Food & Energy
Conservative MPs yesterday introduced 904 amendments to the budget as a filibuster entered its second month. Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre said MPs would use all means possible to block the budget bill until cabinet caps the carbon tax and commits to eliminating the deficit.
“We are going to stop the budget unless they meet two conditions,” said Poilievre. Conservative MPs earlier tied up the bill for 29 days at the Commons finance committee.
“If the government does not meet these demands we will use all procedural tools at our disposal to block the budget from passing including 900 amendments, lengthy speeches and other procedural tools that are in our toolkit,” said Poilievre. “Our purpose is to restore common sense to the country’s finances.”
MPs yesterday raised numerous points of order to block Third Reading debate of Bill C-47 the Budget Implementation Act. “I want to seek clarification on the use of the word ‘phony’ in the House of Commons,” said MP Andrew Scheer (Regina-Qu’Appelle), Opposition House Leader. “It is not on the list of unparliamentary words,” he said.
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Read MoreTrudeau’s former advisor and long time pal Gerald Butts is blaming climate change for the forest fires that were started by arsonists across Canada.
Butts, along with several Liberal MPs, regularly connects the forest fires in Canada to man-made climate change.
One Twitter user asked Butts to comment on the fact that a man in Alberta was arrested last month for intentionally starting at least 10 fires around Cold Lake.
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Read MoreBy Heather Exner-Pirot, June 6, 2023
People in industry have called the government’s mandates for reducing emissions, charitably, a regulatory stack of pancakes; or derisively, a Frankenstein of policies over-ambitiously mashed together, with each one adversely affecting the other.
Any of these mandates is not a too-terrible idea on its own. The carbon tax may be unpopular, but it’s at least rational. It puts an explicit price on carbon, thus incentivizing lower-emission alternatives. It is technology agnostic, promising to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the most cost-effective manner possible.
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Read MoreSucralose is the most widely used artificial sweetener in the U.S. Most commonly sold under the brand name Splenda, the chemical is used in over 6,000 food products.
It is often found in “diet” sodas including Diet Coke with Splenda, Diet Pepsi with Splenda, as well as Gatorade’s Propel Water, low-calorie Kool-Aid, Atkins Diet products and other low-calorie foods and drinks.
Sucralose is 600 times sweeter than sugar and contains no calories. Although it has been marketed as a healthy product that can help fend off obesity and diabetes, sucralose consumption has been linked to leukemia, weight gain, obesity, diabetes, liver inflammation, metabolic dysfunction and other illnesses.
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Read MoreThe ‘Bloody’ Truth About Lab-Grown Meat
Most cultured meat companies still use fetal bovine serum as the growth medium, which is obtained from unborn calves that are cut out of the womb and drained of their blood while still alive.
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Dr. Joseph Mercola
While the fake meat industry is being touted as an environmentally friendly and sustainable way to feed the world, the true intent is to recreate the kind of global control that Monsanto and others achieved through patented GMO seed development.
In the end, lab-created meats are worse for the environment than livestock and will undoubtedly deteriorate human health to boot, just like GMO grains have.
Lab-grown meat is worse for environment than cattle
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Read MoreEvery day, Canadians are exposed to many chemicals that are linked to adverse health conditions such as cancer, asthma, diabetes and behavioural problems like ADHD. Glyphosate, Canada’s top-selling weed killer and the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, is of particular concern because of its links to cancer.
That’s why we tested common children lunch food products sold in Canada and found glyphosate in 80 per cent of the samples. To enable families to reduce their exposure, the Canadian government needs to take stronger action on harmful chemicals like glyphosate.
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Read MoreA month-long Conservative committee filibuster of cabinet’s budget bill has spilled into the House of Commons. MPs on Friday voided a whole day’s worth of debate on Bill C-47 as cabinet fumed.
“I find it shameful and disgusting,” said Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux (Winnipeg North), parliamentary secretary to the Government House Leader. “The Conservative Party continues to play the role of a destructive force on the floor of the House of Commons.”
Conservatives protested the 2023 budget A Made In Canada Plan projects spending a half trillion dollars a year with ongoing deficits through 2028. Debt interest charges this year total $43.9 billion, almost equivalent to $49.4 billion federal spending on health care.
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Read MoreA Citroen 2CV made of wood, thought to be the only one of its kind, has sold for 210,000 euros ($225,000) at auction in France, setting a new price record for the iconic vehicle.
The car, in full working order and registered in France, beat expectations when it went under the hammer in the central town of Tours on Sunday.
The body of the 2CV was hand-crafted out of wood with the same famous curves as the post-war French classic.
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Read MoreJaguar is recalling all its US I-Pace electric vehicles (EV) due to battery fire risk. Owners are advised to park outside and charge their vehicles outdoors to prevent potential house fires.
Jaguar’s potential battery problem is similar to the recall of the Chevy Bolt EV, which also had vehicle batteries catch on fire.
After four separate incidents of $110,000 I-Pace electric car batteries catching on fire, concerns about their similarity to the fires that led to the recall of Chevy Bolt EV vehicles.
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Read MoreThe David Suzuki Foundation has a new enemy in its climate crusade: the lowly — some would say lovely — honey bee.
After years of encouraging and educating backyard beekeepers on how to raise and feed the perky pollinators, Canada’s elder enviro activist is now telling them buzz off.
That’s because a study from Concordia University in Montreal suggests urban bees are squeezing out more than 150 species of wild bees that have been pollinating the local flora for thousands of years.
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