John Lohr for leader of N. S. Progressive Conservatives.

DennisTate · Apr 10, 2018

I have to admit that I do really like the idea of Nova Scotia having
a PC Leader who has a background in agriculture.

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John Lohr: Nova Scotia’s Next Premier

JOHN LOHR·SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2018

John is a lifetime Kings County resident, farmer and successful agri-business entrepreneur. John's parents immigrated from Holland to Canada through Pier 21 in 1958 with collaboration from the Dutch and Canadian governments. His parents were met on Pier 21 by Waldo Walsh (then Nova Scotia's Deputy Minister of Agriculture), and after working two years on a farm, they purchased their own farm, in Canning, in 1960. John was born in 1962 and would eventually buy his father's farm in 1987. He has since developed the farm into a successful, multi-faceted agri-business which grows potatoes, onions, cabbage, bunch onions, carrots, dill, parsley, leeks, garlic, beets, wheat, soybeans and summer savory. He purchased and rebranded a company, Farmer John's Herbs, in 2001.

After attending elementary and high school in Canning, John graduated with honours from Nova Scotia Agricultural College, where he also won the basketball all-Canadian award. He then attended the University of Guelph, where he completed a BSc (Honours) in plant protection from the department of environmental biology. John was also awarded the Nuffield International Agricultural Scholarship for a three month study period in England. John is a member of the NSFA Council of Leaders and the current Director of the Nuffield Agricultural International Scholarship, past President of Horticulture Nova Scotia, president of the Nova Scotia Vegetable and Potato Producers Association and president and current director of the Crop Development Institute. He has also served for several years on the Kings County Innovation Committee. John also worked in Kenya for three weeks this past winter in a development program called Farmers Helping Farmers (farmershelpingfarmers.ca).

John and his wife, Heather, have two sons that are involved in his family farming business. Another son, Caleb, passed away in 2014 after a public battle with mental health issues. This has led John to become an advocate for increased mental health supports in the province and an increasing access to mental health courts.

He has volunteered extensively in his community through sport, church and agriculture. Raising four sons led John to coach both minor hockey and soccer for many years, as well as coach the Northeast Kings Education Centre senior boys basketball team for two years. John is also the Vice Chair of Kings Mutual Insurance Company and the moderator of New Minas Baptist Church. He was a co-campaign chair of a capital campaign which successfully raised 1.2 million dollars for the current building at New Minas Baptist Church. John has held various positions in his church including Sunday School teacher, deacon and secretary. He also led a weekly Boys and Girls Club of about 30 kids for over ten years.
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I think that Mr. Lohr will tend to easily recognize the wisdom of the alternative theory on stabilization of the climate that was put forward by a New Mexico biologist and coach.

Hi Mr. John Lohr. I am glad that you take the issue of stabilization of the climate seriously. A New Mexico biologist has written up an alternative method of cooling the climate that is especially relevant to the federal riding of Cumberland - Colchester.

....... "So how is our problem of continental drying causing global warming? It all has to do with vegetation and sunlight. When sun light hits a plant, it causes a process which we call photosynthesis where the energy from the sun light creates oxygen for us to breathe, water for us to drink, and is stored as sugar for plants and animals to use. When the same sun light hits the soil, all of its energy turns into heat and is radiated back into the atmosphere.. ."

"Therefore, the less vegetation you have on the planet, the more sunlight is being turned into heat and the warmer the planet becomes...."

"Just take a look at any satellite picture of the earth showing heat and you will see that our deserts are the warmest spots on the planet by far. More heat is being generated by just one of the top four or five deserts than by all of our cities combined.... "

"The truth is that you can do more to decrease global warming by just reducing the average temperature for the Sahara Desert by one or two degrees than if we humans completely quit using fossil fuels and returned to the cave…."

"So, how would you start working to resolve this problem? Easy, cool the deserts and get some vegetation growing on them as soon as possible. But the method is much more complex than that. You have to use the prevailing trade winds in relation to the deserts to get the best results as quickly as possible and it will be extremely expensive…."

"Then we build desalination plants along the coast near these water sheds and pipe water to the tops or ridges of the water sheds…"

"We need to start working on this as soon as possible because, if the planet reaches a point to where it is warming faster than our technology can possibly stop or reverse this warming trend, then our planet is lost and all life will cease to exist on this planet within a relatively short period of time. We will need to start with the largest and hottest deserts because cooling them will have the greatest benefit in the least time (Global Warming II by biologist Carl Cantrell)."
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A Nova Scotia company found a way to help the environment without a carbon tax?

But McNeil and his Ottawa Liberals told us that's impossible!

Happy to see CarbonCure (From Dartmouth) as a finalist and hope the Liberals learn a thing or two from them.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/carbon-xprize-finalists-1.4611258

4 Canadian ideas for using captured carbon reach XPrize finals
Teams from 4 Canadian provinces promise greener concrete, chemicals and high-tech nanoparticles

The finalists include C2CNT, a team from Ashburn, Va., making carbon nanotubes, and CarbonCure, of Dartmouth, N.S., which already has been using carbon dioxide on a commercial scale to chemically create limestone in
concrete.

