Three British Columbian First Nations leaders took a strong stance in favour of building LNG pipelines over the Site C dam project in Canada. Getting First Nations support for any major economic development involving land use and extraction of natural resources as stated in the article will become very crucial in the future as they possess a substantial amount of land where potential gas could be drawn upon, and because natural resources are becoming more valuable. I believe that the First Nations are being very strategic about supporting the LNG over Site C dam because the plan for the Site C dam is further developed and more likely to be approved than the LNG project. Furthermore, they are in favour of the Liquefied Natural Gas project and more opposed to the Site C dam project due to the dangers of massive flooding opposed to a “spillage” from the pipeline which apparently dissipates into the atmosphere. Although there is support from the First Nations for LNG pipelines, it will be a long time before it is approved as there are still concerns for the extraction of the natural gas by fracking, even though it is apparent that public opposition to the LNG pipelines don’t appear to be as strong as it was towards the Northern Gateway pipeline.

In a recent Canadian study, McDonald’s and Tim Hortons emerge as Canada’s favourite restaurants. This is shocking to see McDonald’s taking the top spot in fourteen categories which include best fries, best tasting food overall, best chicken burgers and sandwiches, because people are becoming more health conscious. Although it wasn’t as surprising to see Tim Hortons holding the top spot in best coffee, breakfast, and dessert. Tim Hortons and McDonald’s have been around for over 50 years showing that people favour security and quality of the company. Even though recently Starbucks has become popular, creating a strong brand identity it shows that is hard to knock off the top competitor of the ladder in the positioning of a company, as Tim Hortons and McDonald’s beat out Starbucks in the best coffee category. It remains questionable whether Tim Hortons will continue to be rated one of the top Canadian restaurants once it is acquired by Burger King. The authentic Canadian experience may diminish. Although it may lose Canadian consumers, it also has an opportunity to gain even more consumers and potentially become international in which the cost of losing Canadian consumers will be lower than the gain of consumers worldwide.

It was astounding for me to read how “donations aren’t going where contributors think they’re going” in Jessica’s blog. Especially for situations where donations are crucial to help others. I agree that it is unethical that Invisible Children which is an organization to bring awareness about Kony 2012, profited immensely by only spending thirty seven percent of the donations on African-related programs. Moreover, a substantial amount of money received went to marketing and bringing awareness, which was unnecessary considering thousands of articles a day were being posted, and social media played a big part in promotion. Even Kate Costello who is executive director of Governance Matter said “people should question why such a company appeared to spend more on marketing than on programs to help people”. However, many organizations such as the Canadian Cancer Society are also gaining more money, but using less of it towards the main cause, as in 2011, under 22% went towards research and the rest went towards fundraising and administration. However, what people don’t realize is that people will become less reluctant to contribute, and as a result of it will harm organizations who in fact use the donations for their specified purpose. Ultimately, this spiral downfall will affect those victims who are in need of the support.