Times Colonist: Hopefully, it was good manners rather than weakening resolve, but for whatever reason U.S. President Barack Obama didn’t offer green-minded Canadians the ringing reassurances some were looking for last week. The agreement between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Obama to jointly pursue clean technologies — carbon capture and storage, a so-called smart electric grid, other unspecified techno-fixes — sounds innocuous, if not positive. But on closer examination, it looks like …