Twitter Updates for 2011-07-10

• RT @MurrayRankin: Today I am excited to announce I am seeking the federal #NDP nomination for #Victoria http://t.co/5kgwh2NW #yyj #cdnpoli #
• Enbridge 'doesn't want a spill,' executive says http://t.co/JZuX3Spd If wishes were horses… #cdnpoli #tarsands #oilsands #
• How to build a better speed limit http://t.co/vVjjRSOZ via @maggiekb1 #
• Typical. BP executives sought to blame "blue collar rig workers." US Gov. http://t.co/aUzgRHQt #
• ‘Blue Carbon’ from mangroves Adding to Carbon Emissions http://t.co/7bAzKNfh #climatechange #
• Will New US Fuel-Economy Rules Reduce the Need for US #OilSands Imports? it depends… #tarsands http://t.co/yqzrhUQ4 #
• Wow. Harper govt taking its own auditor general to to court. Unprecedented? http://t.co/QXfMhRIu #cdnpoli #
• Why is the Jason Kenney trying to make 3,100 Canadians no longer citizens? Asks @kainagata http://t.co/BYVXsrrY #cdnpoli #
• RT @allioford: Isaac oil is BP oil, and its still hurting fishermen http://t.co/XvPwwNCq #HurricaneIsaac #DeepwaterHorizon #BPoil #
• #CRTC Chooses Access over Canadian Content Rules @mgeist in @thetyee http://t.co/lCZ6WaTx #cdnpoli #
• The smart @paulwillcocks: As always, dire warnings of lost jobs in BC from minimum wage increases unfounded http://t.co/bZwVtB2T #bcpoli #
• Despite Conservative Outcry, Crime and Migration Rare Falling in Mumbai http://t.co/H9dgtwlj #india #
• The Growing Might of Solar Power in the US: @nytimesgreen http://t.co/qo5D8Xl9 #
• Sweden's incinerators can't get enough waste to convert to energy, so they're borrowing from neighbours http://t.co/uFfWnTyP #
• David Suzuki: Earthquakes and toxic wastewater are only part of the problem with #fracking http://t.co/bpOBUUlx #
• Canadian permafrost thaw will speed up #climatechange http://t.co/GbM4cqcQ Also expose more "resources" #cdnpoli #climatechange #
• RT @gwillowwilson: NEWS! Crazy extremists make brain dead video to which brain dead extremists respond in a crazy way. via @maggiekb1 #
• RT @cfax1070: @CaroleJames told @alferraby she will NOT seek the NDP nomination for MP for the riding of Victoria #yyj #
• RT @a_macleod_tyee: Lack of drug data is blocking important research http://t.co/PPX7fIJm via @TheTyee #bcpoli #pharma #TI #uvic #research #
• Big retail houses Walmart, Costco, Kohls and Ikea lead corporate #solar push http://t.co/cIuBrfRd #
• MT @justinwolfers: Income inequality and Gini index just keep rising. Why are pols focused on tax cuts for the rich? http://t.co/BdU6zitn #
• Released From Jail, Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi vows to fight #India colonial era sedition law http://t.co/1fRNTcyc #
• +1 more than you. RT @daeaves Why Banning Anonymous Comments is Bad for Postmedia and Bad for Society http://t.co/YUlQP1Bq #
• The Arctic has lost enough ice to cover Canada (which it doesn't any more, of course!) http://t.co/fnuiXDf9 via @pbgrist #climatechange #
• RT @plos: India court rules for generic lung cancer med against Roche patent claim; implications http://t.co/esTaOxLl #
• B.C. to install over 450 electric vehicle charging stations http://t.co/obs0USNc #bcpoli #
• Note how much more fuel efficient Chinese cars are, and where their rules are going compared with Cda/US. http://t.co/LpBOelAb #
• RT @alimjiwa: Omar Khadr is coming back to Canada #cdnpoli http://t.co/B5m36MUu via @HuffPostCanada #cdnpoli #humanrights #
• Ruling Exempting First U.S. #Tarsands Mine from Water Pollution Monitoring Is Challenged http://t.co/wkqeIvbW #oilsands #
• The Food Fight in Your Guts: Why Bacteria Will Change the Way You Think About Calories http://t.co/H28zcGj2 great read via @boraz #
