Some genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) Atlantic salmon is now on the market in Canada, unlabelled. This is the world’s first sale of GM fish, or any GM animal, for human consumption. It was first sold in Canada in 2017. The GM fish company AquaBounty is now only producing the the GM salmon at the company’s “tank farm” in Indiana, US.
CBAN Consumer Guide: How to Avoid Eating GM Salmon
Genetically Engineered Salmon in Canada: Update, CBAN Factsheet, April 2023
February 7, 2023. In a major turn-around, the US company AquaBounty says it will stop producing its controversial genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) Atlantic salmon in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada.
- Press Release: AquaBounty to stop producing GM salmon in Canada, as world’s first GM food animal struggles to find a market
- Background: AquaBounty Update 2023
November 2022: Bill S-5, an Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA) has been sent to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development for review. CEPA, which is meant to protect human health and the environment from toxic chemicals and genetically engineered animals, is, after 23 years, being reviewed by Parliament. In a positive move, the Senate of Canada, in reviewing Bill S-5 earlier this year, made 24 amendments to the Bill including on GE animals. For details see the press release from Nature Canada. At the same time, however, Environment and Climate Change Canada have also launched a “pre-consultation” on modernizing the New Substances Notification Regulations which pertain to GM animals under CEPA. Click here to read CBAN’s comments on these regulations.
November 8, 2022: On November 8, shares in the GM fish company AquaBounty were trading at 65 cents, down from over $23 per share in 2017. Share price was below a dollar for more than 30 days. The US Nasdaq exchange which hosts the shares of GM salmon company AquaBounty Technologies has threatened the company with delisting if it does not lift its low share price soon.
October 25, 2022: Former AquaBounty employee Braydon Humphrey (2018-2020) leaked 113 photos and videos of disturbing health and safety practices inside AquaBounty’s GM salmon factory in Indiana, US:
- Photos show “persistent contamination” of salmon tanks with unsafe levels of fiberglass particles and heavy metals.
- The plant discharged high levels of ammonia in water into the surrounding watershed.
- Videos show leaks of aerosolized hydrochloric acid, an issue Humphrey says continued even after he reported it.
- There was a lack of safe drinking water and basic first aid materials for employees onsite.
- AquaBounty lost one third of its initial GM salmon stock during its first-feeding systems due to fungus that infected the fish
AquaBounty fired Humphrey within a week of him contacting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Humphrey then filed an official complaint with OSHA, which dismissed it. AquaBounty says the claims are “not accurate.”
September 2022: The Government of Thailand Fisheries Department has ordered all commercial tropical fish breeders to turn over their genetically engineered GloFish to the department for destruction by November 30, to prevent them from being released into natural water sources, which could threaten local species.
February 2022: GM aquarium fish contaminate waterways in Brazil – Genetically engineered fluorescent pet fish “Glofish” have been found contaminating streams in Brazil. The transgenic zebrafish (Danio rerio) are genetically engineered with genes from fluorescent jellyfish (for blue and green colors) and coral (for red). Despite Brazil’s ban on sales, local farms keep breeding them, and stores all over the country sell them as pets. While some of the fish have previously escaped in Florida in the US, these are the first to thrive in nature. The fish are approved for use as pets in Canada.
- Press release, February 23, 2022 – World’s first ecosystem contamination from GM fish adds to Canadian concern
- CBAN Briefing – GM Contamination Update: Animals, February 2022
January 2022 – Japan has approved the sale of two GM genome edited fish: a tiger puffer and a red sea bream, both developed by the Kyoto-based startup Regional Fish Institute with Kyoto University and Kindai University. The fish are engineered to grow bigger than non-GM fish. Researchers achieved the trait in tiger puffer by disrupting the leptin receptor gene, which controls appetite, causing the fish to eat more and increasing the speed at which they gain weight. The edited fish grow 1.9 times heavier than conventional tiger puffers, allowing them to reach market size sooner, according to the company. For red sea bream, the researchers disabled the protein myostatin, which suppresses muscle growth, allowing the fish to grow about 1.2 times larger on the same amount of food.
November 2021 – The GM fish company AquaBounty announced their first “harvest” of genetically modified salmon from the only Canadian facility, based on-land in PEI. The company said that all the Canadian-grown GM salmon was sold in Canada.
June 2021 – The GM fish company AquaBounty has announced completion of the first commercial scale harvest of its genetically engineered (GE) Atlantic salmon at the Albany, Indiana Farm in the US. The only customer to announce it is selling the GE salmon is Samuels and Son Seafood, a Philadelphia-based seafood distributor. AquaBounty also announced the regulatory approval of the GE Atlantic salmon by Brazil’s National Biosafety Technical Commission (CTNBio): “With this approval, the Company moves closer to realizing an exciting new market opportunity in South America.”
November 2020 – Opinion: “The new threat posed by genetic engineering of animals, our sacred relatives, poses a threat to all of humanity…This is not modernization. It’s tinkering while a new wave of colonial technology, like CRISPR or gene drives, is set to be unleashed.” – See Altered Creation: The genetic engineering of sacred animals and the gaping hole in Canadian law, November 19, 2020 by Charlie Greg Sark of the Lennox Island Mi’Kmaq First Nation, assistant professor in the School of Climate Change and Adaptation at the University of Prince Edward Island and Nature Canada board member; Bob Chamberlin former elected chief of the Kwikwasutinuxw Haxwa’mis First Nation in British Columbia.
November 2020 – Article: No Label: Canada’s invisible genetically modified salmon, Watershed Sentinel, by Lucy Sharratt of CBAN
November 5, 2020: A US court has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision to approve the GM salmon was unlawful. The decision does not interrupt GM salmon production or sale in the US but requires a new environmental assessment. The court ruled that the FDA ignored the serious environmental consequences of approving GM salmon and the full extent of plans to grow and commercialize the salmon in the US and around the world, violating the National Environmental Policy Act. The ruling rejects the far-reaching claim of the FDA that it lacks a duty to protect the environment from genetically engineered animals. Click here to read the US press release.
“This ruling stresses that a decision to approve GM salmon in one jurisdiction can impact the future of wild salmon in another. If AquaBounty continues to expand production, the chance for escape goes up and risk to wild salmon goes up,” says Mark Butler, Senior Advisor with Nature Canada and former Policy Director at Ecology Action Centre. Click here for the Canadian press release. Plaintiffs in the case include Canadian environmental group Ecology Action Centre as well as US groups: Institute for Fisheries Resources, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, Cascadia Wildlands, Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Food Safety, Food and Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, Golden Gate Salmon Association, and the Quinault Indian Nation.
“Salmon are at the center of our cultural and spiritual identity, diet, and way of life. It’s unconscionable and arrogant to think man can improve upon our Creator’s perfection as a justification for corporate ambition and greed,” said Fawn Sharp, Quinault Indian Nation President. “Our responsibility as stewards of our sacred salmon demands we aggressively protect their natural habitat and genetics. We applaud today’s court decision; our prayers were answered and justice prevailed.”
October 2020: The company AquaBounty has announced it will build a genetically modified (GM) salmon production facility in Kentucky, ready in 2023. This will be the second GM fish factory in the US and the third in North America – the other two are in Indiana USA and on-land in Prince Edward Island.
September 12, 2019 – Press Release: Environmental Groups Call for Seafood Industry Boycott of AquaBounty’s Salmon Eggs to Prevent Mix-Ups at Fish Farms. Canadian and U.S. environmental groups are calling on the aquaculture and seafood industry to boycott AquaBounty’s Atlantic salmon eggs in order to eliminate the risk of any accidental mixing with the company’s genetically modified Atlantic salmon eggs produced at the same facility in Prince Edward Island. The groups are concerned that human error could lead to the inadvertent production of GM salmon in open net-pens and the resultant environmental risk. Fisheries and Oceans Canada recommended a number of conditions for production and shipping to reduce the risk of human error but the conditions are not requirements.
