Market Wire (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Canada's Environment Minister, John Baird, will be speaking at the Vancouver Board of Trade tomorrow, July 25, 2008.
Market Wire - Government: International (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Canada's Environment Minister John Baird, Member of Parliament for Kootenay - Columbia Jim Abbott and representatives from the Nature Conservancy of Canada today jointly announced that more than 550 square kilometres of ecologically significant land will be conserved near Creston, British Columbia, including important habitat for local species and species at...
where'd that bug go? (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
has there been a conservative photo-op anywhere in our great land where dr. roy hasn't turned up? question for failed conservative peter kent? did you count your fingers after the fat man left? john baird is looking quite thin. it's about time. i thought hy's was open in the summer? maybe now they'll start working on van groan and del mastro...
Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Last weekend, I had a great time at a barbecue in support of Peter Kent's run in Thornhill. I saw a lot of old friends and met several new ones. It was nice to chat with HM Minister of the Environment John Baird, as well as MPP Peter Shurman and of course soon to be MP Peter Kent. A great afternoon and the rain held off until the barbecue ended. Thanks to Peter and his lovely wife Cilla for welcoming...
Thompson Ahern E-News (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
(Environment Canada) Canada’s Environment Minister, the Honourable John Baird, and the Minister of Health, the Honourable Tony Clement, announced today [Friday] that the Government of Canada will publish final regulations to reduce the levels of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers(PBDEs) that could be entering the environment. Today’s announcement is just one more example of how our the Government’s Chemicals...
David Akin's On the Hill (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Mr. Novak was working on his master's thesis on parliamentary reform at the University of Calgary, and was recommended for the project by Rainer Knopff, a political-science professor at Mr. Harper's alma mater, the University of Calgary.... Meanwhile, over in Environment Minister John Baird's office, press secretary Eric Richer is wrapping his tenure as a political communicator and heading back to...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
EAST GWILLIMBURY, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - July 11, 2008) - The Hon. Peter Van Loan, MP for York-Simcoe and Government House Leader, on behalf of Canada's Environment Minister John Baird, today announced funding for the Holland Landing Riparian Planting project in East Gwillimbury.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - July 11, 2008) - Canada's Environment Minister, the Honourable John Baird, and the Minister of Health, the Honourable Tony Clement, announced today that the Government of Canada will publish final regulations to reduce the levels of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) that could be entering the environment.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
PORTAGE, ALASKA (MARKET WIRE) Canada's Environment Minister John Baird and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin officially welcomed 53 Canadian wood bison to their new home at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, in Portage, Alaska. The bison were transferred from Elk Island National Park of Canada on June 17, 2008 in an effort to repopulate the wood bison in their native habitat.
The Turner Report (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Recently a lot of people have been asking me if I’m going to apologize. Some big influential columnist guy did it in Monday’s National Post. Stephane Dion did it. Radio pohbah Charles Adler did it. John Baird did it. Quebec leader Mario Dumont and NDP leader Jack Layton did it. Endless blogging Tories demanded it. [...]
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Blowhard EnviroMin John Baird warns not to expect any climate change deal coming out of the G8 summit.Bush and his Yo 'Ho Clone of the North say no deal unless India and China sign on for equal cuts. I've already addressed their highly selective idea of what "equal" means but it ought to be more than enough to ensure that Big Oil isn't given an enviro-wedgie anytime soon.Leave Bush out of this. He's...
small dead animals (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
"Giving to your party is the best way to give to your country," [...] "You will save our country from the things we don't want, like (Prime Minister) Stephen Harper, (Environment Minister) John Baird and (government House leader) Peter Van...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The Honourable John Baird, Minister of the Environment, and the Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, announced as part of Canada's Chemicals Management Plan that eight new chemicals are now deemed to be toxic to human health, and one chemical is deemed toxic to the environment under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), 1999.
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
I read somewhere last week that the reason the Cons are hiding their environment minister, John Baird, and are attacking the Liberal Green Shift (when they move beyond spit balls and raspberries) on economic, and not environmental, grounds is because they feel on safer ground making it an economic discussion.That makes sense, particularly given the fact they have zero credibility on environmental issues....
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Surprise, surprise! Apparently there won’t be a deal on climate change at the G8 summit. The Globe and Mail reports, The G8 won’t set fixed mid-term targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020 when it meets in Japan next week, Environment Minister John Baird says. Did anyone even remotely consider there would be any sort of climate [...]
