From QMI Agency
Premier Dalton McGuinty won’t call a public inquiry into police actions at the G20, he said Monday.
“With five separate reviews under way, I think we are coming at it from a number of perspectives,” McGuinty said. “I’m going to let the reviews speak to that.”
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association released its report into the actions of police and treatment of protesters during last summer’s summit, which involved the largest number of mass arrests in Canadian history.
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McGuinty Says No to Inquiry
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Ontario Liberals musing About Introducing a Carbon Tax
From Canadian Free Press
Today, Jim Wilson, MPP Simcoe-Grey, warned Ontario families that there are three key indications that Dalton McGuinty will introduce a carbon tax for Ontario.“It is time for all of us to start to get comfortable with two words: Carbon tax. Without it, all these dreams of a green tomorrow are hallucinations.” (Glen Murray, Toronto Star, May 27 2007).
“I have looked at increasing taxes in some areas. For example, I argued for moving toward more carbon taxation.” (Jack Mintz, The
Agenda With Steve Paikin, February 23, 2011).fast forward to minute 949 in the video to hear the quote
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How the Green Movement Gets To Kids
From Financial Post
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute U.S.-made cartoon narrated by former Greenpeace activist Annie Leonard that bills itself as a “fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.” It has achieved broad popularity as a teaching tool in American schools. Now it has apparently migrated to Canada. I know this because my son, who is in Grade 7, came home two weeks ago with a science assignment based entirely on the video. If this is what passes as science curriculum today, our kids are going to need help with a lot more than just financial literacy.The cartoon format serves as a clever delivery system for a non-stop stream of outrageous leg-pullers and eyebrow-raisers. References are deceptive, misinterpreted or plain wrong. And the message is explicitly intended to make the kids watching feel ashamed of their lives and interests. (See http://www.storyofstuff.com.)
Leonard’s prejudices and deceptions are obvious from the first frames. Businessmen are drawn as Mr. Monopoly Moneybags with top hats (naturally) and dollar signs on their chest. Then a figure representing government suddenly morphs from a legislative building into a tank, reflecting the fact that, as Leonard claims, military spending comprises 50% of the federal U.S. budget. But wait a minute. Is that really true?
[Continue article]This kind of child friendly messaging is nothing new for the green movement. I remember when I was younger the enormous popularity of captain planet a cartoon geared towards making kids more Environmentally conscious. of course now we are cultivating a generation of Greenpeace activists that are ecologically aware but can’t manage money to save their lives.
