A few interesting reads today:

Andrew Nikiforuk on deformed fish,  the "smoking gun" of pollution in the Athabasca river, in The Tyee.

This Magazine's Graham F. Scott on how the minor improvements are vastly outweighed by the negative aspects of the Conservative government's proposed copyright legislation, bill C-32

In Quebec, the Ministry of Public Health is taking its own initiative on shale gas exploration and undertaking it's own investigation of the health impacts of the extraction process known as "fracking." La Presse Reporter Charles Côté also does a nice job of tying in some other impending studies calling the safety of the process into question.