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Prairie report – The price of dignity?
A special report from the Prairies on poverty – How kicking out a homeless man from a grocery store reflects on the deficiencies of our society.
Further Reading:
- Brandon Homelessness
- The cold and the cold, hard truth
- The State of Homelessness in Canada 2013
- 30,000 Canadians are homeless every night
- Homelessness in Canada
- Homelessness in Winnipeg
Non-English signs
Recent debate about a Chinese only sign in Richmond leads to thought about what multiculturalism ultimately means.
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Temporary foreign workers
A 40yr old program gone off the rails under Harper’s watch…how did it happen?
Further Reading:
- Temporary Foreign Worker Program for fast-food sector suspended by Ottawa
- Temporary foreign workers being approved too easily, expert warns
- Map companies hiring temporary foreign workers
- Temporary Foreign Worker Program faces renewed call for audit
- Temporary Foreign Workers In Canada: Are They Really Filling Labour Shortages?
- Temporary Foreign Workers Program Moratorium Issued, Food Services Sector’s Access Suspended
- The long list of Canadian firms that have sought temporary foreign workers
- Which companies are authorized to use temporary foreign workers? View the entire list
Chernobyl at 28
28yrs later, life has not only survived at Chernobyl but is flourishing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK99dvJO5PY
Further Reading:
- What Happens When Wildlife Reclaims Chernobyl?
- Some birds adapt to Chernobyl’s radiation
- Wildlife thriving after nuclear disaster? Radiation from Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents not as harmful to wildlife as feared
- Birds near Chernobyl have adapted to low-level radiation
- Radioactive Wolves Of Chernobyl
- Gerd Ludwig’s Long Look at the Chernobyl Disaster
- How Many Cancers Did Chernobyl Really Cause?—Updated Version
- Chernobyl disaster
- Chernobyl’s Half Lives
- Deaths per terawatt hour.
- Radiation damage at the root of Chernobyl’s ecosystems
GMOs and you
After tens of thousands of years of modifying organisms, what does GMO mean now? And the most counter-intuitive argument for GMO labeling.
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