Koch brothers hold lease in tar sands the size of Delaware

Published March 21, 2014

Turns out billionaire American oil tycoons and Tea Party founders Charles and David Koch are major lease holders in Alberta’s tar sands. Alberta’s ministry of energy confirmed to the Washington Post this week that the Koch brothers own 1.1 million acres in tar sands region in Northern Alberta, through a subsidiary of Koch Industries, “the privately-owned cornerstone […]

Watch Canadian doc call out Republican senator on health care

Published March 13, 2014

Canadian doctor Danielle Martin stole the show this week in Washington, D.C., when she schooled a Republican senator about the facts of Canada’s public health care system. The special Senate hearings on single-payer health care weren’t especially lively until this magical moment, when North Carolina’s Richard Burr, dubbed an “I-dont-need-no-stinkin’-facts” senator by a Los Angeles […]

Let’s talk Keystone XL, amigo

Published February 18, 2014

Updated Feb. 20 Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a chat with U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday during the North American Summit in Mexico, and word on the street going in was that the PM’s frustration with Obama over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would make this one “the frostiest since the annual meetings began […]

The comical reporting of magical Keystone XL jobs

Published February 15, 2014

As jostling continues over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, boosters of the project talk about how it will create “tens of thousands of jobs” in Canada and the United States. Forget TransCanada’s own application to the U.S. State Department, which said that, at its peak, the company would require about “3,500 to 4,200 construction personnel” to […]

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Koch brothers hold lease in tar sands the size of Delaware

Watch Canadian doc call out Republican senator on health care

Let’s talk Keystone XL, amigo

The comical reporting of magical Keystone XL jobs