• RT @cbcsmart: Former NDP Finance Minister Elizabeth Cull enters #yyj by-election race hoping to replace MP @DeniseSavoie. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #
• Cut in Federal govt funds leaves whale protection group on shore in Victoria #yyj and Alert Bay http://t.co/QPLfZzUh #cdnpoli #
• RT @ericmjohnson: U.S. Census Bureau figures show highest income gap between rich and poor in more than 40 years: http://t.co/pYtnRm0G #
• .@cbcsmart Or gasp, they can think of tax revenue as well, why do you assume that all deficits need to be reduced by cuts? #
• My disdain for round numbers leads me to commemorate this, my 10,044th tweet 🙂 See ya 10,000, not so special after all! #
• MT @tc_shaw: BC liberals cancel fall session of #bcleg even though Clark said during campaign that leg should sit more often. #bcpoli #
• Trophy Bear hunting ban declared by 10 B.C. First Nations http://t.co/e1VgN1sj #bcpoli #
• Plunging natural gas prices threaten B.C.'s budget http://t.co/VsnHF2bW #bcpoli Anyone who relies on Nat Gas for stable revenue is a… #
• Interesting tidbit from @DeanFortin: Success of Douglas bus only lanes may obviate need for #yyj LRT http://t.co/ESywRDgG #
• Shouldn't be up to them at all. RT @adam_stirling: If you were the BC Liberals would you hold a fall sitting? No, I didn't think so. #bcpoli #
• .@adam_stirling Yes their prerogative. We need better institutions less vulnerable to political manipulation. You have to legislate. #
• Via @sherwinarnott: @UVicSJS Indigenous Rights in the UN System: #UNDRIP • Thurs Sept 13 7-9 pm • Fraser 159 @uvic #yyj #
• #NDP provincial leaders (including opposition) have highest average rating, cons next, libs last. http://t.co/b2ViOMHY #bcpoli #cdnpoli #
• There’s Nothing Inevitable About Eduflation Erika Shaker of the @CCPA http://t.co/mHqQbVAZ #cdnpoli #
• RT @bcndpcaucus: #BCLibs decision not to hold a fall session shows a government out of ideas, out of gas: http://t.co/noYUENrC #bcpoli #
• The Energy Rush: Fossil Fuel Industry Opens Wallet to Defeat Obama http://t.co/70jTE7fZ @NYTimes Obama has presided over a US oil boom #
• B.C. government to slash spending, freeze hiring. more "austerity" will not create growth http://t.co/9LbbXvcz #bcpoli #
• It's that lovely time of low sun and beautiful light. Facing east on my bus going up the Saanich peninsula is sweet! #yyj #
• New community @BC_Transit buses proposed for #yyj a concern? One entrance, Class 4 drivers, intrigue http://t.co/zsYFws0t #
• Removing fossil fuel subsidies is critical. yet politically very difficult, #India diesel edition http://t.co/7WFWIKsW #
• RT @matvic: 1: Attract a flock of seagulls to your car 2: Head to Our Place on Saturday so @Adam_Stirling can wash http://t.co/2oObEMoZ #YYJ #
• Welcome to the Islamophobic entertainment industry http://t.co/rFZgh6W9 @3QD #
• Freedom-of-information requests to the BC government coming up empty: B.C. FIPA http://t.co/ZfGtqrLI #bcpoli #opengov #FOI #
• RT @edyong209: Childhood neglect wrecks the insulation of the developing brain http://t.co/Pne2zKcG by @9brandon #
• Yes MT @cfax1070: Is the (Harper) govt going too far in cutting envoronmental organizations? Ken Wu joins Adam now 250-386-1161 #cdnpoli #
• Authors who release their books on one ebook platform, not the others, I won't buy your otherwise good book, Joe Romm of @climateprogress #
• vial @travissaunders: New @plosone paper: Why Most Biomedical Findings Echoed by Newspapers Turn Out to be False http://t.co/THS9JFPJ #
• Kansas Election Officials Seek Copy of Obama’s Birth Certificate -@NYTimes http://t.co/nWvoUVSM #nottheonion #
• Harper government attacks the Quebec government for not supporting #asbestos mining http://t.co/vZb0L6Nk #cdnpoli #mad #
