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More VIFF picks: films to see Monday and Tuesday

A young boy from Africa is on the run from police in Le Havre, the French port city and this charming film playing at VIFF.

U.S. groups file suit to halt illegal preliminary work on proposed Keystone XL pipeline

  Three U.S. conservation parties will file a lawsuit today in efforts to halt illegal preliminary work on TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. The proposed pipeline has also garnered attention...

Canada, U.S. reach agreement on $1-billion border security deal

The world's longest undefended border is getting a $1-billion makeover. To be modelled after the Canada-U.S. Smart Border Declaration, a strategy announced in late 2001, the new perimeter security...

Adbusters' "Occupy Wall Street" modeled on Egypt protests

Large parts of Wall Street remained barricaded to foot and road traffic Monday morning as hundreds of angry protesters continued a sit-in protest against U.S. financial institutions. "It's...

Obama's new "Buffett Rule" to raise tax on millionaires and billionaires

President Obama will be seeking a new tax plan calling on millionaires to pay a minimum tax rate so that they will pay at least the same tax rate as middle-class Americans, according to reports. The...

Alberta oilsands at the centre of White House protests over next two weeks

Environmentalists pull out Hollywood star power to argue that oilsands crude is too dirty a deal for American refineries.

Canada and US head for joint policing, patrols, intelligence

Security the goal, but it won't compromise privacy, Tories insist.

In defense of taxation

No one likes taxes, but when did they become anathema to discuss in a democracy?

Netanyahu appeals for Harper to go to bat for Israel at G8: reports say

JERUSALEM -- Israel's prime minister asked Prime Minister Stephen Harper to prevent G8 leaders from expressing support for a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders, an Israeli newspaper reported...

Harper wants MPs to agree to an extended military mission in Libya

DEAUVILLE, France -- The G8 leaders agree that more must be done to oust Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and Prime Minister Stephen Harper will ask Parliament next month to extend the Canadian...