Another NDP Vote Gained

The Tories have lost another NDP vote to scrap the long gun registry. Good news! We need to have the NDP support to keep the long gun registry and keep Canada a safer place. The gun registry has its faults, but the solution is not to scrap it. It needs to be improved, not destroyed. I congratulate this MP on changing his vote. I hope more will follow.

NDP Leader Jack Layton’s campaign to convince the rural members of his caucus that the federal long-gun registry is worth saving is starting to pay dividends.

One New Democrat MP who originally supported a Conservative private-member’s bill to scrap the registry says he is now convinced the legislation would be a step backward for public safety. And others within the caucus say they could be similarly swayed.

Read more at the Globe and Mail.

Protest on mosque all over U.S

I think we all know about that mosque protest. The one that protest having a mosque in the state of Tennessee, California, and of course New york. In Tennessee A proposed mosque has been targeted with protest in Murfreesboro City hall. In the city the Muslim population has doubled so why can't they have a mosque? A protestor said that the "They seem to be against everything I believe in and I don't want them nessecerally in my neighbourhood spreading that type of comments". Apprently this man doesn't want a religon that promots peace in his neigbourhood. In Sacremento a pig was left at a mosque saying "Remember 9/11" "No mosque in NYC". Again People like in NYC have been painting Islam with a very broud brush. Saying that 9/11 was because of the religon. The thing is that people who did that horrific act on 9/11 where extremist of the religon that Islam the real part of the religon doesn't support.

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Support the troops by saving the enviroment

A Navy planner said that in the future military personal are being called to the front lines of the worlds climate disaster. Now this has happened before like in the red river flood of 1997, the big snow storm in Quebec. These are some stories of times when some weather attacks had to use the military, but for the future with more unpredictable weather and increase in chance of strong storms coming the military could be called in more frequently. In the north of the country areas that where ice has turned to new trade routes where Harper wants to increase are presence in. Harper someone who I would think wants to support the troops actually wants to screw the environment to create a more dangerous climate for our troops to deal with in the future, and wants to keep record heating records in places like Afghanistan again harming are troops. So is Harper Really supporting the troops by doing this to them? We should vote Harper out just to show how much we really support the troops.

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Censor prostitution

Craigslist has removed the adult services ad on its web page. This service has been asked to go off for a long time now many people are sighing with relief that all those exploiting ads are gone. This response from Craigslist came after CNN did a report on the website on how it is too easy to get ads selling sex posted on the website, and calling Craigslist the "Wall Mart of sex trafficking". Craigslist has way before this said that it would look at all post to make sure that anything that looks like it might be implying the sell of sex will be taken off and be reported. Even after this many ads still got on, and now the entire service is gone. If Craiglist can't ensure that no one can post ads that are selling sex than this act is the only solution.

(CNN) -- Online classified service Craigslist's decision to censor its adult services section is a "good step but a continuing battle has to be fought," a leader in the fight against prostitution ads said on Sunday.

"I'm very pleased by this very solid and significant apparent step in the right direction," said Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who spearheaded a recent letter from 17 attorneys general urging Craigslist to discontinue its adult services section.

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$50B Transportation Stimulus

Yesterday, Obama announced a new stimulus for the American economy. This is a long-term spending plan on transportation meant to create long-term jobs, whereas, the other US stimulus was designed to create immediate jobs. Included in this plan is building 4000 miles of railways. As a railfan, I couldn't be happier that high speed rail is going to be funded. If the US starts constructing high speed rail, Canada could follow. Not only that, but this could be partly paid for by the end of tax breaks for big oil. Unfortunately, this plan might not pass. With the elections coming up, Democrats might lose their seats and we can expect a lot of Republican resistance. High speed rail must come to the United States and Canada to support the economy of tomorrow.

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve at least $50 billion in long-term spending on the country’s roads, railways and runways in a pre-election effort to show he’s trying to stimulate the sputtering economy.

The infrastructure spending is part of a package of targeted proposals the White House announced on Monday. With November’s elections for control of Congress approaching, Obama planned to discuss the proposal later Monday at an event in Milwaukee marking the U.S. Labor Day holiday.

Read more at the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail.