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Index of Subjects To: Sustainable Maritimes (sust-mar) From: Patricia Kipping <kipper@ns.sympatico.ca> Tip: if your message doesn't reach sust-mar, you probably sent it with html coding. Use your "Format" pull-down menu to switch to plain text format. ____________________________________________________________________________ This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------C2EF713F5B0041D6112DD878 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Further to re-directing your $155 bribe cheque from the Tories: It will only work as a protest if you write Premier Hamm and let him know what you've done with the money. I recommend endorsing your cheque to the recipient of your choice, photocopy it and send it with a note to the Premier. On thequestion of choice, we need to be careful that we don't fall into the right wing agenda that spins this individualized re-direction of our tax dollars as "a good thing because of the choice it gives citizens to contribute to the charity of their choice and how can that be bad?" Undermining the tax base is not the way to use tax dollars or do public policy. Be aware that if you give your money to a registered charity and expect to get a tax receipt, the organisation may only be able to use it for non-political activities - such are the limitations on Canadian organizations with charitable tax status. I'm giving my bribe cheque to an organization I know the Premier doesn't approve of, an organization that challenges him daily in the legislature and is going to directly challenge him where it really hurts - at the election polls. Pat Kipping -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- PROVINCE, COMMUNITY BICKER OVER DEAD WHALE A dead finback whale is rotting on a Nova Scotia shore while government officials debate over who should clean it up. FULL STORY http://novascotia.cbc.ca/template/servlet/View?filename=ns_deadwhale20030619 TAR PONDS CLEANUP TALKS REOPENED FOR SOME Point Aconi residents are getting another chance to voice their opinions about the cleanup of Sydney's contaminated tar ponds site. FULL STORY http://novascotia.cbc.ca/template/servlet/View?filename=ns_tarpondsmp20030619 NO GAY MARRIAGES YET Nova Scotia's justice minister has no plans to allow same-sex marriages, at least until Ottawa changes the rules. FULL STORY http://novascotia.cbc.ca/template/servlet/View?filename=ns_samesex20030618 © Canadian Broadcasting Corporation COPS FIND 'TERROR' IN EVERY RAP SHEET Alexander Gourevitch, Washington Monthly The chase for budget dollars is making law enforcement agencies rather liberal in their use of today's codeword for evil. http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16187 ____________________________________________________________________________ If a friend forwarded this email to you, please consider joining sust-mar yourself. Just send 'subscribe sust-mar' to mailto:majordomo@chebucto.ca
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