April 2, 2019 – Press Release: Minister Approves First Commercial GM Fish Factory: Groups raise concerns over transparency and environmental risk. The company AquaBounty has announced that the Minister of Environment and Climate Change has approved the production of genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) Atlantic salmon at a site in Prince Edward Island (P.E.I). This will be the first factory in Canada to produce GM salmon, which is the world’s first GM food animal.
GM Salmon Sales in Canada
The GM Atlantic salmon is be sold unlabelled in Canada. There is no public information available about where the GM salmon is being sold.
All the GM salmon is now produced in Indiana US, by the company AquaBounty. Small shipments of genetically modified Atlantic salmon were sold into Canada periodically starting in the summer of 2017 but all of this GM salmon was produced at AquaBounty’s small pilot plant on-land in Panama that is now closed. In mid-2021, AquaBounty began selling GM salmon from its on-land fish farms in Prince Edward Island and in Indiana, US. In 2023, the company stopped producing GM salmon in Canada.
AquaBounty revealed on August 4 2017, in its quarterly financial results, that it had sold approximately 4.5 metric tonnes of genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) Atlantic salmon fillets in Canada some time between April and July. This was the world’s first sale of GM fish for human consumption and occurred without GM product labelling for Canadian consumers. The company did not disclose where in Canada the GM salmon were sold. Information uncovered by Vigilance OGM and CBAN confirmed that some was sold in grocery stores but that most of it was sold for foodservice which means it could have been sold in restaurants or at institutions like universities and hospitals that rely on catering companies. Since that time, CBAN, Ecology Action Centre and Vigilance OGM identified a shipment of salmon to Quebec that closely matches AquaBounty’s description of the GM salmon sale and later confirmed that the GM salmon did in fact go to Quebec in five shipments in June 2017. The company then sold 4.8 tonnes in 2018.
November 2020: No Label: Canada’s invisible genetically modified salmon, Watershed Sentinel, by Lucy Sharratt of CBAN
GM Salmon Production in Canada
February 2023: In 2023, the company AquaBounty announced that it will no longer produce the genetically modified Atlantic salmon in Canada. It was being raised (annual capacity of 250 metric tonnes) in an on-land “tank farm” at Rollo Bay in PEI. The Rollo Bay facility was opened in 2019, first “harvested” GM salmon in mid-2021, and then stopped producing the fish in 2023.
GM salmon was first grown by AquaBounty at a small pilot plant in Panama, using GM salmon eggs grown in PEI, but this plant is now closed. The PEI facility was the first of two GM fish factories in the world, both coming online at the same time. The second, and now the only, is in Indiana, US. AquaBounty is now constructing a new factory farm in Ohio, with production capacity of 10,000 metric tons annually, about eight times the size of its currently operating farm in Indiana.
April 2, 2019: The company AquaBounty announced that the Minister of Environment and Climate Change approved the production of genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) Atlantic salmon at a site in Prince Edward Island. This will be the first factory in Canada to produce GM salmon, which is the world’s first GM food animal. Press Release – April 2, 2019: Minister Approves First Commercial GM Fish Factory: Groups raise concerns over transparency and environmental risk
June 2017: Following a court case and correspondence with environmental groups, the federal government confirmed that AquaBounty did not yet have permission to grow GM salmon at its new facility in Rollo Bay PEI.
- Press Release
- Background information on Rollo Bay’s legal status
- Click here to read the correspondence with the federal government
PEI approves construction of world’s first GM fish plant – June 19, 2017: The Government of Prince Edward Island approved AquaBounty’s “amended” proposal to build the world’s first GM fish factory at Rollo Bay, PEI. Just one year earlier, when the company got approval to buy the facility, the company stated that it would not be used for producing any GM fish. The company now says it plans to grow 250 metric tonnes of GM fish in PEI every year. Read the press release.
Environmental groups ask for new scientific assessment: On June 6, 2017 CBAN and 11 other Canadian environmental organizations called on the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Minister of Health, and Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, to carry out a toxicity assessment on the company Aquabounty’s proposal to produce GM fish at its facility at Rollo Bay, PEI. Experts originally conducted a risk assessment for Aquabounty’s proposal to manufacture GM salmon eggs at Bay Fortune PEI. However, this study did not include an assessment of the risks posed by their current proposal to commercially produce GM fish. Read the joint letter from 12 environmental organizations. June 6, 2017
PEI groups ask for public hearings: On May 11, 2017, groups in PEI called on the Premier to hold public hearings on the impacts of GM fish production. Click here to see the letter and press release.
- Press Release – April 26, 2017: World’s First GM Fish Factory Could be in Canada
- CBAN’s factsheet, Will PEI be the site of the world’s first GM fish factory? April 25, 2017
On May 19, 2016, AquaBounty’s Environmental Impact Statement stated, “The proposed facility at Rollo Bay West will have no GMO salmon.“ However on April 12, 2017, AquaBounty’s Amended Environmental Impact Statement stated, “AquaBounty will rear AquAdvantage Salmon, a sterile genetically modified salmon, from eyed egg to market size within the production facility.” Letter of approval to Aquabounty from the Government of PEI
The company AquaBounty has genetically engineered Atlantic salmon to grow faster. The salmon has a growth hormone gene from Chinook salmon and genetic material from ocean pout (an eel-like creature). The company says its “AquAdvantage” salmon grow to market-size twice as fast as other farmed salmon.
On May 19, 2016, Health Canada approved the genetically modified (GM, also called genetically engineered) Atlantic salmon for human consumption. This followed a 2013 decision by the Minister of the Environment to approve commercial production of GM salmon in Canada, in land-based facilities. The 2013 decision was however challenged in court with an outcome that resulted in a new environmental assessment and an April 2019 approval of GM salmon production at Rollo Bay in PEI. The Rollo Bay site is the first GM fish factory in Canada and only the second in the world but in 2023, the company announced that it will no longer produce GM fish in Canada. AquaBounty now produces GM salmon in Indiana, US and it is in the first stages of building a larger “tank farm” in Ohio, though there are protests from the local community. AquaBounty has closed its pilot plant in Panama, which was the source of the GM salmon sold in Canada, unlabelled, since June 2017.
Because fish can escape from fish farms in the ocean, AquaBounty is only permitted to grow GM salmon on land. While land-based containment is not risk-free, in 2013 Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) concluded that the risk of escape from AquaBounty’s facility is low to moderate. Additionally, if escape happens, the company says that most or all of the GM salmon (98.5% or more) will be sterile (via triploidy) females. (In Canada, experimental genetically engineered animals contaminated the food system by accident in 2002 and 2004. See CBAN’s 2019 report: GM Contamination in Canada).
According to the 2019 risk assessment from DFO, however, AquaBounty now proposes to produce and sell non-GM salmon eggs as well as GM salmon eggs at its P.E.I. factory. DFO made a number of recommendations for production and shipping practices to prevent the accidental mixing of GM and non-GM eggs but these are not requirements.
AquaBounty says its GM fish is “the world’s most sustainable salmon” because it will be produced on land, removing many of the negative ecological impacts of fish farming, and it will be produced closer to urban markets to have a smaller carbon footprint. The company says it will take 25% less feed to get the fast-growing GM salmon to market, requiring less wild fish to be converted into salmon feed.
