Republicans take control of Congress on Tuesday, marking the first time since 2006 that the GOP holds both the House and Senate. Their first order of business: approving the Keystone XL pipeline, which would deliver Canadian tar sands oil to the Gulf of Mexico. President Obama’s response: not so fast. The White House said today…
Two people have been confirmed dead in a series of shootings that rocked the Canadian capital of Ottawa this morning. Ottawa police have said that the shootings took place at the National War Memorial and on Parliament Hill. A Canadian soldier was killed while guarding Canada’s War Memorial. Police say that a “male suspect has…
A middle-of-the-night breach of the tailing pond for an open-pit copper and gold mine in British Columbia sent a massive volume of toxic waste into several nearby waterways on Monday, leading authorities to issue a water-use ban. Slurry from Mount Polley Mine near Likely, B.C. breached the earthen dam around 3:45 am on Monday, with…