• RT @inklesspw: Kind of amazed that somebody decided "the PQ supports health and human safety over jobs" should be an *attack* line. #cdnpoli #
• Citing PQ pressure, Canada to cease defending #asbestos mining – @GlobeandMail http://t.co/dNxLXx6T Great news #cdnpoli #
• De Jong transfers gas pain to public servants: @VancouverSun http://t.co/eYBa5HrW #bclibs #bcpoli #
• RT @politicsrespun: Hello PQ: goes after tuition increases, bill 78, nuclear power and now asbestos. A busy, AWESOME month so far! #qcpoli #
• Citizenvestor, a municipality project "kickstarter". Room for something like this in #yyj or Canada? http://t.co/KySe2QUD #
• RT @mikedesouza: Scientists shocked after Harper government assigns IT staff to monitor #ozone
  

• 🙁 RT @MotherJones: Todd Akin's not the first GOP Senate candidate to claim rape victims are unlikely to get pregnant: http://t.co/WmthOebK #
• RT @BorowitzReport: wrapping brain around Todd Akin being elected to the House 6 times & now I learn he's a member of the Science Committee. #
• MT @pipeupnetwork: Did you know that there is an #oilsands pipeline already operating in BC? http://t.co/3c0vV2nn #bcpoli #Cdnpoli #TarSands #
• The “Where Are You Really From” Power Dynamic http://t.co/oJDll35C via @racialicious One of my "favourite" questions. #race #
• RT @thetyee: Memo to Enbridge: Special Effects Don't Erase Risks http://t.co/Bn1kmUmw @RafeMair #bcpoli #cdnpoli #tarsands #oilsands #
• Want a global economic boom? Open the borders http://t.co/AkPPFyrF #immigration @DylanMatt in the @washingtonpost #
• Health care reform does not start in your kitchen or from individual choices. http://t.co/4NBY7SYR #cdnhealth via @3QD #
• MLAs aren't facing the truth: B.C. forests are tapped out http://t.co/IWa3lLD3 #bcpoli #
• Republicans Condemn Akin's Comments As Blemish On Party's Otherwise Spotless Women's Rights Record http://t.co/K83SWa60 @theonion #
• Wow, second time in three workdays I've had the @bc_transit route 70 breakdown on me, luckily, both times near Sidney. #yyjtransit #
• Crude, dirty and dangerous: The Dangers of Diluted Bitumen Oil – @nytimes http://t.co/a43VwQ6b #tarsands #oilsands #DilBit #
• via @greenhousenyt GOP Okays Strict AntiAbortion Language in Party Platform w/ NO exceptions for rape or incest http://t.co/pj8jPG7 #
• RT @OttawaCitizen: New Elections Canada boss declines to hand over robocalls data to Federal Court. #cdnpoli http://t.co/hHPoJxEw #
• RT @franceswoolley: % of pop with private health insurance is higher in Canada (65%) than US – surprising factoid… #cdnhealth #
• harper's cuts to refugee health care almost costs man his vision, fixed by Doctor defying orders @TorontoStar #cdnpoli #
• Study: U.S. could put a big dent in food prices by relaxing ethanol rules http://t.co/btywcMwp Do it. Via @bradplumer #
• Harper guts 500 environmental assessments in BC, disgusting. http://t.co/JeUi6mud #cdnpoli #bcpoli #
• Great! RT @iEducator: U of U Professor Ditches Term Papers for Wikipedia Articles http://t.co/rdr46TCq #edtech #highered via @janniaragon #
• RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson got a free pass from missing women's inquiry: Lawyers. #mwci #bcpoli http://t.co/VeIAWWzH #
• #Keystone XL: Judge: TransCanada can take land against owners' will in Texas http://t.co/AEanVxZ5 #tarsands #oilsands #
• Sad that Governor of the Bank of Canada now reduced to scolding corporations to invest http://t.co/oMXUhpYN #cdnpoli #
• Nice RT @sherwinarnott: Very much appreciating this earnest and refreshing collection of thoughts. Facts Over Tactics: http://t.co/YW3te7yv #
• RT @kekinusuqs: More reasons why this #mwci inquiry lacks credibility.Tells only part of the story-the story that Oppal/RCMP wants told. #
