Tag: Canada
Economist discusses jobs lost -- or delayed -- by denial of Keystone XL pipeline permit
When President Barack Obama on Wednesday rejected plans to build the Keystone XL pipeline, Republicans bashed him for throwing away American jobs. An economist says the project would have created tens of thousands — though they would have been temporary....
Obama administration rejects permit for Keystone XL Pipeline
After months of legal and political wrangling, the Obama administration on Wednesday rejected TransCanada's application to build the Keystone XL pipeline through the United States. Republican immediately criticized the decision....
LGBT activists outraged by Canadian flip-flop on same sex marriages
In Canada, same-sex marriage was legalized in 2005. But now, government lawyers seem to be backing away from part of that, by saying that people who were married in Canada but normally live in a place where gay marriage is not legal are not married under Canadian law either. Activists are outraged....
VIDEO: Prosecutors charge man with hate crime in brutal beating caught on camera
Shawn Macdonald is accused of a racially motivated attack on Papi Ngoqo, a Black Vancouver man from South Africa. The attack happened in 2008, but charges — and the racial angle — are just now being brought....
VIDEO: Pacific Northwest preparing for millions of tons of Japanese tsunami debris
In coastal communities from California to Alaska, communities are bracing for a monumental clean-up task. A debris field perhaps the size of California is bringing materials from Japan's earthquake and tsunami ravaged areas across the Pacific Ocean, with some items already making landfall....
'Santa's neighbors' make a home out of one of the most remote places on earth
Amidst the arctic foxes and caribou, a small Canadian military outpost, CFS Alert, is the permanent home of about 70 people. Living there year round, it's the permanent community closest to the North Pole....
VIDEO: Canadian scientists get go-ahead for HIV vaccine testing
Canadian scientists are beaming as the country's first attempt at an HIV vaccine moves out of the lab and into early clinical trials. But it will be years before they know if the vaccine will be effective....
VIDEO: U.S., Canada reach landmark agreement on tighter border coordination
Late Wednesday, American and Canadian officials rolled out a broad, new plan to tighten cooperation on border movements and make it easier for people and companies on both sides of the border to do business in and visit the other....
Nickelback halftime performance stirs up controversy, petition in Detroit
At halftime of the Detroit Lions football game on Thursday, Nickelback will perform. The performance is set to launch their latest album, Here and Now. But the Canadian band's inclusion has sparked some controversy....
VIDEO: U.S. and allies levy new, stricter sanctions on Iran
The United States was joined by two of its closest allies in imposing a new round of financial sanctions on the Iranian banking system, seeking to up the pressure on Iran as it continues what the west says is its pursuit of nuclear weapons....
