-Prince-Charles.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5780271/Nature-the-biggest-bank-of-all-could-go-bust-warns-Prince-Charles.html</a><br></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: small;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 18px; ">Take Action: Online Petitions</span></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><font color="#333333" face="Arial,
sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span>New Lead Now petition is asking for signatures to help stop big oil subsidies. To support this petition sign here: </span></font></span><strong style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.leadnow.ca/end-big-polluter-handouts" style="color: rgb(35, 71, 134); outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">http://www.leadnow.ca/end-big-polluter-handouts</a></strong></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 13px;
"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Sign here to help save Hidden Valley Jefferson Salamanders in Kitchener: </span><a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/178/674/364/urge-minister-gravelle-to-save-endangered-species-jefferson-salamander-from-4-lane-highway/">http://www.thepetitionsite.com/178/674/364/urge-minister-gravelle-to-save-endangered-species-jefferson-salamander-from-4-lane-highway/</a></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Help save Temagami </span><a
href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Save_Temagami_1/?wvHLrdb" style="background-color: transparent; ">http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Save_Temagami_1/?wvHLrdb</a></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Sign here to protect the Great Lakes through this petition with Environmental Defence </span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://action.environmentaldefence.ca/strengthenthegreatlakesontario">http://action.environmentaldefence.ca/strengthenthegreatlakesontario</a></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Ontario Clean Air Alliance asks Ontario residents to send in this quick sign letter to Minister Bentley to say no to the proposed $33 million dollar expansion for the Darlington Nuclear Plant: <a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/gentilly_ltr">http://www.cleanairalliance.org/gentilly_ltr</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Have a good one everybody!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: small;">Lulu :0)</span></div></div></body></html>