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Sarah Burke

While "Kick Ass 2" shows that women can be powerful characters, it falls short by taking center stage away from them. Should "Kick Ass" really be named "Hit Girl"?
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Introduction to four opinions on the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion

It's all about the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion in National Observer's opinion section this week. We're aiming to give differing perspectives a fair hearing and promote respectful and open ...
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Harper's Arctic vision to claim North Pole, Santa Claus

He’s making a list, checking it twice and going to find out who’s naughty or nice. Ask just about any Canadian child who is eagerly anticipating the holidays, wide eyed and sugar-high, and they will ...
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Conflict escalates as LNG pushes Unist'ot'en for land access

A month after the B.C. government conditionally approved a liquefied natural gas project led by Royal Dutch Shell in Kitimat, the Unist’ot’en Camp has reported escalating conflict as RCMP and the LNG ...
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'Over my dead body': northern BC residents overwhelmed by massive LNG push

In the Kispiox Valley 1,000 km north of Vancouver, where “No LNG” lawn signs seem to be everywhere, rancher Gene Allen had strong words for TransCanada pipeline contractors. The crews showed up on the ...
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Energy East facing many foes: land owners, enviros, Aboriginals and politicians

TransCanada has rolled its long-awaited 20,000-page, 68 two-inch binder application for the Energy East project into the Calgary office of the National Energy Board on Thursday. It is the company's ...
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Treaty 8 Tribal Chief Liz Logan asks UN to pressure BC government to respect treaty rights

Tribal Chief Liz Logan, a poised, articulate negotiator who has served four terms as Chief of Fort Nelson First Nation, followed by eight years as Tribal Chief of Treaty 8 Tribal Association, has ...
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Harper's rhetoric fuels racist and xenophobic expression

Xenophobia and racism are flourishing in Canada, under the influence of Stephen Harper’s rigid stance on Muslim women's headscarves. Stephen Harper has told us that wearing the niqab, a scarf that ...
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After kicking out government officials at industry summit, Fort Nelson First Nation signs LNG worker camp deal

In an apparent turn of events since the "Fort Nelson Incident", in which 33-year-old Fort Nelson First Nation Chief Sharleen Gale held up a feather and kicked out government officials from an LNG ...
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Celebrity cremations: TV stars, rockers, and writers who opted for the urn

"Glee" star Cory Monteith's body was cremated days after his death, following a private viewing of his body by members of his immediate family and girlfriend Lea Michelle. Monteith is one of a growing ...
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Neo-Nazi group's racist hate crimes condoned by public apathy and silence: police

It's still unclear whether a Filipino man from New Westminster – sleeping on a white couch at Commercial and 5th just before midnight on Oct. 10, 2009 – woke up when three neo-Nazis poured flammable ...
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First Nations' anti-Keystone XL alliance years in making

When energy campaigner and school teacher Crystal Lameman arrived in Washington DC on Sunday for the "Reject and Protect" Keystone XL protest, she saw dozens of First Nations people from all over ...