More Pesticide Residues to Be Allowed on Food in Canada

As heard on the June 15, 2007 Friday Morning After

Regulators in the U.S. and Canada have been pushing to harmonize regulations for pesticides for over 10 years. Now it looks like they’re going to succeed due to the Security and Prosperity Partnership. Lisa Gue is with the David Suzuki Foundation. [Lisa Gue interviewed by Lorraine Chisholm of Vancouver's Coop Radio]

mp3 of Interview is HERE

Playing God with the Weather

Canada’s Role in Supplying Lab Animals for Testing

Canada’s role in supplying specially-bred animals for laboratory testing both in Canada and abroad remains a tightly-knit secret. Recently, an article in The Gazette appeared and exposed how passengers on a flight to Paris became aware of a shipment of beagles on their Air Canada jet when they heard the dogs screaming from the belly of the plane. Canada does laboratory testing on up to 2 million animals each year. It also supplies an unspecified amount of animals to Europe for this same purpose.

“We were shocked to hear some flight attendants say this goes on regularly – dogs get shipped to Paris for experiments.” Because Quebec’s animal protection law is vague and weakly enforced, the province provides a steady source of dogs for laboratories both here and abroad, animal rights activists said.

Liz White, a Director at the Animal Alliance of Canada, joined Joe Broadhurst of CKUT Radio in Montreal to discuss some of the issues surrounding this practice and the efforts of animal activist groups to learn the truth. (11:30)

mp3 of Interview is HERE

Bush Rollback Will Hide Data on 600,000 lbs of Toxic Chemicals in California

The Bush Administration has adopted regulations that will dramatically roll back Americans’ right to know about chemical hazards in their neighborhoods, allowing California industries to handle almost 600,000 pounds of toxic chemicals a year without telling the public, according to an investigation of federal data by Environmental Working Group (EWG).

Bill Walker is Vice President at the Environmental Working Group and he joined Joe Broadhurst of CKUT Radio to discuss the effects this dicision will have on local communities’ right-to-know what Industry is doing.

Listen to mp3 of Interview HERE

Tyson Slocum: Big Oil, Hot Profits & Global Warming

Tyson Slocum, Director of the Energy Program at Public Citizen (http://citizen.org), joined Joe Broadhurst of CKUT Radio to discuss his report, “Hot Profits & Global Warming: How Oil Companies Hurt Consumers and the Environment”.

The Five largest oil companies in the world have a combined profit of over $440 Billion since 2001. Mr. Slocum discusses where those profits are going, the mergers which have allowed them still maintain access to Billions in govt subsidies and a first-hand account of the environmental destruction taking place in the Tar Sands in Alberta, Canada.

mp3 of Interview is HERE

Public Citizen’s Energy Program website

Earth Day Canada’s Jed Goldberg

April 22, 2007 is Earth Day around the world. Millions of people will gather to increase awareness of their environmental concerns.

Earth Day Canada (http://earthday.ca) President Jed Goldberg joined Joe Broadhurst of CKUT Radio in Montreal to discuss their programs, the issues and the importance of making your voice heard.

mp3 of interview is HERE

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March for Kyoto to mark Earth Day

International Earth Day will be celebrated Sunday in Montreal by a march condemning what environmental groups see as the federal government’s inaction over the Kyoto Protocol.

The march is to start at 1:30 p.m. at Lafontaine Park and make its way to Mount Royal Park.

The Coalition Quebec Vert Kyoto, a collection of environmental advocates, and other groups announced the rally yesterday. The group says its goal is to make the Conservative government honour Canada’s obligations under the treaty, designed to combat climate change.

“We want people to go into the streets to send a message to the government of Canada: You must act now,” said Jocelyn Higginson of Greenpeace Quebec.

In February, Environment Minister John Baird said adhering to Kyoto would result in “economic collapse.” [link]

Quebec City Ends Water Fluoridation Program

“On April 16, 2007, the City Council of Quebec voted not to extend fluoridation to surrounding cities, and to terminate fluoridation in Quebec City on January 1, 2008.”

The serious risks associated with ingesting fluoride are beginning to take hold in cities across North America. The above quote was an email alert from the Fluoride Action Network. Paul Connett joined Joe Broadhurst of CKUT Radio in Montreal to discuss this breaking news.

mp3 of interview is HERE

Alan Stein Interviewed by Joe Broadhurst

Alan Stein is a lawyer representing Janine Huard (photo at left), a Montreal victim of the CIA’s MK Ultra experiments in the 1960s. He is seeking a class action lawsuit against the Government of Canada for victims.

He joined Joe Broadhurst on CKUT’s Friday Morning After to discuss the latest developments of the lawsuit.

from the Canadian Press: “Patients were put in isolation, tied down or drugged, and subjected to hours and hours of taped recordings meant to brainwash them at the behest of the Central Intelligence Agency.

They were subjected to massive electroshocks, experimental drugs and LSD, most of them unwilling and unknowingly part of the U.S. spy agency’s experimentation, a Federal Court judge was told Wednesday.”

mp3 of Interview is HERE

Mind Control: America’s Secret War

Food Pets Die For: Ann Martin

This morning the Friday Morning After spent the show discussing the US war on activism and the resulting massive Menu Foods pet food recall. 1000s of pets will die due to an unregulated industry that owns the government to such a degree, it has the government lock up any opposition to their bottom line.

Ann Martin has investigated what actually goes into commercial pet food. The results are surprising. Ann discussed her books, “Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food” & “Protect Your Pet: More Shocking Facts“, as well as the tragic Menu Foods recall.

mp3 of Ann Martin Interview is HERE

Alka Chandna from PETA

This morning the Friday Morning After spent the show discussing the US war on activism and the resulting massive Menu Foods pet food recall. 1000s of pets will die due to an unregulated industry that owns the government to such a degree, it has the government lock up any opposition to their bottom line.

