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Why the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission should stop Bruce Power's radioactive shipments through our Great Lakes

By Emma Lui
| November 29, 2010

Bruce Power has applied for a licence at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) to ship 16 radioactive steam generators through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway to Sweden. City mayors, US Senators, environmental groups, First Nations communities and other civil society groups have raised many important concerns about this shipment. Nearly 80 groups provided written submissions and half of them intervened at a public hearing on Sept. 28-29, 2010. The CNSC extended the deadline to Nov. 22 for supplementary submissions and is now poised to make a decision by Dec. 22, 2010.

Bruce Power's plan

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Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

#171 ~ Salmon are sacred - Alexandra Morton

May 8, 2010
| Alexandra Morton and others walked from Sointula April 23, 2010 to reach Victoria May 8 in support of wild salmon.

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Open media, open democracy

There was something different in the air this time. The room still screamed of bureaucracy: the decorative flags at the front of the room, the plain suits, the stenographers. But the July CRTC hearing on traffic management (a.k.a net neutrality) had a dynamism to it that seemed foreign to the walls that contained it. Normally a hearing like this would be reserved for so-called "stakeholders." This time around there was a buzz in the room, and that buzz was literally the twitter of public discussion that forced its way into a hearing.

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