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Promising solution to plastic pollution or many people, “plastic” is a one-word analog for environmental disaster. It is made from precious petroleum, after all, and once discarded in landfills and oceans, it takes centuries to degrade. Then came apparent salvation: “bioplastics,” durable...

It's game over for the Keystone pipeline A vote in the Senate should be the beginning of the end for this dangerous, climate change-generating project. Even conservative estimates don't add up One month ago, more than 100 North American climate scientists and I warned President Obama and...

Fox News used footage of random sad Asians instead of actual Koreans mourning the ferry One sad Asian is as good as the next it seems. At least according to Fox News. In this clip about the tragic sinking of the Sewol ferry in South Korea, from a few weeks ago, Fox appears to have swapped in...

White House to unveil dire climate warning in new report WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will release an updated report on Tuesday showing how climate change touches every part of the country, as the administration seeks to convince the American public on the need for a...

GOP Candidate Pulls A Gun, Pledges To 'Unload' On Obamacare In Ad Nothing is more conservative than guns and hating Obamacare, which might explain why multiple congressional candidates have now combined them in one of their campaign ads. First was Will Brooke in Alabama. Now Iowa state Sen...

USU study links California drought, polar vortex to climate change A Utah State University study has found a link between climate change and two of the biggest extreme weather events that have played out in the first half of the year — the California drought and the polar vortex. The new study...

Outlook for Canada’s job market — and economy as a whole — still far from certain The latest pieces of Canada’s economic puzzle will fall into place this week — but the big picture may look only slightly better than in past months. While a surprisingly big surge in the U.S. employment in April...

Billions invested into Alberta's economic development with complete lack of regard for the rest of the country. Ontario calls on Ottawa to match its support for Ring of Fire The Ontario government has pledged $1-billion to build a road link to the remote resource-rich Ring of Fire region in...

Post thoughts about the upcoming election here. What do you think of the outcome of the Liberal budget? Did the NDP make the right move? Where do we go from here? Who should win and why?

Ontario NDP drops in EKOS Poll Hot off the wires following the release of the Ontario budget yesterday is a poll by EKOS Research that might give Andrea Horwath pause as she considers whether or not to send Ontarians to the polls this spring. The poll by EKOS Research for iPolitics gives the...

Some good points made all around about the complexity of what they are trying to capture along with projections for the next 100 years. Gavin Schmidt: The emergent patterns of climate change - YouTube

Justin Trudeau’s Liberals closing in fast on Conservatives’ champion fundraising status OTTAWA — Stephen Harper’s Conservative party is hanging on to the title of champion federal fundraiser but Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are closing in fast. Fundraising reports for the first quarter of 2014...

Ontario Liberals plan to hike taxes on high incomes, tobacco and aviation fuel: document TORONTO — The Ontario budget will increase taxes on high income earners, tobacco and aviation fuel, according to a document obtained from a source outside the Liberal government. What is said to be a 2014...

Rob Ford promises to raise property taxes to pay for more subway lines Mayor Rob Ford finally told voters how he would pay for more subway lines in Toronto: he would raise property taxes. Mr. Ford has been campaigning for re-election on a pledge to extend the Sheppard subway, to build a subway...

Telecoms refuse to release information on private data given to feds Canada's privacy commissioner says telecom companies are refusing to tell her office how many times they have handed over personal customer information to the federal government without a warrant. Chantal Bernier, the interim...

Canada's Debt to GDP now higher than Germany's Canada recorded a Government Debt to GDP of 89.10 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2013. Government Debt To GDP in Canada is reported by the Department of Finance Canada. Government Debt To GDP in Canada averaged 83.50 Percent...

China to overtake US economy; India trumps Japan China is set to overtake the U.S. as the world's number one economy, while India has jumped into third place ahead of Japan, according to a new study from the world's leading statistical agencies. The 2011 International Comparison Program (ICP)...

Aid group accused of Hamas ties put on 'terrorist' list, raided In a letter to the International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy, the RCMP said the federal government had added the group to a list of "terrorist entities" as of April 24. "IRFAN is now classified as a 'terrorist group'...

The Year Climate Change Closed Everest NASA/GSFC/Kimberly Casey The deadly avalanche on Everest earlier this month wasn't technically an avalanche. It was an "ice release"???a collapse of a glacial mass known as a serac. Rather than getting swept up by a rush of powdery snow across a slope, the...

Green Party’s Elizabeth May calls PMO staff ‘ruthless psychopaths’ Mike Duffy infamously referred to staff in the Prime Minister’s Office as “kids in short pants,” but Elizabeth May appears to have done the embattled senator one better. Speaking at a town hall in Nanaimo, B.C. on April 13, the...