• It is sad that @DeniseSavoie is resigning as Victoria MP, she is one of the best. http://t.co/J4nJldi3 #yyj #cdnpoli #
• Sad to see you go as MP, @DeniseSavoie but happy for you, good luck balancing life again, and most of all, #ThankYouDenise #
• 500 BC RT @mikedesouza: Harper government scraps 3,000 environmental reviews on pipelines and other projects http://t.co/rZLeVPgD #cdnpoli #
• Indian Government Casts a Wide, Puzzling Censorship Net Over Internet http://t.co/k8wIV7b8 @NYTimes #
• Reading books about the partition always make me sad at the violence and angry about colonialism's consequences #
• Wish Harper would listen RT @mattyglesias: Harsher prison conditions are associated with more recidivism: http://t.co/fLpmbyLe #cdnpoli #
• Why Does Wall Street Always Win? http://t.co/yHAOO60m For some reason, this is not measured as "corruption" by the mainstream #
• Arctic military exercise targets human-smuggling 'ecotourists' http://t.co/DYwiZrfo #cdnpoli #WTF #NotTheOnion #
• RT @benwest: Will Canadian Crude Make the #KeystoneXL Pipeline Leak? | StateImpact Texas http://t.co/XuIom1lA #noKXL #Tarsands #oilsands #
• .@Gawker Publishes audits of Romney's offshore accounts – Why Mitt will never release his tax returns http://t.co/Ql8Q8ig9 #
• RT @gawker: Why Mitt's money matters: http://t.co/hIs40hhC #
• Growing divide between B.C., Alberta on Northern Gateway: poll – @GlobeandMail http://t.co/oHoO376k #tarsands #oilsands #DUH #
• .@pothen @stephenfgordon Don't see a Central Bank employment mandate is "crackpot", see US debate. http://t.co/D12WQuns #
• The average sexual killer in Canada was male, single, white, 28 – Guessing these guys won't get profiled. http://t.co/oveoAiXI #
• RT @BC_Iconoclast: Of possible #NDP candidates being suggested for Victoria, I think @MarianneAlto is the best one so far #yyj #
• He said, he said, he claimed, he rebutted, he said, he denied, what's true? Oh you decide http://t.co/UYxSFPfe #viewfromnowhere #

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• Sweet 🙂 RT @sfbuzzalino: Even kids! ##pride #canqueer #lgtb #yyjpinkpages http://t.co/XsWXPU3K #
• The @yyjpinkpages truck looks awesome. Can't wait to drive it! #yyjpinkpages http://t.co/sd5n0FGv #
• More than look RT @la_cornish: Elections Canada cuts look bad in light of robocall scandal http://t.co/U5K2WJJy via @VancouverSun #cdnpoli #
• The everyday denial of climate change | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists http://t.co/BkHLk748 Via @3QD #
• Wow, #Water Use by Tourists Outstrips Water Use By Locals in Developing Nations, eg. Goa in India http://t.co/8gbdTLOg #
• ‘Unprecedented’ ozone hole opens over Canadian Arctic as Cdn govt cuts monitoring funding. http://t.co/jpX3JHWN #cdnpoli #
• Also, the Environment Canada Scientist who gets his ozone findings into Nature!! doesn't get to talk to media http://t.co/jpX3JHWN #cdnpoli #
• RT @dgardner: "We have a bunch of people running science in the country who don't even know what science is." http://t.co/PGMnzjsc #cdnpoli #
• RT @ProPublica: New study finds fluids from the Marcellus Shale are likely seeping into PA drinking water: http://t.co/WblkMq3B #fracking #
• Herons return to heart of Victoria at Beacon Hill Park – Time to get out those fancy new binocs! http://t.co/WVDNzxJv #yyj #
• Dear #telus please, Billy Joel music on hold, we can do better. #
• Florida responds to biggest TB epidemic in years by, you guessed it, hiding it and closing the facility. http://t.co/5LjJfcdT #FAIL #
• Florida is run by Republican and ex-health insurance exec Rick Scott, who presided over felonious billing fraud http://t.co/GQnkjE8b #
