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When it comes to fluoridating drinking water, Ontario and Quebec couldn't be further apart. Ontario has the country's highest rate of adding the tooth-enamel-strengthening chemical into municipal supplies, while Quebec has one of the lowest, with practically no one drinking fluoridated water.

But surprisingly, the two provinces have very little difference in tooth-decay rates, a finding that is likely to intensify the ongoing controversy over the practice of adding fluoride to water as a public health measure.

Quebeckers have more cavities than people in Ontario, but the difference is slight. Among children 6 to 19, considered the most decay-prone part of the population, the rate in Ontario was lower by less than half a cavity per child.

In the 6-11 age group, Ontario kids have 3.5 per cent fewer cavities than those in Quebec: 1.7 cavities compared to 1.76 in Quebec.

In the 12-19 age group, Ontario youths have 15.8 per cent fewer cavities than those in Quebec: 2.35 cavities compared to 2.79.



Details of the cavity rates in the two provinces have been compiled by Statistics Canada in a study it conducted recently into the health status of Canadians. Experts peered into the mouths of more than 5,000 Canadians from 2007 to 2009, tallying the number of cavities and teeth with filings, to try to get an idea of the state of oral health of the nation.

After a request from The Globe and Mail for a breakdown of the cavity rates by province, Statistics Canada tabulated the figures for Ontario and Quebec, where it said it had a sufficient number of people to be a representative sample.

Statscan said it couldn't compile meaningful data for British Columbia and Alberta, which are in a similar situation. British Columbia has practically no one drinking fluoridated water, while nearly three-quarters of Albertans rely on municipal supplies where the chemical is added.

The paper sought the information to see what light it would shed on the effectiveness of fluoridation, which has been touted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as one of the top 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century, and is endorsed by all dental associations in the country and by Health Canada.

But the results showed that if fluoridation is the only major difference between the two provinces, the chemical is preventing fewer than half a cavity per child in Ontario.

Health Canada down played the significance of the findings.

“While accurate,” the data on the children are “an incomplete picture of the tooth decay situation.... [and] cannot be used to form conclusions regarding the efficacy of fluoride use in water,” Health Canada said.

The federal department said firm conclusions can't be drawn from the Statscan survey because it didn't collect assessments on individual intakes of the chemical. To make a proper assessment, Health Canada said it would need detailed information on whether people in the two provinces differ in their intake fluoride supplements, drink tap water or bottled water, and use fluoridated toothpaste.

But fluoridation is one major and obvious difference between the provinces. More than three-quarters of Ontario residents live in areas where municipal water supplies contain the chemical. In Quebec, 94 per cent have water free of the additive, according to figures published by Health Canada in 2007.

Since then, Quebec City has voted to stop fluoridating, indicating that the difference between the two provinces is currently even more pronounced.

Some critics of fluoridation say the survey does raise questions about the practice.

“Fluoridation is no longer effective,” contends Hardy Limeback, head of the preventive dentistry program at the University of Toronto, who says adding the chemical to water is “more harmful than beneficial.”

Although fluoridation is touted as an unalloyed benefit by public health agencies, which estimate it cuts cavity rates by 20 per cent to 40 per cent, many community groups have sprung up across Canada lobbying to stop the practice, which is subject to repeal by local referendums. Some health professionals are worried fluoridation may have under-appreciated risks.

While fluoride toughens the outside of teeth to make them more resistant to bacteria-causing decay, a number of medical journal studies have linked exposure to altered thyroid function, and to reduced IQ levels in children, although the intellectual impairments were found at levels of the chemical in water well above those used for municipal supplies.

The most worrisome study, by Harvard researchers, appeared in 2006 in the journal Cancer Causes and Control and found that boys aged 7 exposed to high levels of fluoridated water were about four times more likely to develop childhood osteosarcoma. It's a rare bone cancer that felled Canadian icon Terry Fox and almost always leads to amputations.

There has also been a worldwide reduction in cavity rates, regardless of whether countries use the chemical, suggesting factors other than adding it to water supplies are at work.

One theory is that most people are already getting adequate exposure to fluoride through toothpastes, so the amounts in water aren't making much difference in tooth decay rates.

“The parallel reduction in caries [cavities] incidents in countries with a lot of fluoridation and countries with not much fluoridation is quite dramatic,” says Warren Bell, former head of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, a group that questions the practice.

