CBC News - Politics - Tory senator to women's groups: shut up

Seeded on Mon May 3, 2010 8:19 PM EDT (CBC)

Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth told a meeting of international women's equality rights groups Monday morning that it would be best for them to "shut the f--k up" about their concerns over the government's maternal health initiative.

canada, women, abortion, health, conservatives, g8, developing-countries, international-womens-rights, maternal-health-initiative

Close knit friends make good use of plastic bags in Danvers

Seeded on Thu Apr 2, 2009 8:31 PM EDT (Somerville Journal Homepage RSS)

The "Knitters" ladies from the Danvers Senior Center have discovered a new and very attractive way to recycle those plastic grocery bags that environmentalists say are clogging landfills and endangering marine life.

ladies, seniors, environment, recycle, crochet, yarn, knit, home-garden, plastic-bags, plarn

Medical marijuana license holders frustrated over crack-down of 'compassion associations'

Seeded on Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:22 PM EDT (http://www.news1130.com)

Medical marijuana license holders say they are frustrated over the crack-down of local "compassion associations", which police have dubbed as dial-a-dope operations. One man says as long as pot is illegal for recreational users, he will continue to suffer.

canada, health, bc, medical-marijuana, vancouver, cannabis, legalization

B.C. sets $109 fine for smoking in cars with kids present

Seeded on Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:39 PM EDT (CBC)

British Columbians caught smoking in a vehicle with children under 16 present will face a $109 fine under new provincial regulations effective April 7. The new regulations aim to protect children from second-hand smoke, Healthy Living Minister Mary Polak said Tuesday.

canada, health, children, fines, bc, british-columbia, tickets, smoking, second-hand-smoke

Coffee shop trial is test for Dutch drugs policy

Seeded on Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:46 PM EDT (www.nrc.nl)

The owner and several employees of the biggest coffee shop in the Netherlands are being prosecuted for membership of a criminal organisation.

netherlands, trial, marijuana, pot, world-news, dutch, cannabis, coffee-shop, marijuana-news

Council scraps coffee-cup waste study

Seeded on Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:40 PM EDT (Toronto Star)

Toronto officials have suddenly dumped plans for another consultant's report on how to dispose of millions of takeout coffee cups, but are still spending $50,000 for three reports they passionately defended last week.

politics, environment, city-council, coffee, toronto, studies, government-spending, reports, coffee-cups

Health benefits of fish overblown, researchers say

Seeded on Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:11 AM EDT (The Globe and Mail)

Fish has always been touted as an excellent dietary source of protein, with Health Canada's Food Guide recommending eating two servings a week. The recent craze over the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish has only added to the allure.

diet, health, fish, environment, nutrition, scientists, health-experts

Calgary welcome assured for Bush

Seeded on Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:05 AM EDT (Toronto Star)

When George W. Bush arrives in Calgary today to talk to 1,500 members of the city's business elite in his first paid speech since leaving office, he'll face a friendly crowd of admirers inside while protesters are hurling abuse at him outside.

canada, activist, politics, protest, war-crimes, speech, george-w-bush, alberta, calgary

Woolly form of graffiti puts city in stitches

Seeded on Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:13 PM EDT (Canada.com)

From doorknob cosies to knitted tree wraps, yarn graffiti is showing up in all sorts of public spaces -- and in a soon-to-be-released book by Vancouver yarn bombers Leanne Prain and Mandy Moore.

odd-news, knitting, vancouver, activism, yarn, wool, guerilla-knitters, yarn-grafffit

Innovative Textiles to Detect Blood

Seeded on Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:10 PM EDT ( Fibre2Fashion.com )

Researchers from the University of Michigan have come up with a new process of manufacturing a smart yarn with the ability to conduct electricity. These yarns can be effectively woven into soft fabrics and tailored into apparels.

technology, blood, textiles, clothing, yarn, university-of-michigan, fabric, smart-yarn

Struggling States Look to Unorthodox Taxes

Seeded on Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:58 PM EST (The New York Times)

In his 11 years in the Washington Legislature, Representative Mark Miloscia says he has supported all manner of methods to fill the state's coffers, including increasing fees on property owners to help the homeless and taxes on alcohol and cigarettes, most of which, he said, pa …

taxes, california, marijuana, taxation, revenue, us-news, legalization

Snuggie on the Street: Watch Your Back

Seeded on Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:34 AM EST (The New York Times)

