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Justin Trudeau does not much like the House of Commons and the feeling is mutual.

It’s clear now that, regardless of what he told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Donald Trump wants to do more than tweak the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Never mind the legalities of the situation. Never mind morality either. Just answer the pragmatic question: Is it ever a good idea to start a nuclear war? Because that’s the notion that Donald Trump is actually playing with.

I can’t tell you when I first fell in love with telling and reading stories. It started early in my childhood and continues today.

It can be hard to imagine the small settlement that was the inception of the vibrant city of Red Deer that we know today.

Depending on who one talks to, the NDP’s first Quebec leadership debate drew anywhere from 250 to 400 people on Sunday afternoon in Montreal.

The crowds of protesters in Moscow and other Russian cities were far bigger the last time, in 2011-2012. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was so intoxicated by the 40,000 or 50,0000 citizens who demonstrated in Moscow against Vladimir Putin’s rule that he boasted: “I see enough people here to take the Kremlin … right now, but we are peaceful people and won’t do that just yet.”