Dr. Limeback said factors that might be preventing caries include increased exposure to vitamin D, better oral hygiene, less sugar consumption, and even antibiotics.

When fluoridation started 60 years ago, doctors thought swallowing the chemical was beneficial by strengthening teeth from the inside out. Dr. Limeback said more recent research shows that if there is a benefit, it is from the topical application of fluoride to the surface of teeth, which suggests that brushing with a toothpaste is more effective than drinking water containing the chemical.

Source:
theglobeandmail.com

The Ontario government will scrap its controversial eco fee on Tuesday in a bid to quell consumer confusion and frustration from major retailers.

CBC has confirmed that Environment Minister John Gerretsen will announce that the fees retailers started charging on thousands of new products on July 1 will be eliminated.

A source said a waste-diversion program will continue.

Canadian Tire announced Monday that customers wouldn't be charged eco fees starting Tuesday. The company says the program is too complex and was mishandled by both government and businesses.

The government gave Stewardship Ontario the power to collect fees to fund a recycling program that diverts potentially hazardous items — such as fire extinguishers, household cleaners and paint — from Ontario's landfills.

But there was no public warning that the eco fee, which was introduced in 2008, would be slapped on thousands of new items this month.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/19/eco-fee-ontario.html?ref=rss#ixzz0uCqJX800

Im sure that it had nothing to do with the fact that it was an illegal tax. Or that they thought that the people would be caught sleeping, but were wrong.

On July 1st 2010 the Province of Ontario and the Province of British Columbia started using the HST tax system. But what no one was aware of, is that Ontario also passed a new eco fee (tax) system.

Here is a quote from a Toronto Sun article on the eco tax.
The Toronto Sun


“This smells like a tax, looks like a tax, how is this different from a sales tax?” Todgham Cherniak said. “What you’ve got is the tax being passed on from someone to the consumer which means it’s an indirect tax, and under the Constitution Act... the province can only impose direct taxes, they can’t impose indirect taxes.”

Both Fruitman and Todgham Cherniak pointed to the tire tax, where the consumer pays a fee at the disposal site, as a legally acceptable way to recoup the cost of recycling a product.

Instead, under the program set up by Stewardship Ontario, a fee is charged to the “brand owner” or importer of a designated product and then passed onto the consumer either in the sticker price or as an eco fee added at the cash register.


This really shows how corrupt and Illegeal our government is becoming. On the same day that they impose a federal tax grab (HST), they also pass an illegal indirect eco tax. All of this done just days after the G20 summit. Where the Toronto police, and the other police services directly violated the Canadian Charter Of Rights.
You know that little section of the charter that's protects us against unreasonable search and seizure. That Chief Blair had no problem disregarding while he imposed (what I call the fake law) the Public protection Act. Which countless people are still being detained under!


So far main stream media outlets have picked up the story. But I fear that the public outrage is going to be temporary. Like we see with so many other issues.

So how can we fight this illegal tax? The answer is very simple. Boycott any corporation or store that enforces the eco tax.

We need to start fighting back!

Researchers warn Southern Ontario may face earthquakes

WATERLOO, Ont. -- If a controversial theory put forth by a team of researchers studying seismic activity in Lake Ontario proves correct, Southern Ontario is more earthquake- prone than was previously believed.

"It's a fairly highly populated area, so it introduces an element of risk which didn't exist before in the minds of people," says Prof. Richard Thomas, head of the research team and director of the Waterloo Centre for Groundwater Research based at the University of Waterloo.

Scans of the bottom of Lake Ontario conducted during searches for downed aircraft revealed three previously undocumented features. Using that data and studies of their own, the research team identified the features as the result of tectonic activity due to a fault line.

The three features, known as pop-ups, plumose structures and dark linear patterns, are located in western Lake Ontario. A pop-up is a ridge with a crack at the top, formed when the bedrock fractures because of compressional forces in the crust. A plumose structure is several kilometres long and looks like a feather etched into the lake bottom. The dark linear patterns are believed to be due to natural gas coming up through the rocks into the bottom sediments.

Interestingly enough, says Thomas, the features all occur on the same line going through Burlington to Toronto. "In 1987 and 1988, there were two earthquakes recorded right on that line, which were about magnitude 3.5 (on the Richter scale). So there is earthquake evidence to suggest that the interpretation of these features is correct.

"This indicates a major fault structure occurring in that part of the lake. . . . What it indicates is that there is a greater likelihood of a significant earthquake taking place than was originally believed."