CarbonCure works with almost 100 concrete plants in the U.S. and Canada but gets its CO2 from a variety of sources, said Jennifer Wagner, CarbonCure's XPrize team leader.

"We know the technology works. We know there is an environmental benefit and an economic benefit to the concrete producers," Wagner said. "What we need to show for the purposes of the XPrize is that technology can score the highest."

Besides saving concrete producers money, the process can potentially reduce demand for cement from plants that are responsible for up to 5 per cent of the world's CO2 emissions, she said.

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DennisTate · Apr 11, 2018

I am seriously impressed by the number of highly qualified candidates who are already
ready to enter the 2018 N. S. Progressive Conservative leadership race.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rookie-mla-announces-run-for-pc-party-leadership-1.4522396

Rookie MLA announces run for PC Party leadership
Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin wants party to do something it never has before — pick a woman as leader

A rookie MLA whose entire political career is less than a year old is hoping Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party members are looking for someone new and different in choosing a successor to Jamie Baillie.

Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin wants those who will choose the next party leader to do something they have never done before — pick a woman.

"Because I'm the right woman," she said with a laugh when asked why the party should choose a woman as its next leader. "I'm ready to be elected. I'm ready to be the leader of the party and premier of Nova Scotia."
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/tim-houston-running-for-pc-party-leader-1.4409407

'Time to win': Tim Houston running for PC Party leader
The MLA for Pictou East is also the opposition party's finance critic

Tim Houston, MLA for Pictou East, announced Sunday he is running to be the leader of Nova Scotia's PC Party.

Houston, the party's finance critic, made the announcement in front of hundreds of people in New Glasgow next to a sign with the slogan "Tim time to win."

"It's time for a change, it's time for a PC government," he told the crowd of about 400 people.

"I will be a leader who makes people the priority. I'm not here to be the voice of anger. I'm here to be the voice of opportunity. I am ready and willing to be responsible for the future of this province."
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cecil-clarke-announcement-pc-leadership-plans-1.4518284
Cecil Clarke becomes 3rd candidate to enter PC leadership race
Clarke joins PC MLAs Tim Houston and John Lohr as candidates

Cape Breton Regional Municipality Mayor Cecil Clarke has announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Nova Scotia PC Party and becomes the third candidate to enter the race.

Clarke made the announcement Saturday at the North Sydney Firefighters Club and was joined by MLAs, party members and supporters.

"Nova Scotians are looking for a new government and a new team to lead us through the difficulties and distress and finally put our province on the path to prosperity," he said. "Nova Scotians understand the challenges we face are great and that those challenges require immediate action."

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Clarke has been the mayor of CBRM since 2012. He is just over a year into his second term, having been re-elected in October 2016.

Before running municipally, Clarke sat in the provincial legislature for 10 years, beginning in 2001, under the Progressive Conservative governments of former premiers John Hamm and Rodney MacDonald.

He served as minister of economic development, minister of energy, attorney general and minister of justice.
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https://globalnews.ca/news/4015261/julia-chaisson-nova-scotia/

Julie Chaisson joins Nova Scotia Tory leadership race

Chaisson says she is running as the province can no longer afford to stay the same.

“It’s time to put forward a leader with a fresh perspective,” said Chaisson in a press release.

“Nova Scotians are looking for a bold leader that will change the status quo and move our province forward.”

As a result, she’ll be running under the slogan, Bold New Vision.
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I have another potential Nova Scotia Premier in mind:

I want to lure Mr. Peter MacKay back into Canadian politics....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_MacKay

Peter Gordon MacKay PC QC (born September 27, 1965) is a lawyer and politician from Nova Scotia, Canada. He was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2015 and has served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General (2013–2015), Minister of National Defence (2007–2013), and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006–2007) in the Cabinet of Canada under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. MacKay was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC Party), and he agreed to merge the party with Stephen Harper's Canadian Alliance in 2003, forming the Conservative Party of Canada.

MacKay represented the riding of Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough from 1997 to 2004, and the riding of Central Nova from 2004 until 2015, when he decided not to run in that year's federal election. With the defeat of the Conservatives in the 2015 election, MacKay was considered a potential candidate to succeed Harper as permanent leader of the party.

MacKay is married to Nazanin Afshin-Jam, an Iranian-Canadian model, singer, and human rights activist, and a former Miss World Canada. MacKay and his family now reside in The Beaches area of Toronto.[1]

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John Lohr for leader of N. S. Progressive Conservatives.

Should Nova Scotians be worried about rising ocean levels?

No.... this is a myth put forward by followers of Mr. Al Gore.

Yes.... the homes and properties along the Bay of Fundy might be hit first.

I am not sure.... but I am researching this topic.

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John Lohr for leader of N. S. Progressive Conservatives.

Should Nova Scotians be worried about rising ocean levels?

No.... this is a myth put forward by followers of Mr. Al Gore.

Yes.... the homes and properties along the Bay of Fundy might be hit first.

I am not sure.... but I am researching this topic.

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