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Biden is coming under fire for his attack on oil and gas once again as Canada pleads to keep the cross-border Great Lakes oil pipeline open. Canada is battling against the state of Michigan to keep the cross-border pipeline open as calls to enhance the joint response to climate change ... It is important to remember that the U.S. relies heavily on Canada for much of its crude oil imports, consuming around 3.7 million barrels per day, or about 80 percent of Canada's crude output. Line 5 is supposed to close by May 13, ... The pipeline currently provides energy...

Welcome to the weekend your host with his formerly stained fingers at the keyboard with another post looking in all kinds of directions. Lets go to conventional politics the kind backed by and controlled by Big Business. Mike Pence lining up his loyalists and among them Kellyanne Conway... Now the story of the "Alberta Wall" the three layers of fencing erected around Grace Life Church just outside the city limits of Edmonton in Canada. Its the coronavirus crackdown enforced by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a private security company.... At one time the "Conservative Christian" Premier of Alberta William...

Pastor James Coates' bail review has just been denied in an Alberta courtroom. The pastor will now remain behind bars awaiting his May trial. According to a release from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, ...Justice Peter Michalyshyn of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench in Edmonton has ruled that Pastor James Coates of Grace Life Church must remain in jail for the next eight weeks pending his trial, unless he agrees to abide by health orders that violates his Charter freedoms of conscience, religion, expression, association and peaceful assembly. This is a dark day for religious freedom, Charter rights...

Day 328 Of The Dictatorship Of COVID-19, Day 328 Of America And The World Held Hostage In Ontario Canada its: Another Day In The Year Of Our Ford As in Doug Ford the Grand Poobah of Tyranny for Canada's most populous province... Out in the 'conservative' province of Alberta the tyrant is Premier Jason Kenney... AOC Reveals Something I Can Relate To Alexandria Ocasio Cortez decided to bring in her experience during "The Capitol Incident" to recall being sexually assaulted. When it comes to sexual matters or other matters life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent...

"No Collusion-No Obsruction!" A tweet from President Trump repeating his consistent message since Robert Mueller's report was delivered to Attorney General William Barr..... Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's received many congratulatory messages from Arab leaders since his election victory last week..... Women's rights activists seeking to end the male guardianship system in Saudi Arabia are due back in court in Riyadh.... As expected a veto from President Trump of legislation to shut down US support for the war Saudi Arabia leads in Yemen.... An extensive probe underway into the cause of the blaze at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris...

Defence Minister Jason Kenney has indicated the government is not ruling out taking Canada's military mission against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group beyond Iraq — to Syria and Libya. Evan Solomon, host of CBC Radio's The House, asked Kenney about participating in missions in those countries. "Well, we're going to look at all of the options," Kenney said an interview broadcast Saturday. "Obviously there are practical limits to our ability to operate around the world, but we will look at our options to see where we can have the most impact, where we're most needed," he...

After Actress Scarlett Johansson stepped down as Oxfam’s ambassador over her advertisement with Israeli company SodaStream, a company Oxfam boycotts, Canadian Employment Minister Jason Kenney said their move spurred him to buy from SodaStream. […] Kenney bashed the “anti-Israel obsession” with which leftist groups pursue Israel, even while they ignore countries like Iran which executes political dissidents and homosexuals. …

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and the Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, today issued the following statement: “We wish to extend Canada’s deepest sympathies and condolences to the families of the thousands of innocents who have fallen victim to the Iranian regime, from the first days of the Islamic Revolution to the present. Canada grieves alongside all those whose loved ones suffered on the orders of Iran’s past and present rulers. “Canada has not forgotten that the roots of today’s appalling situation extend back to the origins of this hollow regime. The persecution of dissident voices...

Stephen Harper, Canada's new prime minister, unveiled his Cabinet last week and promptly found himself denounced for unprincipled expediency and hypocrisy. The same Steve Harper, who had said he would appoint only elected senators, chagrinned his supporters by choosing an unelected top-flight Montreal businessman as his first senatorial appointment. This was Michael Fortier, who had helped mastermind Harper into the Tory leadership and helped deliver 10 unexpected Conservative seats from Quebec in the January election. He will be minister of public works. The same Steve Harper who had deplored the desertion of zillionairess Belinda Stronach last year from his own...

Canadian Conservative MP honors Chinese reformer By BRIAN LAGHI Saturday, January 22, 2005 - Page A4 BEIJING -- Chinese authorities allowed a Canadian MP to express his sympathies outside the home of one of the country's well-known political reformers yesterday, making him what officials said was one of the first foreigners to do so. Jason Kenney negotiated with Chinese police for several minutes before a former aide of Zhao Ziyang emerged to escort Mr. Kenney to the front of the home where the former premier had lived under house arrest for the past 15 years. Mr. Zhao died in hospital...