Earthquakes occurring in the Great Lakes region were thought to be in response to crustal rebound caused by the removal of ice from the last ice age. "Now, crustal rebound is taking place, but if you look at the pattern, it's not random," Thomas says. "The pattern would suggest that it's following a quite distinct orientation."

Additional work has revealed faulting in the south- eastern part of Lake Ontario. The scientists are coming to believe that Lake Ontario and possibly Lake Erie lie on an extension of the well-known St. Lawrence fault system.

The growing realization that fault lines could occur in the middle of a continent has led to a new science called intra-plate tectonics. "These are (earthquake) areas occurring in the middle of plates. The traditional belief was that all activity occurred on (continental) plate margins, where they collide or are in motion. They (mid- continental faults) are basically resulting from the various pressures induced on the plate because they're in motion, and these are lines of weakness which are currently being re- activated."

More work is needed before the team is completely satisfied that its theory is correct, Thomas adds. "What we need to do is do a lot more investigative work, using marine geo-physical systems to map the structures and make sure that they follow the concepts that we currently have."

In the scientific domain, this has been battled over since 1987, he says. "The actual release to the public, and the public debate, has only just begun. And not all scientists subscribe to this. It's still in the process of being verified. What they say is that Southern Ontario is in a stable area. It's in the middle of a continent, and it's stable, that the minor earthquakes are related to crustal rebound from removal of the ice masses, and that the Great Lakes originated by ice scrapping. The hypothesis challenges that paradigm totally.

"If you accept that it (the increased possibility of earthquakes) exists, it gives you a whole new way of looking at things."

If the theory is true, Thomas says, it may have some ramifications in the location of waste disposal sites and building construction.

He says this should be getting a bit more attention from scientists than it is receiving at present, because of the possibility of a large earthquake re-occurring in the area. The features indicate that the Great Lakes region experienced a large earthquake at some time in the past. But without knowing the "return frequency," scientists are in the dark about when it will recur.

"The return frequency is a statistical evaluation of how often an earthquake at one location will return with a certain level of magnitude," Thomas explains. "What is the return frequency of the San Francisco earthquake? It hasn't come back yet. But it will happen again. What it means is that stress is building up and releasing. Large earthquakes have a long return frequency. And the trouble is we don't know when the last large earthquake occurred in this area (the Great Lakes)."


This is a article from 1994
newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca

June 23 2010

At 1:41pm a earthquake hit the Ontario-Quebec boreder area. The quake measured at 5.5 in Magnitude.

I myslef felt it in Brantford (southern Ontario), and I have spoke with people in Toronto, Hamilton, Simcoe, and in some of the northen states who also felt the quake.

There have been no reports of any damage, injuries, or fatalities as of yet.

Here is some of the info on the earthquake:


Magnitude 5.5
Date-Time

* Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 17:41:41 UTC
* Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 01:41:41 PM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 45.866°N, 75.457°W
Depth 15.7 km (9.8 miles) set by location program
Region ONTARIO-QUEBEC BORDER REGION, CANADA
Distances

* 39 km (24 miles) N (356°) from Cumberland, Ontario, Canada
* 45 km (28 miles) NNE (21°) from Gatineau, Qubbec, Canada
* 52 km (32 miles) NNE (26°) from Hull, Qubbec, Canada
* 53 km (33 miles) NNE (21°) from OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 2.3 km (1.4 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST=283, Nph=283, Dmin=149 km, Rmss=0.91 sec, Gp= 25°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=7

Source

As more data and info comes in, We will be posting all new info.

OTTAWA - The City of Toronto has asked the federal government to relocate this summer's G20 summit to prevent Canada's biggest city from being "severely impacted" by the event, according to a Toronto councillor.

In a letter to his constituents this week, Councillor Adam Vaughn warns that the summit could cause "serious disruptions" to the city's downtown core.

"Summits such as this in Quebec City and Seattle have presented serious challenges to host cities. Anti-terrorism precautions, crowd control and the reality that these meetings usually draw large numbers of protesters, will mean that much of the ward will be severely impacted by security initiatives," writes Mr. Vaughn, who represents Ward 20 in Toronto, where the summit is expected to be held.

"I have received a ‘classified' briefing so far. There will be serious disruptions. The security perimeter will be much larger than the area affected by the recent NFL games, and the protests are expected to be larger than last spring's Tamil demonstrations."

