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Why the Battle Over Canada's Tar Sands Is an American Issue

Asher Miller, Post Carbon Institute. February 3, 2012.

For starters, the energy and environmental impacts of tar sands production are not limited to within the borders of Canada. But the trouble doesn't end there.

How Canada's Become a Home for Some of the Biggest Fracking Projects

Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica. December 30, 2011.

As furious debate over fracking continues in the United States, it is instructive to look at how a similar gas boom is unfolding for our neighbor to the north.

How a Lawsuit Could Turn Canada's First Nations' Relationship With Government Upside Down

Carmelle Wolfson, This Magazine. December 6, 2011.

After decades of abuse and neglect by the government, justice may be on the way for the Grassy Narrows community.

Around the World In Five Revolutions: One Reporter's Journey Through the Year's Protests In the Middle East, London, Athens, New York and Toronto

Jesse Rosenfeld, AlterNet. November 9, 2011.

A reporter talks to protesters around the world, from the Arab Spring to the New York Fall.

Indigenous Canadians Fight for the Tar Sands

YES! MagazineNovember 4, 2011.

Indigenous activist Clayton Thomas-Müller on the moral imperative to preserve Alberta's beauty for future generations.

Is There a Place for Atheists in Alcoholics Anonymous?

Jesse Beach, The Fix. June 14, 2011.

A long-simmering feud is spreading around the world, after one AA establishment voted to expel two atheist/agnostic groups in Canada.

Is There Such a Thing as 'Ethical Oil'? Canada Claims it Has Lots and the US Is Buying It

Jason Mark, Earth Island Journal. April 8, 2011.

Underlying the tar sands debate is a more profound question: Is it OK for some people to suffer as long as many others benefit?

Kochs Profit from Canadian Eco-Nightmare

Geoff Dembicki, The Tyee. March 22, 2011.

Koch Industries processes one in four barrels of U.S.-bound Alberta tar sand, while pumping millions of dollars into highly conservative, anti-green causes.

Vision: The Idea That Drug Addicts Should Be Treated, Not Locked Up, Is Making Waves

Katie Hyslop, Megaphone Magazine. December 29, 2010.

The U.S. and Canada are making significant strides towards mainstreaming harm reduction, but there are still walls to knock down.

What Happened When I Decided to Live Out My Ultimate Escape Fantasy

Dick Anderson, Psychotherapy Networker. September 4, 2010.

At 56, the author decided to ditch his city life and go into the wild.

G20 Protests Put the Pressure on Canada's Dirty Industries

Ron Johnson, Earth Island Journal. June 26, 2010.

Climate and environmental justice movements aired their grievances in anticipation of this weekend’s G20 summit.

The Obama Administration Will Put a Child Soldier On Trial at Gitmo This Summer

Willam Fisher, IPS News. June 2, 2010.

Omar Khadr, who has spent his entire adult life at Guantanamo, was threatened with rape by U.S. interrogators upon his capture more than seven years ago.

Canadian Academics Under Fire For Opposing Scholarship Program For Children of "Heroes" Who Died In War

Jasmin Ramsey, AlterNet. April 8, 2010.

Fifteen university professors have written a letter calling Canada's "Project Hero" scholarship "a dangerous cultural turn" that associates "heroism" with military intervention.

Group Behind Uganda's "Kill the Gays" Bill Expanding Effort in North America

Bruce Wilson, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. December 9, 2009.

Effort Tied To Rick Warren's Doctoral Advisor Organizing in Uganda's Parliament

The Tar Sands Suck

Staff, Agit-Pop AlterNet: Video. December 2, 2009.

The Canadian Tar Sands is the world's largest, and dirtiest, energy project. Totally lame.

The Most Urgent Threat to World Peace Is Canada

The Most Urgent Threat to World Peace Is Canada

George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. December 2, 2009.

The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.

Amy Goodman Detained at Canadian Border; Guards Demand Notes For Speaking Event

Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. November 30, 2009.

Border guards held Goodman and her colleagues for an hour and a half, searching their belongings and telling them they could only stay in the country for two days.

Word "Canadian" So "Reviled in Some Places" that Visiting Canucks Say They're Americans

Susan Wallace, AlterNet AlterNet: World. November 23, 2009.

An odd turn.

Is Canada More Pro-Israel Than the United States?

Yves Engler, CounterPunch. October 13, 2009.

"No other country in the world has demonstrated such full understanding of us," says Ultra-Right Wing Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman of Canada.

Pot Crusader Marc Emery Jailed in Canada Pending Extradition to US

Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. October 2, 2009.

Emery is in jail in Vancouver, awaiting extradition to the US to accept a five-year plea bargain for selling marijuana seeds to US customers.

A Health Care Horror Story

A Health Care Horror Story

Steven D., Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. September 18, 2009.

Thanks God Republicans and Blue Dog Dems are saving us from this kind of Hell.

You're Also More Likely to Be Eaten by a Sasquatch in 'Socialist' Canada

You're Also More Likely to Be Eaten by a Sasquatch in 'Socialist' Canada

D. Aristophanes, Sadly, No! AlterNet: Health and Wellness. July 24, 2009.

It's true!

We've Been Trapped Inside a Bad Health Care System So Long, We Don't Even Know How Much We're Missing

Sara Robinson, Campaign for America's Future. June 26, 2009.

Our current system has robbed us of the chance to save, educate ourselves, see the world and live to a robust old age.

Canadians Take Notice, the U.S. Is Militarizing the Border

Tonda MacCharles, The Toronto Star. May 26, 2009.

More troops, more searches, more surveilance drones. The U.S. is taking Canadians' pictures as they cross the border, and their biometrics.

Shocking: George W. Bush Speaks the Truth

Shocking: George W. Bush Speaks the Truth

Spencer Ackerman, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. March 18, 2009.

Bush, in Canada, commits the best Freudian slip of all time.

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