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First Nations confident courts will stop Kinder Morgan pipeline Lawyers for the federal government are sitting in a Vancouver courtroom this week on opposite sides of seven First Nations who are challenging the federal approval of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion tarsands pipeline and...

Conflict and climate change lead to a rise in global hunger Last year about 11 per cent of the total human population (approximately 850 million people on the planet) suffered from daily hunger, according to a recent United Nations report on the state of food security and nutrition in the...

:lol: Rex Tillerson kind of, sort of just admitted he called Trump a 'moron' (CNN)Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday tried to knock down a report that he had called President Donald Trump a "moron" and considered leaving his post over disagreements with the commander in chief over...

Cost of gun violence: hospital charges for 100,000 shot annually reach $2.8bn More than 100,000 people are shot each year in the US at a total cost of $2.8bn in hospital charges, a study published on Monday has found. If lost wages and hospital charges are considered together, the authors said...

Violence erupts as Catalans vote on split from Spain BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spanish riot police burst into polling stations across Catalonia on Sunday, confiscating ballot boxes and voting papers to try to halt a banned referendum on a split from Spain as Madrid asserted its authority over the...

Don't tell the liberscarians. Universal pharmacare would save Canadians $4.2B a year, parliamentary budget officer says Establishing a universal program for prescription medications would amount to about $4.2 billion in savings annually in Canada, the parliamentary budget officer says in a...

Obama speaks in Toronto: ‘Me and Canada, we just have this thing’ Former U.S. president Barack Obama visited Toronto on Friday to deliver a lunchtime speech about global citizenship. The event was hosted by Ottawa-based think-tank Canada2020. The Obama event at the Metro Toronto Convention...

Just a scoch -- just a weeeee bit late to the party on this one. Evangelicals Urge Trump to Denounce White Supremacists Prominent evangelical Christian groups have signed on to a letter that calls out President Trump for his lack of condemnation of white supremacists, CNN reports. In the...

Hillary Clinton warns Canadians 'democracy is under attack' Hillary Clinton warned Canadians that "democracy is under attack" not just in the United States, but in Canada and around the world, and she told a Toronto audience Thursday night that she will do everything she can to fight against...

Sorry Nazis. Man with swastika tattoo organizing white supremacist rally in Peterborough, Ont. A man with a swastika tattooed on his chest is organizing a white supremacist rally in Peterborough, Ontario on Saturday. Kevin Goudreau, chairman of the group Canadian Nationalist Front, told...

Beaten by both Mulcair and Elizabeth May? Shame. Andrew Scheer has lowest approval among federal party leaders Conservative Andrew Scheer has the lowest approval among the federal party leaders. The Mainstreet-Postmedia survey found 55 per cent of those polled approve of the job Prime...

OECD raises Canada's economic growth outlook, now best in the G7 The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has raised its expectations for economic growth in Canada this year compared with a June forecast. The Paris-based economic think tank says it now expects the Canadian...

Crotchety Theresa May wakes up for a brief moment. UK government threatens retaliation against Boeing in Bombardier tariff row - as it happened The day has been dominated by the ructions following the US decision to slap 219% tariffs on Bombardier, the result of a dispute with rival Boeing...

Another one of Harper's Nazi measures is lynched. Cheers as Trudeau names Mona Nemer as chief scientist Recent grumblings about the Trudeau government's commitment to evidence-based decisions turned into cheers on Tuesday after the long-awaited introduction of Canada's new chief scientist...

Here come the dotards. Ontario, Quebec, and California ink climate-change deal The most powerful sub-national leader in the world says he, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Quebec’s Philippe Couillard are “insurgent forces” in the global fight to curb climate change. California Gov. Jerry...

Trump admits to 'feeling up' Melania in public in newly released tapes US President Donald Trump admitted to feeling up his wife in public and bragged about having sex with “some of the greats in history” in recently released interviews with radio host Howard Stern. Leaked recordings of the...

Nationalism is dead. The Enduring Appeal of Angela Merkel Angela Merkel secured her fourth term as chancellor Sunday after German voters handed her center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU)—and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—the largest share of votes, a...

:lol: Hollywood takes a knee: The best reaction to Donald Trump's attack on NFL player protests Even people who couldn't care less about pro football may be tuning into Sunday's games after President Trump went after NFL players who protest racial injustice by taking a knee during the...

John McCain says he can’t ‘in good conscience’ vote for GOP health bill, leaving it all but dead WASHINGTON—Sen. John McCain declared his opposition Friday to the GOP’s last-ditch effort to repeal and replace “Obamacare,” dealing a likely death blow to the legislation and, perhaps, to the...

Global warming speeds up due to Pacific 'flip' Pacific Decadal Oscillation entered its positive phase amid shattered global heat records After slightly slowing for the past 15 years, global warming is once again rising more quickly due to a decade-long weather pattern that warms and cools the...