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The value of green apprenticeships

I met Gregory Salt-Smith and Chris Williamson in May when I visited the dozen or so young men selected to participate in the Central Ontario Building Trades Council's Hammer Heads program, which mentors, trains and places priority youth into trade apprenticeships.

Hammer Heads graduates, Chris and Gregory, had been invited to speak about their experience to the incoming class. They spoke about the harder realities of being a pre-apprentice first. "You have to say yes to whatever the foreman wants, and as the newest person on the site you're always given the hardest work," Gregory said. "If you told me I was going to get up at 5.30 a.m. every day I wouldn't have believed you," he continued. "You have to find some motivation to get up."

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for the sake of argument

Dams are a danger in British Columbia

The ' Anne Marie' lies sunk on shore after being holed by debris in the Nechako Reservoir at Ootsa Lake, B.C. Fortunately, occupants were not injured.

The second of two stories on the state of dams throughout the world.

The proposed Site C Dam on the Peace River in British Columbia (a reincarnated brontosaurus) should be visualized in the context of worldwide dam projects. An unusual factor is involved, in that "Soil at Risk, A Report on Soil Conservation by the Standing Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry to the Senate of Canada" in 1984, states:

• Less than nine per cent of Canada's land area is capable of being cultivated and of that, only about one-half is actually cropped. This 4.5 per cent, quite literally, is spread from coast to coast.

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Marc Gionet

Yearning for a participatory democracy in New Brunswick

By Marc Gionet
| December 16, 2009

Since the announcement of a Memorandum of Understanding between New Brunswick and Quebec to sell the majority of NB Power to Hydro Quebec it has been near impossible to turn on the radio, watch the local news, or read the local papers without some mention of the sale - and the public's reaction.

More than simply ingesting this news, New Brunswickers are responding, en mass, by organizing protests, writing letters to MLAs and newspapers, participating in phone ins, and creating Facebook groups in an effort to have their views heard and included.

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Public power and green energy

September 21, 2009
| The B.C. government says it wants to make the province a clean energy powerhouse. Joe Foy of the Wilderness Committee says the only way to do that is to keep B.C. Hydro public.

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Power to some people
August 18, 2009 |
Pumping hydropower from the Democratic Republic of Congo to South Africa may be an environmental dream come true, but there are issues around social justice that dampen the excitement somewhat.
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