Dear geeps+,
Some of the largest and successful companies BigOil owns may bring crude oil tankers to B.C.'s coast. This action jeopardizes the livelihoods of tens of thousands of British Columbians. Also threatened in the name of profit are stability of the great bear rainforest and southern gulf islands ecosystems.
We delay their arrival indefinitely to keep our water systems healthy and livelihoods secure, but it's going to take more people working together.
So join me and sign the petition at http://www.notankers.ca/petition calling on the BC and Canadian government to stop oil tanker traffic expansion on B.C.'s coast.
KEEP BC GREEN!
Tyvm
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Proof that Society Manufactures Mental Illness and School Shooters
In 1999 Todd Cameron Smith was the fellow who murdered a pastor's son and injured another student after being expelled from school.
Five years later, he walked away from a half-way home in Toronto, only to turn himself in the next day.
Yet the demons which haunt him even today began in Grade One in Taber, AB when he was bullied and teased by his fellow students.
His only crime prior to the tragic shooting was being born into poverty.
For that he was teased to the breaking point when he shot Jason Lang to death on April 28, 1999.
And the town of Taber, AB, has to live with the aftermath of that tragedy to this day.
IMHO society has the potential to create a new Todd Cameron Smith just as much as it had to create the dozens of wonderful people of Taber, AB.
As long as society continues to judge the poor, and to ignore bullying and teasing in school and in the workplace, the manufacture of mental illness will go on, unchecked.
Five years later, he walked away from a half-way home in Toronto, only to turn himself in the next day.
Yet the demons which haunt him even today began in Grade One in Taber, AB when he was bullied and teased by his fellow students.
His only crime prior to the tragic shooting was being born into poverty.
For that he was teased to the breaking point when he shot Jason Lang to death on April 28, 1999.
And the town of Taber, AB, has to live with the aftermath of that tragedy to this day.
IMHO society has the potential to create a new Todd Cameron Smith just as much as it had to create the dozens of wonderful people of Taber, AB.
As long as society continues to judge the poor, and to ignore bullying and teasing in school and in the workplace, the manufacture of mental illness will go on, unchecked.
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