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Members of the media attend a preview for one of Quebec's new cannabis stores in Montreal, Tuesday, Oct.1 6, 2018. Canada will become the second and largest country with a legal national marijuana marketplace when sales begin on midnight Wednesday.
Via Allahpundit on Twitter comes this story that well illustrates the way that people can manipulate a "choose your own gender" society to their advantage: A Canadian man in his early 20s was unhappy with the high quote he got from his car insurance company, so he decided to do something about it: legally switch his gender from male to female. The cunning 24-year-old resident of Alberta, Canada, first detailed his insurance stratagem on Reddit back in April, boasting that changing his gender on paper saved him nearly $1,100 a year.
The Turbine Legend, originally called the Legend because the prototype was powered by a 575 HP Chevy Engine, first flew in 1996 and was built by Performance Aircraft. In 1999, the Legend was re-engined with a Walther M601 turbine of 724 shp and thus became the Turbine Legend.
A line 3 oil pipeline opponent named Ben, who requested only his first name be used, hangs from a tripod in the middle of 7th Place in St. Paul, Minn. before a hearing at the Public Utilities Commission in St. Paul, Minn.
Environmental and indigenous groups said Thursday they are worried Canada may soon own the Puget Sound Pipeline that delivers crude oil to refineries in Whatcom and Skagit counties. They are concerned the 69-mile pipeline may be expanded or the amount of oil that flows through it may be increased.
WATCH: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley responds to former U.S. vice president Al Gore's anti-pipeline tweet by saying such responses are having a "shrinking amount of impact." Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is shrugging off a tweet by former U.S. vice-president Al Gore that slams Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and calls the province's oilsands dirty.
The U.S. government has fined Enbridge Inc. more than $1.8 million US after accusing the Calgary-based oil transport company of missing deadlines for pipeline inspections following a gigantic oil spill in southwestern Michigan. A worker monitors the water in Talmadge Creek in Marshall Township, Mich., near the Kalamazoo River as oil from a ruptured pipeline, owned by Enbridge Inc, is vacuumed out of the water in 2010.
With a greater frequency of extreme weather events occurring around the world, Secure Your Food program director Derek Melting Tallow says it is time for cities like Lethbridge to begin thinking about emergency management in a different way. "Extreme weather events are occurring at such a frequency and intensity that it is affecting food production worldwide," he says.
The showdown between Alberta and B.C. over the TransMountain pipeline is not only pitting the two westernmost provinces against each other. The battle has larger implications not only for the New Democratic Party - which counts two premiers in the fight - but also for the federal government and the panorama of Canadian voters and economic interests.
Nebraska regulators are set to decide Monday whether to approve or deny an in-state route for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. It's the last major regulatory hurdle facing project operator TransCanada Corp. The Nebraska Public Service Commission's ruling is on the Nebraska route TransCanada has proposed to complete the $8 billion, 1,179-mile pipeline to deliver oil from Alberta, Canada, to Texas Gulf Coast refineries.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Boeing can forget about selling fighter jets to Canada as long as its trade complaint is ongoing against Quebec aerospace firm Bombardier. Trudeau's comments Monday, the toughest yet in the ongoing battle between Boeing and the Canadian government over the complaint against Bombardier, appear to jeopardize not only Boeing's current proposal to sell interim fighter jets to Canada but its hope to sell Canada additional aircraft in the future to replace the CF-18 fleet on a permanent basis.
Speaking during a farm bill listening session in his ... ALLIANCE, Neb. - Omaha Roncalli secured an 11-1 victory over Gering Tuesday night and will go into Wednesday's championship vs. Nebraska City with a 4-0 record.
President Donald Trump gave the go-ahead to the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, declaring it a "great day for American jobs" and siding with energy advocates over environmental groups in a heated debate over climate change. TransCanada CEO Russell Girling speaks with President Donald Trump in Washington.
Justin Trudeau edged his way across a political tightrope Tuesday, doing his level best not to glance down at the perils lurking below. Shattered credibility on climate change and women's rights, two of his policy cornerstones.
ST. ALBERT, Alta. - An Alberta man who saw a murder conviction in the case of his missing parents replaced with manslaughter because of a judge's error wants "zombie" sections of the Criminal Code removed.
The controversial Keystone XL pipeline, all but dead under U.S. President Barack Obama, may find new life under pro-oil president-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to reverse course on much of Obama's energy and environmental agenda. TransCanada Corp. said Wednesday it is considering how to pitch the next president on the benefits of the proposed, and denied, pipeline that would give oilsands crude better access to U.S. markets.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is flying to China on Monday, adding to the long list of countries he has visited since winning last year's federal election. Yet there's one place closer to home that Trudeau hasn't set foot in since forming a government: Canada's far north.