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Cat lovers, must see - Hellena Okanagan Humane Society - YouTube

2014-11-02T10:07:00.001-08:00

Cat lovers . . . Hellena has be caring for feral and/or abandonned kittens for 18 years. Right now, she is fostering 20 cats!! Here's her story . . .

K9 Canadian Police Championship 2014 Kelowna, BC

2014-09-15T16:47:00.007-07:00

The K9 Canadian Police Championship 2014 Kelowna, BC on Sunday, Sept 14, 2014. The Events included Tracking, compound search, building search, evidence search and drug/plosives search. The Public Day events on Sunday included Obedience and agility, criminal apprehension and the fastest dog competition.

Preying Mantis MACRO

2014-09-15T10:39:00.002-07:00

I've only ever seen 1 little brown preying mantis in the Okanagan. Well there's MORE and she's a beauty!!

Rabbitnado - Rabbit Nation - Or wild BC bunny rabbits - YouTube

2014-06-25T07:39:00.001-07:00

I've never seen so many wild rabbits together! They were having so much fun!! And we were in the middle of it! LOL

Deer, muskrat, squirrel, snowshoe hair - it's nature - June 23, 2014 - ...

2014-06-25T07:35:00.001-07:00

I was standing near the water filming some ducklings when a muskrat came out of the water right in front of me!! Then later, we became part of a rabbit game!! What a day!! I love the mountains and nature.

Ever see a 3" long leech swimming? Fish Lake - BC Interior Okanagan Region - YouTube

2014-06-14T09:09:00.001-07:00

Ever see a 3" long leech swimming? I hadn't. Crazy!!

Fisherman's Wharf - Greater Victoria Harbour Authority - YouTube

2014-06-10T07:58:00.001-07:00

Victoria has it's own version of 'Fisherman's Wharf' and we had the perfect day to visit it!

Beacon Hill Park - Victoria, British Columbia - YouTube

2014-06-10T07:42:00.001-07:00

This is Beacon Hill Park. What a beautiful park, right in the heart of Victoria, BC. Such a pretty city.

Victoria British Columbia Inner Harbour Sunset - Spectacular - YouTube

2014-06-10T07:33:00.001-07:00

The Sunset in Victoria Inner Harbour was beautiful!! After, I wandered in among the incredible Totems wishing all I could here was the sounds of birds and animals rather than traffic and city noise.

Wasp Vs Tent Caterpillar (Predator and prey as rarely seen) - YouTube

2014-06-07T08:33:00.001-07:00

Nature always amazes me. I knew wasps predated on tent caterpillars, but I'd never seen it happen before!!

Rocky Mountain Wood Tick - Tick Season is Here - Youtube

2014-06-04T13:46:00.001-07:00

We brought home a stow-away!! It's tick season so make sure you check yourself out when you get home. This stow-away came from the Myra Canyon Trestles, near Kelowna, BC. I hope tourists know. There isn't any information up there about it. I don't remember them being so pretty . . .

Wild Pacific Trail - Ucuelet, British Columbia - YouTube HD

2014-06-04T11:35:00.001-07:00

Uclulet, on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, is BEAUTIFUL!! I could live here in a heartbeat!! This is the Wild Pacific Trail that is total eye candy at every turn in the path.

British Columbia Parliament Buildings 2014 - Victoria, B C - YouTube

2014-06-04T11:28:00.001-07:00

We visited the Parliament Buildings while in Victoria, BC. We wanted to attend the chamber and witness to goings on of parliament. They were debating the bill about the fate our agricultural land at the time. However, to do so, we would have left all possessions - pocket contents, cameras, etc. with the security folks. Why is that you ask? Because apparently people in the gallery have thrown things at the politicians below. We still have shoes . . .

'For Nature Lovers' From Hummingbirds to Sea Turtles - YouTube

2014-04-27T10:08:00.001-07:00

Nature is such perfection!

BEE'S....MILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION (+playlist)

2014-04-25T09:50:00.001-07:00

For millions of years bee's have been crucial to the survival of our planet and all living things. Today bee populations have collapsed, bee colonies have vanished.

Plants are genetically altered like the round up resistant canola, plants with 'terminator' genes so the seeds are useless. Bees are dying from a toxic soup of pesticides and fungicides in the pollen.

Modern technology is changing the planet for good, there will be no putting the genie back in the bottle. Still there is something special about watching bees on a flower like it is meant to be.