Critics have long warned that the process of genetic engineering itself could possibly result in increased allergenicity and AquaBounty’s own data point to this potential in their GM salmon. Dr. Michael Hansen, Senior Scientist at Consumers Union US, says, “The FDA is relying on woefully inadequate data. There is sloppy science, small sample sizes, and questionable practices.” For example, the company used insensitive tests to try and measure the levels of growth hormone in the GM salmon and the levels of IGF-1, a hormone linked to a number of cancers.
Unlike GM crops which are approved for environmental release by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, GM animals are assessed for environmental safety by Environment Canada. In the case of GM fish, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) abandoned its work to develop regulations specific to GE fish and, instead, passed the task to Environment Canada under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. For more information see CBAN’s GMO Inquiry report “Are GM Crops and Foods Well Regulated?”
Global Rejection of GM Fish
- The Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance states that their members, who represent “virtually all farmed salmon in Canada” and are some of the biggest aquaculture companies in the world, “do not farm or sell GE farmed salmon, and are not growing or researching GE salmon”.
- Grocery stores in the US are now pledging not to use GM seafood.
- 76 groups in Canada have already registered their opposition to the production of GM fish and fish eggs.
42% of AquaBounty now is owned by billionaire venture capitalist Randal Kirk via his company Third Security.
US-based AquaBounty has a long-standing research and development facility in Bay Fortune, Prince Edward Island (PEI) where it was producing GM salmon eggs for export to Panama for more research and for limited production. AquaBounty closed its pilot plant in Panama in 2019 and has invested in building two GM fish factories: one at Rollo Bay, PEI and another in Indiana, US. The company has since announced (2023) that it will no longer grown GM fish at its Rollo Bay facility and move all its GM salmon production to Indiana. The company is now also constructing a larger “tank farm” in Ohio.
Company Ownership Timeline
- November 2020: ARK Invest, a New York-based investment firm focused solely on “disruptive innovations,” bought a 10.21% stake in AquaBounty Technologies. ARK Invest’s top holding is Tesla.
- October 2019: Intrexon sold its shares to the venture capital firm Third Security led by former Intrexon CEO Randal Kirk. In January 2020, Intrexon changed its name to Precigen Inc. and a new president and chief executive officer took over from Kirk, who was named executive chairman of the board of directors. 42% of AquaBounty now is owned by billionaire venture capitalist Randal Kirk via Third Security.
- 2012: The US-based biotechnology company Intrexon acquired a 48% interest in AquaBounty.
- 2004: AquaBounty Farms was renamed as AquaBounty Technologies Inc., with corporate headquarters in Massachusetts.
- The original research on antifreeze (promoter) proteins was patented by two University professors, Dr. Garth Fletcher from Memorial University Newfoundland and Dr. Choy Hew of the University of Toronto. Dr. Fletcher became Co-Founder, Director, and Corporate Vice President of A/F Protein Inc., and President of A/F Protein Canada Inc – he is Professor Emeritus at the Ocean Sciences Centre of Memorial University of Newfoundland.
AquaBounty Fined in Panama
Press Release: October 28, 2014 – Panama Fines GM Fish Company with Canadian Operation for Violating Environmental Regulations The Government of Panama has fined the company AquaBounty for breaching numerous national environmental laws during its ongoing research and development of a genetically modified (GM) Atlantic salmon. The GM fish eggs were shipped from Canada, provoking fears of environmental contamination in both countries.
- Press Release – November 21, 2013: Complaint in Panama Raises Concerns About GM fish Research in Canada
- Letter to the Minister of the Environment from CBAN, November 21, 2013
- Letter of Support to CIAM’s administrative filing in Panama, alleging violations of environmental regulations. Signed by CBAN, Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, GeneWatch UK, Food & Water Europe.
Allegations of Misleading Advertising in Canada
February 8, 2018 – Press Release: GM Salmon: Allegations of misleading advertising not to be addressed by Canadian Food Inspection Agency. In December 2018, CBAN filed a complaint of AquaBounty’s misleading advertising to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The CFIA’s response to CBAN stated, “As Aqua Bounty’s home page www.aquabounty.com is not based in Canada, it does not fall under CFIA jurisdiction.”
Government Funding to AquaBounty
AquaBounty’s quarterly financial report ending September 30, 2022 shows five federal and provincial government loans: three loans from the federal government Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), one from the federal Department of Fisheries and Ocean’s Atlantic Fisheries Fund, and one from PEI Finance.
In 2018, the Government of Prince Edward Island (P.E.I) provided a $2 million loan to the company AquaBounty, to help it finish construction of the world’s first genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) fish factory. This is in addition to $818,000 in non-repayable support since 2002 including grants and labour incentives. In July 2016, Island Investment Development Inc. also approved a provincial loan to the company of $717,000. AquaBounty has also received money from the federal government.
In 2009, the federal government Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) provided AquaBounty Canada Inc. and Aqua Bounty Technologies Inc. with $2.87 million to “improve the culture of reproductively sterile Atlantic salmon” with the objective of “the safe commercial launch of triploid salmon with Atlantic Canada identified as the source for associated commercial benefits, and worldwide distribution of the product.” This agreement provides for a 10% royalty from product sales to the federal government. ACOA also gave the company an unconditionally repayable contribution of $337,000 in April 2016 to develop its hatchery. AquaBounty states that it is not the GM salmon itself that is the subject of royalty repayments, which product sales will provide 10% royalties to the federal government is unknown. CBAN requested information on the royalty agreement from the Minister Innovation, Science and Economic Development – you can read the response here.
- For more information read CBAN’s article A fishy return on investment: The policy collision over genetically modified salmon, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, The Monitor, September/October 2018.
How Canadians Bankrolled the World’s First Genetically Engineered Food Animal: Taxpayers have invested $8.2 million in the development of a rapid-growth salmon that first hit shelves last year. Christopher Pollon, Vice Magazine, March 21 2018.
GM Salmon Environmental Risk Assessment
December 5, 2018 – CBC has confirmed that the federal government is conducting a new environmental risk assessment of the GM salmon. The Minister of Environment and Climate Change will announce a decision to approve or reject GM salmon production in Canada before March 2019.
December 3, 2018 – Press Release: Canadian Environmental Groups and Seafood Companies Concerned Over GM Salmon Introduction. Twenty-six environmental groups and seafood companies are together expressing concern over the introduction of genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) salmon in Canada and calling on the Minister of Environment and Climate Change (ECC) to ensure precautionary and transparent regulation of GM fish.“We need to set a stronger precedent for regulating such a potentially dangerous organism,” said Karen Wristen of Living Oceans Society in BC. “We cannot afford to make any mistakes with GM fish.” The joint letter signed by 19 environmental groups and 7 seafood companies in Canada is calling on the Minister to ensure better regulation of GM fish and establish mandatory GM food labelling.
October 23, 2018 – Press Release: P.E.I. Government Loans Additional $2 Million to Build GM Fish Factory The Government of Prince Edward Island (P.E.I) has provided a new $2 million loan to the company AquaBounty, to help it finish construction of the world’s first genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) fish factory.
October 2018: The government is rushing a “public engagement initiative” on the GM fish that ends on October 12. Environment and Climate Change Canada is asking for scientific information and test data on the environmental risks of the GM salmon – but has not provided any information about the proposal from the GM fish company AquaBounty, including where it wants to produce the GM fish. Read CBAN’s comments to the government.
September 2018: Is the GM salmon in your sushi? AquaBounty’s CEO told investors that a Canadian buyer is using the GM Atlantic salmon for a “high-end sashimi line” (a type of sushi). But Quebec sushi restaurant chain Aki Sushi says they refuse to buy it.
