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Justin Trudeau says wealthy families don’t need the Conservative government’s enhanced universal child care benefit and, to underscore the point, he’s giving his own family’s windfall to charity.

New evidence proves the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline presents a grave threat to the City of Vancouver’s health, economy and environment, said Mayor Gregor Robertson.

With record low oil prices and President Obama signalling he will veto a republican push for the Keystone XL pipeline, the sun could be setting on Canada’s energy export prospects.

In the U.S. Senate Tuesday evening, supporters of the Keystone XL oil pipeline failed by a single vote to pass a bill approving the project. The controversial pipeline is intended to link the Alberta oil sands in Canada with Gulf of Mexico refineries and distribution centers in the U.S.

An avalanche of bad news has engulfed the world—murder in the skies over Ukraine, renewed war between Israel and Hamas, and a terrorist resurgence in Iraq. Amid the global chaos, one positive development got little attention—a development that could help advance peace between India and Pakistan, improve chances for reconciliation in Afghanistan, undermine energy blackmail by Russia, and keep economic pressure on Iran while nuclear negotiations continue. On July 8, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India signed an agreement in Ashgabat to move forward with a 1,078-mile natural gas pipeline. This $7.5 billion project known as TAPI, or the Trans-Afghan Pipeline Initiative, has the potential to catalyze investment and trading opportunities in a region sorely in need of both by bringing gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan and Pakistan into India.

Federal approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline has set the stage for a showdown between the Conservative government and some of its fiercest critics.

The federal cabinet’s approval of the Northern Gateway oil sands pipeline is a decision that could define our times. We are witnessing the final stages of a protracted wrestling match between our future and our past.