All sequences were filmed on September 20 and 22 at the Summerhill Pyramid Winery in Kelowna, the winery is government certified ORGANIC. The bee's like it that way.

Music: by Elixirion http://www.elixirion.com

Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)

2014-04-22T14:56:00.001-07:00

I've NEVER seen as many bumble-bees in one spot EVER!! This is my Mom's heather and it's alive with bees!

PM Stephen Harper of Canada "Can he be trusted?" YouTube (+playlist)

2014-04-17T16:55:00.001-07:00

Frog - Kane Valley British Columbia - YouTube

2013-07-25T08:39:00.001-07:00

I AM the Frog Whisperer! LOL So what happened was, I was walking along the edge of the water to be able to film the water lily and was startled by this frog who hopped away to avoid meeting my sandal! She posed at the lily for me, then swam back right by me again!! Even let me pick her up.

Alberta Flood Price Gougers - WTF?

2013-06-22T10:13:00.001-07:00

So now the true color of some of the Calgary Entrepreneurs' is coming out..Price gouging is against the law but it happens every time there is a major emergency, only thing is we used to see this south of the border so it's like a 'shock' when we see it here in Canada.

Alberta Flooding June 2013 Tarsands Connection

2013-06-22T09:58:00.001-07:00

We might not be able to say definitively that there is a connection between the Alberta flooding of 2013 and carbon emission, climate change but I don't think anyone can say that there isn't.

The jet-stream is going wonky (scientific term). Pollutants from Asia drift over to North America in approx. 5 days. I believe that all the major climate events are connected to global warming and man's output of carbon and use of fossil fuel.

The costs of this are already mounting in human cost, loss of life and in financial cost of rebuilding and preparing for further and worse events to come.

Make the industries pay for their part in this. Better yet stop the proliferation of fossil fuel.

March Against Monsanto

2013-05-26T07:47:00.001-07:00

The world according to Monsanto - GMO *

Monsanto manufactures weed-killer Roundup. Monsanto also manufactures the genetically-modified soybean seeds that are resistant to Roundup -- approximately 3 times more expensive than regular soybean seeds.

What is most stunning about Monsanto's "terms" of sale of its crop seeds is that Monsanto does not actually "sell" anything. Rather, to purchase crop seeds from Monsanto, farmers must agree to a "Technology Stewardship Agreement," which is more aptly a "limited use license." This means that farmers are not actually purchasing soybean seeds, but rather, merely the right to use Monsanto's "technology" contained in crop seeds in a "limited" manner. According to the Agreement, farmers must pledge to plant the Monsanto seeds in only one growing season, never save any, or give any away. Farmers are obligated to give Monsanto permission to access farmer's internet service provider records, and produce documentation of its compliance with the Agreement "within 7 days" if asked by Monsanto. Finally, if Monsanto has to enforce the terms of the Agreement, the farmer is required pay Monsanto all of its attorneys' fees, costs, and expenses associated for doing so.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com

Yesterday was a worldwide march against Monsanto. This is a collection of videos of the event in Kelowna, BC, Canada! A big thank you to the organizers and the concerned citizens who came out!!

ATTN KELOWNA: Challenge the new face of corporate power‏

2013-05-15T16:52:00.001-07:00

I'd like to extend a special invitation to you to join me for a public discussion on "CETA, FIPA, TPP: The New Face of Corporate Power." This event will be part of an eight-city speaking tour in B.C. to build opposition to Canada's corporate trade agenda.

Event details:

Wednesday, May 22

7-9 p.m.

French Cultural Centre, 702 Bernard Ave, Kelowna (map)

Hosted by the Kelowna Chapter of the Council of Canadians

For more information call: 250-769-1977 or email: kareneh@silk.net

The Government of Canada has signed, is negotiating and is hoping to ratify a variety of new corporate rights treaties that promote and lock in the rights of corporations to make a profit while undermining communities' abilities to make decisions in their own interest. Like NAFTA before them, these deals are not about trade. Every new agreement further entrenches a corporate vision of deregulation, resource exploitation and privatization.

These "next generation" deals include the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union, the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations that Canada joined this past December, and countless investor rights pacts, like the one with China, called Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (FIPA / FIPPA).

Opposition to these deals is building. More than 80 municipalities have passed resolutions voicing their concerns or opposition to the CETA negotiations. Nearly 100,000 people signed a petition against the Canada-China FIPA, and the Hupacasath First Nation has launched a constitutional challenge to its ratification. Communities are beginning to organize and educate about the TPP in solidarity with global trade justice movements.