September 2018: PEI residents took to the streets in early September outside an international aquaculture conference, to tell companies not to use the GM salmon. AquaBounty was a sponsor of the conference, held in Charlottetown. “Our message to (scientists at the symposium) is do not give any credence to AquaBounty and what it tries to tell you during the next four or five days. Islanders are opposed to having the genetically engineered salmon here in Prince Edward Island,” said Leo Broderick of the Council of Canadians PEI Chapter.
December 2016: The December 2016 Report “Genetically Modified Animals for Human Consumption” of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, failed to recommend labelling for GM foods, though the Committee did recommend more transparency in the regulation of GM animals.
Canadian court challenge concludes with a ruling in favour of the Minister of Environment.
October 27, 2016: Health Canada announced food safety approval of the GM salmon on May 19 2016 and Canada’s Minister of the Environment approved the commercial production of genetically modified Atlantic salmon eggs and fish in late 2013. This latter environmental approval was challenged in court by Ecology Action Centre (NS) and Living Oceans Society (BC), represented in court by Ecojustice lawyers.
- Read the concluding statement from the environmental groups: Statement re: Federal Court of Appeal ruling on approval of GM salmon production
March 31, 2016: Ecology Action Centre (EAC) in Nova Scotia has joined with US groups to sue the US Food and Drug Administration for approving genetically modified (GM) salmon. This is only one step that EAC and other groups are taking to prevent this threat to Canada’s wild Atlantic salmon. EAC and Living Oceans Society (BC) continue their challenge of Canada’s decision to allow production of GM salmon in PEI.
January 2016: The US government approved the fish for eating on November 19, 2015 – however there is a temporary import ban on the GM fish until labelling questions are decided.
June 2015: The GM “fast-growing” salmon is more susceptible to disease, may not actually grow any faster, and it looks like the genetic modification is causing inconsistent growth rates. Find out more from Food & Water Watch US.
December 2013: The largest producer of farmed salmon, Marine Harvest has stated their position against the GM salmon: “Salmon is established as a healthy, safe and tasty product. A possible introduction of GM salmon is controversial and might weaken the salmon brand. Marine Harvest does not support the introduction of GM salmon. If the GM salmon is to be approved for consumption, Marine Harvest asks for it to be specifically labelled,”- Kristine Gramstad, Global Director Communications, Marine Harvest.
November 2013: CBAN sent letters to the Minister of Environment and the Minister of Health to request an answer to the question: Is Environment Canada and/or Health Canada reviewing a GE fish for approval? Here is the response from Health Canada.
- Click here to read the letter to the Minister of the Environment
- Click here to read the letter to the Minister of Health
October 2013: CBAN has submitted a “petition” (a detailed series of questions that require departmental response) to the Commissioner on the Environment and Sustainable Development in the Office of the Auditor General, asking questions about the regulation of the GM fish. This petition was prepared with the assistance of Ecojustice, with particular thanks to Ecojustice Environmental Law Clinic intern, Madeleine Hayes. Government departments are expected to respond by January 2014. Click here to read the document submitted to the Auditor General.
December 16, 2011: ISA virus confirmed in AquaBounty’s genetically-engineered salmon: A 2009 memo from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) entered into evidence at Canada’s federal Cohen Inquiry into the collapse of Fraser River sockeye Thursday reveals that salmon at the AquaBounty facility in Price Edward Island have tested positive for the Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) virus. Click here to watch Catherine Stewart of Living Oceans Society talk about what this means.
House of Commons Motion: October 2011 – Mr. Donnelly (New Westminster—Coquitlam) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should immediately: (a) provide greater regulatory clarity by identifying which government departments are responsible for the regulation of genetically modified salmon and other transgenic aquatic organisms; (b) prevent the introduction into the Canadian food system of genetically modified salmon destined for human consumption until further scientific studies are concluded by the relevant departments to determine the impact of genetically modified salmon on human health and on the health of marine species, ecosystems and habitats; and (c) direct the departments responsible for the regulation of genetically modified salmon to establish a practice of notifying the Canadian public of all requests and approvals and of any information and findings regarding genetically modified salmon and salmon eggs.
October 11, 2011 – Press Release : U.S. Rubber-Stamp of GM Fish Imminent? U.S. approval would trigger corporate plans to produce genetically modified salmon eggs in Canada, but Environment Canada remains silent
January 15, 2011: PEI groups met with Premier Ghiz and the PEI Minister of the Environment and secured a pledge that the Premier will seek information from Environment Canada. Environment Canada is currently refusing to disclose any information about a possible risk assessment to allow the production of GE salmon eggs on PEI. Read the story: PEI groups meet with Premier and secure pledge on GE fish.
December 6, 2010 Press Release: Groups Oppose Genetically Engineered Salmon: Demand Immediate Disclosure from Environment Canada
Sixty fisheries and oceans conservation, environmental and social justice groups revealed today that Environment Canada refuses to confirm or deny if the department has already started a secret 120-day risk assessment to approve genetically engineered (GE, also called genetically modified or GM) salmon egg production on Prince Edward Island. The groups today also released a joint statement of “categorical objection” to the raising of GE fish and fish eggs. Click here to see the statement opposing GE fish and the list of 60 groups signed so far.
November 22, 2010: Press release: PEI Groups request Premier Ghiz to press Environment Canada for disclosure on GE Salmon
October 27, 2010: Newly Disclosed Government Documents Conclude GE Salmon Pose A Critical Threat To Marine Environments – Expert fisheries agencies prohibit growing engineered salmon in open-water net pens under the Endangered Species Act.
September 21, 2010 – Press Statement: Groups in the US and Canada urge the FDA to heed yesterday’s warnings by scientists regarding the safety of genetically engineered salmon and reject company’s request for approval — Yesterday the FDA’s Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee finished two days of public hearings in Maryland on the safety of genetically engineered (GE) salmon: “The committee could not avoid pointing to serious problems with the science. The FDA cannot approve the GE salmon after the committee has raised so many questions about its safety,” said Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network. Many committee members raised serious concerns about the safety of the GE salmon and questions about the quality of the data used by the FDA to come to its initial conclusion that the GE fish is safe. The FDA will now consider the concerns raised by the committee before making a final decision to approve or reject the GE fish, or call for more studies. The FDA has agreed to a public comment period on an environmental assessment.
September 20, 2010 – Press Release: Critics slam “sloppy science” on GE Fish at FDA hearings: FDA overlooked evidence of allergy potential and accepted deficient data say groups
September 16, 2010 – Press Release: PEI Groups Denounce Plans for Local GE Salmon Production: PEI representative to attend US hearings on GE fish safety
September 8, 2010 – Press Release:As U.S. Decision on GE Fish Nears Final Stage, Company Reveals Plan to Produce GE Salmon Eggs in Canada
September 3, 2010: FDA releases documents for the first time prior to public meetings September 19-21:
- Environmental Assessment for “AquAdvantage” Salmon
- Briefing Packet: Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee
August 27, 2010 – Joint Press Statement: Coalition Demands FDA Deny Approval of Controversial GE Fish: FDA Considers Approval of GE Salmon–the First GE Food Animal–Yet Fails to Inform the Public of Environmental and Economic Risks.
