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.
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.
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.
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.
Fifteen university professors have written a letter calling Canada's "Project Hero" scholarship "a dangerous cultural turn" that associates "heroism" with military intervention.
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.
"No other country in the world has demonstrated such full understanding of us," says Ultra-Right Wing Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman of Canada.