• Minute amounts of copper from mining and brake linings making #salmon prone to predators http://t.co/ndiLFMfk #
• "@kate_sheppard: To combat dengue fever, biotech firm unleashes genetically engineered mosquitoes. What could go wrong? http://t.co/tCNaU5dp #
• RT @mikehudema: #Enbridge knew about Michigan #pipeline defect before spill. Nothing done for 5 yrs http://t.co/mXANm2gA #tarsands #oilsands #
• #Esquimalt Nation seeks recognition of Douglas Treaties claim for Uplands, Cadboro Bay Village, … #yyj http://t.co/gMu8byzg #
• 25% of Wall Street Executives believe wrongdoing is key to success http://t.co/xNjH6Guo #nottheonion #
• RT @mikehudema: #Enbridge #oilspill in Michigan cost $800M; handled like "Keystone Cops,"- US regulator http://t.co/MJ5ZvnTa #oilsands #
• RT @insideclimate: #Enbridge saw crack in pipeline 5 yrs before Kalamazoo #tarsands #dilbit spill, NTSB chief http://t.co/ZkEoPucm #oilsands #
• RT @poneilinottawa: 15,000 defects, #Enbridge "treading water" trying to deal with defects since '05. Accident waiting to happen" #oilsands #
• RT @ntsb: Chairman Hersman: Delegating too much authority to regulated is tantamount to the fox guarding the henhouse. #enbridge #oilsands #
• Should they be trusted? RT @althiaraj: Can Enbridge be trusted to handle potential Northern Gateway spills differently? http://t.co/N9UZGS77 #
• Glad my netbook randomly decided to die 30 minutes before I was selling it instead of after. #lucky #
• I Bragged about Vancouver Cycling and Global Experts Laughed http://t.co/iC6F94kt #yvr via @thetyee #
• The Spreading Scourge of Corporate Corruption and Declining Public Trust – @NYTimes http://t.co/jDcniJCU #
• The Spreading Scourge of Corporate Corruption and Declining Public Trust- @NYTimes http://t.co/dEC8NqpI #
• #Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project should be stopped, Mulcair http://t.co/Eu5VHMBx #tarsands #oilsands #NDP #
• #Enbridge pipeline doomed to be non-starter – @VaughnPalmer (no less) @VancouverSun http://t.co/A4RRuPdQ #tarsands #oilsands #cdnpoli #
• RT @ericmjohnson @TomLevenson: Banksters LIBOR manipulation starved cities/states at the height of the financial crisis http://t.co/WmUCjCI9 #
• A gentle reminder, never, ever, ever fly to/through Heathrow http://t.co/l9Dpz02f via @GlobeandMail #
• #Climatechange driving #salmon evolution, selecting for earlier migrating fish http://t.co/qFp73spK #
• B.C. premier critical of #Enbridge 2010 spill response, joins the rest of BC http://t.co/hec47sAS #tarsands #oilsands #bcpoli #cdnpoli #
• Why that study by Tomtom ranking #yvr as "most congested" in Canada was bogus #yvr http://t.co/HnTE2wmY #
• If you are an #enbridge exec and preside over a bad spill, you get a 35% top up on your mega bucks salary #oilsands http://t.co/Zp9Y0WoP #
• RT @aaronwherry: Quiet cuts: Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society: Parks are under threat. Federal budget cuts http://t.co/JXP1ZKYn #cdnpoli #
• Wow, Texas judge rules that air, like water, is part of "public trust" #BFD http://t.co/J6HCuTzL via @marcleeccpa #
• Yes! RT @sherwinarnott: This seems like an important result for #fairdealing and #copyright http://t.co/oDkVsQ62 via @mgeist #cdnpoli #
• The Market Has Spoken – And It Is Rigged | Simon Johnson – Ex-IMF chief economist http://t.co/nI58tuBj Read this. #
• RT @drgrist: Study: The rich are likely to be less compassionate, more calculating http://t.co/n5zparoK Let's eat them. #
• RT @guydauncey: Canada scores 11th out of 12 in #energyefficiency – almost bottom of the class, next to Russia. http://t.co/tDYizrcJ #