- CBAN Factsheet: Genetically Engineered Salmon Produced and Sold in Canada, January 2021
- CBAN Consumer Guide: How to Avoid Eating GM Salmon
- CBAN Article: No Label: Canada’s invisible genetically modified salmon, Watershed Sentinel, by Lucy Sharratt of CBAN, November 2020
- CBAN Brochure: No GM Fish, February 2020
- CBAN Report: GM Contamination in Canada: The failure to contain living modified organisms – Incidents and impacts. 2019
- CBAN Article A fishy return on investment: The policy collision over genetically modified salmon, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, The Monitor, September/October 2018
- CBAN Factsheet: Genetically Engineered Salmon Produced and Sold in Canada, September 2020
- How Canadians Bankrolled the World’s First Genetically Engineered Food Animal: Taxpayers have invested $8.2 million in the development of a rapid-growth salmon that first hit shelves last year. Christopher Pollon, Vice Magazine, March 21 2018


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Of course, that doesn't mean a deal is imminent. Liberty has made it clear it can wait for Time Warner Cable results to deteriorate further. It even played the Rolling Stones song "Time Is on My Side" while projecting a slide featuring a photo of the Time Warner Center in New York during an investor presentation last week.
In talking up a deal, Mr. Malone walks a fine line between recruiting Time Warner Cable shareholders to his cause and pushing up the price of his target. Despite the run-up, Time Warner Cable trades at 6.9 times estimated earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization for the next 12 months. That compares with 7.4 times for Comcast and 8.5 times for Charter.
For Time Warner Cable investors, earnings day may be opposite day.
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Breakin’ Convention with RCT Theatres and Avant Cymru present Open Art Surgery, where hip hop is dissected, examined and put under the microscope.
Open Art Surgery is FREE to take part in
Thursday 31 January 2019 - Deadline
Monday 18 - Friday 22 March 2019 - Project takes place
Venue: Park & Dare Theatre, Station Rd, Treorchy CF42 6NL
Participants must be fully available for all these dates and hours.
Whether dancer, rapper, DJ, spoken word artist or graff writer - bring your art, bring your creative side and create something new.
Spend one week working with hip hop theatre pioneer Jonzi D, creating work before performing it in front of a live audience at the Park & Dare Theatre, then answer questions from the audience and get feedback on how to refine it further. Take your hip hop artistry and dare to do something new. Participation is free.
About Open Art Surgery
Open Art Surgery is hip hop theatre dissected, examined and put under the microscope. It is about breaking down the fourth wall and showcasing raw talent and new work.
It offers hip hop theatre companies and performers, from dancers and musicians to emcees and visual artists, the opportunity to develop and experiment with new ideas, share new work publicly and receive mentorship from experienced hip hop theatre creators.
Participants spend one week workshopping and devising with mentors Jonzi D. With no pressure on an end product, Open Art Surgery allows artists to take creative risks, try something different or to test ideas.
At the end of the week, participants share and discuss their work with a live performance hosted by Jonzi D. Taking place in the intimate theatre space of Park & Dare Theatre, Jonzi invites the audience to question and critique the brand new work shown, giving audience members the opportunity to get inside the minds of the artists, and giving artists themselves the unique opportunity to question their audience.
Work that has appeared at Open Art Surgery has gone on to be performed at The Place, Just Jam, Edinburgh Fringe and nationally and internationally as part of the Breakin' Convention International Festival of Hip Hop Dance Theatre.
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Avant is an associate company of RCT Theatres, working in partnership to make forward thinking theatre for the community and showcasing work locally, nationally and internationally by using theatre to create platforms for conversation, remembering the past, discussing the present and creating the future.
Hip hop theatre is an important element of their work, alongside teaching workshops, hosting jams, pushing hip hop and theatre to new limits in shows which really have something to say.
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I’m not claiming any direct connection, but the opportunity to interview Todd Downs about bike maintenance for riding in winter coincided perfectly with the first snowfall of the year in the Milwaukee area.
Downs wrote Rodale Inc.’s “The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance & Repair,” and has worked the wrenches for pro racers around the world. More importantly, at least for my purposes, he spent 20 years as a mechanic working in shops in Boston’s wintry climate.
His advice for maintaining a bike for riding through the Milwaukee winter was straight-forward: clean and lubricate, often.
“In bad weather, cleaning is something you’re going to want to do several times a week,” he said in our phone interview last week.
Clean: Especially when the roads are coated with salt, he recommended wiping down the frame and components with a damp rag, using water and dish soap. Pick your favorite - Dawn, Palmolive, etc. - anything with a bit of degreaser. Dry with a clean cloth.
He offered one caution. Avoid soaping disc brakes, which actually work better with a bit of dirt.
For cleaning the chain, he prefers the box type devices with brushes, or a simple rag doused with degreaser, and an old toothbrush or bike-specific brush to scrub between the links.
“Definitely avoid taking the chain off and soaking it in kerosene or any of the old methods that people of recommended,” he said.
Lubricate: Downs recommends using oil-based lubricants for bike chains in winter, to protect the chain from corrosion and to hold up better through slush and other harsh conditions. The proper application is more important than the product.
“Lightly and frequently are the key words,” he said. “You want to apply a little bit of lube, work the crank backward to allow the lubricant to work inside the chain, where the inner plates and pins make contact. Once you’ve got that, wipe down the exterior of the chain. Then you’re good.”
He advised that it’s best to clean and lubricate the chain right after biking through snow-melt, puddles and slush. For regular commuters, this would mean a bit of time in the work room several nights a week.
Fenders: Limiting the amount of slop landing on the chain and frame would reduce the amount of cleaning and lubricating necessary.
“People think of fenders as a luxury to keep the spray off them when it’s wet,” Downs said. “In the winter, they’re going to keep the frame cleaner and keep the wheels from throwing up a bunch of debris on the bottom bracket or the headset.”
Cables: His advice is to replace brake and shifter cables at the start of the winter commuter season, and the end.
“I’m generally not a fan of filling your cable housing with grease, but the start of the winter commuting season, I make an exception,” he said. “All that grease does is take up space and blocks the ends, so less stuff can find its way in between the cable and the liner of the housing. It can be almost any kind of grease you can pick up in a bike shop.”
Tires: Downs became a fan of studded tires while riding on the icy paths in Boston. Studded tires are expensive, though, more than $100 a pair. If money is tight, he recommends putting a studded tire at least on the front wheel to improve steering and braking.
“I think the cyclo-cross tire is a nice compromise; some heavy tread, so when the snow is packed down hard you can get some grip, but it’s still a narrow, efficient-rolling tire,” he said.
Odds & Ends: Clothing for winter biking comes down to personal preference and the basics: a wicking base layer, a jersey, a vest and a water- and wind-resistant shell. Downs favors a balaclava to keep his head and face warm, and simple bicycling glasses instead of goggles. “When the weather was bad enough for ski goggles I wasn’t going fast enough to keep them from fogging.”
When packing a repair kit, add extra tire levers, a mini pump and CO2 cartridges. The levers make it easier to remove a tire “when you’re fingers are frozen” and the extra CO2 also would be needed to reach proper inflation in the cold air.
A recent gathering of winter bikers in the Twin Cities produced this collection of tips.
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It’s not often that you end up sharing a jail cell with your dad and your oldest son. But that’s exactly where David Benham found himself.
Their crime? Praying outside an abortion clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The arrests took place during the pandemic lockdown, when officials had issued extensive directives for gatherings. But the law permitted Cities4Life, co-founded by David with his twin brother, Jason, to continue operating as an approved ministry.
That April morning, police officers confronted a small group of Cities4Life advocates. David rushed there as soon as he heard, explaining that Cities4Life was a nonprofit organization and that they were following the applicable local law and all the CDC guidelines—social distancing, gathering in groups of less than 10, and carrying hand sanitizer.
It didn’t matter. The police officers surrounded him and a few of his fellow pro-life advocates and placed them in handcuffs.