Canada was originally supposed to host a meeting this summer of the G8 leaders in the cottage-country town of Huntsville, Ont., north of Toronto. But the federal government decided to expand the summit to include the G20 countries after it became clear that organization had become the dominant forum for dealing with the financial crisis and other economic issues.

The G20 summit will be held on June 26-27, and is expected to take place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, a stone's throw from the CN Tower. The G8 summit will still be held in Huntsville on June 25-26.

If held at the convention centre, the summit would affect one of the city's busiest areas for business, tourism and entertainment. The convention centre lies at the edge of Toronto's financial district, and is also close to the Air Canada Centre and Union Station.

Mr. Vaughn said the city would prefer the summit to be located at Exhibition Stadium, which is slightly removed from the city's downtown core. But he says the federal government has refused to consult with his ward.

"The city has tried to convince Ottawa to move this event to Exhibition Place, but the federal government insists on staging it near Front Street, between Yonge and Spadina," Mr. Vaughn wrote in his letter.

Mr. Vaughn says the massive security preparations for the summit will disrupt his ward before and after the event.

"There will be fences, security checks and a significant number of street closures. The event may only last for two days, but preparations and clean-up will extend the period of disruption."

The Prime Minister's Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Source

The compensation of hospital chief executive officers in Ontario would be tied to how effectively they improve the quality of patient care, under proposed pay-for-performance rules unveiled on Monday .

The proposed legislation is part of the McGuinty government’s plan to get a bigger bang for the investments it is making in health care, postsecondary education and other programs. Premier Dalton McGuinty has said he would consider expanding the concept of pay for performance to the top executive of every Crown corporation and agency in the province.

His government is beginning by targeting hospital CEOs, 14 of whom made more than $500,000 last year. While the so-called Excellent Care for All Bill is not expressly designed to lower salaries and bonuses for top executives of the province’s 154 hospitals, compensation could go up or down depending on performance, Health Minister Deb Matthews told reporters Monday .

“I am concerned about compensation generally in the health-care sector,” she said, “but this bill does not address those concerns.”

Rather, Ms. Matthews said, the new rules would make executives accountable not just for the fiscal health of their hospital but also for how effectively they put patients’ needs first. This includes reducing rates of infection among patients and the number of patients who are discharged from hospital and then re-admitted. Medical errors would be reported directly to patients and hospital executives – a practice already in place in large teaching hospitals.

But Ms. Matthews made it clear the government has no plans to play a more hands-on role in the province’s hospitals – a concern fuelled by Mr. McGuinty’s calls last March for a wage freeze for one million public-sector workers to help Ontario erase its record $21.3-billion deficit. The task of overseeing the development of a quality improvement plan would be up to each hospital’s board of directors, Ms. Matthews said, and an unspecified portion of a CEO’s compensation would be tied to achieving its objectives.

“This is a vote of confidence in the local governance of hospitals,” Ms. Matthews said at a news conference at Toronto General Hospital, where she was applauded by smiling hospital CEOs. Robert Bell, the chief executive officer of University Health Network and the province’s highest-paid hospital executive in 2009, played host to the event.

Opposition members and a patient advocate’s group criticized the government for not reining in soaring salaries for top hospital executives while nurses and other front-line health-care workers lose their jobs.

It is the boards of directors that allowed CEO salaries to “get out of control” in the first place, said New Democratic Leader Andrea Horwath.

“It really is a sham, and the government really has turned its back on the opportunity to get these salaries under control,” she said.

There’s nothing in the proposed legislation that protects a patient’s access to care, said Natalie Mehra of the Ontario Health Coalition. “It doesn’t matter if there’s great quality care if you can’t get to it.”

But John Abbott, chief executive officer of the Health Council of Canada, applauded the government for introducing good prudent health management to the province. Under the proposed legislation, every hospital would be required to measure quality using a number of different metrics, including standardized patient surveys. Hospitals would be required to post annual quality improvement plans on their website.

“None of these are rocket science,” Mr. Abbott said. “These are basic tools of the trade.”

The Globe and Mail

My 2 cents: Just another way for doctors to care less about the quality of care they are giving patients, and care more about how to make more money.

WINNIPEG, MB ­ The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the Canadian NORAD Region (CANR) will conduct Exercise Amalgam Virgo this week in the south-central Ontario region in support of preparations for the G8 and G20 Summits.

