How the US Army Influences Almost Everything in the Supermarket
US military food rations, known as Meal-Ready- to-Eat (MRE). Photo: Wikipedia
By Matthew Zuras, Munchies.Vice.com, March 2, 2016
Someone—maybe Napoleon, maybe Alexander the Great—once said that an army marches on its stomach. And why shouldn’t it? Starving troops have more pressing priorities than winning battles.
The US military knows this well, and it’s been spearheading food science research for well over a century in order to build the world’s most efficient army. But the countless innovations it’s developed are hardly confined to the canteen—in fact, we can find them in every supermarket in America, and even abroad. Read the rest of this entry
Daughter of native rights activist wants apology from Assembly of First Nations
Anna Mae Pictou Aquash.
HALIFAX – To many aboriginals, Leonard Peltier is a hero of the American native rights movement in the 1970s and a wrongfully convicted political prisoner whose story has inspired films, books, songs and T-shirt slogans.
But in the Mi’kmaq community of Indian Brook, N.S., the former member of the American Indian Movement is a largely reviled figure, considered unworthy of his cult-like status. Read the rest of this entry
Scientists want federal environment minister to reject ‘flawed’ B.C. LNG report on Lelu Island
By Gord Hoekstra, Vancouver Sun, The scientists, in a letter dated March 9, are urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government to reject a Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency draft report released last month that found the project would not adversely affect aquatic life, including salmon. The project has an estimated cost of $36 billion if development to extract gas in northeast B.C. and a pipeline to the coast are included.
Drinking water on First Nations reserves an ongoing problem in B.C., says professor
In February, 26 communities were under boil water advisories — some for over 10 years
By On The Coast, CBC News, March 08, 2016
The deplorable state of drinking water on many First Nations reserves in B.C. is well documented.
At the end of February 2016, 26 communities in B.C. were under boil water advisories — some of them dating back 10 years.
“The issue and the challenge is that even though that water comes from pristine sources, some of those sources are susceptible to microbial contamination,” UBC engineering professor Madjid Mohseni told On The Coast host Stephen Quinn. Read the rest of this entry
Vancouver police investigating warriors who dumped dirt in Justice Minister Wilson-Raybould’s office
An employee at Jody Wilson-Raybould’s office in Vancouver attempts to de-mask warriors, March 3, 2016.
by Jorge Barrera, APTN National News, March 8, 2016
The Vancouver police is trying to identify a group of masked warriors who dumped dirt inside the constituency office of Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould over her refusal to call a public inquiry into the 1995 Gustafson Lake armed standoff.
A spokesperson for the Vancouver police said an investigation is currently ongoing into the March 3 incident, but detectives have yet to identify the warriors who executed the protest. Read the rest of this entry
Malaysia’s Petronas threatening to abandon B.C. LNG project over new climate change rules
The site of the proposed Pacific Northwest LNG plant, Lelu Island, near Port Edward, Photograph by: http://www.lonniewishart.com , Vancouver Sun
By Claudia Cattaneo, Financial Post,
CSIS head says new powers to disrupt plots used almost 2 dozen times
Logo of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
Michel Coulombe confident in screening process for refugees, but security risks not reduced to zero
By Peter Zimonjic, CBC News, March 07, 2016
The head of Canada’s spy agency told a Senate committee today that his agency has used its extraordinary powers to disrupt extremist plots close to two dozen times since the fall of 2015.
Michel Coulombe, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, made the admission to the national security and defence committee, revealing for the first time how frequently this power was used. Read the rest of this entry
Cry for help after four teens take their own lives on Manitoba First Nation
An estimated 1,000 people from the Pimicikamak Cree Nation (Cross Lake First Nation) attended a suicide prevention walk Thursday. (Facebook)
Most recent victim will be buried Sunday on what would’ve been her 15th birthday
By Karen Pauls, CBC News, March 04, 2016
Young people on the Pimicikamak Cree Nation are crying out for help after four teenagers killed themselves in less than three months.
“There’s so much of it happening,” said Amber Muskego, 17, who was close friends with some of the young people who have died since just before Christmas. Read the rest of this entry
Hunger strike again at Regina Correctional Centre
Regina Correctional Centre.
High security inmates frustrated by lack of progress on unresolved issues
CBC News, March 03, 2016
Another hunger strike is underway at the Regina Correctional Centre.
On Wednesday, 16 members of the high security unit 2D1 served notice, and as of late Thursday afternoon had refused both their breakfast and lunch trays. Read the rest of this entry
SITE C/TREATY 8 STEWARDS OF THE LAND HUNGER STRIKES CONTINUE WITH WOMEN’S FAST TODAY
Women hunger strikers outside BC Hydro building in Vancouver, BC, March 4, 2016.
On Friday March 4th, 2016, the women will hold a second day of hunger strike action outside the BC Hydro building in downtown Vancouver (333 Dunsmuir), in support of the Site C/Treaty 8 Stewards of the Land encampment that was forcibly removed by a court injunction applied for by BC Hydro, granted by the BC Supreme Courts and enforced by the RCMP. This will be the second day of hunger strikes Those participating include Anushka Azadi, Elizabeth Biggar, Mary Lovell, _____.
