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Today’s letters: Mr. Mulcair goes to Washington
Re: Mulcair Likes Oil Sands Except When He Doesn’t, Matt Gurney, March 13. So Thomas Mulcair says he wants to take care of “Canada’s energy security” and get “a better price” for Canadians by keeping...
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Today’s letters: Was Iraq a ‘War in Error’?
Re: Told You So, John Moore, March 19. John Moore agrees in principle about removing Saddam Hussein, but asks, “At what cost?” He holds up North Korea as a regime still in existence that we would be...
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Kelly McParland: Why the Obamacare debacle could be fatal to Keystone
If the Keystone XL pipeline project ultimately fails to win approval from Washington, it may be Obamacare that kills it. Until recently it was possible to remain optimistic about the $5.4 billion...
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Charles Krauthammer: Feckless Obama gives Canada the back of his hand
Fixated as we Americans are on Canada’s three most attention-getting exports — polar vortexes, Alberta clippers and the antics of Toronto’s addled mayor — we’ve somewhat overlooked a major feature of...
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Kelly McParland: The surge in rail accidents shifts Keystone debate from...
Big Environment is getting a lesson in the law of unintended consequences thanks to its campaign to demonize the product that heats homes and fuels cars. The movement’s determination to block approval...
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‘He’s exaggerating': Natural resources minister dismisses oil sands criticism...
A retired NASA scientist is exaggerating when he claims Canada’s oil sands development is an environmental scourge, federal natural resources minister Joe Oliver said on Wednesday. “It does not advance...
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Tories slam ‘fallacy of NDP economics’ as Muclair accuses Oliver of going to...
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair accused the Conservative Natural Resources Minister of travelling to Washington, D.C., just to insult U.S. scientists as MPs debated the the potential impact of the Keystone...
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Sorry, but would you like to buy our oil? Canada ad blitz hits Washington, D.C.
In an apparent bid to woo support for the Keystone XL pipeline, the Government of Canada has laid claim to two of the busiest metro stations in Washington, D.C. National PostAn ad in the Washington,...
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Keystone XL pipeline protesters tie themselves to White House fence as police...
Police arrested dozens of young people protesting the Keystone XL project on Sunday, as demonstrators fastened themselves with plastic ties to the White House fences and called for U.S. President...
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How Keystone XL soured the ‘special relationship’ between Stephen Harper and...
On Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, seated in his Ottawa office across from Parliament Hill, took an urgent call from U.S. President Barack Obama. Mr. Harper’s advisors...
View ArticleIn an abrupt shift, Senate majority leader opens door to a congressional vote...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in an abrupt election-year shift in strategy, opened the possibility on Tuesday of allowing a vote on congressional approval of the long-delayed Keystone XL oil...
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Josh Voorhees: Dark days are just beginning for U.S. Big Green
The environment took a beating on Election Day, but what happens next could be even more painful for green groups and their climate-conscious allies. Republicans, who will control both chambers of...
View ArticleGary Clement on the Keystone XL pipeline
RelatedA full archive of Gary Clement's comicsKelly McParland: Canadians finally figure out why Americans have given up on ObamaA ‘pure fabrication’: TransCanada CEO fuels war of words over Obama’s...
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John Ivison: In Canada, even a pipeline project supported by the NDP is not...
The response of the environmental movement to the 2012 federal budget was apocalyptic. “The Harper budget: Assault on the environment for Big Oil profits,” screamed the Sierra Club. The suggestion was...
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Obama vetoes Keystone XL bill, throwing pipeline’s fate back into regulatory...
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday vetoed legislation that would have forced approval of the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline and cut short the regulatory review. His veto...
View ArticleSticky precedent? Keystone XL rejection could be sign of more trouble to come...
In the fall of 2009, not long after a group of Greenpeace protesters invaded a Shell site in northern Alberta, Edward Maibach gave an interview on the state of the oilsands in the American mind....
View ArticleJohn Ivison: A method in Trudeau’s pipeline madness
There is a school of thought in the country that Alberta’s crude industry should be shut down, leaving Canada to embark on a future beyond oil. Justin Trudeau does not subscribe to that impractical...
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Trump says Keystone XL decision coming soon — one year after Obama banned the...
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has suggested he’ll move quickly on Keystone XL after taking office, with the incoming president expected to reverse his predecessor’s ban on the Alberta-to-Texas oil...
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Hundreds protest outside White House against Trump’s approval of the Keystone...
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of people gathered at the White House for an anti-pipeline protest Tuesday that hints at an aggressive upcoming challenge against the Keystone XL pipeline, despite its support...
View ArticleTransCanada applies for presidential approval of Keystone XL pipeline
The project has rapidly regained momentum after Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this week to move ahead with the US$7B proposal
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