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Michael Flynn has announced he's co-operating with authorities, following days of reports he was negotiating a deal — granting him more lenient treatment in exchange for working with Robert Mueller's Russia probe.

A meeting of this magnitude "hasn’t been done before," one Canadian official said.

Canada and the rest of the world have punted a lot of the hard work on climate change ahead, leaving a massive "to-do" list for 2018. National Observer's managing editor, Mike De Souza, just back from Germany, analyzes the state of play in the complex international negotiations.

Even back in August 2017, as U.S. President Donald Trump raged over Congress's failure to kill Obamacare, oil billionaires Charles and David Koch, must have been popping champagne.

The United States has published an updated list of NAFTA negotiating objectives to reflect some of its tougher-than-anticipated demands in a reminder of the difficult hoeing ahead as parties seek fertile ground for a deal.

Fascism has a public relations problem – namely its history, and more specifically Adolf Hitler, World War II and the Holocaust. Consequently, today’s fascists have to appear less overtly anti-Semitic and eschew the pageantry of Brownshirts marching around with swastika-emblazoned flags.

One governor invited President Trump to take a 'slog through the mud' in the Arctic. Meantime, a former governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, ridiculed the White House for promoting a revival of coal, comparing it to someone trying to invest in Blockbuster.

It seems odd that a major U.S. government climate report released November 3 didn’t receive more media attention. But then, the main thing newsworthy about the Climate Science Special Report is that it was released at all, apparently without political interference.

The Trump administration announced on Thursday, November 3, 2017, it will hold a public hearing in West Virginia on its plan to nullify an Obama-era plan to limit planet-warming carbon emissions. The state is economically dependent on coal mining.

Donald Trump raised eyebrows during the election campaign by calling for the jailing of his opponent. Now he's wading into all sorts of justice matters, opining on roughly five different cases this week about who should be prosecuted, who should be executed, who should be jailed, and how he deserves exoneration.

The Canadian government produced a paper shortly after Donald Trump's election outlining in broad strokes how the incoming U.S. president could have pursued a quick, substantive, and successful renegotiation of NAFTA.

Early morning skies Wednesday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were alight from a fire that started around 2:30 a.m. at an ExxonMobil refinery. The blaze, though contained before the sun came up, is a reminder to the surrounding community of yet another danger of living next to refineries and chemical plants.

As Americans and millions around the world sit transfixed by the news emerging from the Mueller investigation, one question seems glaringly absent. How did a guy like Trump elude major scrutiny by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the IRS, gambling regulators and every other major police agency for his entire adult life?

Citizens in the West must continue standing up for minority rights in order to help fight off the forces trying to destabilize democracies around the world, Hillary Clinton said on Oct. 23, 2017.

Donald Trump needs to butt out as a hovering presence over the NAFTA talks and U.S. lawmakers must come clean about what they really think of the deal, says a veteran Liberal MP.