Looks like Tony Blair is well on his way to victory. The BBC has an excellent website up showing live results as they come in across the UK (remember it’s the middle of the night there now!). It is still early, Labour still hasn’t quite reached the the magic number of 324 seats needed for …
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Ed Broadbent to retire again
Not surprising really, but the CBC is reporting that Ed Broadbent will retire from politics and not run for re-election when a Federal Election is inevitably called in the next few weeks/months. It’s too bad because he is a class act and was a great NDP leader. He led the NDP to 43 seats in …
Cool Enviro-News Roundup
Lots of interesting news today relating to Alternative Energy Research, Technology, and Policy. President Bush is set to announce new initiatives to make building Nuclear Power plants more attractive, building oil refineries on old military bases, extending tax incentives to clean Diesel cars and building more Natural gas terminals. Kind of an odd mix. I’m …