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Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly speaks with reporters at the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. File photo by The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

Canada mulling 'game plan' if U.S. takes shift to the far-right: Joly

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada has been considering a "game plan" for how it would respond if the United States takes a far-right, authoritarian shift after next year's presidential elections.

By Dylan Robertson | News, US News, Politics | August 18th 2023

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with people as protesters shout at him in Belleville, Ont., on Thursday, July 20, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg

Canada’s conservative rage farmers get a taste of their own crop

Prominent conservative pundits who have spent years farming rage against the prime minister seem genuinely surprised by the latest ugly outburst against him, writes columnist Max Fawcett. Who knew that reaping what you’ve sown could be so much trouble?

Opinion

By Max Fawcett | Opinion, Politics | July 26th 2023

President Donald Trump, centre, looks over at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's document as they and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto sign the new USMCA in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Nov. 30, 2018. File photo by The Associated Press/Martin Mejia

Ottawa urged to back U.S., not TC Energy, in lawsuit over demise of Keystone XL

A progressive public policy think tank is urging the federal government to side against oil and gas transmission giant TC Energy in its ongoing dispute with the United States over the ill-fated Keystone XL project.

By James McCarten | News, US News, Politics | June 28th 2023

Is Alberta's wild ride with Danielle Smith as premier coming to an end on Monday — or just getting started? Photo by Government of Alberta / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Just how much crazy can Alberta take? We’re about to find out

Danielle Smith's history of ill-advised and outright offensive comments hasn't sunk her campaign — just like Donald Trump. Are Albertans really willing to sign up for four more years of that? asks columnist Max Fawcett.

Opinion

By Max Fawcett | Opinion, Politics | May 25th 2023

Former President Donald Trump appears in court for his arraignment, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York. File photo by The Associated Press/Andrew Kelly-Pool Photo via AP

Trump pleads not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records

Donald Trump relaunched his 2024 campaign on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, just hours after becoming the first former U.S. president to confront felony charges in what prosecutors allege was a hush-money scheme to protect his reputation before the 2016 election.

By James McCarten | News, US News, Politics | April 5th 2023

Illustration by Ata Ojani for Canada's National Observer

The thin green line — where disinformation meets greenwashing

For nearly 50 years, the push to discredit climate science and transform responses to the crisis into a political hot potato has successfully delayed policies to reduce oil and gas production and greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate of denial

By Marc Fawcett-Atkinson | News, Climate Solutions Reporting | February 21st 2023

David Malpass, president of the World Bank, at an IMF/World Bank development committee meeting in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 14, 2022. Photo: World Bank / Grant Ellis via World Bank Photo Collection / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

By Gerald Kutney | Opinion, Politics | January 16th 2023

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with U.S. President Joe Biden at the Summit of the Americas, in Los Angeles, Calif., on June 9, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Trudeau and Biden meet as North American summit in Mexico begins

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden are meeting face to face this morning as the North American Leaders' Summit begins in earnest.

By James McCarten | News, US News, Politics | January 10th 2023

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Canada mulling 'game plan' if U.S. takes shift to the far-right: Joly

Canada’s conservative rage farmers get a taste of their own crop

Ottawa urged to back U.S., not TC Energy, in lawsuit over demise of Keystone XL

Just how much crazy can Alberta take? We’re about to find out

Trump pleads not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records

The thin green line — where disinformation meets greenwashing

World Bank head resigns months after dodging climate question

Ex-Reform leader Preston Manning to chair Alberta's COVID response review

Will a climate denier be our next PM?

Trudeau and Biden meet as North American summit in Mexico begins

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