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The Southeast Is Burning: Wildfires Feast on Hot, Dry Region A tinder-dry Southeast, baked by abnormally high temperatures and mired in drought, has burst into a series of deadly and destructive wildfires, including a recent one that has already killed at least three people near Gatlinburg...

It's time to accept the truth: Canada > America America is about to build a wall so Canada opens its doors to Mexicans Donald Trump entering the White House is only likely to spell bad news for Mexicans in the US or hoping to re-locate to America. Trump is still vowing to build a wall...

Higher oil prices + China Demand = Happy Trudeau OPEC agrees to cut output to push up oil price OPEC has agreed to cut its oil production for the first time in eight years, ending a strategy of high supply that had aimed to cripple the U.S. energy industry but also led to decade-low prices...

Over 2,000 scientists urge Trump to respect ‘scientific integrity and independence’ Call it the opening shot in a brewing war over scientific integrity in the future Trump administration. More than 2,300 scientists, including 22 Nobel Prize winners, have issued an open letter to...

Thanks Obama. GDP crushes estimates, thanks to consumer spending USA America American flagPhil Cole/Getty Images The US economy grew by 3.2% in the third quarter - better than expected and initially reported - according to the second estimate of gross domestic product, released Tuesday...

Yes, it sounds exactly like Locutus and the Salt-Right In today’s world, the truth is losing Stengel poses an urgent question for journalists, technologists and, more broadly, everyone living in free societies or aspiring to do so. How do we protect the essential resource of democracy — the...

Sask. gov't implements hiring freeze as deficit grows A hiring freeze has been implemented as the Saskatchewan government tries to deal with a mounting deficit. The mid-year budget update released by Finance Minister Kevin Doherty on Tuesday shows a $400-million drop in revenue has pushed the...

“Ontario, at less than 40 per cent (debt-to-GDP), is absolutely not in that kind of trouble.” Economists have not established an ideal debt-to-GDP number, but economically troubled Greece, in contrast to Ontario, has a ratio around 175 per cent. According to Block, there is also continued...

Liberals/NDP win next elections confirmed. Trudeau cabinet approves Trans Mountain, Line 3 pipelines, rejects Northern Gateway Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet colleagues signed off on two major pipelines today, projects that will pump nearly a million more barrels of oil a day...

We need to stop them now until we figure out what the hell is going on. High levels of sexual assault among Canadian military members: survey Nearly 1,000 members of the military told Statistics Canada surveyors they had been sexually assaulted within the previous 12 months in a study that...

Norway's $860 Billion Fund Drops 52 Companies Linked to Coal Impacts companies with more than 30% activity, sales in coal Says further exclusions due to coal exposure to follow in 2016 Norway’s $860 billion sovereign wealth fund unveiled the first list of miners and power producers to be...

Hitler. Trump attacks CNN over reporting on false voter fraud claims President-elect Donald Trump fired off a series of tweets late Monday and early Tuesday criticizing CNN for reporting that his claims about voter fraud are baseless -- which they are. Shortly after 9 p.m., Trump began...

This is a steal for such an excellent service!!! CBC/Radio Canada asks for $400M in increased government funding to go ad-free CBC/Radio Canada has submitted a position paper to the federal government proposing the public broadcaster move to an ad-free model, similar to the one used to pay...

Excellent documentary about the rise of populist movements in Britain since WW1 and how - surprise, surprise - they've always been a front for racism.

Premier Brad Wall faces barrage of questions about land scandal Long-time Saskatchewan political columnist Murray Mandryk says ordinarily Premier Brad Wall loves talking to reporters so much that "quite often we can't bloody well get his scrums to end." Yet during this session of the...

Trudeau defends comments after the death of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the former Cuban president Fidel Castro was a dictator, but that does not mean it was inappropriate to acknowledge his achievements at the time of his...

CNN/ORC poll: A nation divided, and is it ever (CNN)After a bruising presidential election featuring the two least liked major-party candidates in recent history, more than 8-in-10 Americans say the country is more deeply divided on major issues this year than in the past several years...

If you love Canada, ignore Kellie Leitch Long before Donald Trump, long before Kellie Leitch, there was Pauline Hanson. Back in 1996, the odious Australian gave one of the most divisive speeches in that country’s history when she made her parliamentary debut. Thousands took to the streets in...

Won't somebody think about the poor rustbelters in Canada? Where's our golden saviour? We're ready for killing off of coal: SaskPower CEO Nova Scotia was the only province to be exempt from Ottawa's plan to phase coal out by 2030. According to Mike Marsh, president and CEO of SaskPower, his...

Keystone XL no longer crucial for Canada's oil exports, says natural resources minister The prospect of the Keystone XL pipeline being approved by the incoming Trump administration will have little effect on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's plans to get Canada's oil to market. Federal Natural...