The exercise, which will be conducted May 6-7, will involve Canadian Forces CF-18 Hornet fighter jets and CH-124 Sea King and CH-146 Griffon helicopters flying at low altitudes. Residents in the exercise area may hear aircraft noise and perhaps see aircraft flying at various times throughout the day.

NORAD maintains aircraft assets throughout North America in order to support its bi-national mission of aerospace warning and control for North America. As the Canadian geographical component of NORAD, CANR provides airspace surveillance and control, and directs all air sovereignty activities for the Canadian NORAD Region.

Training is conducted in a disciplined manner and in a professional environment to ensure NORAD’s rapid response capability. To maintain the integrity of its air defense mission, NORAD will not discuss specific details of the exercises.

Source

CBC NEWS ARTICLE
HST arrives in Ontario and B.C.


The introduction of the harmonized sales tax in two of Canada's largest provinces and a wave of other new expenses could take a toll just as Canadians were beginning to feel some confidence about opening their wallets again, experts say.

Shoppers in British Columbia and Ontario start paying the HST on Saturday on a number of services — including theatre packages, airplane tickets and gym memberships — that will continue to be delivered after July 1, the day the HST will start to be broadly applied in both provinces.

The tax, which combines the five per cent federal goods and services tax with the provincial sales tax, has met with opposition from those who fear it will drive up the cost services that were previously exempt from provincial sales tax.

It comes as electricity rates in Ontario rise almost 10 per cent effective Saturday and consumers across the country brace for higher mortgage rates and rising municipal taxes.

The rising costs come as Canadians appear to be growing wary of their future purchasing power, according to the Conference Board of Canada's consumer confidence index, which fell a surprising 7.8 points this month to 84.8, the lowest it's been since December.



This article continues with Kenneth Wong, a marketing professor at Queen's University saying that H.S.T is not all that bad. Quote: "And many taxpayers in Ontario don't know they'll receive "transition" cheques of up to $1,000 per family starting in June."

Oh everything is OK.. We will get a check in exchange for a federal tax grab!!! Sounds fair that all of our tax dollars will go straight into the federal governments pocket, and they will decide what province will get what.

Yes a great big power grab from the federal government in exchange for a check of up to $1,000.. Thats how I see it. They think the Canadian people are so ignorant that a check will make them ignore the real facts about the H.S.T.

If the masses of people do not see through this, we are in big trouble!

On April 15Th 2010, Sarah Palin attended a Charity event in the city of Hamilton.

Many truthers in the area agreed to come out, and attend the event. So we could give Sarah a nice big Welcome to southern Ontario.

I arrived at Carmen's banquet hall a 3pm. Surprisingly I was the only one there other then police and a few msm people. At 4pm I decided to talk to the camrea guy for CHCH news. Two men in suites immediately asked me to leave the property. They told me to stand at the curb.

I did so. I moved to a bus stop on the sidewalk. I had time to shoot a short video clip and have a drink of vegtable juice. A police officer then came over and asked me for my info. When I respectfully declined, he became very aggitated. He then told me I had to cross the street. I asked in a relaxed tone if this was a public sidewalk? His response was cross the street now!

Being there alone and without the camera running I decided to comply. I crossed the street and sat down on a patch of grass. At the same time I noticed another person, down the street a little more. He was sitting down and painting a sign.

Not even 5 minutes later another police officer and a man in a suite pulled up in a police vehicle. Once again asking who I was and why I was there. I respectfully declined to give my info again.

The police officer began telling me how in a large event, the police have to ID everyone, to ensure public safety. Further in the conversation the man in the suite (who was sitting in the passenger side of the police vehicle) began speaking about detaining people for refusing to provide their info. He also went on to say that they could detain people until they are satisfied that person is not going to commit a crime.

Being there alone I decided to once again submit and give them my ID.

about a half hour later I was speaking with the other protester, who was now waving his sign at cars that drove by. I asked him if the police had requested to see his ID. He told me that they had not.

So after the police told me that they HAD to ID everyone in the area.. They left him alone. I guess to the police, a camera is much more dangerous then a sign.

Without any one else there, I decided to just join in with the protester. We stayed until 8pm, getting many cars to honk in support.

The next day one newspaper went as far as Calling us the two "lowly" protestors..


This event for me was a real wake up call to the police state we live in. Not only were my rights trampled on, but the msm insulted the both of us (big surprise).

More people need to wake up to this nonsense before it is too late!

Have you noticed how we have a tax-grab government (do as I say, not as I do)?

