Friday April 29th 2011 - Well #HuckFarper got back into power, this time with a majority. WTF? 4 years of a racist, anti-womyn, anti-environment, neoliberal, war mongering #douchebag, and lots of content for AW@L radio. We also look into RBC and tar sands developments, misguided ceasefires from mainstream NGO's, and a bit of END:CIV talk (@ENDCIV).

An update on G20 target Jaggi Singh, who engineered a non-cooperation plea agreement to have his conspiracy charges dropped (in return for "counsel to commit" tearing down an illegitimate 6 million dollar fence.

Earthroots, Press Release, May 18:

Ontario’s forests still at risk

Some of the world’s largest clearcuts still planned in the province

Toronto - Despite announcements made [yesterday], the devastation of Ontario’s forests continues largely unabated. Giant clearcuts, which level forested areas as large as pre-megacity Toronto (10,000 ha), still make up 94% of the area logged each year in Ontario. Canada’s logging industry employs only 2/3 of the workers per tree cut that Sweden employs, and Ontario has still not respected the human right of Indigenous peoples to say “no” to logging on their traditional lands.