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White House decision on Keystone pipeline

UPDATED: The U.S. rejected the final phase of the Keystone pipeline, President Barack Obama announced at his Friday morning press conference.  “The State Department has decided that the Keystone XL Pipeline would not serve the national interest of the United States,” said Obama in a statement, adding “I agree.” TransCanada Corp.’s application for the Keystone XL pipeline, shipping oil from Alberta’s oil sands to refineries in the southern U.S., hit a wall earlier this week when Obama rejected the company’s 11th hour request to suspend a review of the pipeline’s final construction phase. The pipeline is partly symbolic at this point; as the tortured application process wound its way through  America’s Byzantine

F&O this week: Daylight Savings; Spectre; oil; China’s children

Welcome to Facts and Opinions. We rely on the honour system: enjoy one story at no charge, and if you value our independent, no-spam, no-ads journalism, chip in at least two bits. Click here for details. World: America’s Lying Season. By Tom Regan, Summoning Orenda column It’s the lying season in American politics.  What’s different is our willingness to accept these lies. Axing China’s one-child rule unlikely to change population. By Stuart Gietel-Basten China’s policy change will have little impact on population. Washington, courts defy Beijing imperialism. By Jonathan Manthorpe, International Affairs columnist Beijing has been dealt significant set-backs to its  campaign of imperial expansionism. Global

F&O this week: big world, country politics, and arts

Welcome to Facts and Opinions. Enjoy one story at no charge. If you value our work, please chip in at least .27 per story or $1 for a day site pass, using the “donate” button below. Click here for details. Real journalism — no spam, no ads — has value. Thanks for your support. BREAKING news update: Hurricane Patricia spares cities, roars through rural Mexico. By Reuters reporters and photographers Hurricane Patricia caused less damage than feared on Mexico’s Pacific coast on Saturday, but little was known about an isolated part of the shoreline dotted with luxury villas and fishing villages, where the storm and its

Political change sweeps Canada

Breaking: TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper will resign as leader of the Conservative party following its crushing defeat to the Liberals in Monday’s election, the Conservatives said in a statement. The party will appoint an interim leader through a leadership selection process, it said. Harper has been prime minister for almost a decade. (Reporting by Josephine Mason; Editing by Alan Crosby) UPDATED: F&O’s line up of Canadian election stories:  Justin Trudeau inherits an international freeloader, by Jonathan Manthorpe, F&O International Affairs In many ways, Justin Trudeau and Canada’s newly-elected Liberal government are fortunate coming to office at this

Focus on Canadian politics

Today Canadians head to the polls for Canada’s 42nd federal general election. The campaign, one of the longest in Canadian history, has been ugly and divisive. Canada’s three traditional parties, the incumbent Conservatives, Liberals, and New Democrats, are challenged not only by the Greens and, in the province of Quebec, the Bloc Quebecois –but this year also by large blocks of organized strategic voters, bent on electoral reform of Canada’s anti-democratic first-past-the-post system. Following are essays and columns that, together, attempt to capture the national desire for change suggested by opinion polls after 9.5 years of Conservative rule. Tonight — following the only poll that matters in the end, at the voting

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