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A remarkable thing just happened in Canada’s oil patch. Tar sands producers have actually started to cut oil production in the face of growing pipeline constraints.

For those concerned about climate justice and leaving a living legacy to our grand-children, your everyday actions are making a positive difference. Sometimes, in these destructive days of Trump, and svengali politics of Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, we just don’t say that enough.

Someone should tell the Premier of Alberta, Rachel Notley, that when you are in a hole, you should stop digging.

"It appears as though the Canadian government deliberately withheld information about the costs of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline because it would have shocked Canadians at the time."

Even before the G7 meeting – or G6 plus one meeting in Canada - the signs are that it will be chaotic and deeply antagonistic, with spats over trade, tariffs and Russia, to say the least.

Days after Justin Trudeau blew an estimated $15 billion of hard earnt Canadian tax payers money on Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline, scientists are warning just how financially and ecologically stupid and short-sighted the investment was.

Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of Canada? Is this really how the end of the nation state begins?

"The taxpayer is going to end up losing billions of dollars here"

With just over a week to go until the May 31 deadline set by Kinder Morgan for the Canadian Government to resolve all financial and political issues surrounding its highly controversial Trans Mountain pipeline, some 236 civil society groups from 44 countries have today written to Justin Trudeau to tell him to drop his support for the project.

As Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau and Albertan Premier, Rachel Notley, prepare to invest in Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline, they are trying to spin the benefits of the highly controversial project.