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It's almost like the believe in climate change or somefin' Exxon lobbying quietly for a U.S. carbon tax ExxonMobil is quietly lobbying for the U.S. to adopt a carbon tax, both in Washington circles and at the American Petroleum Institute. For years a denier of climate change, the company is...

Trump needs to stop this horrible injustice. We don't need walls, just electrified fences. CIBC bulks up in the U.S. with $4.9B takeover of PrivateBancorp Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce said it would buy Chicago-based PrivateBancorp Inc in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about...

Racist incidents feared to be linked to Brexit result People have been reporting incidents of racism believed to be fuelled by the result of the EU referendum, including alleged racist graffiti and cards reading “no more Polish vermin” posted through letterboxes. Suspected racist graffiti was...

Alberta defends $4.4M summer ad blitz promoting climate change plan EDMONTON -- Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips says a $4.4-million summer advertising blitz to promote the province's climate-change plan is necessary because of its sweeping impact. But opposition politicians say...

Bernie Sanders Says He Will Vote for Hillary Clinton Senator Bernie Sanders said on Friday that he will vote for Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election, offering one more indication that he has given up on his own candidacy. Asked if he would cast his vote for Mrs. Clinton, the...

Since you guys like Andrew Coyne so much. Andrew Coyne: With Brexit vote, Britain has entered a game it cannot win There’s some good news in the Brexit mess: it may yet serve as a horrifying example. Otherwise, the disaster is complete, an act of self-harm unprecedented in an advanced...

How long will Trudeau's luck last? If you’re a federal Liberal, these are the best of times. Continuing what appears to be this country’s longest political honeymoon ever, the Trudeau government just scored a 56 per cent approval rating in the latest Abacus Data poll, a full eight months after...

... woops.. Meet Gary Johnson A popular two-term governor out of New Mexico, Johnson first entered politics in 1994 as part of the Republican Party. But his views have always hinged on libertarian principles of limited government and tax cuts. “My overriding philosophy is the common-sense...

Small business owners deserve to pay - they are all scam artists. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne takes credit for CPP deal Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne took credit Tuesday for the agreement reached by the country's finance ministers to enhance the Canada Pension Plan. It was Ontario's...

Gun control incoming? Forget the presidency, Republicans should worry about losing the House Republicans need to start worrying about losing their majority in the House of Representatives. Republicans accept the conventional wisdom that Hillary Clinton is favored to win the presidency, and...

In Brexit vote, echoes of Trumpism minus Donald Trump WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To U.S. voters who have witnessed the rise of Donald Trump, the campaign urging Britain to abandon the European Union may appear eerily familiar. There’s the nationalism, the romanticized nostalgia for an earlier...

Indeed. Quebec City mayor blasts ‘cretins’ who left severed pig head outside local mosque Quebec City’s mayor denounced whoever left the head of a pig at the doorstep of a local mosque, calling them “cretins.” “In a society you have cretins, and in this case, there were two or three...

Fries with that, Mr. Trudeau? PM stops in for surprise McDonald's lunch Who knew the day shift at McDonald's could be so exciting? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a pit stop for lunch Saturday at the Whitby Mall McDonald's, about 45 minutes east of downtown Toronto. The unannounced visit...

Makes sense. Ontario Will Halt Provincial Pension Plan If CPP Deal Reached Premier Kathleen Wynne is signalling she’s willing to abandon her proposal to create a provincial pension plan if a meeting on Monday leads to a deal on improvements to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). The federal and...

Oil Sands Workers Fear Becoming Climate Change Casualties Ken Smith is one frustrated oil sands labour leader. The giant wildfire that forced Fort McMurray's evacuation came as the Unifor Local 707A president was in the middle of contract negotiations, fighting to save bitumen mining jobs...

Liberals Had Google Wipe Out Dozens Of Harper-Related Search Results OTTAWA — The Liberal government has had dozens of web pages from Stephen Harper’s days as prime minister deleted from Google search results. The Privy Council Office requests for deletion from Google began last Nov. 4, the...

Funny.. What happened to Sasquatchewan? Canadian Economic Forecast Sees Ontario, B.C. Leading The Way Through 2017 OTTAWA — The Conference Board of Canada is predicting Ontario and British Columbia will lead other provinces in terms of economic growth between now and the end of 2017. A...

Yet terrorism is more important. Pipeline leak fouls creek near grizzly bear protection area in northwestern Alberta A pipeline leak has spilled 380,000 litres of light petroleum within five kilometres of a provincially designated grizzly bear zone in northwestern Alberta, with some of it...

#it'sprobablynothing #let'swastemoretimetalkingaboutterrorisminstead Australian rodent named the 1st mammal to go extinct due to human-caused climate change An Australian rodent found only on a tiny island on the Great Barrier Reef has been declared extinct. Scientists say it's the first...

Real leadership. Canadian MP Decides to Fast for Ramadan, Receives Praise Worldwide Holland is the Liberal Party’s representative in the district of Ajax, Ontario. He served from 2006 to 2011 and was reelected in 2015. In his address to the House of Commons last week, Holland stated: “Mr...