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Addressing TV Professor Michael Shermer`s Unscientific Analysis

Canadian professor counters Shermer's watered down response in Scientific American article to 9/11 realities.

(ALBERTA) - I am responding to Michael Shermer's most recent column, wherein your regular columnist misrepresents my positions and my spoken intervention when he was at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada.

For starters he wrongly quotes me as saying I accused him of being a disgrace to the economy whereas I clearly said Mr. Shermer is a disgrace to the academy.

Simon Fraser Slips Past Warner Pacific

(Portland, Oregon) - Simon Fraser used an 8-0 run inside five minutes to play to defeat Warner Pacific 75-69 at C.C. Perry Gym tonight.

The late surge by the visiting Clan (1-0) broke a 63-63 tie and sent the Knights (3-2) to their first home loss of the season.

Hemp & Company_Eco-Fashion Making a Statement

Hemp is a textile. Anything can, and is, made from the textile.The limitation is only in the design stage.

(VICTORIA, B.C.) - HEMP & COMPANY is a posh Canadian fashion store -featuring all ecologically friendly items – located in Victoria, B.C. on the popular tourist-stroll known as Government St.

The store’s proprietors, Bill and Lorna Finley, are now proud to announce their own line, manufacturing clothing right in Vancouver, B.C

Linking Successful Gay Activism with the Sex Worker`s Fight for Justice

Supporting reform for improved working conditions for sex-trade workers carries a major social stigma.

(VICTORA, B.C.) - Wondering who’s at the helm of the sex worker’s rights movement in British Columbia? Well, at least one of its effective movers and shakers is, without a doubt, Jody Paterson.

Long-time BC award winning journalist, defender of street people, university lecturer par excellence and now—a visible ally of the gay community.

State of Oregon Backs Out of Suit Against Canadian Mother

Unfairly losing her young son to a foreign government wasn't enough--they wanted her to pay the bill, too.

(CALGARY / SALEM) - In June, a Canadian boy who had been taken by the state of Oregon was returned to his mother, after two years and a long, hard-fought fight. For the mom, being sued to pay for the costs of holding her son in foster care in the U.S. despite his being a Canadian citizen was... incomprehensible.

Solving The Problem of Biodiversity

Building a sustainable society means developing new systems based on the fact that resources are limited and unlimited growth is a cancer.

(GOLD RIVER, B.C.) - We're in the International Year of Biodiversity, and this past week almost 20k people representing the 193 parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity that was created at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 held a biodiversity summit in Nagoya, Japan.

According to the press release at the end of the summit "A new era of living in harmony with Nature is born..."

America: The Counter-Revolution

In the “democracy” that America has evolved to, money counts more than people.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - I’ve been watching the build-up 40 years. The counter-Revolution is on.

I’m talking about the American rich against you and everyone else. The middle class is being decimated and the ranks of the poor continue to swell.

Perpetual Tarawa Website Looking for a Few Good Marines

Commemorating the Second Marine Division's assault on Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, 20-23 November, 1943.

(VICTORIA, B.C.) - The Web team at Tarawa Talk, tarawaontheweb.org, has an important project underway to pay tribute and express thanks to those veterans for at their participation in the Battle of Tarawa, 20-24 November 1943.

Calgary Elects Canada`s First Muslim Mayor

Nenshi’s election is apparently the result of a resurgent youth in the city.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - The political tectonic plates in Alberta shifted on Monday when Calgary, a city widely perceived to be the most conservative in the country, elected 38-year-old Naheed K. Nenshi to the post of Mayor.

I only first heard of Nenshi a few days ago when I saw some of his supporters wearing “Nenshi for Mayor” sweatshirts when I was downtown.

UN Hones in on Female Genital Mutilation

(VICTORIA, B.C.) - Gender justice was a focus at the UN Summit on the progress of the Millennium Development Goals in New York.