Snuggie — the fleece "blanket with sleeves" featured in the ubiquitous and oddly 1970s-style two-minute television commercial — is enjoying its Pet Rock moment these days, prompting all kinds of newspaper stories, Snuggie parties, fan Web sites and a trend on Facebook of …

fashion, blanket, trend, infomercial, fleece, snuggie

Mathew Kumar on Why Virtual Worlds Miss the Mark

Seeded on Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:19 PM EST ()

Speaking at an International Game Developers Association (IGDA) Ottawa event on February 26, 2009, Gamasutra contributing editor and one of Canada's most renowned games journalists Mathew Kumar discussed the place of virtual world games in the video game industry.

entertainment, video-game, gaming, virtual-world, gamasutra, social-interaction, matthew-kumar

Yearn Worthy Yarn: Hemp Bark

Seeded on Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:36 AM EST ()

The hemp bark yarn is just that, the bark of the hemp plant.

knitting, textile, hemp, yarn, weaving, home-garden, hemp-bark

Medical pot supporters cheer end of DEA raids

Seeded on Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:01 AM EST ()

California medical-marijuana advocates are celebrating a verbal promise that federal raids on the state-law-abiding dispensaries have ended.

obama, us-news, medical-marijuana, dea, raids

Legalize, Tax Marijuana?

Seeded on Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:22 PM EST (FOXNews.com)

GLENN BECK, HOST: Marijuana brownies, anyone? This is the worst — the people in our green room, I'm happy to say it's clear they've never been high.

tax, california, marijuana, us-news, foxnews, glen-beck, rob-campia

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Contamination fears over two-headed Australian fish

Seeded on Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:10 PM EST (Canada.com)

SYDNEY – Toxic chemical contamination was the likely cause of fatal fish mutations in northern Australia in which thousands of bass larvae spawned with two heads, an expert said Wednesday.

australia, pesticide, fish, environment, world-news, contamination, mutation

Shuffling charges against Khadr just housekeeping: Pentagon

Seeded on Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:33 PM EST (Canada.com)

NEW YORK - The Pentagon said Wednesday the secret dropping and subsequent refiling of charges against Omar Khadr and other terrorism suspects in Guantanamo Bay was a question of simple housekeeping - not a bid to undercut president-elect Barack Obama.

canada, afghanistan, cuba, guantanamo, pentagon, military, war-crimes, prison, world-news, war-on-terror

The economic crisis could help social housing

Seeded on Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:24 PM EST (Canada.com)

Advocates of increasing federal spending on social housing are daring to hope the government of Stephen Harper will provide new money in the Jan. 27 budget to build and to upgrade thousands of units.

economy, budget, homeless, recession, stephen-harper, canadian-government, social-housing

Warning: Arsenic in our forests

Seeded on Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:40 PM EST (Canada.com)

Ministry cites potential cancer risk, advises public to avoid areas of pine-beetle pesticide use

canada, cancer, warning, forest, government, bc, public, world-news, vancouver, pine-beetle

Marijuana grower forfeits mortgage-free $600,000 home

Seeded on Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:51 PM EDT (Canada.com)

A B.C. judge has ordered a marijuana grower on the Sunshine Coast to turn over his mortgage-free $600,000 home to the government in what appears to be the largest such forfeiture in B.C. history.

canada, marijuana, bc, world-news, forfeit, grow-op, sunshine-coast

Breast feeding moms crowd Vancouver clothing store in protest.

Seeded on Thu Aug 7, 2008 10:24 PM EDT (Canada.com)

VANCOUVER -- Scores of breastfeeding mothers crowded into downtown Vancouver's H&M clothing store Thursday afternoon to protest the way another woman was treated when she tried to feed her baby in public.

human-rights, baby, protest, odd-news, public, breast-feeding, vancouver

The best stoner movies of all time.

Seeded on Wed Aug 6, 2008 10:31 PM EDT (National Post)

The national post rates the top stoner movies of all time, in honour of the latest one.. Pineapple Express.

entertainment, movies, stoner, reefer, pineapple-express

PETA compares bus decapitation to animal slaughters

Seeded on Wed Aug 6, 2008 9:26 PM EDT (National Post)

Just a week after the gruesome decapitation death of a passenger on a Greyhound bus in rural Manitoba sent shock waves around the world, an animal-rights lobby is drawing comparisons between the victim's death and the handling of meat animals in North American slaughterhouses.

animals, meat, greyhound, world-news, peta, manitoba, decapitate