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As Europe wobbles, will we lean back toward the States?

Troubled times abroad may push Canada into old patterns, columnist muses.

Canadian rock band hopes to sell off Tea Party web domain for $1 million

Remember The Tea Party? The Canadian rock band, which rose to fame during the mid-90s, is mulling over selling its website domain to the  right-wing U.S. political movement of the same name....

Ottawa tells US to back off tax attack on Canadians

US is sowing distress and fear among dual citizens who have innocently failed to file a U.S. return and owe no taxes, finance minister says.

BC green economy creates more jobs than oil sands

Readers of our recent “Big Grab” series on the oil sands might have noticed an interesting pair of statistics concerning jobs in Canada...

Autumn is the season of political extremism

Exactly a week after Rob Ford’s conservative landslide in Toronto, Americans are heading to the polls poised to shift Congress sharply to the right.