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Home Scientists target Canada over climate change | Environment Prominent campaigners, politicians and scientists have called for Canada to be suspended from the Commonwealth over its climate change policies. The coalition's demand came before this weekend's Commonwealth heads of government summit in Trinidad and Tobago, at which global warming will top the agenda, and next month's UN climate conference in Copenhagen. Despite criticism of Canada's environmental policies, the prime minister, Stephen Harper, is to attend the Copenhagen summit. His spokesman said today: "We will be attending the Copenhagen meeting … a critical mass of world leaders will be attending." Canada's per capita greenhouse gas emissions are among the world's highest and it will not meet the cut required under the Kyoto protocol: by 2007 its emissions were 34% above its reduction target. The coalition claims Canada is contributing to droughts, floods and sea level rises in Commonwealth countries such as Bangladesh, the Maldives and Mozambique.

BFM TV actualité française et internationale, émissions en live - BFM TV chaine (TNT, Câble, satellite et ASDL) First Nations drinking water and the federal election As suggested by a new poll, health care remains a key issue for Canadians. Although health care is under the provinces jurisdictions, the Globe and Mail noted that: "The federal government runs the country's fifth-largest health system. It is responsible for the direct delivery of health care to more than one million people, including status Indians living on reserves, Inuit, members of the Canadian Forces, the RCMP, eligible veterans, federal prison inmates and refugee claimants." "It is shameful that our wannabe leaders do not have to explain why, in 2011, we tolerate entire communities living without safe drinking water and reliant on 'honey pots' (human sewage collected in buckets or plastic bags). "Surely it has to be one of our most pressing health and social issues and a recurrent topic on the campaign trail. In the recent budget, the Harper government failed to allocate any new funding for drinking water on First Nation reserves.

Science minister's coyness on evolution worries researchers - Technology & Science Gary Goodyear, minister of state for science and technology, left some scientists 'flabbergasted' by his refusal to say whether he accepts evolution. ((Sean Kilpatrick/Associated Press)) Federal Science Minister Gary Goodyear's refusal to say whether he believes in evolution has left scientists questioning what that means for Canadian research. Dolph Schluter, a professor at the University of British Columbia, told CBCNews.ca in an email that he was "first flabbergasted and then embarrassed" when he heard Goodyear's response to a reporter's question about whether he believed in evolution. "I'm not going to answer that question," Goodyear, federal minister of state for science and technology, told the Globe and Mail in an article published Tuesday. Goodyear, a former chiropractor and member of Parliament for the Ontario riding of Cambridge, could not be reached for comment Tuesday. "Anyone who confuses the two ought not to be holding the purse strings," he said. Science or religion? Dr.

Banned aid In the fall of 2004, when Paul Martin was prime minister and Irish rock stars were chattering ceaselessly about the need to help Africa, Canada raised the flag on a shiny new embassy here in the capital of Malawi. It was the culmination of a warm and close relationship that has sent $440-million in Canadian assistance to the small republic wedged between Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique in southeast Africa over the past 45 years. Optimism was in the air. Today, the mood has soured. There has been no announcement, nothing but a discreet notice buried deep in a government website, unnoticed for weeks. In the corridors of power, Africa is no longer fashionable. The deleted countries will still receive aid, but on a much smaller level, since 80 per cent of Canada's $1.5-billion in annual bilateral aid will go to Caribbean and Latin American countries and others on the new priority list. "I was very shocked. The Harper government is not the only one to lose interest in Africa.

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