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Disclosure: No beliefs were forcibly removed from these lands. Non-belief is the fastest growing category of belief; Islamists are worried Fifty years ago, after the cracking of the genetic code, Francis Crick was so confident religion would fade that he offered a prize for the best future...

Neil Young Says 'Canada Is Back,' Praises Carbon Tax VANCOUVER — Music icon Neil Young has declared that "Canada is back" now that a Liberal government has taken charge in Ottawa. "I'm very happy,'' said the 70-year-old Canadian who has lived in California for years. The singer-songwriter was...

Ontario climate change ‘master plan’ to be released this week Ontario’s environment minister says the province’s “master plan” to fight climate change will be released this week. Glen Murray says the “conceptual” climate change strategy will be the long view of how Ontario plans to meet its...

Justin Trudeau, premiers seek to unify Canada's message on climate change With a first ministers meeting set to take place in Ottawa today just one week before the start of the Paris climate talks, a number of premiers are reminding Justin Trudeau he's not swooping in at the 11th hour to save...

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In a week when the terrorist attacks in Paris dominated the news, Harvard psychology professor Steven A. Pinker’s remarks Thursday may have surprised some of his listeners. Violence, he said, has been declining continuously over the course of human history and will continue to fall in the...

Truth bombs are being dropped The strategic value of compassion: Welcoming refugees is devastating to IS The fact is that the refugee crisis hurts IS badly. The compassionate response of many Western nations toward refugees undercuts the so-called caliphate in three key ways: money, men and...

Alberta is growing up. Alberta to release climate change policy at Edmonton science centre EDMONTON - Alberta is set to unveil its long-awaited climate change policy today. The announcement comes 24 hours before Premier Rachel Notley is scheduled to discuss the plan with the federal...

'I have never felt so patriotic as a Canadian as I am today,' John McCallum says Immigration Minister John McCallum stands with a group of recent Syrian refugees in Toronto on Friday night. Provincial support exceeds Canada's Syrian refugee target: immigration minister Premiers across the...

TransCanada pulls Keystone pipeline route application from Nebraska TransCanada has announced it is withdrawing a route application to put the Keystone XL pipeline through the state of Nebraska. In a statement, the company said it is pulling the application, filed in October with the Nebraska...

81% of Isis-linked suspects charged in US are American citizens None of the Isis-linked suspects who have ever been charged in the United States came from Syria and the overwhelming majority were born in the US, research reveals. Sixty-eight people have been indicted because of alleged...

Harper loyalists have been denounced. Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose taps women for top shadow cabinet jobs Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose is stacking her shadow cabinet with a healthy dose of seasoned veterans and a smattering of new faces as the party positions itself...

Alberta NDP gov't will make discrimination against transgender people illegal The Alberta government has unveiled a bill to prohibit discrimination against transgender people. Bill 7 would amend the Alberta Human Rights Act to make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of gender identity...

Maybe they just forgot to carry the one.. Fiscal update erases projected surplus, as government books now expect $3B budget deficit The new Liberal government has gone over the books and says it is likely inheriting lots of red ink. The last Conservative budget forecasted a $2.3-billion...

Oil below $40, Canadian dollar under 75 cents Oil fell below $40 for the first time since August on Wednesday, dragging the Canadian dollar lower. U.S. data from the Energy Information Administration showed crude stocks in storage at an 80-year high. West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark...

How Big Are Fossil Fuel Subsidies? Let’s Make it Clear More transparent reporting can make us aware of the extent of these subsidies, who pays for them and which companies benefit, and make it more likely that we all will call for a change. In 2013 the Organization for Economic Co-operation...

A logical conclusion to a logical response. Expect crickets from the usual fear mongerers. Paris attacks mastermind confirmed dead in St-Denis The presumed mastermind of the Paris attacks that killed 129 people on Friday was killed in a shootout on Wednesday, the French prosecutor has...

TransUnion says ripple effect of oil price slump seeing more consumers struggling to make payments Debt delinquencies rise in Alberta, bucking national trend Credit and loan delinquencies are starting to pile up in Alberta as consumers cope with the ripple effects of the collapse in the price...

Senator John Wallace quits Conservative caucus New Brunswick Senator John Wallace has resigned from the federal Conservative caucus, citing the idea that the appointed upper chamber is supposed to operate independently. Wallace, appointed to the Senate in 2008 by then Prime Minister Stephen...

Just the jabs that cap'n and petey belong to. 96 per cent of Canadian economy no less competitive under carbon pricing OTTAWA — Canadians may have been told that carbon pricing is a “job-killing tax on everything,” but a new study finds the impact rather underwhelming. The latest report from...