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In Canada’s election, Keystone’s not the only controversial pipeline
In a debate on foreign policy late last month, each of Canada’s would-be prime ministers parried over the Obama administration’s long-delayed decision not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. Both of...
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Why a Liberal-NDP coalition in Canada feels inevitable
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau partipicate in a March 2014 forum. (Jean Levac / Ottawa Citizen) Roughly speaking, there are three plausible outcomes from tonight’s Canadian...
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A region-by-region guide to Canada’s election
Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who declined to run for reelection last year, showed up at an Etobicoke rally for prime minister Stephen Harper last week. (CBC) One of the reasons why it’s so hard to...
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Live-blogging Canada’s election results
Will Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party win a majority government or a minority government? Will prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives emerge with the largest number of seats? How far could...
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Nine things to watch as Canada’s next Trudeau era begins
Defying expectations in August that pitted the Liberal Party in third place at the beginning of the election campaign in August, Justin Trudeau has now won a clear majority government and a mandate...
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Harper’s legacy is the birth of a modern 21st century Canadian conservatism
Outgoing prime minister Stephen Harper is the only leader that Canada’s modern Conservative Party has ever known. (Facebook) Next week, for the first time since 2002, Stephen Harper will neither be...
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Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall is Canada’s unofficial opposition leader
Brad Wall, Saskatchewan’s premier, is likely to win a third term in office on Monday. (Facebook) He’s bespectacled, he’s boring and he certainly fits a stereotype of a practical prairie square,...
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Manitoba gives Canadian conservatives power in 2nd province
Brian Pallister, a former legislator in the House of Commons, will be the first conservative premier of Manitoba since 1999. (Facebook) No one will remember Brian Pallister’s nearly decade-long career...
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Anti-Russia, pro-trade former journalist Freeland is Canada’s new foreign...
Chrystia Freeland transitioned only four years ago from journalism to politics, but she’s now Canada’s top diplomat. (Facebook) If there’s a polite Canadian way to let Donald Trump just what Canada’s...
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As O’Leary exits race, Canadian Tories focus on a more conventional...
Kevin O’Leary (right) dropped out of the Conservative leadership race last week, but his endorsement of former minister Maxime Bernier (left) doesn’t guarantee Bernier’s victory. (Facebook) It turns...
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