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allthecanadianpolitics:

Thousands of protestors in Vancouver came out today against Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. November 19th, 2016.

If the Canadian Government approves this pipeline its going to get really ugly.

The people of Western Massachusetts and surrounding communities were able to stop a Kinder Morgan pipeline here through months and months of protest and opposition! If they can do it here they can do it there!

The controversial $6.8-million project would link Alberta’s oil sands with Metro Vancouver’s harbour.

Activists say the project will have consequences for the land title and rights of First Nations communities, increase tanker traffic and risk for environmental disasters on B.C.’s coast, and worsen Canada’s impact on climate change.

In a statement, Kinder Morgan writes it respects the right of peaceful protest, but its engagement with the communities over five years has made their project “stronger and safer.”

“Metro Vancouver has voted against it, the Lower Mainland and local governments have voted against this, the city of Vancouver has been adamant – no has to be the decision. It’s not worth the risk,” said Vancouver City Councillor Adriane Carr. “The point is to flood the prime minister and cabinet with message with phone calls, with emails that say do not say yes.”

Justin Trudeau’s contact information:

Justin Trudeau
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0A6

(No postage required!)

Phone: 1 613 995-0253
Fax: 1 613 947-0310

Constituency:

529 Jarry Street East
(Main Office)
Suite 302
Montréal, Quebec
H2P 1V4
Phone: 1 514 277-6020

Canada’s minister of Environment & Climate Change, Catherine Mckenna:

ec.ministre-minister.ec@canada.ca
Environment and Climate Change Canada
200 Sacré-CoeurBoulevard
Gatineau QC K1A 0H3
Telephone: 819-938-3813
Fax: 819-938-9431

Constituency Office(s)

107 Catherine Street (Main Office)Ottawa, OntarioK2P 0P4
Telephone: 613-946-8682
Fax: 613-946-8680
House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0A6

Telephone: 613-996-5322

Fax: 613-996-5323

Canada’s minister of Natural Resources, Jim Carr:

House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0A6

Telephone: 613-992-9475

Fax: 613-992-9586

Mail may be sent postage-free to any Member of Parliament.Constituency Office(s)

611 Corydon Avenue (Main Office), Suite 102, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3L 0P3
Telephone: 204-983-1355
Fax: 204-984-3979
Also contact your local MP.

read more here: 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gregor-robertson-kinder-protests-house-1.3857711

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/16/canada-oil-pipeline-expansion-killer-whales-kinder-morgan?CMP=twt_gu

https://ricochet.media/en/1540/trudeaus-approval-of-kinder-morgan-would-be-an-act-of-climate-denial

Is this the same pipeline as DAPL or a different one?

Its different. DAPL = Dakota Access Pipeline, which is in the USA. DAPL is owned by Dakota Access; This pipeline is owned by Kinder Morgan.

This pipeline project is an expansion of the existing Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline which runs from Alberta to Burnaby (on the west coast of Canada). If built It would almost triple the output of the pipeline, dramatically increasing oil tanker traffic on the west coast.

But there are a lot of similar issues with these 2 projects.

-Both intrude onto indigenous lands without consent from these native communities. BC itself is almost entirely unceded indigenous land, which makes the lack of consent and consultation disgraceful.

-Both pipelines threaten water in the event of a spill (which is likely given Kinder Morgan’s track record). A spill in the Vancouver area would devastate the city as it prides itself on tourism and environmentalism. And a spill in a first nation could destroy water sources and the way of life (ability to harvest food, live off the land, etc)

allthecanadianpolitics:

allthecanadianpolitics:

Desmond Cole and others are giving a much needed reality check on the hashtag #WhatyoudonotknowaboutCanada (which is largely filled with dismissive Canadian stereotypes aimed at US Voters wanting to flee to the ‘utopia’ that is apparently Canada).

Here’s sources for all of these tweets if you’d like to read more:

Canada’s hidden histories The legacy of slavery is still unacknowledged (about James Mcgill)

The Shelburne Race Riots

Harvesting freedom and sowing resistance: Migrant workers in Canada demand permanent immigration status

Sick, fired and deported: what happens to injured or ill migrant farm workers in Ontario

CAS study reveals stark racial disparities for blacks, aboriginals

Canada Has a Black Incarceration Problem

Link to residential schools stirs debate over name of Davin School in Regina

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Esta ucraniana de 27 años usa programas de diseño e impresoras 3D para crear los moldes que dan vida a sus obras de dulce “arquitectura”.

Fue la encargada de crear los postres en la boda de una prima de Anna. Mujer del aportador: Alexander Pennis. Aquí su Instagram.

SMITE ME

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Meanwhile, in prehistoric Canada…..

No no, you don’t understand, moose really do get that big. Take it from a Canadian. I’ve seen that bullshit in person. Scary as all heck.