Wouldn't it be nice just once to have a government that had the guts to freeze everything, including big business for one full term and stop taxing us to death?


I always thought the government was there to help the people, yet really they're out to help themselves and to take our hard-earned money and blow it on big business that's going nowhere. When we want a raise in pay to breathe from our over taxed government, we can only go up by 1% or 1.5%, yet government- run Hydro One just put their rates up 11.6%. How much of this is going to wages?

Fuel (car gas) costs go up and down like a toilet seat.

Grocery costs go up every day. The government holds us back, yet

lets big business do as they want with no restrictions.

And now they're sticking us with a landfill tax.

Check your products when you buy, say oil or filters, there's an extra tax on the side. I found this out the other day.

And now we have HST to get screwed again.

How much longer are we going to let this go on?

Wake up, Ontario.

Don Grant
Port Dover
Article in the Brantford Expositor

HAMILTON, Ont. - Sarah Palin has been given the boot as a celebrity fundraiser for hospitals in Hamilton, Ont., but she will come to town raise money for a local children’s charity instead.

Palin has brought the American health care debate to Canada and it is causing a storm of controversy as concerned hospital supporters have protested her appearance to raise money for two local institutions in April.

The former vice-presidential candidate was supposed to speak at a fund-raising event for the Juravinski Cancer Centre and St. Peter’s Hospital in Hamilton. But a backlash of negative publicity cancelled those plans.

The Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation received about 60 angry calls and e-mails from residents since the event was announced last week. About 10 people said they would not be donating to any event in which Palin has a role.

Palin is an out-spoken conservative critic of new public health care plans in the U.S. and is scornful of Canada’s universal health care system.

“It was a bit of mixed match with the politics of Sarah Palin matched with the needs of hospitals in Canada to raise money as publically funded institutions,” said Jeff Valletine, vice-president of communications for Hamilton Health Sciences.

“Individually I’m a bit surprised by the magnitude of the reaction but I’m not too surprised. Sarah Palin is a strong personality who brings out lots of opinions from lots of folks, so that’s to be expected,” he said.

Fortunately for children’s’ groups in Hamilton, local business leaders were able to re-direct the Palin appearance so that the Charity of Hope group would be the beneficiary of the event, said Sam Mercanti, chairman of the charity and CEO of Automotive Canada.

“It’s official - she’s going to come here and the monies raised will go towards the Charity of Hope,” Mercanti said.

The Charity of Hope raises funds for local kids on behalf of school boards, YMCAs, youth groups and other institutions that benefit children.

“My opinion is if she’s going to come to Hamilton and speak here, why not have her? You have to park the politics when it comes to helping people,” Mercanti said.

As recently as November, Palin was ambushed on her U.S. book tour by Canadian comedian Mary Walsh (disguised a conservative reporter Marg Delahunty ) who asked her about Canadian health care.

“Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit,” the former Alaskan governor told Wash and her crew.

Source: Toronto Sun

This is some of the video from the protest. More will be coming.

We invite all individuals and organizations to support the Save the south side of Colborne Street group in a peaceful assembly on the evening of March the 8 2010.

We have tried various other methods to show City Hall the vital role that the heritage and the history of the buildings on the south side of Colborne Street play in our community.

Our attempts to show the City Council have fallen on deaf ears, so far. So with few other options left and the City Council meeting on Monday evening, we are going to peacefully show our frustration. We are going to make sure they know that the community will not just go quietly into the night, when faced by adversity.

We will be gathering at the Royal Bank of Canada (On Colborne St.) at 5pm. Then marching to City Hall.

To get our message across it is vital that we do not cause any kind of public disturbance ie: blocking sidewalks, blocking entrances/exits, or harassment of any individuals.

Thank you all, and we look forward to seeing you all out there!

After scientist's in Ontario have come up with such great idea's like spider goats, and scientist's in Korea have created such marvels as glow in the dark cats and dogs. What is the next logical step?

Enviropigs! Scientist's in Ontario are on the verge of having pig/mouse hybrids being approved into the Canadian food supply. The reasoning behind this is to decrease the amount of phosphorus produced in the pigs' excrement.

People are so scared of harming our environment, but these scientist are allowed to just screw with the genetic fabric of the whole ecosystem of our planet.
Makes a tone of sense doesn't it?

Read more about this here.

Background picture taken Feb. 22 2010 in Brantford Ontario