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First Nation Rejects Billion Dollar LNG Deal

Skeena River First Nations Last week, the Lax Kw’alaams band in northern British Columbia rejected an offer from Petroliam Nasional Bhd., which offered $1.15 billion compensation to the community in exchange ...

Calgarians Trying to Weed Out Deborah Drever

Newly elected 26-year-old Alberta MLA Deborah Drever is facing calls for her removal after scandalous photos circulated the internet. To the disappointment of perverts everywhere, these photos are not explicit ...

P.E.I. Liberal Wins on a Coin Toss

Canadians may not be able to bet on sporting events before the next election, but it seems as though gambling is enshrined in our electoral system. Oh, we’ve all heard that the Prime Minister or the Opposition ...

The Top 5 Bets the Senate (Probably) Doesn’t Want You To Place

Almost three years ago, a bill allowing single-sport betting events passed the House of Commons. Some Canadians are probably wondering why they couldn’t legally throw down their hard-earned cheddar on their fa...

Canada Sets “Ambitious” Emission Reduction Goal

After the federal government refused to regulate the oil and gas sector, which is responsible for more of Canada’s emissions than is any other sector of the economy, Canada made “virtually no progress in .“ As...

Advice From And For Preston Manning

Like the passing of a torch, it is an old Canadian tradition for old (in this case literally aged) leaders to confer sage advice upon a new incumbent. Less so upon an incumbent of a party they disagree with, bu...

Possibly Drunk Elizabeth May Swears, Praises Omar Khadr, and Talks Intercourse

Every year, Canadian journalists and political figures gather in the annual press gallery dinner. Think of it as the White House Correspondents' Dinner, but with more subsidies and lower production value. El...

NDP Wins Majority in Alberta, Apocalypse to Follow

As of this writing, Rachel Notley’s New Democrats have claimed 54 seats in the Alberta legislature, well past the threshold of 44 that allows them to call a majority government. With the Wildrose and Progressiv...

Alberta 2015 – LIVE Coverage

Election day in Alberta is finally here. It's going to be a strange and confusing phenomenon to be sure. Will hell actually freeze over and Albertans elect a NDP government? Are the polls making a huge mistake ...

Top 7 Jobs Danielle Smith Could Still Do

There was some big news out of Alberta this evening-- ex-Wildrose leader Danielle Smith has lost a nomination battle in the riding of Highwood. Smith was hoping to enter the Alberta legislature under the Progre...