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U.S. President Barack Obama. Photo by Pete Souza, White House

Obama puts Harper to shame

The Clean Power Plan that U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled Monday puts Americans on track to greatly reducing carbon dioxide emissions — and puts Canada to shame.

How Harper's disastrous diplomacy crushed Keystone XL

President Obama's veto of the Keystone XL pipeline bill is nothing less than a devastating indictment of Stephen Harper's foreign policy. 

Harper featured in anti-Keystone XL ad to air during Obama State of the Union speech (UPDATED)

A slick anti-tar-sands-oil TV ad will pump Prime Minister Stephen Harper as a dirty dealer with China for pushing a pipeline that’s bad for American interests. “It’s a sucker punch to America’s...

Fresh leaks show U.S. bullying in the TPP is intensifying

New TPP leaks show just how far the U.S. is willing to go to ram through their Internet Censorship Plan

Inequality for All warns that capitalism is malfunctioning

Robert Reich speaks dynamically in two new documentaries this week, about the rich, the poor and the shrinking middle class.

Top five ways lobbyists win and you lose with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

"The Internet was created to share information, not suppress it!" says OpenMedia community member Michelle Vee.

We've never seen anything like it

Canadians are speaking up in their tens of thousands against extreme U.S.-driven Internet Censorship proposals in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Obama's climate hawk: John Kerry and the decision on Keystone XL

New U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry holds the power to decide if the controversial Keystone XL pipeline will go ahead or not. Given his track record, environmentalists have reason to hope that the...

Oil sands future hangs in the balance as thousands rally on Sunday against Keystone XL this weekend in Washington

Organizers hope the gathering will be large enough to create a movement

A logic lesson from the gun debate

A couple of days ago, I was walking my dog when a good friend of mine texted me that he had just seen a story on CNN about professor James Tracy and his theory that the Sandy Hook massacre never...