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Woodwards Display-Vancouver Convention Center Here is some of the old Woodwards Display and they have lots of other sweet stuff. Like this place for the kids to watch Frosty and other Christmas shows...I think it was called Rudolph Theatre. So sweet they have stuffies the kids can sit next to while they watch! Awe!! Too cute! Lovely trees, lots to see, might pop down again if it stops raining.
Justin Trudeau meets Gregor Robertson in Vancouver.
Posted by CBC Vancouver on Thursday, December 17, 2015
Apparently they agreed to work on housing, transit, marijuana distribution and the Northern Endbridge Pipeline
And did you hear him- "GREAT BEAR FOREST IS NO PLACE FOR A PIPELINE!!" HURRAY!
Well it's that time of year. The hustle, bustle and sound of Christmas is in the air.
I was a little blue earlier. It's going to be great, I am sure, but things were different last year and I think many people feel the same. Things are very very tight financially this year.
As I walked past all the lovely stores and totally out of reach items I was thinking how weird...it's almost like Victorian times, with all the rich fancy clothes and supposedly fancy people and then the rest. The 1% and the rest, Right!
But I thought I can not fix it(at this moment), so I bought myself and family a chocolate and said maybe I can not spend $300 on an outfit (a months groceries) but I can treat myself to $3 worth of chocolate at Purdy's. And so that is what I did.
Here are some photos of the adventures I have had the last few days ( I really covered a lot of ground) and I didn't even take photos for some of it. I selected the best, hope you like them.
A general view of where a dam burst in the Brazilian village of Bento Rodrigues in Mariana, Minas Gerais state, Nov. 6, 2015. Douglas Magno/AFP/Getty Images
Published on Dec 9, 2015
On
4th Dec 2015, the world's biggest ore producer, Vale, held a
shareholders' meeting and press conference at the Mayfair Hotel, London.
A month earlier, on 5th November, two tailings dams burst in
the state of Minas Gerais in the south-east of Brazil. The dams were
managed by Samarco, a joint venture between Vale, and the
Anglo-Australian mining giant, BHP Billiton.
An environmental
disaster was unleashed as 60 million cubic metres of toxic slurry
flattened five settlements and filled the River Doce floodplain. Twenty
three people were killed, 600 displaced, and a quarter of a million left
without clean water.
The dirty mud has since travelled 500km to
the ocean, and despite assurances from Vale, the UN have backed up
local studies that show the effluent is high in toxic metals including
arsenic.
This is the fifth accident in two years in the area,
and Vale (given the 'Nobel Prize of Shame' in 2012) had ignored prior
warnings about tremors and the structural integrity of their dams.
Protesters
gathered outside the Mayfair hotel and gave Vale a demonstration of mud
contamination and a clean-up, as Brazilian performance artist, Tiago
Gambogi, was joined by independent activists, supported by members of
London Mining Network, and BP or not BP.
We are Sacrifice Zones: Native Leader Says Toxic North Dakota Fracking Fuels Violence Against Women
Please Share This! You will NEVER hear this on the news and PEOPLE need to WAKEUP and see the TRUTH
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Ever since we’ve had the oil industry enter, we’ve had these jobs that were created, but there were 11,000 jobs created and over 10,000 people that came into our state. And we’ve had violence against women increase by 168 percent, particularly in the area of rape. We have 14-, 15- and 16-year-old girls that are willingly going into man camps and selling themselves."
"We call them that because there are literally thousands of men living in these hovels. They’re like FEMA trailers or RV parks or wherever they can find space, that used to be a wheat field or a sunflower field, is now an oil-fracking operation. And so we’ve seen an increase greatly of crime and violence, drug abuse. I have buried two young girls, my friends, this last year, who got addicted to the heroin, because we now have organized crime.
As far as the environmental toxins, we won’t even feel the effects for 20 years. And I’m so worried that at this COP21 my two-and-a-half-year-old daughter won’t have a say, but she will be experiencing the worst impacts. And it just doesn’t make any sense to me that this is the 21st COP and we are considered sacrifice zones in my community."
You've heard of Burning Man- Well Here's Canada's Melting Man!
Since the late 80's, thousands of liberal minded individuals have
gathered in the Nevada desert for a festival known as Burning Man and if
Saskatchewan farmer Tom Vernon has his way, those same free spirits
will be flocking north this December to attend his festival "Melting
Man."
"If they're willing to spend a week
in the hell hole that is the Nevada desert, surely enough they'll do
Saskatchewan in the middle of winter."
- Tom Vernon, farmer
In case you have NOT heard of Burning Man, check this out!!
This is That is an award winning satirical current affairs show that doesn't just talk about the issues, it fabricates them.
Thank YOU Tsawwassen First Nation for REJECTING LNG
Members of the Tsawwassen
First Nation in voted on plans for a liquefied natural gas export
facility on their lands near Delta, B.C.
Photograph by: Screenshot
, Tsawwassen First Nation Facebook
DELTA - The Tsawwassen First Nation in B.C. says its members have
voted against the proposed development of a liquefied natural gas export
facility on its territory.
Of the 139 people who voted, 53 per cent opposed the plan while 46 per cent supported the plan.
Keep It in the Ground
First to die, first to march: Indigenous people call for climate justice in Paris.
Posted by AJ+ on Saturday, December 12, 2015
Indigenous Peoples Protest for Rights in Paris
Indigenous peoples from the Arctic to the Amazon took to the waters of Paris, calling for the UN #COP21 climate agreement to include indigenous land rights.(Music courtesy: A Tribe Called Red)
Posted by AJ+ on Tuesday, December 8, 2015
This is the OPPORTUNITY of our GENERATION This is the time to get ENGAGED BUILD MOVEMENTS of Citizens READ alternative theories of Change and Economics Be Part of the SOLUTION DON'T WAIT for Governments to SOLVE it ALONE!
Published on Dec 14, 2015
On
Saturday December 12, the UN climate negotiations between nearly 200
countries finally resulted in what world leaders called a historic
agreement marking the end of the fossil fuel era.
To put
pressure on decision makers before the final announcement of the deal,
thousands of civilians and climate activists in Paris mobilized to form
giant "red lines" in the center of Paris, to symbolize the boundaries
that negotiators must not cross.
VICE News finds out why the
French authorities lifted the ban on protests for the end of the COP21,
why people are protesting when the climate deal is being celebrated as a
‘turning point’, and meets a UN Climate Summit observer and former key
negotiator to find out what the deal really means.
Watch “Naomi Klein and Jeremy Corbyn: COP21 - Climate Emergency (Dispatch 5)” - http://bit.ly/1RNEqdC
WOW! I LOVE MY CAMERA THAT I WON FROM CANON!!
Check out these photos. I can actually see the skiers on Grouse Mountain!!(I think it's Grouse, sorry not a skier and don't know my mountains that well.) Amazing! I just love the Zoom. This is with out tripod too, although I did steady it on my friends shoulder.
