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from CBC News

Resources Minister Gary Lunn said Wednesday that he fired the head of the nuclear safety watchdog for her “lack of leadership” in handling the shutdown of a medical isotope-producing nuclear reactor late last year.

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission president Linda Keen was fired hours before she and Lunn were set to appear before a natural resources committee meeting in Ottawa on Wednesday. 

Lunn, in his appearance Wednesday morning, told the committee that the closure of the nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ont., “threatened a national and international health crisis.”

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From the Canadian Press
OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jack Layton says Stephen Harper is trying to “blackmail” opposition MPs by tying a $1-billion aid package for beleaguered workers and industries to passage of the next Conservative budget.

The aid, announced by the prime minister last week, appears to be motivated more by political gamesmanship than by a sincere desire to help, Layton told a news conference Sunday.

The message is that “the only way there will be any assistance to the laid-off workers is if we vote confidence in the Harper government and their approach to all things,” said the NDP chief.

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I really like this video.  Simple. Straightforward and to the point. 

There is additonal discussion here

By Forbes Bagatelle-Black, EV World

We live in a polarized nation.

Millions of people passionately believe that our current military action in Iraq is absolutely necessary to preserve our national security. Millions of other people believe, with equal passion, that the situation in Iraq threatens not only our national security but the political stability of the entire globe.

Many feel that the money we are spending on our current military actions is a small amount compared to what we would be spending if we allowed the situation to go out of control. Others feel that the hundreds of billions of dollars we are spending are only making the situation worse by allowing us to remain entrenched in a conflict we cannot win.

But there is one idea that is garnering increasing support from hawks and doves alike; our nation will be safer when everyone starts driving electric vehicles. EVs will increase our self-sufficiency by allowing us to use domestically-produced energy to fuel our automobiles. A dramatic decrease in our demand for foreign oil would cut off the cash flow to terrorist organizations bent on the destruction of our society. Since EVs can run on renewable power sources, widespread use of them could eliminate the threat of global warming, which would eliminate the associated threats of natural disasters and the political upheaval such disasters would create.

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