Extra! Extra! The Rats Are Running! The Rats Are Running!

Extra! Extra! We interrupt this blog for a very important announcement: Dust off your noses, groom your whiskers, kink your tails & dig out those ratty sneakers. United Way’s Scotiabank’s annual Rat Race gets underway Thursday June 12th 7:30pm

Join Toronto’s finest rats as they scurry an exhilarating 5k through the heart of Toronto’s financial core to raise money for the 2008 United Way campaign. This year’s goal is $108 million. Whether you’re a rat or a sponsor know that your dollars help thousands of grateful receipients including yours truely. With out you there would be no way.

To sponsor a rat or make a donation please visit http://www.uwgt.org/events/ratrace/2008/home.php

 

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Bill C-51 Threatens Canadians Right To Self Determination!

Folks – Bill C-51 threatens your rights & freedom to take care of yourself, family & loved ones. The Canadian government is attempting to deny our rights to access, obtain & grow natural health products including vitamins, supplements, herbs, medicinal plants & fruits, even things like dandelions, cranberries & blueberries. Furthermore Bill C-51 is attempting to prohibit people from selling, giving advice, and treating people with natural health products.

This bill has passed a speedy second reading in the Canadian House of Commons, yet no mention has been made in the media of this attempt by the Harper government & Big Pharma to deny us our right & freedom not only to take care of ourselves, but to even obtain basic vitamins, supplements & herbs to enhance our daily life. They are also attempting to deny us access to allopathic & homeopatic medicines whihc have been around since the dawn of time.

May 10th is a National Day of Action here in Canada. If you value the rights & freedoms enshrined in our Constitution, make your voice heard.

 ‘(NaturalNews) A new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada, even while criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements to their children. The law, known as C-51, was introduced by the Canadian Minister of Health on April 8th, 2008, and it proposes sweeping changes to Canada’s Food and Drugs Act that could have devastating consequences on the health products industry.

Among the changes proposed by the bill are radical alterations to key terminology, including replacing the word “drug” with “therapeutic product” throughout the Act, thereby giving the Canadian government broad-reaching powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, vitamins, supplements and other items. With this single language change, anything that is “therapeutic” automatically falls under the Food and Drug Act. This would include bottled water, blueberries, dandelion greens and essentially all plant-derived substances.At the same time that C-51 is outlawing herbs, supplements and vitamins, it would grant alarming new “enforcement” powers to the thugs enforcement agents who claim to be “protecting” the public from dangerous unapproved “therapeutic agents” like, say, dandelion greens. As explained on the www.Educate-Yourself.org website ((http://educate-yourself.org/cn/canadian…), the C-51 law would allow the Canadian government’s thugs enforcement agents to: Raid your home or business without a warrant
• Seize your bank accounts
• Levy fines up to $5 million and a jail terms up to 2 years for merely selling an herb
• Confiscate your property, then charge you storage fees for the expense involved in storing all the products they stole from you

C-51 would even criminalize the simple drying of herbs in your kitchen to be used in an herbal product, by the way. That would now be categorized as a “controlled activity,” and anyone caught engaging in such “controlled activities” would be arrested, fined and potentially jailed. Other “controlled activities” include labeling bottles, harvesting plants on a farm, collecting herbs from your back yard, or even testing herbal products on yourself! (Yes, virtually every activity involving herbs or supplements would be criminalized…)”

http://www.naturalnews.com/023121.html

If you value your freedoms which are your constitutional right as a Canadian, write your MP, sign petitons, get out there & protest. Don’t let US Big Pharma bully us into surrendering our rights & freedom to determine our health & well being.