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President Obama put a focus on the economical challenges the United States faces – and how he would solve them if he were to be elected for a new four-year period as the President. The unemployment rate is now at 8.5 percent. Never before has a president been re-elected with unemployment rates this high. After [...]
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Last week many legal experts stated that aboriginals who oppose the Northern Gateway Project linking the Alberta oilsands to BC’s Northern coast don’t likely have the power to veto it, although Gordon Christie, a law professor at UBC asserted, “first nations along the route do have powerful claims that just might prevent the state from [...]
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About 10 years ago, I went to Future Shop to buy a new computer monitor. I eventually ended up with an Acer LCD – one which I am extremely happy with to this day. However, I wasn’t too thrilled at the checkout line when I was told I would need to shell out another $12 [...]
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Immediately following Obama’s official thumbs down on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline proposal, media, businesspeople, politicians and the public on both sides of the political coin began sounding off about the rights and wrongs and pros and cons of the decision. As a Greener Ideal reader I can take a swing in the dark at the [...]
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Once on the brink of extinction, one of the United States’ most revered national symbols, the bald eagle is thriving again. During the 1980’s there was only one nesting bald eagle pair in Southern New Jersey. Nevertheless, with the ban on the pesticide DDT that led to the sharp decline of the eagle’s population, along [...]
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Brazil is going to be home to a lot of world events over the next few years. Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Olympics during August, with the 2016 Summer Paralympics one month later. Earlier, 2013 will see Brazil host the Confederations Cup, run by FIFA (the International Federation of Association Football) followed by the [...]
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Twenty six countries including Canada, United States, Brazil, China and India are vehemently opposing the European Union’s unilateral move to impose aviation fuel fees on airliners flying over its air space in an attempt to curb carbon dioxide emissions. Canada has vowed to aggressively oppose this policy, stating that it will cost its airline industry [...]
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Plastic shopping bags are progressively being banned around the world. In Britain, the plastic bag is symbolically viewed as actions of a “throw away society.” Even China, who is consistently fingered as one of the world’s two worst polluters, has placed a ban on them. But there are no such widespread bans in either Canada [...]
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Recently, during the Kyoto talks in Durban, China raised the need for developed countries to potentially fund $500 billion a year plus utilization of technology to developing nations, which I thought was very interesting and an excellent suggestion providing that the Chinese are among those who will do it and not seek to be seen [...]
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Whenever there is talk about carbon footprint, I always get a chuckle every time representatives from Canada and US start to finger China and India because we are the worst polluters per capita. China and India’s carbon foot print per capita is 1.84% and 1.06% respectively whereas Canada’s is 7.66% and the US is a [...]
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