Just a few days before, another pro-life group had faced a similar situation in nearby Greensboro, North Carolina.
There, Justin Reeder, founder of LoveLife, was walking and praying on private property—with the permission of the owner—and on a public sidewalk across the street from a Greensboro abortion facility. Four others, including his attorney, were with him. Just like the Cities4Life advocates, the Love Life representatives were following all the required health directives.
But law enforcement officers soon showed up and demanded that the pro-life group leave.
Although Justin and his attorney explained that they had a right to be there engaging in free speech, they ended up in the back of a squad car. They were charged with an “illegal gathering,” or having more than 10 people together during quarantine—even though there were only five in the group.
This was not the first time that David and Justin had faced strong opposition from city officials or pro-abortion activists. But the resistance had never stopped them from continuing to have a peaceful, prayerful presence in front of local abortion centers.
And being arrested wasn’t going to stop them, either. David and Justin enlisted the help of Alliance Defending Freedom, which filed lawsuits on their behalf.
In this issue, you’ll also read about:
- Why it is important to be informed and engaged leading up to the election;
- How one university discriminated against Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece; and
- How Samaritan’s Purse helped fight the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.
Religious FreedomThese Students Suspected Their University Was Silencing Conservative Speech
It's crucial that on our college campuses, every viewpoint gets a chance to compete in the marketplace of ideas.
Religious FreedomThis Student’s Lawsuit Picks Up Where Chike’s Supreme Court Victory Left Off
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Religious FreedomHow One Mother Took a Stand for Her Child’s Rights
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In 1758 he was admitted to the bar, and commenced business in Braintree. He is understood to have made his first considerable effort, or to have obtained his most signal success, at Plymouth, in a jury trial, and criminal cause. In 1765, Mr. Adams laid before the public his "Essay on the Canon and Feudal Law," a work distinguished for its power and eloquence. The object of this work was to show, that our New-England ancestors, in consenting to excile themselves from their native land, were actuated mainly by the desire of delivering themselves from the power of the hierarchy, and from the monarchical, aristocratical, and political system of their continent; and to make this truth bear with effect on the politics of the times. Its tone is uncommonly bold and animated for that period. He calls on the people not only to defend, but to study and understand their rights and privileges; and urges earnestly the necessity of diffusing general knowledge.
In conclusion, He exclaims, "let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty. Let us hear the danger of thraldom[sic] to our consciences, from ignorance, extreme poverty and dependence, in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us, the true map of man -- let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God! that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God, as it is derogatory from our own honour, or interest, of happiness; and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven, liberty, peace, and good will to man.
"Let the bar proclaim the laws, the rights, the generous plan of power delivered down from remote antiquity; inform the world of the mighty struggles and numberless sacrifices made by our ancestors in the defence of freedom. Let it be known that the British liberties are not the grants of princes of parliaments, but original rights, conditions of original contracts, coequal with prerogative, and coeval with government. That many of our rights are inherent and essential, agreed on as maxims and established as preliminaries even before a parliament existed. Let them search for the foundation of British laws and government in the frame of human nature, in the constitution of the intellectual and moral world. There let us see that truth, liberty, justice, and benevolence, are its everlasting basis; and if these could be removed, the superstructure is overthrown of course.
"Let the colleges join their harmony in the same delightful concert. Let every declamation turn upon the beauty of liberty and virtue, and the deformity, turpitude, and malignity of slavery and vice. Let the public disputations become researches into the grounds, nature, and ends of government, and the means of preserving the good and demolishing the evil. Let the dialogues and all the exercises become the instruments of impressing on the tender mind, and of spreading and distributing far and wide the ideas of right, and the sensations of freedom."
In 1766, Mr. Adams removed his residence to Boston, still continuing his attendance on the neighboring circuits, and was often called to remote parts of the province.
In 1770 occurred, as has already been noticed, the "Boston massacre." Mr. Adams was solicited by the British officers and soldiers to undertake their defence, on the indictment found against them, for their share in that tragical scene. This was a severe test of his professional firmness. He was well aware of the popular indignation against these prisoners, and he was at that time a representative of Boston in the general court, an office which depended entirely upon popular favour. But he knew that is was due to his profession, and to himself, to undertake their defence, and to hazard the consequences. "The trial was well managed. The captain was severed in his trial from the soldiers, who were tried first, and their defence rested in part upon the orders, real or supposed, given by the officer to his men to fire. This was in a good measure successful. On the trial of Capt. Preston, no such order to fire could be proved. The result was, as it should have been, an acquittal. It was a glorious thing that the counsel and jury had nerve sufficient to breast the torrent of public feeling. It showed Britain that she had not a mere mob to deal with, but resolute and determined men, who could restrain themselves. Such men are dangerous to arbitrary power."
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The event proved, that as he judged well for his own reputation, so he judged well for the interest and permanent fame of his country. The same year he was elected one of the representatives in the general assembly, and honor to which the people would not have called him, had he lost their confidence and affection.
In the year 1773, and 1774, he was chosen a counsellor by the members of the general court; but was rejected by Governor Hutchinson, in the former of these years, and by Governor Gage, in the latter.
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Ibadan is usually one of the underestimated fashion oriented cities but I tell you, that was then. Now, Ibadan has stepped up the fashion game. We not only own countless number of fashion creatives, we are also passionate about the celebration and education of fashion via various fashion shows. I used the pronoun we because I am proud to be an Ibadan based unisex fashion designer and blogger and it is my joy to announce to you the first bridal fashion show in ibadan.
The Project Coordinator Ibadan Bridal Fashion Week, Adeshola Ademiloye, says there is the need to create a platform for local bridal designers to thrive which I am so much in support of. There are alot of local bridal and non bridal designers who are doing amazing jobs but are not recognized by social media, I mean the likes of bellanaija dont get to feature their designs maybe because they are not celebrities.
To make matters worse, algorithms filters the audience that get to see what many designers got to show. So pathetic.. the way forward is definitely a fashion show where you escape the algorithms and feature your brand like a celeb. You get to upgrade from being a tailor to a fashion designer and develop your fashion portfolio.
“This is so because the client wants the best over their neighbors. So Nigerians have their story to tell, they communicate it with the designer who makes it a reality.
“Nigerian designers are the best in world and are making great design and impression wherever they find themselves.
“We are not competing again; we are dictating the trends all round the world. Most fashion brands in Europe have Nigerians at the helms of its affair.
` Mai Atafo, Lannre Da-Silva are showing us that here and a lot of other names that I can’t mention,” he said.
Those words are encouraging, challenging and convincing enough to charge up the creative spirits in the minds of every fashion designer across Ibadan. The time is NOW! Lets participate massively and make history with this trend.


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A new gas detector, developed by researchers at UBC’s Okanagan campus, enables highly accurate odour analysis for so many different applications it has been nicknamed the ‘artificial nose.’
Researchers in the School of Engineering have developed a state-of-the-art microfluidic gas detector that can detect small traces of gases quickly and efficiently. It has a number of potential uses including environmental monitoring, food and beverage quality assessments, and biological and chemical analytical systems.
The device, explains Professor Mina Hoorfar, is essentially ‘an artificial nose’ that can smell any sort of odour including noxious substances like natural gas, ammonia or sewage.
“Our sense of smell is one of the most important abilities humans have,” says Hoorfar. “Our nose affects the quality of our lives significantly and helps with the detection of toxic gases in the environment, fire awareness, spoiled food or triggering memories. With this in mind, there has always been interest in developing devices that can mimic human olfaction systems.”