And that’s how people can die if they hit a moose. Seriously, one of our fears when driving in the country is having to deal with this scenario of a moose jumping out in front of the car.

moose are actual legit ice age megafauna; theyve been here since the ice age, they are old as fuck. they also are pretty terrifying and ive echoed this before but i went to wiki and “In terms of raw numbers, they attack more people than bears and wolves combined” and “ In the Americas, moose injure more people than any other wild mammal and, worldwide, only hippopotamuses injure more.”

like, fuck off with that

I was dog sitting a dog once who insisted she had to go out in the middle of the night it was an emergency, so I took her out. Suddenly she starts pointing and barking and I look up and can just make out the outline of a HUGE moose. I’ve been accidentally face to face with a black bear and that scared me less than being up close with a moose. I’m 5 foot so imagine staring up at an animal several feet taller than you that is debating charging the dog who’s leash you are holding. I was terrified as I grabbed the dog by her collar to get better control over her and backed up slowly til I was out of line of sight and bolted for the house at a dead run. Did you know most Canadian lake monster stories come from people seeing moose swimming? They are massive animals.

They are massive and they charge. I get so scared when tourists are all “oh yeah, we got out of the car to get a closer look and, ya’ll have some mighty impressive animals around here.”

Yes, yes we do, and they have mighty tired guardian angels because moose can, and do, charge at people.

Someone my mom worked with died hitting a moose on the highway. Their eyes don’t reflect light. In the dark they are literally nothing but a big slightly darker shape in the night.

Roughly every year in the town I grew up in, a cow (moose) and her calf will wander through downtown. Maybe once or twice. If she’s aggressive enough, the local Mounties will escort her through to keep idiots away.

I’ve definitely talked with people who thought moose were deer-sized or maybe horse-sized and I was like NO YOU DON’T EVEN UNDERSTAND MOOSE ARE TERRIFYING

Moose are terrifying, you guys.

I finally live on a province where moose and deer exist.

I do not drive at night in fear of meeting one. If you hit a moose going 90 on a highway, not only is your car trashed, you are probably trashed. I’ve seen cars that got wrecked and there seems to be a consensus that at least half the time, the giant fucking beastie just shakes itself off and continues gallumphing along the countryside.

If you fucking hit a moose with your car and their legs go through your windshield, congratulations, you are dead. Massive hooves kicking you to death? Yeah. 

Moose are fucking terrifying. Bull moose won’t fuck with you too much unless you fuck with them, but the time a bull moose casually swaggered his way past 7 year old me when I was sledding literally put me off winter sports for a solid month. 

Momma moose and their babies, though? I legitimately had to call in to work to be like “ey yo there is a moose in my driveway and I can’t get out” AND MY MANAGERS UNDERSTOOD.

Moose. MOOSE.

I have to admit I thought they were like a Canadian deer before this.

The commenter above who claims that moose’s eyes don’t reflect light is only partially correct; if you shine a flashlight in a moose’s eyes it will glow like a cat (and then you will probably get killed to death by an annoyed moose) but the reason they are so dangerous to cars at nights is that they are too tall for the headlights to reach. Think about that.

Moose confirmed for actual kaiju.

Wait so if Trump wins, can we get Justin Trudeau to invite him to Canada and then throw him to the moose?

The year after I graduated from college apparently a moose wandered into town and down the main street on Homecoming  (Homecoming! HOMECOMING! Drunken college students everywhere!) My friend @mrsknightleysdays was still at school and she told me about it. People were less scared then the time a bear rambled around campus freshman year, probably because everyone was too drunk to know any better.

(Our school was very rural, in the mountains. The main street was the only street, pretty much, for context)

Please, tell us more tales of the moose, for I am an american, and thought them deer-sized.

Yeah, moose is the most dangerous animal in Finland as well. When you have a country which is mostly nothing but forest, you bet your ass there’s quite a few of them.

I’ve lost count how many times I’ve seen one. There was this one time I was hiking and gotten so far that I was waiting my friends on the meeting point, and because I was early, I decided to have a nap. Some time later I woke up this loud WHOOSH WHOOSH SPLASH sound. Sounded like someone had decided to do butterfly strokes in the pond near me. But no. There was a moose and her two calves six meters from me trotting along the swampy shoreline. And I was like WHOA and sat up. And they freaked out, so I freaked out. Luckily I was on area where moose are hunted so the moose’s first reaction was to run. ‘Cause the cows can get aggressive when they have a calf.

And there are “moose warning” signs everywhere. Moose fences are built around roads, so that the animals can’t get on them on certain points. Except moose migrate. So if the fence is inconvenient for them, they might just jump over it. So now there are also tunnels and bridges built for the animals.

Wait wait so they are bigger than elk????

Yup.

But they’re SO DELICIOUS.

AHHH HELL NOO

According to google, male moose are an average of 6 feet at the shoulder which is 18 hands when it comes to horses… which gives horse people a frame of reference. I’ve known one 18.1hh horse and bringing him in from the field for dinner was always an experience. The horse I rode the other day was 17.3hh. The antlers would make it 5000x more terrifying though.

My family lived in a northern Canadian community for a period of time. People legitimately will put off travel plans during certain seasons or times of day (e.g. night time, bad visibility), because hitting a moose is dangerous and they want to avoid it.

The real issue is that when you hit such a tall animal, you hit the legs and take them right out from under them, while the body and head of the animal go straight through your windshield.

Moose can kill you, although they likely won’t mean to. They are massive, lumbering creatures that are not necessarily prone to logic. I have been face to face with a mother black bear and her cub, and I’d still be pretty concerned to come face to face with a moose.

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Hungarian Chef Turns Ordinary Cookies Into Stunning Embroidery-Inspired Art

Really nice recipes. Every hour.

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