Alka Chandna is a Senior Researcher at PETA and speaks about Menu Foods’ past, an unregulated industry where everyone has blood on their hands and more…Did Menu Foods hold back the recall so two weeks of evidence could be thrown away by consumers?

Visit Peta.org

mp3 of Alka Chandna Interview is HERE

Andrea Lindsay of SHAC7

This morning the Friday Morning After spent the show discussing the US war on activism and the resulting massive Menu Foods pet food recall. 1000s of pets will die due to an unregulated industry that owns the government to such a degree, it has the government lock up any opposition to their bottom line.

The SHAC7 are 6 activists and a corporation, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA Inc., that have been found guilty of multiple federal felonies for their alleged role in simply campaigning to close down the notorious animal testing lab, Huntingdon Life Sciences. The six individuals are all currently in federal prison. They are not accused of actually smashing windows, liberating animals or even attending demonstrations, rather reporting on and encouraging others to engage in legal demonstrations and supporting the ideology of direct action.

Andrea Lindsay is the spokesperson for the Shac7, a group of animal rights activists put in prison for trying to expose the crimes at Huntingdon Research Lab.

Please visit www.shac7.com for more info.

Note for mp3: This mp3 contains audio from a CNN report regarding Chiquita Banana Terrorism in Colombia to highlight the pure hypocrisy of the “war on terror” & the “war on activism”

mp3 of Andrea Lindsay Interview is HERE

Windshield Wiper Fluid in Canada’s Environment

David Donnelly joined FMA on March 2, 2007 to discuss it.

The skull & crossbones are there for a reason. But the labels don’t tell the whole story of Canada’s use of this toxic product. Some products contain up to 90% Methanol with no identification on the bottle. Research suggests long-term exposure to methanol fumes that enter cars through the engine could be cancerous.

In 1995, Canada estimated 24,000 tons of emissions from wiper fluid every year went into the environment.

David Donnelly is a long-time environmental lawyer and advocate. He is legal counsel for Environmental Defence.

mp3 of Interview is HERE

Bearing Witness: A Portrait of Women In War

Iraqi woman and girls are suffering the trauma of war as widows or orphans, perhaps displaced from their homes, sometimes detained. They are often separated from loved ones & become victims of violence & intimidation.

An excerpt from “Building Bridges: Bearing Witness: A Portrait of Women In War, Iraq”, was played on the March 16, 2007 Friday Morning After around 7:25 am.

Here is a link to the mp3 for the entire program

Monsanto vs Percy Schmeiser

Percy Schmeiser is a farmer from Bruno, Saskatchewan Canada whose Canola fields were contaminated with Monsanto’s Round-Up Ready Canola. Monsanto’s position was that it didn’t matter whether Schmeiser knew or not that his canola field was contaminated with the Roundup Ready gene, or whether or not he took advantage of the technology (he didn’t); that he must pay Monsanto their Technology Fee of $15./acre. He joined Joe Broadhurst to discuss what happened to him and to warn of the effects Terminator seeds will have on the world’s food supply.

mp3 is HERE

PercySchmeiser.com

“With These (Pesticide-Stained) Hands I Demand the Future”

With these hands I demand the future that poverty wages have stolen from me. Farmworkers returning from picking tomatoes bought by companies, such as McDonald’s, show hands stained with pesticides and heavy with hard work.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is declaring that they are tired, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, of “relying on the goodwill and understanding of those who profit from exploiting us,” and are escalating their campaign to convince McDonald’s to end human rights violations in its supply chain.

As their first major action in this new phase of the campaign, they are organizing two days of action in McDonald’s corporate backyard, Chicago. The CIW will hold a march and protest outside McDonald’s corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, IL, on the 13th to be followed by a day of colorful street protests in downtown Chicago in the Latin American tradition of “Carnaval” on the 14th.

The CIW is asking all the communities who stand in solidarity with the CIW join us this April 13th and 14th in Chicago to demand a fast-food industry that doesn’t rely on the endless exploitation of farmworkers.

Visit CIW online

5 Minutes to Midnight – The Doomsday Clock Is Clicking

The terrible and still unprecedented destructive power of nuclear weapons led Albert Einstein to observe, “With nuclear weapons, everything has changed, save our way of thinking.” As we stand at the brink of a second nuclear age and at the onset of an era of unprecedented climate change, our way of thinking about the uses and control of technologies must change to prevent unspeakable destruction and future human suffering.

The Clock is ticking.

Visit the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists HERE

Radio Internet Story Exchange: TMAP: The OTHER Federal Drug Policy

Friday Morning After aired the following audio from R.I.S.E. In this 15 minute excerpt of a longer interview, David Oaks, director of MindFreedom, International, an NGO that advocates humane alternatives in mental heath, talks about the Bush plan to screen everyone for mental illness. (with Kellia Ramares)

mp3 IS HERE 

Mind Freedom website 

The Fallacies of Fluoridation (with newborn warning from ADA)

Gilles Parent, co-author of “Fluoridation: An Autopsy of a Scientific Error”, joins Joe Broadhurst to discuss fluoride in drinking water. The American Dental Association recently and quietly told their members that infants 1 year old and younger should not have fluoridated water mixed with their baby formula. Did you hear about it? North American media has ignored it. (mp3 IS HERE)

“60 PERCENT OF GROUND ZERO WORKERS SICK” PBS NEWS