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Fix Our World @ Earth Day Hamilton RBG Eco Festival June 2013

We had a fantastic 3 days at Earth Day Hamilton RBG  Eco Festival educating, motivating and empowering youth -  grades 4, 5, 6 how they can help save our Oceans from Plastic Waste. https://plus.google.com/u/1/photos/109139821660216958175/albums/5891202175296665505



Day 3 Dayna and I were excited to Volunteer our skills by taking on a school class each to lead throughout the days…
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Added by FixOurWorld on June 19, 2013 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

PRISM is profoundly disturbing: it gives the US government unlimited access to all of our personal email and social media accounts on Google, Youtube, Facebook, Skype, Hotmail, Yahoo! and much more.

Hi all, 



 



This 29-year-old just gave up his whole life to blow the whistle on theUS’s insane PRISM program -- which has hacked all our emails, Skype messages and Facebook posts for years.…
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Added by FixOurWorld on June 14, 2013 at 9:42am — No Comments

Follow Up to School2School Banner

http://www.scarboromissions.ca/Scarboro_missions_magazine/Issues/2006/September/passion_for_justice.php

A PASSION FOR JUSTICE

Youth across Canada are joining the Make Poverty History campaign, recognizing that the time for change is now

By Jerome Liu and Joshua Liu

September 2006…

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Added by FixOurWorld on May 27, 2013 at 3:55pm — 1 Comment

Clean up Sunday April 7th at Princess Point from 1:00 to 4:00.

Hey Everyone,

 
We had a brilliant day finishing the cleanup of Cootes Drive Turtle Nesting Area yesterday both in terms of weather and the work we got done.  42 garbage bags. 1 tire, and 1 shopping cart and one very clean turtle habitat.  Those short little legs won't have to climb over our garbage to create the next generation of turtles.  Thanks to all who came out - it was a lot of fun working with…
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Added by FixOurWorld on March 31, 2013 at 10:40pm — No Comments

Pyramid of Tires pulled out of Cootes and Grindstone

Hi All,

To promote our big clean up of Cootes on Sunday March 1st, we took all except 50 of the 250 tires that were pulled out of Cootes and Grindstone watersheds last year to make our own tire pyramid. 

Barry Gray of the Spectator came down and shot this great video. 

Tys Theysmeyer, Head of Natural Lands for RBG was in the thick of it all and provided some insightful commentary.  Tys says that about 1000 tires have been…

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Added by FixOurWorld on March 12, 2013 at 9:03am — No Comments

Pyramid of Tires pulled out of Cootes and Grindstone

Hi All,

To promote our big clean up of Cootes on Sunday March 1st, we took all except 50 of the 250 tires that were pulled out of Cootes and Grindstone watersheds last year to make our own tire pyramid. 

Barry Gray of the Spectator came down and shot this great video. 

Tys Theysmeyer, Head of Natural Lands for RBG was in the thick of it all and provided some insightful commentary.  Tys says that about 1000 tires have been…

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Added by FixOurWorld on March 12, 2013 at 9:03am — No Comments

Top 10 Endangered Species

Scroll Down For Our 10 Most Endangered Animals List


Click links for more info and a short video on each species


1 Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

A North American bird so endangered it may actually be extinct…

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Added by FixOurWorld on March 9, 2013 at 1:16pm — No Comments

The 5 Days for the Homeless campaign

The 5 Days for the Homeless campaign is an event that is put on by business schools across Canada. Its aim is to give back to the community surrounding us, with the focus being on youth shelters. The charity we work with is called the Notre Dame House which is a youth shelter in downtown Hamilton that offers many incredibly effective and valuable services to local youth. …
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Added by FixOurWorld on March 9, 2013 at 12:58pm — No Comments

The Harper government’s budget was set to become law

The Harper government’s budget was set to become law, after the Senate approved a second omnibus implementation bill on the last day of the 2012 parliamentary session.

By a vote of 50-27, the Senate passed the government’s second budget implementation bill Friday morning. The bill was then sent to the Governor General to be signed in to law. A royal assent ceremony was to take place soon thereafter.

It was the last vote in a long few days in the Senate, which also passed a bill…

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Added by FixOurWorld on March 1, 2013 at 4:14pm — No Comments

Please keep list going Globally... Just sign and send on, this is serious. Denmark is a big shame.



Pictures are gruesome - just sign and send on! 

 


From: sroberts@congressworld.ca

To: sroberts@congressworld.ca

Subject: See Photos & ADD your name....PLEASE (don't just initial it!

Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:26:43 -0800



Susan Roberts, Managing…
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Added by FixOurWorld on February 19, 2013 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Popular New Zealand skateboarder Levi Hawken

Popular New Zealand skateboarder Levi Hawken wants to reduce the trash that ends up on the streets and in the oceans. For his I Will If You Will challenge, Levi will skate through the streets of Auckland and film it, if 500 people pledge to reduce rubbish and plastic use by using reusable drink bottles or…
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Added by FixOurWorld on February 19, 2013 at 6:36am — No Comments

Government must heed environment commissioner’s warnings

David Suzuki via predictiveresponse.net 
Feb 15 (2…
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Added by FixOurWorld on February 17, 2013 at 1:32pm — No Comments

AFN braces for transformative change through Harper meeting

 
CTV has strategic alliance, or partnership, with APTN. There is also a video within the post.  "The meeting between the First Nations…
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Added by FixOurWorld on January 10, 2013 at 5:56pm — No Comments

Indigenous Canada Supporting Chief Spence

An update from the…

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Added by FixOurWorld on January 6, 2013 at 5:10pm — No Comments

Elizabeth May's Response to my letter to Prime Minister Harper

 
Thank you for sending me a copy of your letter to Prime Minister Harper regarding the Idle No More grassroots movement and the hunger strike of Attawapiskat First Nations Chief Theresa Spence.

 

The Green Party of Canada has fully supported Chief Theresa Spence’s and the Idle No…

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Added by FixOurWorld on January 6, 2013 at 2:54pm — No Comments

The White Buffalo Calf Woman

White Buffalo Calf Woman

The         Mother of Life

White Buffalo Calf Woman's legend is ancient, arising about 2000 years ago, and is central    to the spiritual…

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Added by FixOurWorld on January 5, 2013 at 12:53am — No Comments

457-page omnibus budget implementation bill amends 64 different Acts or regulations

22 changes in the budget bill fine print

457-page omnibus budget implementation bill amends 64 different Acts or regulations

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Added by FixOurWorld on January 4, 2013 at 2:02pm — No Comments

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