• RT @gvcc Sign our petition! #Esquimalt Mayor and Council: Support Cycling Facilities, Traffic Calming on Admirals. http://t.co/gV0i8YdF #yyj #
• RT @hundalraj: #BCndp says BC's move to privatize liquor distribution "Highly Tainted" http://t.co/Ga1EFjaB #BCpoli #
• RT @wildernews: #Kalamazoo pipeline report sparks opposition to Kinder Morgan expansion http://t.co/Uap3TKRb – @ChilliwackTimes #KMP #bcpoli #
• HSBC "apologizes" for doing little to stop money laundering. Good god, are any of these guys honest? http://t.co/qDXRNC7B #
• MT @ghoberg: Big crowd at @Wildernews Oil Tanker Traffic and threat to Vancouver's Stanley Park #yvr #kmp #tarsands #oilsands #
• B.C. Liberals deny claim lobbyists behind booze plan http://t.co/l3zDHjCS #bcpoli The paper trail is unequivocal. #
• Lightning?? Thunder?? Warm summer rain?? Who are you and where is Victoria?? #yyj #
• Survey: Indians worry more about their (smaller) environmental impact than Canadians or US. http://t.co/SFvpMPEM #
• RT @envirodefence: U.S. report sounds death knell for proposed #NorthernGateway pipeline http://t.co/3IKCufEz #cdnpoli #tarsands #oilsands #
• Barbara Yaffe of @VancouverSun thinks #Enbridge pipeline is "dead", epic.Next up. Kinder Morgan #KMP #bcpoli #tarsands #oilsands #
• 13 reasons why this is the worst US Congress ever http://t.co/4svjcflc Wow, makes Canada's one man show seem functional. #
• RT @la_cornish: @ikealiving If you really love wood, you'll stop clear-cutting Russia's old-growth forests http://t.co/gNMPzZv8 #
• 🙂 RT @robynspilker: Researchers noticed that many Baltimore youth are using a #gender neutral third person #pronoun http://t.co/vSX4yG0k #
• RT @alexhimelfarb: Oy: Canada Studying Private Firms for Prisons as Budgets Fall http://t.co/NL1PxKsz #cdnpoli #
• Guaranteed to lose time, money, cause anguish. Federal government appealing assisted-suicide ruling http://t.co/VbTldr4z #cdnpoli #
• RT @wicary: #Enbridge might want to commence action on Plan B, if there is one: @garymasonglobe on N. Gateway. http://t.co/J5P00tW8 #cdnpoli #
• For some reason, @garymasonglobe seems to think that the #enbridge pipeline would create jobs in BC? http://t.co/2rYbUp78 #wrong #

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• Back to grey mornings in #yyj I had to put my sunglasses away on the bus… #
• Cool… RT @cbc_victoria: Saanich council is considering a policy where it will only buy local foods for it's facilities and events. #yyj #
• Neat. B.C.'s grey whales outwit climate change by hanging out around Vancouver Island http://ow.ly/5Bt7Q #yyj #
• RT @benwest: "Is BC about to drop a new carbon bomb?" @MarcLeeCCPA
  http://j.mp/qt4J8x #Climate #coal #fracking #Oil #GHG #P2ca #bcpoli #
• Anyone who goes on about corruption in "third world" countries should just follow the news of the world scandal #
• Canada, of course RT @mattyglesias: Given Greece and debt ceiling, to where can one flee to quality? Only so many Swiss francs to go around. in reply to mattyglesias #
• Just bombast! RT @leadnowca: RT if you disagree with #pmharper 's statement that the #cpc is #canada 's party. #cdnpoli http://ow.ly/5BxEa #
• RT @jeffjarvis: Good God, News Corp. hacked the prime minister. We've now stepped beyond Watergate. #
• Get your Feminists' Rock Camp Showcase flyers here and share widely http://j.mp/pqVArv @sherwinarnott and @beckycory designed! #yyj #
• Transcanada severely low balled #KeystoneXL pipeline spill frequency and intensity http://ow.ly/5BB7G #tarsands #oilsands #
• RT @rudepundit: Remember: every Murdoch "news" entity was outraged to the hilt over Wikileaks at the same time some were hacking phones. #
• The Victoria Public Library @gvpl has a great idea for you to test out ereaders, place a hold now, wait time around a month? #yyj #
