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rescued baby bats...

more here on the little critters...

What the Democrats have accomplished in the last 2 years.

Okay, this is Canada but think, in many incidents, Conservatives

I declare Saturday International Never Mention That Idiot Pastor in Florida Again, He's Had His 15 Minutes Day

Who funds the Tea Party in the US? It's not the "little people".

It's hugely funded by these 2 billionaires...

 

Bob Dylan solves a vexing + expensive problem...

   

here
 
 
 

If you love animals...

..you may want to avoid these companies who test their products on animals...

 

Next time your reach for that plastic bottle of water...

Go James, go

     if anyone can do it..
 
 
 

"Drill, baby, drill!" on Discovery? Unbelievable...

  

Don't let it happen.

Sarah Palin hosting a nature show! With her record of slaughtering wolves and keeping polar bears off the endangered species list, we must stop this hypocrite from spinning more lies about climate change or the lack of it in her right wing mind. 

 
 
 

Ten years old, ten years in a puppy mill

Little Ginger is still looking for her forever home. She is all of 10 lbs and has lived in a puppy mill for her whole life. She is approx 10 years old and sweet as can be!!  

Canadian SPCA (Montreal)
5215 Jean-Talon West
Montreal Qc
H4P 1X4
Telephone: (514) 735-2711
Fax: (514) 735-7448
(Near Namur Metro Station and Décarie Boulevard)
[email protected]

 

Due to the ice shortage, seal pups are being washed up on Canadian beaches..

 + what is the Canadian government doing about it?  

Support the Harb Seal Bill. Go here.

 

The mouthpieces of Esso, Imperial Oil, etc, who pose as the ruling Conservative Party of Canada...

  

have instigated an even larger seal death quota this year even though there is not enough ice + the pups are drowning + ending up on the beaches of PEI!!!!  Why?  So they can keep pretending there is no global warming?  ARG! 

 

  
 

can I have some more fat with those fries?

 

My little brother Rene, who is literally the poster boy (okay, man) for the mental health community in Vancouver somehow managed to score a pair of these coveted mittens for me. He got up at 5:30 + went all the way to New Westminster on the sky train to get them for me + today, on March 25th, it's his 6 year no drug anniversary + last Monday was his 10 year no cigarettes anniversary. Not only that, but Rene started a Butt Out group for Vancouver mental health consumers, a compassionate, non-judgmental grass-roots support group which has proven successful. So bravo + thanks for the mittens, Rene. xoe Me + Oprah, we so rock. (Oh + that picture that pops up on the Butt Out site isn't Rene. Have no idea who that dude is.)

 

a very helpful list here, of most pesticide laden foods to avoid

thanks Silani

 

Must we kill + eat everything that moves?

Parliamentarians, not vegetarians.

 

support Senator Mac Harb

    
flood Canada's Parliament with letters of support  
 
 
 

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

Today, at 11, tell Harper what you really think...

   

This is it, people!

It's time to show the government that it's accountable to us - the people of Canada - and not the other way around!

Show your support for a functioning democracy and accountability in your Canadian government and share your outrage at the Harper’s latest abuse of power. 

This is a non-partisan event. Everyone is invited!

RALLY MARCH ROUTE:

Start at Parc Émilie Gamelin.
March south on Saint Hubert to René Lévesque.
March west on René Lévesque to Place Philips.
March north on Philips Place to Square Philips.
End at Square Philips.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Promote the rally for January 23.
NO to prorogation! YES to democracy!

We urgently need your help to promote and orchestrate the rally. We need help with outreach, advertising, stage crew/tech, ‘other’ actions & budget/fundraising. If interested, please email [email protected]

Here's how you can help spread the word. Please check back in throughout the course of the week to find out additional ways to get involved.

PROMOTE THE EVENT ONLINE.
Feel free to forward this email to family, friends, co-workers and/or anyone who cares about democracy in Canada. You can also join our Facebook group, where this movement got started:http://bit.ly/nonperogation. Or follow us on Twitter to get regular updates on your cell phone or online: http://twitter.com/noproroguemtl.

Thank you in advance for whatever support you can offer. We look forward to seeing you on January 23.

For more information, email [email protected].

The Montréal rally is organized by Canadiens opposés à la pérogation du Parlement (Montréal) a grassroots, non-partisan movement of ordinary Canadians that emerged in response to Harper's decision to prorogue Parliament. 

All are welcome to join us.

http://noprorogue.ca/montreal

 
 
 
 

American Express is cutting its transaction fees...

 ...for agencies acception donations for Haiti

Hope Canadian credit card companies are following suit.  
 

If you haven't thrown out your Christmas tree yet...

you could do this with it....

 

Go

Peta go  

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a billion here a billion there

 information is beautiful

Another great visualization about Kyoto targets. go Canada go! ...NOT

 the full picture

Stupidly, I never gave my brushes much thought

where they come from

But now I know + the Kolinsky sable brushes are no longer on my Xmas list.  Instead, I learn Robert Simmons "White Sables" are a good synthetic substitution, Santa. 

 

+ over at Share the Warmth, tonight, dinner + silent auction

..which this recent Lake McDonald painting will be up for auction.  (I think minimum bid is a hundred. What a deal!)   For a great cause!

Dinner + live + silent auction

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 5:30 pm 

625 Fortune St. (Wellington Entrance) 
Tickets $75.00 
R.S.V.P. before October 9th, 2009 

The Art with Heart Vernissage, November 14, 2009

4:00 - 5:00 PM Art Preview (children welcome)

5:00 - 8:00 PM Cocktails/Art Auction (adults only)

At the Just-for-Laughs Museum

$20 per person (Children Free) 
Buy Tickets Online Now!

Download the Art With Heart Auction Catalogue

The wonderful "Flowers for Every Season" project the grade 7 students I worked with at Miss Edgar + Miss Cramp's  last spring will be auctioned off on Saturday, along with the collaborations of the many other fabulous Montreal artists + their students.   The entire "Art with Heart" project was organized by the amazing, tireless Lucy Riddell + the proceeds go to the Centennial Scholarship Fund.  

homeless chic

 a UK/Dutch design, % goes to homeless

save the whales

from the navy

they look like aliens...they are such heroines

see 4 yourself

To be or not be organic

Not organicers revel in articles like this.

Not very long ago this was a non issue. Everything grown was de facto organic.

These days, anyone who has ever seen, eg. fields of potatoes being sprayed, sprayed, sprayed and then seeing the dead fish in the stream affected by the runoff of the spray is willing to pay just a bit more for the organic spuds.   Although, here at least, in downtown Montreal, the prices have been going down quickly and continuously and the accessibility greater.  So about these anti-organic studies? Who is really funding them?  Last week the buzz was about fat people living longer.  What will it be next week? 

canadians for wise Latina women, too

check it out

Recycling at its finest

cleaning up + then swimming in, the dumpster