In the U.S. South, the fight against a Canadian pipeline unites Tea Partiers and the environmental left
From Talking Points Memo , an interesting piece on the strange bedfellows brought together by opposition to the Keystone Pipeline:
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The art of a senator and a 60th birthday bash
The recipe for billion-dollar decisions The folks in Finance Minister Jim Flaherty ’s office are starting the late nights to...
Ted Menzies turns 60
A surprise 60 birthday party was held for Ted Menzies, minister of state for finance, at Ottawa’s hip restaurant Play.
Bobby and Chris Brown: Why we can’t forgive their violent pasts
Did the Grammys really need to celebrate a man guilty of the same crime that ruined Whitney Houston’s life?
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Zoran Milich takes his camera to the streets of Rio during Carnaval
Robocall fallout haunts Tories
Allegations of electoral hijinks and possible fraud dogged Conservatives Thursday even as the party tried to distance itself from...
Military sent fishing for dirt on MacKay’s critics
It wasn’t a great fall for Defence Minister Peter MacKay. The rugby-playing Nova Scotian spent much of his autumn fighting off...
Lav-3s, the workhorse of Canada’s Afghan war, used to crush dissent in Bahrain
Canadian Lav-3s, military transports made famous in the Afghan war, have been sold en mass to the Saudi military, which used them...
A vision of Vancouver’s pay-to-drive future
Road tolls, carbon taxes and a smorgasbord of new fees are all being considered to help pay for mass transit in greater...
The river that runs under the Chuck Norris Bridge is made from the tears of the men he’s humiliated
Presented with little comment, a plan to name a major new bridge near the capital of Slovakia after 80s action star and tired meme...