The tiny gas detectors, developed in UBC Okanagan’s Advanced Thermo-Fluidic Laboratory, consist of 3D-printed parts, which create the microchannel and a metal oxide semiconductor. The detectors can be connected to a sampling chamber or be used in a lab environment.
Doctoral student Mohammad Paknahad, one of the lead researchers in the project, says the tiny detector uses two different channels and each channel has a different coating. During tests, several target gases from different families of volatile organic compounds were used including alcohols, ketones and alkanes. Paknahad says when a sample passes through the detector, the internal coatings direct the gases to the appropriate sensor where it is immediately analyzed.
“The gases interact differently with the channel coating and this is why it is called ‘like dissolves like,’” says Paknahad. “Our research demonstrates that these low-cost detectors can be custom-made for different applications while maintaining accuracy and precision.”
The technology—comparing two separate gas detectors with channels outfitted with special coatings that act differently when exposed to different gases—provides the user with the ability to adjust the coating based on the desired target gas.
“There are many examples of highly accurate systems,” says Hoorfar. “But despite their accuracy, the size and cost of these systems limit their applicability in the detection of volatile organic compounds in numerous applications that require portable and easy-to-use devices. Our devices offer a small, inexpensive and highly-accurate alternative.”
“This has the potential of changing the way municipalities and utilities conduct their monitoring,” says Hoorfar. “Based on the initial reaction of our municipal partners, we are excited to see what lies ahead.”
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With technology being ubiquitous in our world today, parents are concerned with the role of screens in a child’s health and development. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) encourages parents to help children develop healthy media use habits early in life. In a 2016 article written by the AAP titled “Why to Limit Your Child’s Media Use,” overuse of and poor habits with digital media may place children or teens at risk regarding obesity, lack of sleep, problematic internet use, degraded school performance and increase in risky behaviors.
Enter the Family Media Plan, an interactive tool developed by the AAP that creates a personalized media use plan based on your family's values and parenting style. Also included is a Media Time Calculator that can give you a snapshot of how much time each child spends on daily activities, such as sleeping, eating, homework, physical activity, and media use. The tool also includes AAP recommendations on screen-free zones, media manners, and much more.


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Artifical Intelligence is the topic of the day in the design world. Whether it fills you with excitement, dread or something in between, it’s a crucial time to tackle the issues at hand with nuance and depth. Timothy Alouani-Roby met with Woods Bagot associate and tech advocate, Jet Geaghan, to discuss in this first of two parts.
The Futures Collective returned to Villa Alba Museum for Melbourne Design Week 2023. This event united a cadre of designers under the umbrella of three thought-provoking pillars — Transparency, Currency and Legacy.
From concrete Tokyo to Brutalist Sydney, Blue Crow Media provides a way into new cities — or perhaps a closer look at familiar ones — for the architectural connoisseur, especially those with a keen interest in the twentieth century history.
In the town of Oatlands, Cumulus has delivered Callington Mill Distillery. It’s a new venue that manages to be visually striking and functionally adept at the same time as engaging sensitively with the important local heritage.
Byron Bay: just the name conjures so much. Everyone has a Byron memory fuelling a rose-tinted ideal of chucking it all in and moving to the coast. Enter Pixie, the new restaurant designed by Flack Studio.
Taking place Wednesday 9 August online, this FREE digital all-day summit is the perfect way to top up your knowledge with cutting-edge regional content and ideas.
The first series of Designing a Legacy aired in 2020 and self-proclaimed design nerd, Tim Ross, is back with a two-part series on ABC. It’s a chance to bring important architectural issues to a national broadcasting audience.
The Australian Institute of Architects has unveiled its 2023 Victorian Architecture Awards shortlist, featuring remarkable design innovation. Here, we delve into the unique stories of five standout projects — a mix of wellness centres, commercial spaces and residential precincts.
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EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — The United States is investigating whether the Islamic State used chemical weapons, the White House said Thursday, following allegations that IS militants deployed chemical weapons against Kurdish forces in northern Iraq.
Alistair Baskey, a spokesman for the White House’s National Security Council, said the U.S. is taking the allegations “very seriously” and seeking more information about what happened. He noted that IS had been accused of using such weapons before.
“We continue to monitor these reports closely, and would further stress that any use of chemicals or biological material as a weapon is completely inconsistent with international standards and norms regarding such capabilities,” Baskey said in a statement.
Earlier Thursday, Kurdish officials said their forces, known as peshmerga, were attacked the day before near the town of Makhmour, not far from Irbil. Germany’s military has been training the Kurds in the area, and the German Defense Ministry said some 60 Kurdish fighters had suffered breathing difficulties from the attack — a telltale sign of chemical weapons use. But neither Germany nor the Kurds specified which type of chemical weapons may have been used.
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Confirmation of chemical weapons use by IS would mark a dramatic turn in the U.S.-led effort to rout the extremist group from the roughly one-third of Iraq and Syria that it controls.
Although the U.S. and its coalition partners are mounting airstrikes against the Islamic State, they are relying on local forces like the Kurds, the Iraqi military and others to do the fighting on the ground. Already, those forces have struggled to match the might of the well-funded and heavily armed extremist group.
At the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said the U.S. was speaking with the Kurds who had made the allegations to gather more information. She said that if reports of chemical weapons are true, they would further prove that what IS calls warfare is really “just systematic attacks on civilians who don’t accord to their particularly perverse world view.”
“I think we will have to again move forward on these allegations, get whatever evidence we can,” Power said.
She added that as a result of earlier chemical weapons use by the Syrian government, the U.S. and its partners now have advanced forensic systems to analyze chemical weapons attacks. She said anyone responsible should be held accountable.
Similar reports of chemical weapons use by IS had surfaced in July. But it’s unclear exactly where the extremist group may have obtained any chemical weapons.
Following a chemical weapon attack on a suburb of the Syrian capital of Damascus in 2014 that killed hundreds of civilians, the U.S. and Russia mounted a diplomatic effort that resulted in Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government agreeing to the destruction or removal of its chemical weapons stockpiles. But there have been numerous reports of chemical weapons use in Syria since then — especially chlorine-filled barrel bombs. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the global chemical weapons watchdog, has been investigating possible undeclared chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria.
Word of the White House’s probe into possible chemical weapons use by IS came as President Barack Obama was vacationing with his family in Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. Also on Thursday, IS militants claimed responsibility for a truck bombing at a Baghdad market that killed 67 people in one of the deadliest single attacks there since the Iraq War.
Associated Press writer Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.
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"Proteins from the laser capture microdissected samples of amyloid from the eyelid, conjunctiva and orbit were extracted using a modified protocol of the Liquid Tissue MS Protein Prep Kit (Expression Pathology Inc., Gaithersburg, MD). LCM films containing captured protein deposits and control tissue samples were stripped from the caps and incubated with 40 Âµl extraction buffer (10 mM Tris, pH 7.8,0.1% RapiGest (Waters)) at 95Â°C for 90 min. Samples were centrifuged at 10.000 Ã g for 1 min and subsequently cooled on ice. Extracted proteins were incubated with 5 Âµg porcine trypsin (Sigma) at 37Â°C for 16 hours, vortexing every 20 min for the first hour. Samples were then centrifuged at 10.000 Ã g for 5 min, supernatant isolated and incubated with 10 mM DTT at 95Â°C for 5 min followed by incubation with 30 mM iodoacetamide for 15 min in the dark. Peptides generated fromeach digest were acidified with 5 Âµl of 5% formic acid and recovered using Stage-tips (Proxeon, Thermo Scientific) . The peptides were eluted with 10 Âµl 70 % acetonitrile, and subsequently lyophilized before being dissolved in 12 Âµl 0.1% formic acid.
