With the passage of the Redford government’s astonishing new labour laws, it will be hard to see any point to public sector unions at all.

Canada’s largest private-sector union has thrown its support behind First Nations in opposing the Northern Gateway pipeline project, vowing to hit picket lines in solidarity if the project goes ahead.

Concerned about the presence of foreign forces in the region, Iran and Afghanistan have decided to sign a joint cooperation agreement to boost “regional security” amid American efforts to force the Afghan president to seal a security pact with Washington.

With Captain Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd USA currently legally prohibited from patrolling the Southern Ocean, it’s now the three ships of the relatively new Sea Shepherd Australia that have taken the baton.

Secrecy. If one word could sum up the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), that would be it.

Deux navires baleiniers japonais et un navire de surveillance sont partis, samedi 7 décembre, de l‘archipel nippon pour leur chasse annuelle dans l‘Antarctique. Les trois bateaux ont quitté le port de Shimonoseki (sud-ouest du pays) pour rejoindre d‘autres navires afin de prendre jusqu‘à 935 baleines de Minke de l‘Antarctique et jusqu‘à 50 rorquals communs d‘ici au mois de mars, a expliqué l‘agence de presse Kyodo.

Biden‘s visit exemplified the evolving dual approach to bilateral policy issues. During his more than five hours of talks with President Xi Jinping, the real focus was on developing a new path for both nations to manage their policy differences, in order to ensure that the two can cooperate even amidst serious disagreements.

“I didn’t hear him say anything like, ‘Get down on your hands and knees,’ you know? I didn’t hear him say anything. He just started shooting,” the witness said. “He emptied the gun on him…. Boom, boom, boom. Six shots — five or six.”

A bankruptcy judge‘s ruling that Detroit‘s pension funds — like its other creditors — can take a hit might lead other financially troubled cities down the same path, experts say.

„Why not?“ he said in an interview with CNN‘s Richard Quest at the Globes Israel Business Conference in Tel Aviv. Israel and Iran are not enemies, he said.

„That is good for the world, that is good for Israel,“ Obama said, vowing to keep striving for a final deal with Iran over the coming months that takes care of the „threat of Iran‘s nuclear weapons once and for all.“

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said Sunday that while Israel enjoys rapid economic growth and low unemployment it has the worst poverty of the group‘s 35 member states.