Witch-Ways Communications | No fares for #transit

Witch-Ways Communications | Crafting magic on the internet since 1994: "Personally, I’d like to see no fares for transit (recognizing that this would mean transit funding would likely come from increased taxes for all Calgary citizens, including myself). And because I work with seniors, I am very aware that their costs are increasing faster than their incomes are (even those not yet retired)."

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Witch-Ways Communications - #tarsands pipeline postponed

Witch-Ways Communications | Crafting magic on the internet since 1994: "As Tarsands Action says: We won. You won. Sending the pipeline back for re-review, adding climate change to the list of criteria to assess, and making sure the environmental assessment will be truly independent – all these will, in effect, kill the pipeline. (And if it doesn’t, we’ll come back and fight it again – www.tarsandsaction.org/pledge.)"

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Transit cash safe, vow top Tories | Alberta | News | Calgary Sun

Transit cash safe, vow top Tories | Alberta | News | Calgary Sun: "“When I look at the greatest cities in the world ... it seems to me one of the common elements in great cities is they do have an excellent public transit system,” Mar said."

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Ethics 101 - Academia shilling for oil

Ethics 101: "Talisman says its position on climate change has evolved since 2004, but that's not the issue. Its industry has an interest in whether and how citizens ask their governments to address greenhouse-gas emissions. Academia is about getting at and explaining the truth, whether that truth happens to fit the preferences of donors or not."

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FearLess Revolution - FearLess Blog - Can You Handle Reality?

FearLess Revolution - FearLess Blog - Can You Handle Reality?: "While the climate crisis is a deadly serious issue, we don’t have to be boring to get a point across. In that spirit, our creative team has been hard at work making short videos that punctuate the urgency around the crisis in an unusual way — and take a good poke at those who think we can deny our way out of climate change."

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Canadians feel feds 'far and away not doing enough to support transit,' says CUTA | The Hill Times - Canada's Politics and Government Newsweekly

Canadians feel feds 'far and away not doing enough to support transit,' says CUTA | The Hill Times - Canada's Politics and Government Newsweekly: Traffic congestion in major Canadian cities surpass all U.S. cities, save New York and Washington. In Toronto and Montreal commute times average more than 75 minutes per day; across the country, commuters spend an average of 32 working days a year in congested transit according to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

Elizabeth May shares a car in Calgary

Carsharing rocks! (Photo by @Tisin)

http://www.witch-ways.com/2011/04/elizabeth-may-comes-to-calgary-and.html