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One of the more indelible images of Hollywood terror is the appearance of a shark fin on the open ocean.  But according to the NDP’s Fin Donnelly, the real life horror in this situation is felt exclusively by the shark.

“Sharks are being finned. The practice of finning is brutal,” says the MP for New Westminster-Coquitlam.  “If I could show an image of a shark getting its fins cut off before being dumped back into the ocean, people would be horrified.”

Donnelly is currently pursuing his Private Members Bill C-380, the Ban on Shark Fin Importation Act.  The Bill seeks to prohibit the importation of shark fins.  While the practice of shark finning has been banned in Canada for almost 20 years, importing shark fins from foreign sources remains perfectly legal.

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How do you feel about government’s approval of the Nexen takeover? Did you even know what a Nexen was two weeks ago? It doesn’t matter because people felt pretty strongly about it. Here are the results… Continue Reading

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Joyce Murray appears on #FAQMP today to field viewer questions about trade with Asia and the development of the Northern Gateway Pipeline. She has a lot of concerns with both. Continue Reading

Last spring I was having a conversation with eminent Canadian conservationist Norm Rubin when I had a sort of ‘road to Damascus’ moment in my faith of a greener future.  We had been discussing how to make green energy alternatives really work, and I had been more than doubtful.  Norm saw fit to hit me square in the eyes with one of those wisdom arrows a man of his stature keeps handy in his intellectual quiver.  The proverbial scales (or were they carbon deposits) fell from my eyes.  For Norm the answer was simple.  What the world needed – nay what it yearned for – was a bonafide “Energy iPod”

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