• Must read from TGAM: RT @harshawalia: While number of poor grow and record job cuts, corporate profits soar #cdnpoli #
• Tap the Queen?? The monarchy is good for one thing, generating outrage against the Murdoch empire!http://ow.ly/5BNhn #
• Common hatchery practice could be harming #salmon http://ow.ly/5BNE2 Clipping fins impedes swimming, who knew, counterintuitive #
• RT @Adam_Stirling: BC Govt ripped-up pub sector contracts in past they considered unfair. W/ Hahn they express outrage & do nothing. #bcpoli #
• RT @garymasonglobe: How can the premier allow the board that approved this pension deal to remain in place? #bcpoli #Hahn #bcferries #

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• Alberta election 2012: Environment issues largely missing. http://t.co/wJvKxRjs #abvote #abpoli #Obviously #
• The Year that Shook the Rich: A Review of Natural Disasters in 2011 http://t.co/tRghw9XD #
• Is Siachen Worth Fighting Over? http://t.co/gqatGamf #India #Pakistan #
• Feds warned not to ‘cheerlead’ for #oilsands http://t.co/626I1Urb Another #tarsands find by @mikedesouza #cdnpoli #
• RT @a_macleod_tyee: NDP MLA Robin Austin: #BCHydro buying high and selling low makes no sense, real reason it wants smart meters. #bcpoli #
• RT @wicary: Harper's spite of the Charter, 30th-anniversary edition: @InklessPW weighs in. http://t.co/b8B7fHc2 #cdnpoli #
• RT @JohnIbbitson: Sweeping changes to environmental assessments coming. Ottawa will now only review major proposals. http://t.co/6BxZPqBX #
• BP's Corexit-Oil Tar Sponged Up By Human Skin – "Quick fix" for the spill made things worse http://t.co/rc9iLqer #
• From Bleak Central #India a People's Movement and a People's Union http://t.co/nk3Yco8s #
• Movie plot alert: Melting glaciers from warming liberate ancient bacteria. http://t.co/t7EStzdd #
• Environment Canada will see dramatic change of role after budget cuts http://t.co/nwTDEGgC #cdnpoli #
• Or all coal, or all oil RT @james_bg: Can I suggest a short coda to all today's shale gas headlines – "if we burn all of it we're screwed" #
• MT @wicary: Latest frm @glen_mcgregor, @stphnmaher: #Robocalls probe extends to Tory headquarters http://t.co/NksqRzVf #CdnPoli #elxnfraud #
• RT @rabbleca: Elections Canada keeps rulings secret on 2,982 complaints since 1997 http://t.co/95myLZM4 #CdnPoli #opengov #
• Lessons of Deepwater Horizon still not learned. http://t.co/CXy4qNKt #
• Energy and mining industries hail Ottawa’s environmental oversight overhaul http://t.co/Z9sWmWxr #cdnpoli #
• Ha!!! RT @andyfarke: RT @brembs: This is how Elsevier adds value: http://t.co/NutOwsXj no comments necessary. #
• via @askessler: Aside from #enviro review fast-track, an impressive list of what gov't has done "for" the envt. so far http://t.co/FVuK8XQS #
• Going, Going, Gone: Dismantling the Progressive State http://t.co/d7IBTsKl Good piece by @alexhimelfarb #cdnpoli #
• RT @kentspencer2: Feds cutting emergency oil spill staff just when oil cos are ramping up tankers in Vancouver: http://t.co/Ctj4LNWW #yvr #
• Canada only behind US and UK in percentage of employees in low wage work http://t.co/k0scpe0U #cdnpoli #winning #
• RT @anndouglas: Political Apathy and Voter Suppression: Who are the real slackers? http://t.co/rGI2vxqi via @ccpa #cdnpoli #getoffmylawn #
• Young People Tire of Old Economic Models http://t.co/5wAWmLwK on the @dotearth blog via @Revkin #
• RT @mikehudema: #Wildrose Deny #Climatechange Believe in #LakeofFire now claim white people speak for all: http://t.co/4GaICV46 #abvote #
• Indep. review? RT @andrew_leach: Wow RT @jeffmjatreuters: Canada government to decide fate of big pipelines http://t.co/Y84maUNL #cdnpoli #
