ATAMANENKO: Genetically Engineered Salmon, not worth the risk to health or the environment
Aquabounty Technologies (AT), headquartered in the US, has genetically modified (GM) a faster growing Atlantic salmon by inserting a growth hormone gene from Chinook salmon and genetic material from the eel-like ocean pout. The company’s business plan is to produce genetically modified salmon eggs in Prince Edward Island...
Time to stop making money off of student loans: Mungall
The provincial government is making 3.5 per cent off of the student loans it extends to B.C.’s post-secondary school population, says the MLA for Nelson-Creston. Michelle Mungall, critic for Advanced Education, Youth and Labour Market development, found that the Province was profiting off of low-income students who need loans...
PM names new cabinet as vacancies necessitate shuffle
The results are in and Prime Minister Stephen Harper has shuffled the Conservative government deck once again in the aftermath of a federal election. Here’s how the cards have played out: John Baird is the new foreign affairs minister, replacing Lawrence Cannon, who was defeated in the May 2 election. Baird was recently house...
BC Liberals should be ‘upfront’ on the HST: Mungall
Despite calls on the BC Liberals to declare the HST is the wrong tax at the wrong time, Christy Clark and her MLAs have done the opposite, says the Nelson-Creston MLA. Michelle Mungall said the Liberals have not been upfront and honest with the HST about its effect on families and small businesses. "This week, not only has ...
Liberals’ ‘credibility’ soiled by new study on HST: Mungall
After a government-appointed panel released a report on the impacts of the HST, Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall is disturbed at the discrepancies between the results and the promises made by BC Liberals. Although the BC Liberals assured that the harmonized sales tax would create over 100,000 jobs and economic growth in ...
Ignatieff quits as Liberal leader
Michael Ignatieff is quitting as the Liberal leader after his party took an electoral drubbing on Monday night. The Liberals were reduced to 34 seats in the House of Commons down from 77 and won only 18.9 per cent of the popular vote. Not only did Ignatieff lead the party to its worst showing in its history, but he also lost...
'Status quo' Liberal budget disappoints Nelson MLA Mungall
The 2011 BC Liberal Budget offers “no change,” and instead is the very same budget delivered under Gordon Campbell earlier this year, says Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall.Former Minister of Finance, Colin Hansen, defined the budget as status quo when he presented it, as he assumed that the new Premier would add changes ...
QUNFUZ: Some shock, no awe
picture by Ali FarzatBy last Friday, if it hadn’t already done so, the Syrian regime effectively declared war on its own people, killing at least a hundred protestors. Throughout this week parts of Syria have fallen under outright siege.The tanks and infantry which haven’t peeped across the occupied Golan since 1973 entered...
Lack of green election issues 'mystifying' to best selling author and scientist
By Michael JessenA best-selling Australian author and scientist is baffled to see Canada's
election campaign sidestepping climate change and environmental issues.
Tim Flannery, recently appointed as chief commissioner of the Australian government's climate commission, says the environment is one of the top
issues everywhere...
Mungall moves up in new NDP shadow cabinet
Nelson’s MLA has moved up in the provincial NDP’s shadow cabinet, named Tuesday by new BC NDP provincial party leader Adrian Dix.As the member representing the Nelson-Creston riding, Mungall moves into the role as the advanced education, youth and labour market development critic, supplanting her previous role as deputy...
