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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Tonight, 9:00 pm, Buffalo/Toronto PBS (channel 61) is featuring a program dealing with our shared Great Lake: "If Our Water could Talk". PBS has been setting new standards for
good documentaries, unlike our poor CBC which Harper seems determined to starve to death.
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<div>Last night on TVO's "The Agenda" Steve Paiken had two good panelists discuss "The Legislation Left Behind" about important legislation that has died because of the provincial election. The panelists, both excellent, were Katie Franzius of Newstalk 1010
and Andrew Reeves of QP Briefing (I presume QP stands for Queen's Park). I found it interesting how many of the proposed bills, both of the government as well as private members' bills, concerned the environment. For example, one rural Conservative backbencher,
representing the Orangeville area, had a private member's bill to promote turning salvaged concrete and rubble into material that could be reused as aggregate and thus help cut down on the amount of new gravel mining while saving on waste disposal. A very
reasonable measure -- I once heard a talk about a college in Vermont that managed to reclaim 92% of a building that was torn down and reused most of it in a new building. GREN wrote a letter to our provincial politicians pleading for the passage of several
critical bills before an election is called; these were mentioned on the program. Check the website of TVO because they usually rebroadcast The Agenda. (TVO has also had some cutbacks, although not so severe as the CBC).</div>
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<div>- Greg</div>
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