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Gun control supporters should learn from history
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In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client, meaning that one or more clients can attach to and detach from a central core, much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client, but graphical. In addition to this unique feature, it aims to be a comfortable chatting program.
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As a result, up till now, only Portuguese citizens resident in Spain, residents of other Member States on their way home – and diplomats on working missions – have been authorised to cross the Portuguese-Spanish borders.
Explain reports, the reopening will be marked by a special ceremony between the towns of Caia and Badajoz tomorrow attended by President Marcelo, the Felipe VI King of Spain and Portuguese and Spanish prime ministers António Costa and Pedro Sánchez.
The idea is for the Portuguese and Spanish dignitaries to ‘meet at the frontier’ and cross over to the Spanish side for a reception.
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Kao The Kangaroo on Xbox it an amazing Retro Platformer With Hints Of Crash Bandicoot.
We never got the first Kao The Kangaroo on Xbox and PC, which was released for Dreamcast and PC in the early 2000s. However,”Round 2 “Round 2” sequel finally made it being released on Xbox on the Xbox in 2003 (launching to mixed reviews) Now, nearly two decades after the retro-inspired 3D platformer has finally made an appearance with an updated, modern remake.
If we can explain the 2022 version of Kao The Kangaroo in a concise manner, it’s somewhat like a combination with Super Lucky’s Tale and Crash Bandicoot 4 however with a much smaller budget and less polish. The game’s gameplay is spread in four hubs, each one with their own distinct areas, and the objective is to beat enemies, play a lot of platforming, work out basic puzzles , and find coins and other items. You’re the main player, Kao, who sets out on a quest to locate Kaia, his sister who is missing. Kaia and find out what the fate of his father.
The gameplay initially appears rather basic, which is what one would expect from an indie game however, as you progress the more it starts to become more accessible. It’s a credit to the creator it’s got a lot of ambition within Kao the Kangaroo’s gameplay. adding a myriad of new techniques as you progress, including the ability to utilize winds, fire, and ice to solve problems, and making use of crystals to reveal paths in a similar way to how time manipulation mechanics on Crash Bandicoot 4 (albeit more simple). The platforming is fun also, and combat is generally well-designed . the button-bashing is great but there’s room to add some strategic thinking too.
There’s plenty of excitement to be enjoyed playing Kao The Kangaroo, but it’s not without its flaws. There are bugs that can be trouble at the start and we found ourselves stuck several times, and also had rare occasions where double jumps would not work for whatever reason, along in the case of the stomping attack not being able to work , meaning we had to start the game in order for to advance. Another issue is that sometimes frustration will occur when there are occasional spikes in difficulty (although it’s an easy game in general) and also when the game demands players to know how to take on the boss or eliminate an obstacle but fails to give you a clear idea of what you need to do.
In terms of design the design of the levels is excellent. The level design Kao The Kangaroo is generally top-quality, particularly the levels that are more typical for platforming. The variety is excellent also, taking players from beaches to frozen mountains and an amusement park with a scary atmosphere visually very appealing. We also appreciate that the game includes an Crash Bandicoot style boulder chase level, as well as an ice-level in which you basically slide down to the bottom but they do feel rather clunky and irritable when compared to the experience you’d get in games similar to Crash.
The cutscenes aren’t terrible but the voice acting isn’t great in certain instances (particularly when it comes to Kao himself) as well as the story isn’t anything to be awed by. Actually, up until we had completed the final part into the adventure, our minds had focused on the story , and then started looking at the levels. However, the sequences of the final boss’s final battle are, at a minimum, interesting (although the boss itself is extremely difficult to defeat! ).
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The history of our department mirrors that of Buffalo State College itself. From its inception as the Buffalo Normal School in 1871, through its iteration as the State Teachers College at Buffalo beginning in 1928, to the State University College of Education at Buffalo in 1961, the study of the past, and the interactions between history and other disciplines, has formed the central narrative of the social sciences.
Through most of the first century of the institution, history was part of a broader department of social studies, which encompassed such content areas as economics, geography, political science, and sociology.
Practitioners of history nonetheless played leading roles within this department, none more so than renowned Latin American history scholar Harold F. Peterson, who came to the State Teachers College in 1937.
When SUNY was expanded in 1961, and history and the other content disciplines which constituted the social studies were granted their own departments, Dr. Peterson naturally served as the History Department’s first chairman from 1945 until 1960. For his many contributions to the college, he was named one of the first State University of New York (SUNY) Distinguished Professors in 1970.
His legacy lives on in the department through our Harold F. Peterson Conference Room, dedicated as a faculty facility and the permanent home for Peterson’s Peruvian textiles collection in 1980, and the Harold and Lucille Peterson Endowed Scholarships, which are awarded annually to outstanding history, museum studies, or social studies education undergraduate and graduate student.
The department began offering a master of arts in history beginning in 1970. As a pedagogical area, secondary social studies education remained a separate department and in its first years was chaired by Dr. Richard C. Brown, named a SUNY Distinguished Professor in 1970.
The distinction has since been conferred on five different members of the department with Drs. Vern L. Bullough (1987) and Nuala McGann Drescher (1992) joining Drs. Peterson and Brown as Distinguished Professors; while Drs. Edward O. Smith, Jr. (1999) and David Carson (2010) were named SUNY Distinguished Service Professors. Dr. Monroe Fordham was similarly honored in 2001 when he was awarded a SUNY Doctorate of Humane Letters for his work on African American History, local history, and the preservation of regional history records.
Beyond these noteworthy achievements, members of the department have always been active scholars and teachers. A survey of department faculty over the years shows the consistency of the department in publishing scholarly works, presenting at professional conferences, and earning grant funding for a wide variety of initiatives. Our faculty has been recognized over the years by winning numerous SUNY and Buffalo State President’s Awards in the areas of scholarship, teaching, and student mentoring.
As histories of the institution, and the recollections of emeritus faculty and alumni, make clear, the faculty of this department took great pride in their interactions with their students, and their interest in fostering both reasoned debate and common understanding in the turbulent years of the late-1960s and early-1970s. Things were changing in academe in these years, and in the late-1970s, the decision was made to reintegrate social studies into a content department.
From this, a renewed History and Social Studies Education Department was born and the housing of the content discipline with teacher certification programs in social studies continues to this day.
Under this partnership, both bachelor’s and master’s degrees are conferred from the two founding disciplines and, since 2014, a third MA program in museum studies has completed the department’s academic profile. Additionally, the department hosts several academic minor programs, including in history, museum studies, and Asian studies.
Current members of the department are prominent in a variety of interdisciplinary initiatives, programs, and units, with the new Africana Studies major being only the most recent instance of our faculty working across traditional departmental lines.
The department of the early twentieth century shares the same commitment to a rigorous study of the past and preparation of future educators and innovators in other fields as its predecessors. Nothing demonstrates this more than the successes of our students.
Since 1999, four undergraduates from this department have earned SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Student Excellence. Our chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the National Honors Society in history, is an annual participant in both regional and national conferences, and the roster of Buffalo State students who have received commendations at these events is extensive.
One of the most anticipated events in our academic year is the department’s spring awards ceremony, where, through the generosity of donors from the community, emeriti, and current faculty, we recognize the finest students from our three disciplines. Like the recipients themselves, those who have made these awards possible are integral parts of our department’s history at this institution.
As Buffalo State College celebrates its 150th anniversary, the History and Social Studies Education Department takes pride in the role it has played in shaping this institution. We look forward to continuing to introduce future generations to the joys of learning about the past, preserving its records, and teaching others to learn from the past, long into the future.
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