The Council of Canadians is hosting this speaking tour in B.C. to build collective opposition to all of these agreements. In the spirit of the anti-WTO Battle for Seattle and the Quebec City protest against the defeated Free Trade Area of the Americas, we hope to bring our vibrant movements back into the streets to derail Canada's corporate rights agenda and dismantle the treaties that lock it in.

I hope you can join me!

Stuart Trew, Trade Campaigner

The Council of Canadians, 700-207 West Hastings St. Vancouver, BC, V6B 1H7

(604) 688-8846, 1-888-566-3888 | bc-yukon@canadians.org | www.canadians.org

Facebook Page | Facebook Group | @CouncilofCDNS

Copywrite: Council of Canadians

Things To See and Do in Vancouver, BC . . .

2013-03-18T12:16:00.003-07:00

Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver BC

Colorful Tropical Birds - Bloedel Conservatory

Downtown

MUST READ: 'Syrian Sacrilege'

2013-03-18T11:21:00.003-07:00

This is an eye opener . . .

What our media is showing/writing about a dangerously grave situation in Syria is all seems to be a copy paste type reporting from the western media. To date we don't have a single correspondent from India who ever had gone to such risky places for real time or online reporting, thanks to our policies which protect our nationals outside the country.

A freelance journalist Shri Uday K Chakraborty has reported on the basis of email replies from few ordinary Syrian co-workers of his past journeys to Syria;

THIS IS HOW IT APPEARED IN PRESS (excerpts from 'Syrian Sacrilege')

Sunnis and Alawites in Syria have no communal hatred between them. The Government forces from Assad so far never have assaulted civilians, as is evident on interviewing the civilian victims.

There are instances where terrorists have used civilians as their shield to fight government forces and thus the civilian casualties. These terrorist as western media calls them FSA (Free Syrian Army) are all foreign mercenaries as described by the victims as they don't talk in the familiar tongue.

Actually it is a time tested strategy of the war loving US, UK and the allies. You take rebels from a particular country add some corrupt politicians, anti-national elements to it take help of lawbreakers of the soil, group them. Give them chance to get their target i.e. allow the corrupt politician to achieve their wasted interests. Help anti law/social elements to get their hold on unlawful activities & in turn the war loving countries get their access to the vast natural resources . . . oil in this example.

They applied it successfully in Vietnam & Iraq. Now Syria has become victim for the same reason. Additionally this is a punishment to Syria as they supported Palestine against Israel.

There are footages of Syrian military personnel parading before western media. These actually are the detained soldiers of Syrian army who have no choice but to march quietly to support western theory.

GO THROUGH THESE FACTS AND DECIDE

BBC showed the clippings of Syrian hospitals where victims every time stated that they were attacked by unknown mob & not the Syrian army
Despite the attacks by these mercenaries Govt. forces have largely been able to repulse insurgents from major cities
Quite a few unarmed Syrian press persons have been killed by insurgents
Horrific brutality & savagery of the insurgent forces are increasingly coming out in open where innocent postal people & ordinary citizens killed ….. in an attempt to eliminate the independent national thinking which may be inherited to the coming generations
Insurgents are getting material & weapons from Western countries & monarchies of Middle East like Saudi Arabs & Qatar
Typical issues like impose no fly zone, bogey of stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction MSD - chemical version this time."

(via Somesh Sitoke)

Canada is NOT doing the best of the G8

2013-03-05T17:26:00.000-08:00

We KNOW that the Canadian economy has contracted. However, the harper reform/alliance gov't continue to tell Canadians that "we are the best of the G8".

Today, I heard a Canadian banker mention how the Canadian banks are succeeding because they operate in OTHER countries who's GDP's are between 6-8%!!

Wait . . . what? There are countries with GDP's at 6-8%?

I had to look this up and here's what I found . . .

With regard to harper's claim of "Canada is doing the best of the G8". Here's the G8 and their number in the world of 217 listed countries and their GDP. Seems he's lied again.

96 Russia 3.6
137 Japan 2.2
138 United States 2.2
147 Canada 1.9
166 Germany 0.9
184 France 0.1
188 United Kingdom 0.2
207 Italy -2.3

harper is failing Canadians.

Resource:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_real_GDP_growth_rate_(latest_year)