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Alberta Labour president, climate finance researcher say the Democratic presidential nominee gets what the climate crisis will mean for American and Canadian workers

The tight relationship between cross-border cities like Windsor, Ont., and Detroit, Mich., was upended when Canada and the U.S. halted non-essential travel in March. Throw in a contentious presidential election, and all of a sudden, a lot seems to be in limbo.

“This experience of having a president so disruptive and evil has made Americans more interested in having a government that is good and boring,” Molly Jong-Fast said in an interview Tuesday night.

Despite living in the information age, where technology and big data are pervasive, the U.S. election is a reminder of how much our world still operates on faith. 

Prominent progressive intellectual and Harvard professor Cornel West spoke with Canada’s National Observer about identity, American democracy and the future of U.S. politics.

“If Trump wins ... I think it would be disastrous for the planet, for people’s health,” said Kathryn Harrison, a University of British Columbia political scientist who specializes in climate policy. “That would be a very distressing outcome.”

Chief science adviser Mona Nemer talks to Canada's National Observer about how her work changed dramatically with the pandemic and why it is important to continue paying for fundamental science to prepare for the next crisis.

Even though the divided United States is so neatly summed up by the choice between Trump and Biden, the division isn’t simply partisan.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and wife Sophie are sending their best wishes to Donald Trump and his wife Melania after the pair tested positive for COVID-19.

A confident and combative Donald Trump wasted little time testing the limits of Joe Biden's patience on Tuesday, September 29, 2020, in a bitter, angry and chaotic war of words and recriminations during the first in-person confrontation of the 2020 presidential election.

To borrow a favourite phrase from a certain sitting U.S. president, Tuesday's, September 29, 2020, debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden promises to be something the likes of which no one's ever seen.

Progressive firebrand Sen. Bernie Sanders urged Americans to come to their country's rescue on Thursday, September 23, 2020, a call aimed at saving democracy from a U.S. president he's convinced is bent on destroying it.

Trump supporters are heavily armed and could rush to his aid if he loses the election in November with their weapons in hand.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says the removal of Trump isn't going to fix anything. In fact, it'll probably exacerbate the lust for racial violence and white nationalism in the country.