• RT @milescorak: "The World our GrandChildren will Inherit" by Daron Acemoglu of @WhyNationsFail http://t.co/g4dB2AJ7 #
• RT @eric_doherty: So much for transit on the new Port Mann. Gateway is about cars, transit not funded by PM tolls. http://t.co/Tsma6ouS #yvr #
• Hmm… RT @janniaragon: Never did hear from @BC_Transit (corrected twitter handle) regarding the errant, reading bus driver on Ring Rd. #
• RT @wicary: Tories deny deleting #robocalls records after NDP invokes Watergate. http://t.co/yrOYxW9f #cdnpoli #elxnfraud #
• Not good, @janniaragon. @BC_Transit drivers are usually fine! This reading, pedestrian endangering driver story is hopefully a one off? #
• The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) pans changes to environmental assessment http://t.co/NFBPJrDp #cdnpoli #CEAA #
• B.C. domestic homicide victims predominantly female http://t.co/KN5esF2p Stop this violence now. #bcpoli #
• RT @wicary: Canada's game #facepalm VIDEO Marian Hossa stretchered off ice after Raffi Torres' brutal, unpenalized hit http://t.co/X15KQvTS #
• The recovery has made #inequality worse in the US http://t.co/dF4eunfP #
• Radical RT @wicary: #Katimavik is worth saving, Olympian Adam van Koeverden argues. http://t.co/UMvXkaQy #cdnpoli #
• RT @Ubutu44 Tsleil-Waututh Nation Opposes Kinder Morgan’s Campaign To Make Vancouver An Oil Port City http://t.co/Ri5U8qBI #bcpoli #cdnpoli #
• RT @ghoberg: from @climatekeith Harper adopts the ‘Might Makes Right’ approach to #tarsands pipeline http://t.co/BzrHAanp #NGP #oilsands #
• RT @ezraklein: US companies that spent the most on lobbying from 2007 to 2009 all saw their reported tax rates decrease http://t.co/XcS2ZzJe #
• RT @308dotcom: @BCNDP holds wide lead over divided right in B.C. http://t.co/3MLXLCF7 #bcpoli #
• "#India is the most elitist, exclusive, unequal and stratified country in the world": Our creamy layer http://t.co/1GAGXFJD #
• The day of reckoning in B.C.’s over-cut interior forests looms http://t.co/YIEH9p7W Ben Parfitt of the @ccpa #bcpoli #
• .@dgardner is on a tear about Omar Khadr, and I realised I made a Khadr-Beah comparison in a blog post a year after he did 🙂 #
• MT @mikedesouza: Feds weakening oversight described by #NRCan in #oilsands doc as "important" and "meaningful" http://t.co/puu15rTd #cdnpoli #
• "The Tories have taken Canadians for fools – and we have obliged them.." : @IvisonJ in the NatPo http://t.co/Z8KwJOcz #cdnpoli #
• RT @eric_doherty: BC approves Pacific Trails fracking gas pipeline on Enbridge #NGP route: http://t.co/L8xv9mA6 #tarsands #climate #
• RT @lindsaykines: Some Victoria trustees deny their board is split on key issues. Silly reporters misreading all those 5-4 votes. #bced #
• RT @sianmj: In BC the top 1% now takes in 17.6% of income – more than twice what it did in 1982 http://t.co/OT7MBl8z #bcpoli via @sageaaron #
• RT @carbontalks: McKinsey predicting #solarPV will be competitive within a decade, based entirely on current technology http://t.co/zsY2NIYK #
• Paging one-percenters in #yyj AGA Cooking Stove- $12500 on @usedvictoria http://t.co/N0cEvFA9 #bargain #howtheonepercentlives #
• Matt Price: Harper and B.C., Like Oil and Water http://t.co/JuYHGq2j #tarsands #oilsands #cdnpoli #bcpoli #
• RT @wicary: Open government: ‘Handcuffed’ Tories won’t reveal full details of cuts till next spring http://t.co/mKoMJum3 #cdnpoli #
• Conservative Party linked to calls directing voters to different polling stations http://t.co/ptjF5j9P #cdnpoli #elxnfraud #
• Marvin Schaffer of the @CCPA does not like canada's current environmental assessment, or the proposed "fixes" http://t.co/54ZTKMq4 #cdnpoli #
• RT @jeffjedras: #cpc